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The first anniversary of GDPR, Europe’s gold-standard privacy law, is later this week – and Microsoft has marked the occasion by backing Apple’s call for a US version. Microsoft, like Apple, responded at the time by committing to offer GDPR-level protections to all its customers globally, but thinks voluntary moves by tech giants are not enough … Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation has 99 separate articles, but at the heart of the law are four requirements for companies wanting to store and process your personal data:...

The first eBay listing for Apple’s special space gray Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Keyboard has surfaced at a wild price of $2,499. The slick space gray version of these Apple accessories only comes with the company’s new iMac Pro and is creating a crazy resale market. There aren’t any bids on the set of all three space gray accessories for now. The listing ends in four days also includes the ‘Make an Offer’ option, so it’s possible they could go for much less....

CDs, Blu-ray, or DVDs Cable TV Thumb Drives With the availability of so much space in the cloud, it’s really not necessary to carry around a USB flash drive anymore. Not to mention, they get lost or stolen, and if you use say, Office 365, your documents are available anywhere via OneDrive. Of course, if we don’t advise storing sensitive files in the cloud — that included embarrassing pictures! Desktop Computer Back in the day, everyone had a big bulky desktop computer and CRT monitor on a desk in their home....

American Truck Simulator is one of the popular open-world truck driving simulator video games by SCS Software that was launched in 2016. It offers legendary American trucks and allows players to journey through different landmarks in the United States. After the new DLC update, many players face stuttering or lagging issues on American Truck Simulator gameplay. The game requires enough hardware configuration to run properly, especially for PC. Not everyone may have such a configuration to run the game in full resolution and higher FPS....

Apple CarPlay offers plenty of features, more than you’d normally get on an in-built app. In addition to basic features like a phone call, navigation, and music player, you can use over a dozen applications, including WhatsApp, LINE, Spotify, and Audible. Soon after Apple iPhone users updated their device to iOS 14.5.1, an issue affecting CarPlay was reported widely on forums. According to multiple reports on Reddit, the Music app on CarPlay has stopped working....

One of the best 2 in 1 laptop that can allow users to work or play games is Asus ROG flow X13. It is a combination that may be useful for anyone. If we compare, both are different types of laptops with diverse userbase. Nowadays, many people moving to game laptops due to high-end performance, extra thermal protection, and best specification. Asus is making its place at the top of the charts in the mobile and PC industry....

Battlefield V is a first-person shooter game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the eleventh main installment in the Battlefield series and the successor to 2016’s Battlefield 1 and was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 20, 2018. To run the game requires enough hardware configuration to run properly, especially for PC, because not everyone may have such configuration to run the game in full resolution and higher FPS....

FIFA 22 is the newest release in the long FIFA lineup. And like other FIFA games, it also has its own sets of bugs and glitches. But the one that has been troubling users a lot is the FIFA 22 squad battles crashing. No doubt, being offline, squad battles is one of the least played modes on FIFA 22. But it is a life savior for users who can’t go online....

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller’s Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in April 2022. It’s the successor to Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where players can go through all nine Star Wars saga films. However, some unfortunate players report that Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga won’t launch or not load on their PC, which is unexpected....

Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a tactical role-playing game developed by Firaxis Games in collaboration with Marvel Games. It will feature comic book characters from multiple Marvel Comics properties, such as Midnight Sons, Avengers, X-Men, and Runaways. The game is now available for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PC. The newly launched Marvel’s Midnight Suns is doing quite well in the market; many players are experiencing the Marvel’s Midnight Suns Sound Not Working or Audio Cutting Out issues on the PC during gaming sessions....

Facebook’s Head of VR Product today explained that the company accidentally printed what he called “inappropriate” hidden messages on its Oculus VR Touch Controllers like “The Masons Were Here” and “Big Brother is Watching.” Facebook VR Product head, Nate Mitchell, shared details about the goof on Twitter (via Business Insider). There are four messages that made it into both consumer and non-consumer devices including “The Masons Were Here,” “This Space For Rent,” “Big Brother is Watching,” and “Hi iFixit!...

Gizmodo ran a piece a couple of days ago suggesting that Facebook uses the phone number you provide for two-factor authentication in order to target you with ads. Although the company previous suggested that it didn’t deliberately misuse security details, it has now admitted that it does in fact do this … Facebook has long used your profile information to serve you with personalized ads. For example, if you include your mobile number in your profile, and you also provided your number to an online store, the two numbers can be matched so the store can identify you as a customer....

At SXSW this week, Facebook has announced new features for its Facebook Watch platform, as well as integration with Spotify. Facebook is rolling out Watch Party support for live TV, while also making it easier to listen to full songs through Spotify. Facebook’s Watch Party feature allows users to watch videos together in real-time, and now it will support live TV in addition to videos already on Facebook. This means users will be able to talk about what’s currently airing on live TV through the Watch Parties platform:...

The app made an accidental appearance a few days ago, but was later pulled away from the Apple’s App Store. The app is now available on both iOS and Android — at least for US customers… for real. Wondering how this works? On Slingshot you only share videos and images. While your friends can reply to it, the response should be in images and videos only. The images once viewed get deleted, though you could auto-save them....

Facebook is about to rollout a version of Messenger aimed specifically at kids, known as Messenger Kids. The emphasis is on safety, with all contacts having to be approved by parents. The app will be iOS-only when it launches in the next few days, with an Android version to follow later in the month … Engadget reports that the app is designed to overcome a couple of issues. First, the fact that many messaging apps require a phone number, which young kids don’t have....

Fantastic Beasts 3 will happen, but fans of the Wizarding World will have to wait longer than expected to reunite with Newt Scamander and company – and it’s all for the best. The Wizarding World that fans came to know thanks to Harry Potter continues to expand with the Fantastic Beasts series, which is set decades before the events in Harry Potter and provides some backstory on characters like Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, and the magizoologist Newt Scamander....

Typical scene outside an Apple Store that hosts a high-profile product launch On May 19, 2001 Steve Jobs took a cherry-picked entourage of journalists on a tour of the company’s first brick-and-mortar retail outlet located in the second level of Tysons Corner Center in Virginia. “Literally half the store is devoted to solutions. Because people don’t just want to buy personal computers any more. They want to know what they can do with them,” he later explained in promo footage shown to the gathering of devotees at the Macworld Expo 2001 conference....

It wouldn’t take much for me to be okay with Twitter’s official app — the place where it clearly wants users. I don’t mind seeing ads, especially if they help the service keep running, and the iOS app has modern features like 3D Touch, Split View, and even dark mode. Timeline streaming is what keeps me in third-party apps like Tweetbot though. It’s a feature I consider crucial to how the service works…...

When Apple quietly created a new MFi spec for headphones, allowing them to connect via the Lightning port rather than the headphone jack to deliver higher-quality audio, everyone expected Apple-owned Beats to be first to take advantage of it. But instead Philips has, ah, beaten them to it … The Philips Fidelio M2L uses a built-in 24-bit digital-analogue converter and amplifier to provide higher-quality audio than delivered by the iPhone’s own DAC chip....

Elden Ring is one of the newly released action role-playing video games that has been developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Although this souls-like dark fantasy title has already received positive reviews, it has multiple issues or bugs that we can’t deny. Some reports are coming out that the Elden Ring multiplayer lag, latency, and rubber-banding issues have become quite common among players recently. Now, if you’re also one of the victims to encounter such an issue, then it’s always recommended to check for possible workarounds whatsoever....