How to find images in Google Photos

Google Photos makes backing up photos and videos from your phone pretty seamless: set it to work in the background and all your precious memories are saved to the cloud without you having to do anything else.   The smoothness of this process does tend to mean you can find yourself with a rather gigantic collection,…

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With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product

Amazon’s Panos Panay announced Alexa Plus last week, representing a renewed focus on software for the company’s troubled consumer electronics division. The biggest surprise at Amazon’s press conference last week was the lack of hardware announcements. Traditionally, Amazon announces dozens of new gadgets at its events, but this time, Amazon spent 70 minutes talking about…

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Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer data

Zapier informed customers on Friday that an “unauthorized user” accessed “certain Zapier code repositories” and may have gained access to customer information as a result. The customer data had been “inadvertently copied to the repositories for debugging purposes,” according to an email obtained by The Verge. The company says it became aware of the unauthorized…

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The Verge looks back on Skype

It may be difficult to believe in this time of Zoom, Google Meet, and Slack, but at one point, Skype was one of the primary ways to make contact with friends, family, and colleagues. First released in 2003 and, after going through several owners, finally purchased by Microsoft in 2011, the app allowed you to…

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The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption

The United Kingdom dealt a significant blow in its war on encryption last week that, aside from blemishing Apple’s meticulously curated privacy commitments, could have worldwide ramifications for personal data protections. And while several days have passed since Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature from UK customers, other end-to-end encryption providers like Meta,…

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