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This Chrome extension makes you ponder your mortality while wasting time on social media

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 8:41 am
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Despite fearing death, humans have always been weirdly obsessed with anticipating their final day on earth. Now in the digital age, this morbid fascination with predicting death has taken form in digital death clocks. Death countdown tools are often used as a joke, but some financial institutions, health organizations, and insurers are using its data as a life expectancy calculator. Now, there’s a death clock for the amount of time you’re wasting on social media. Last year, the average daily usage of social media worldwide was 2 hours 22 minutes, according to Statista. And that’s just a just a drop…

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Zoom security flaw could let websites turn on your Mac’s webcam without permission

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 7:13 am
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A serious zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in Zoom video conferencing app on the Mac. Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, in a Medium post, detailed the flaw that could let websites hijack your Mac‘s camera and “forcibly” join you to a Zoom call without your permission. About four million of Zoom’s users are on Mac. The way the vulnerability works is as follows. Zoom gives users an easy way to dial into video conference calls with the tap of a link — something like https://zoom.us/j/999999999, where ‘999999999’ is a random 9-digit meeting ID that expires once the meeting ends. This Zoom…

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This clever Chrome extension camouflages Netflix in a conference call

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 7:05 am
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We don’t advise watching Netflix while you’re at work, but if that’s how you want to play it, there’s a new tool that’ll help make it a whole lot easier. It’s a browser extension called Netflix Hangouts, and it simply plays your Netflix stream in a smaller window in an interface that makes it look like you’re on a video conference call with other people. So if your boss or colleagues walk past your desk, they’ll be none the wiser – unless of course, they look real close. I imagine this works a lot better with mockumentaries like The Office,…

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