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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and other tech executives today attended the White House Cyber Security Meeting. Google announced that it’s committing $10 billion over the next five years to strengthen and “advance cybersecurity.”  The event was attended by Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and many others in the industry as “widespread cyberattacks continue to exploit vulnerabilities targeting…

Jon Prosser writing for Front Page Tech published a new claim today that will be widely welcomed by iPhone users if true. Prosser says Apple has been internally testing an upgrade to Face ID for the iPhone 13. Prosser cites internal sources in reporting that the iPhone 13 will feature an upgraded Face ID facial recognition sensor that’s tuned to identify a match even when a mask or glasses are…

Security updates are designed to keep Android devices as secure as possible, but you’re only as safe as your latest update. OnePlus does promise regular updates for its smartphones for at least two years, so let’s see how they’re handling the August 2021 security update. OnePlus August 2021 security update — What’s new? The April security patch was released by Google on August 2, but…

Twitter is experimenting with a way to make it easier to find Spaces that you might be interested in. Some users on iOS or Android will now see if someone they follow is listening in on a Space right at the top of their timelines, according to the Spaces Twitter account. Twitter has already been surfacing Spaces in that top bar (where you might have also seen Fleets before Twitter shut them down)…