The official COVID-19 contact-tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus, sends location data and a unique user identifier to Foursquare — and other data to Google and a bug-tracking company — according to a new report from smartphone privacy company Jumbo Privacy….

Zuck has been so good at looking after your data, why not give him more? Born too late to play the role of Star Trek’s Commander Data, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg took to the streams last night as the company confirmed a jump in users of its Workplace platform.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Facebook Portal isn’t just for family and friends, SMBs can use the video chat device in conjunction with Facebook Workplace to stay connected with customers, employees and suppliers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Redmond’s version of the popular one-person card game turns 30 on Friday, with 100 million hands played daily. …read more Source:: CNet

Want hot water fast? One of these kettles will do the trick. …read more Source:: CNet

Mike Masnick, writing at TechDirt: Last year, when Spotify purchased a bunch of podcast companies, we worried that it foretold the end of the open world of podcasting. You can get a Spotify account for free, but unlike most podcast apps, you can’t get any podcast you want via Spotify. Spotify has to agree to…

Fabrics with electrical functionality have been around for several years, but are very rarely used in mainstream clothing. The fabrics are very expensive and the supply can be unreliable. Frustrated by this, [Counter Chemists] developed PolySense, simple open-source technology to make any fibrous material into a conductive material that can be used to sense pressure,…

If you like the best coffee but want to make it at home, have a look at these coffee and tea makers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Unsurpisingly budget airline goes cheap: No payout or credit monitoring Victims of the Easyjet hack are now being told their entire travel itineraries were accessed by hackers who helped themselves to nine million people’s personal details stored by the budget airline.… …read more Source:: Register

Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone’s next operating system, since at least February, Motherboard reported Friday. From the report: That’s almost eight months before the expected official release of iOS 14, given that Apple usually publishes the new iOS in September along with the…