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A good webcam, let alone any webcam, is tough to find these days. Just to put a time marker on this post: the coronavirus pandemic has moved much of America’s workforce into a work-from-home environment. With so many people in need of basic tech supplies, demand for webcams has surged, and as supplies dwindle, prices have unsurprisingly skyrocketed. My colleague Chris Welch has reported on the…

Facebook has added Dark Mode support to Messenger and Instagram for iOS already, but the glaring gap is the Facebook app itself. New screenshots, however, offer our first look at the Dark Mode interface the company is developing.  was first to enable the unreleased Dark Mode interface in Facebook for iOS, but we have also since been able to do the same. The above screenshots offer a look at the…

An iOS 12 exploit has reportedly reemerged, being used by a group of hackers in China known as the “Evil Eye.” The latest Insomnia exploit gives attackers root access to iPhones running iOS 12.3 to 12.3.2. Details have been shared about a reemergence of an iOS flaw that allows what are believed to be China-sponsored hackers to monitor iPhones of the country’s Uyghur Muslim minority (via…

Smartphone prices have been skyrocketing for a few years now, and for the longest time, OnePlus was the exception to the rule. The company’s “value flagships” like the OnePlus 7T blew us away with what was possible for a fraction of the cost of a regular flagship. Now, OnePlus has a proper flagship in the OnePlus 8 Pro, but its “value” flagship in the OnePlus 8 really isn’t that great…