Today’s Tech Sightings:
Microsoft Employees Serenade Apple Employees for ‘Peace on Earth’
Tech rivals Apple and Microsoft have been at each other’s throats for decades. But as the season of giving approaches, Microsoft’s Manhattan store employees took a special message to their old friends at a nearby Apple store in New York.
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After It Promised Not to
A complaint filed Tuesday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims Google has been collecting data about children’s browsing habits despite pledging not to do that. The digital rights group asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate if Google is violating the Federal Communications Act.
VTech Hack: Four Crucial Takeaways for Every Parent and CEO
Hong-Kong-based tech toy maker VTech, which was hacked recently, is still trying to figure out what really happened. But a weakness in its systems apparently let hackers get away with all kinds of personal data that belongs to parents and their kids. Writer Zach Whittaker takes a look at the potential long-term implications of this attack.
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Zuckerberg Has Baby, Pledges 99 Percent of Facebook Shares to Charity
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Microsoft Launches Contest: Give Us Your Great HoloLens App Idea, and We’ll Build it
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Robots are Going to Take Our Jobs, So What Do We Do About It?
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Mobile Wallets: The New Fraud Frontier
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Could Hello Barbie Become the Plaything of Hackers?
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Samsung Launches Web Browser for Its VR Headset