Google expands its Password Checkup tool to older devices

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Google announced Tuesday that will be expanding its Password Checkup feature to older devices.

Now, tablets and phones running Android 9 or newer will have access to the feature, which is part of Google’s autofilling password manager and checks if any logins have been compromised in a data breach or checking password strength.

This update is part of a new batch of updates Google and Android are rolling out; the list also includes the ability to schedule text messages to be sent later on.

A new version of TalkBack (Google’s screen reader for Android), and improved support for Google Assistant to accomplish tasks even when your phone is locked.

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NASA: Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars

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NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft’s descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.

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Adobe: Cross-App Workflows for Editing Social Videos

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Video Creator James Bonanno and Photographer Anna McNaught James from Leave the Map share their process for creating social videos.

See how they organise their footage and workflow in Premiere Pro, collaborate using CC Libraries to work in multiple apps, and add special effects with After Effects.

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Closer Look: Apple Watch Series 6

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Track all your workouts, even underwater. Apple Watch Series 6.

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Elon Musk co-authored a COVID-19 antibody of SpaceX workers

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The study recently published in the Nature Communications, shows evidence that infected people who exhibited milder symptoms developed less of an immunity to COVID-19 than those who got sicker from the disease.

The group behind the study found evidence that suggests there’s a particular threshold of antibodies that could provide immunity, though they wrote that “the precise levels […] associated with protection from reinfection remain unclear.”

In April 2020,SpaceX employees were asked by email to be a part of the study.The employees who signed up gave monthly blood samples.

The paper’s authors note that 92 percent of the volunteers were male, and the median age was 31, which could skew the results. The full paper and dataset are available for free on Nature’s website.

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WhatsApp explains what happens if you don’t accept its new privacy policy

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WhatsApp detailed what will happen to users who do not accept its new privacy policy in the FAQ on its website.

Starting May 15, the functionality will become more limited. Users will no longer be able to read or send messages from the app. Users will still be able to receive notifications and calls, but this will be available for “a short time” only.

The new privacy policy has been controversial among some users because they worry that it allows WhatsApp to share their private messages with Facebook. However, messages between individuals on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, so only their recipients can see their contents. What the new privacy policy entails is that messages are being sent to businesses, which may be stored on Facebook servers and whose data may be used for advertising.

WhatsApp says that it won’t delete any accounts that haven’t accepted the new terms on May 15th. Users will still be able to accept the new privacy policy after that date.

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Google has added iOS’s privacy labels to Gmail

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Google has finally added Apple App Store privacy labels to its Gmail app. The app is the second major Google app to get the labels, after they were added to Youtube.

The app shares your user ID and coarse location with advertisers, as well as information about your interaction with advertisements. Though the privacy label states that it doesn’t collect your name, physical address or phone number.

Location data is also used for analytics and there are some features of the app that will request that as well.

So far, Google’s other apps such as Photos, Docs, Maps and Chrome haven’t gotten the labels yet. But the development that both Youtube and Gmail have had them means that Google is starting to roll them out to its bigger apps.

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Bitcoin drops after its all-time high

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Bitcoin dropped on Monday after surging to its latest record high a day before as a sell-off in global equities curbed risk appetite, with a few investors also citing concern about the rapid rise in the price of the virtual currency.

Bitcoin, which rallied on Sunday to a peak of $58,354, was still up more than 80% this year. Since hitting a low in March below $4,000, bitcoin has surged nearly 1,200%.

Ethereum, which tends to move in second to bitcoin, also tumbled after hitting a record high on Saturday.It hit a three-week low on Monday and was last down about 8.2% at $1,774.

Bitcoin’s rise has been fuelled by its gaining acceptance among mainstream companies and investors such as Tesla, Mastercard and BNY Mellon.

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Delta flight makes emergency landing after engine issue

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Delta Air Lines stated on Monday that Flight DL2123 from Atlanta to Seattle on a Boeing 757-200 made an emergency landing at Salt Lake International Airport after an engine performance issue.

A Delta spokeswoman stated that the plane diverted “out of an abundance of caution following an indicator warning of a possible problem with one of its engines.”

The flight was able to land safely without incident and taxied to the date without any assistance, adding that the company was working to re accommodate customers on a later flight.

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Elon Musk: Starlink internet speeds will double to 300 Mbps this year,

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SpaceX’s satellite-based internet provider Starlink will double in speed “later this year” according to a tweet by Elon Musk. The tweet was posted as a reply to someone who just received their Starlink beta kit.

The company promises speeds between 50 to 150 Mbps. Musk specifically called out a 300 Mbps goal in his tweet.

Though 300 Mbps isn’t unheard-of speed, it is much faster than many people currently have access to. This is especially in the low-to-medium population density areas that Musk talks about targeting in a second tweet.

In the reply, Elon also tells the person that their latency should improve to around 20ms as well. In the speed test screenshots, their latency was at 34 and 44ms respectively, while Starlink’s website says to expect between 20 and 40ms during the beta.

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