PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Microsoft Blames ‘Human Error’ Amid Suspicion It Censored Bing Results for Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’
It’s June 4, the 32nd anniversary of the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when Chinese troops crushed a pro-democracy protest movement by opening fire on and slaughtering hundreds of demonstrators in Beijing.
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TikTok Quietly Tweaks Privacy Policy to Collect Your Biometric Data
TikTok quietly updated its privacy policy earlier this week in a way that allows the company to automatically collect extensive data on users in the United States — including data about their faces and their voice.
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Google Will Let You Opt Out of Being Tracked by Apps in Android 12
With Apple’s developer conference just around the corner, Google is reportedly planning to follow in its rivals footsteps by letting Android users opt out of being tracked by the apps they download from the Google Play store.
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Amazon’s Ring Will Finally Make Police Requests Public
Amazon’s Ring — a company that is famously pretty chummy with law enforcement — will now require U.S. law enforcement officials to make their requests for security footage public, the company said in a blog post published Thursday. Starting next week, any time an officer wants to ask Ring’s customers for any recordings that their…