insert_link Health & Wellness FDA clears Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for Kids ages 5 to 11 The Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds, opening up the shots to a new age group and ending an anxious wait for families of children in that bracket. Children are less likely to have severe symptoms if they contract COVID-19, but they can still catch and spread the disease. NBC News reported that both cases and deaths in children peaked in September, […] todayNovember 1, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple According to Facebook, it’s Outage on Monday was caused by “A Cascade of Errors” So, let's face it, Facebook is having a really bad week. Three major players - Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - in the Social Media'sphere all had major outages that lasted for about 6 hours on Monday, which felt like an eternity to devotees. "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," Facebook said on Twitter. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, […] todayOctober 6, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Hacker claims responsibility for T-Mobile attack and Bashes their Security Protocols The Verge reports that the person claiming to be behind the T-Mobile data breach that exposed almost 50 million people’s info has come forward to reveal his identity and to criticize T-Mobile’s security, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. John Binns told the WSJ that he was behind the attack and provided evidence that he could access accounts associated with it, and he went into detail about how he was able to pull it off […] todayAugust 30, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion The Verge reports that the ecommerce giant Amazon has reached a deal to acquire the film and TV company MGM for $8.45 billion, both companies announced today. It’s a significant acquisition for the e-commerce giant, and it means it will own a library of content that’s reported to consist of around 4,000 films and 17,000 hours of TV. The acquisition is likely to help Amazon attract even more big-spending Prime […] todayMay 27, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data You may have never heard of the company X-Mode Social, but its code may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data. Now, Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to it. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the tech companies have told developers to remove X-Mode’s code from their apps, or risk getting them pulled from their respective app stores. X-Mode […] todayDecember 17, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Joe Rogan’s Podcast Lands Exclusive Spotify Deal, leaves YouTube in its wake The Joe Rogan Experience, an early entrant into the now-booming podcast space, has signed an exclusive multi-year licensing deal with Spotify, the parties said Tuesday. The JRE will debut on Spotify on September 1, and all of its content — including Rogan’s video podcasts now available on YouTube — will become exclusive to the platform near the end of the year. No other terms were disclosed, but a source told […] todayMay 25, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness FDA authorizes Rapid COVID 19 Antigen Test The Food and Drug Administration has granted the first emergency use authorization to diagnostic healthcare company Quidel Corp. for the first COVID-19 antigen test, the agency announced. Antigen tests can quickly detect the coronavirus, but are generally considered less accurate than other types of tests that search out the virus. Antigen tests for COVID-19 are akin to rapid flu or strep tests. This test can be run in a […] todayMay 11, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Zoom is showing how to Respond to Criticism the Right Way Sometimes it takes years of criticism to get a company to do the right thing. Every once in a while, it can happen overnight. Appearing before a background that said “we care” over an image of a heart-shaped planet Earth, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan said Sunday on CNN that despite the company’s recent security problems, its “intentions are good.” “We moved too fast... and we had some missteps,” Yuan […] todayApril 9, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple NBCUniversal reportedly close to acquiring Walmart’s Vudu video service NBCUniversal is in advanced talks to acquire Vudu, the Walmart-owned video service, according to The Wall Street Journal. Though the talks “may not result in a deal,” it sounds like NBCUniversal — part of Comcast, has a number of ideas for what it would do with Vudu. “Vudu’s ad-supported service would serve as a complement to Peacock,” which is NBCUniversal’s upcoming, standalone streaming service, according to the Journal. Meanwhile, the […] todayFebruary 28, 2020
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