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| | | Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go Aims to Stand Out from iPads or Chromebooks | | The Verge | Microsoft’s new Surface Go is finally official after months of rumors and leaks. It’s an inexpensive 10-inch tablet designed to be a smaller and less powerful version of the Surface Pro. While the exterior of the Surface Go makes it look like a baby Surface Pro, Microsoft has changed a lot inside. The base model is priced at $399, but it only ships with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of slower eMMC storage, and a less powerful Intel Pentium Gold processor. Prices quickly jump to over $600 after adding the all important Type Cover, more RAM, a faster SSD, and other Surface add-ons. | | Apple Releases iOS 11.4.1 and Blocks Passcode Cracking Tools Used by Police | | The Verge | "Apple yesterday released iOS 11.4.1, and while most of us are already looking ahead to all the new stuff coming in iOS 12, this small update contains an important new security feature: USB Restricted Mode. Apple has added protections against the USB devices being used by law enforcement and private companies that connect over Lightning to crack an iPhone’s passcode and evade Apple’s usual encryption safeguards," writes Chris Welch. | | Timehop Breach Hits 21 Million Users Due to a Lack of 2FA on Cloud Services | | ZDNet | Timehop, a service that surfaces a user's past social media content, has revealed a security breach that hit the company on July 4, and resulted in a database of 21 million users hit. Around 4.7 million phone numbers were breached, alongside its usernames and email addresses. Timehop said no financial data was affected, nor social media content, and there has been no evidence of any improper account access. "The breach occurred because an access credential to our cloud computing environment was compromised. That cloud computing account had not been protected by multifactor authentication," the company said. | | Google Pay Rolls Out Support for Peer-to-Peer Payments and Mobile Ticketing | | TechCrunch | Google is making several updates to Google Pay, its recently-rebranded service for all its different payments tools. Most of these updates were announced earlier this year, but now, Google says they’re actually going live in the app. One of the additions is peer-to-peer payments. The Google Pay app is also gaining the ability to save mobile tickets and boarding passes, to be found in a new Passes tab that will also include loyalty cards and gift cards. Ticketmaster and Southwest are supported at launch, and Google says it has plans to add Eventbrite, Singapore Airlines and Vueling. |
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| | | 18 Time-Saving Tips for the Chrome Android Browser | | Computerworld | "Fear not, my fellow finger-tappers: There are plenty of tricks you can learn to make your mobile web journey more pleasant and productive. Try these next-level tips for Google's Chrome Android browser and get ready for a much better mobile browsing experience," writes JR Raphael. | | 3 Email Folders You Should Be Using to Keep Your Inbox Organized | | MakeUseOf | The 3 suggested email folders are: the "follow up" folder (for emails that require action), the "reference" one (for anything you’ll need in the future), and due date folders for tasks. These folders should help keep your inbox tidy. |
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| | | Gone But Not Deleted | | Boston Magazine | When loved ones die, what do we do with the digital reminders they’ve left behind? This is a really interesting article that explores how technology promises to change the very nature of how we mourn our loved ones. |
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| | | View Additional Activities for Managed Devices in the Devices Audit Log | | G Suite Updates | "The devices audit log in the Admin console provides a report on the activities of managed mobile and desktop devices in your organization. Previously, this report was limited to domains with advanced mobile management enabled. To make it even more useful, we’re now showing some of the events in this report to G Suite Business, Enterprise, and Enterprise for Education customers with basic mobile management and endpoint verification enabled as well." |
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