Category: Tech Made Simple

LG to enter Indoor Gardening Movement at CES 2020

LG display booth at CES 2015

LG Electronics (LG) will unveil an indoor gardening appliance at CES® 2020, its first foray into the suddenly booming indoor gardening movement. The revolutionary built-in column-type LG indoor gardening appliance employs advanced light, temperature and water control, convenient all-in-one seed packages (which LG will happily sell to you) and a growth-monitoring app to help users […]

The Trouble with Stopping Robocalls

Robocalls have become unavoidable, flooding phone networks with spam so thoroughly that most people have stopped picking up calls from unknown numbers. It’s a massive and embarrassing technological failure, but the causes behind the problem are more complex than you might think.   The biggest problems are baked into the network itself. As the internet […]

Spotify joins Google and Twitter, will ‘pause’ political ads in early 2020

As first reported by AdAge, Spotify states that it will “pause” political advertising early in 2020 on its ad-supported tier and its original and exclusive podcasts, saying it doesn’t have the resources to properly vet such ads.   “At this point in time, we do not yet have the necessary level of robustness in our […]

Apple’s Popular Bug Bounty Program is Back and Open to the Public

Apple has opened its bug bounty program to all security researchers, offering rewards of $1 million or more for discoveries of major flaws in its operating systems.  The program, which had been open by invitation only since its launch in 2016, now includes operating systems beyond iOS. Apple first announced at the Black Hat conference […]

New Samsung Galaxy Buds appear to be on the way, just not on Santa’s Sleigh

Filings for what appear to be a new set of Samsung Galaxy Buds have hit the FCC, indicating that a new version of Samsung’s wireless earbuds might be arriving soon — and the Droid Life reports that the filings have a tantalizing piece of information that might indicate improved battery life. In a diagram of where […]

Hold onto your Smart Phones: Motorola delays Razr Preorder and Launch due to High Demand

Motorola’s resurrected foldable Razr was one of the most exciting phone announcements in 2019, but it seems that demand for the upcoming phone was higher than the company expected. Because of that demand, Motorola has announced a slight delay for both the preorder and launch of the Razr, which were originally planned for December 26th […]

Spotify’s Tastebuds lets you discover New Music through Your Friends’ Playlists

Spotify is testing a new feature, Tastebuds, that lets users discover new music through their friends, TechCrunch reports. The feature was first discovered by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who found the prototype on the web version of Spotify through reverse-engineering. While not much is known about the feature yet, a dummy landing page that […]

Parent Alert: Apple’s new Parental Controls on iOS 13.3 can be Bypassed

On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 13.3, and one of its key new features was Communication Limits, which lets parents set limits on who their kids talk to or message with… in theory. Well, CNBC did some digging and discovered that due to some bugs related to iCloud’s contact sync feature, it turns out the new […]

Yap is becoming the New “It” Room for Chatting

Are you a fervent chatter?  You might want to check out Yap, the new chat application built by Postlight, a digital product studio, that seems to be the new “it” room for chatting it up.  Yap is pretty simple. It’s a six-person chat room (“Because seven is annoying,” says the official blog), where every message […]