A 2-year-old technology called C-V2X could arrive in 5G-equipped cars in 2022, displacing a 20-year-old alternative that hasn’t caught on.
School Administration Reminds Female Students Bulletproof Vests Must Cover Midriff
HUNTINGTON, WV—Explaining that such suggestive armor was inappropriate for an educational environment, Huntington High School officials reportedly reminded female students Tuesday that their bulletproof vests must cover their midriffs. “We’ve been seeing some students wearing revealing bulletproof vests, so I just…
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire is a fun primer for your Disney trip – CNET
Spoiler-free book review: Delilah S. Dawson’s book is a straightforward adventure in a beautifully realized location.
Confused Biden Tells Rambling Anecdote About Working-Class Single Hammer
Add a MacBook-style Touch Bar to your PC for $50 – CNET
Great for gaming, video production and productivity, this super-cool gizmo gives you six programmable buttons. Plus: Three bonus deals you need to check out.
Study shows truck, SUV owners want better fuel economy from their vehicles – Roadshow
Pickup and SUV owners are far more interested in better fuel economy than other vehicle owners.
A phone insurance company bought uBreakiFix, the official Pixel and Galaxy phone repairer
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Asurion, an insurance company for phones and other devices, has reportedly acquired uBreakiFix, the official phone repair company for Google Pixel devices and Samsung Galaxy phones. The immediate plans for the merger aren’t clear, but it’d be relatively simple for Asurion to push its customers over to uBreakiFix locations to get their insured devices immediately repaired. uBreakiFix operates more than 500 stores in the US, and Asurion offers its customers screen repairs along with complete phone replacements, depending on their plans. Asurion is the provider of the phone insurance plans sold by AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon in the US.
The purchase comes at a time when right-to-repair legislation is being considered, a law that would require…
Bernie Sanders endorses a targeted advertising tax to fund local journalism
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On Tuesday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a comprehensive plan to protect journalism, including revamped antitrust action against Facebook and Google and new collective bargaining powers for media companies. But Sanders also calls for a more ambitious idea that has been floating around left-wing policy circles all year: a tax on targeted advertising that would funnel money directly from tech giants to local newsrooms.
“We should consider taxing targeted ads and using the revenue to fund nonprofit civic-minded media,” Sanders said in an op-ed in the Columbia Journalism Review. “We must also explore new ways to empower media organizations to collectively bargain with these tech monopolies.”
Free Press, which first laid out…
Verizon to enable spam call filtering by default on select Android phones
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Verizon is starting to opt in customers to its call filtering service so they can better identify and block spam calls. The carrier launched the free service earlier this year, but it will now download its call filtering app on select Android devices automatically and opt customers into a degree of spam blocking using the service.
First released for free back in March, Verizon’s call filtering service allows customers to get an alert when a call is likely spam, report unsolicited numbers, and block spam calls based on a “preferred level of risk.” However, in June the Federal Communications Commission voted to allow carriers to block robocalls by default, and Verizon is now taking advantage of this new rule. Users can still opt out if…
Drivers think some active safety technology is overbearing, J.D. Power reveals – Roadshow
The annoyance has even pushed some consumers to leave it off their list for a future vehicle.