What you need to know to cash in on Facebook’s $725M settlement
Facebook has just made a $725 million settlement after numerous lawsuits accusing the social media giant of violating its users’ privacy. Here’s what we know so far and how you can get your money. CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER What did Facebook do to accept these lawsuits? Allegedly, Facebook takes its users’ data as well as data on specific users’ friends and shares it with third parties. Some of these third parties include app developers, business partners, advertisers, and data brokers. Facebook did this…
Android Studio Flamingo upgrades UI tooling
Android Studio Flamingo, the latest version of the official IDE for Android app development, is available in a stable release. New features include Jetpack Compose and Material 3 templates, live editing for Compose UIs, and new app inspection capabilities. Accessible from developer.android.com and based on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 IDE, Android Studio Flamingo is numbered as version 2022.2.1. Among the many new UI tools, Flamingo introduces the ability to preview themed app icons. Developers can use the System UI Mode selector on the toolbar to switch wallpapers and see how themed app icons react to the chosen wallpaper. The Jetpack…
45 Tech Gifts for Men 2022: All the Gadgets for Men That’ll Upgrade Their Smart Home
Buying thoughtful, interesting, and actually useful tech gifts for men, women, and kids on your holiday shopping list used is pretty simple: get the Sharper Image catalog, flip to a random page, done. It’s a lot more complicated now. For one, um, catalogs? But more importantly, there seems to be a new version of the same gadget dropping every year, a smattering of new disruptors with sexy packaging (but hardly any legs to stand on when it comes to functionality), and some actually pretty good tech that only comes at, uh, a wildly inaccessible price point. It’s tough to keep…
What Do You Know About WLAN Data Rates?
July 31, 2017 7:33 pm I’m doing a talk in a few weeks about Wi-Fi data rates and how they affect WLAN performance. Since I am still in the research stage, I’d like to ask my blog readers to answer a few questions below about data rates? To respond, use “Leave a Reply” below or you can DM me on Twitter (@grcate) and we can exchange e-mail addresses. Data rates can really improve (or degrade) a wireless network and understanding them is a key feature in Wi-Fi technology. I appreciate your feedback and look forward to your answers …