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If Your iPhone Calls for Help, Don’t Hang Up
If you’re on the line, stay on the line! That is: Stay on your iPhone call with emergency services if Apple’s crash detection feature unnecessarily calls for help on your behalf.
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A Find My iPhone Error Is Sending Hordes of Strangers to a Single Texas House
If you lose your iPhone in the greater Houston area, don’t show up at Scott Schuster’s house expecting to get it back. The resident of the city’s Richmond suburb says he doesn’t have it: not your phone, not anybody else’s. But that fact hasn’t stopped Apple Maps from directing a large number of grumpy strangers…
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Inside Google’s Plan to Kill the Cookie
Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie, Google has an offering for the world. It’s called “Privacy Sandbox,” a set of proposed changes to Chrome and Android which — according to the…
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Google Will Require Android Developers to Make It Easier to Delete Your Account Data
Google’s newest developer policy aims to give Android users more control by allowing them to delete their account data on apps that require account creation, even if they don’t currently have the app installed.