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The FBI covertly ran an encrypted communications platform for years, which allowed it to intercept 20 million messages from international criminal organizations. Hundreds of arrests have been made across 18 countries as part of the investigation known as Operation Trojan Shield. Suspects included members of the Italian Mafia.  The app was born out of the ashes of a popular encrypted phone service, known as Phantom Secure. The FBI were able to peddle a new app, dubbed Anom, to criminal networks...

This week's tech reviews on Engadget include the new Apple 4K TV, the latest Google Pixel Buds A-Series and the Dyson V15 Detect vacuum.

Today’s headlines: President Biden reveals Ford's electric F-150 a day early in factory speech, Android’s new look is called Material You and Google and Samsung joined forces on the new Wear OS.

BRITTA PEDERSEN via Getty Images On Saturday Night Live, Elon Musk said “it’s all a hustle” about cryptocurrency, and prices dived. Now, Tesla has suddenly become very aware of Bitcoin’s energy-inefficient ways and reversed its course on taking payments in it. With the company claiming it’s looking for a more climate-friendly cryptocurrency, Musk tweeted Thursday about “potentially promising” efficiency improvements for Dogecoin. Dogecoin, in case you’ve forgotten, is the meme-...

Heavenly boot of PC laid the bogey THEY will gather from all parts of the kingdom for a special dinner in Edinburgh tonight. It was the team of the three Browns and the six men from Gala, the side which, 25 years ago, laid the Twickenham bogey and beat the English on successive Saturdays. That has never happened before or since. Sadly, Jock Turner, one of the finest fly-halves cum centres Scotland ever produced, has passed away, and Alastair McHarg is on business in India, but the rest have...

The best smart speakers you can buy Engadget 2 hrs ago Nathan Ingraham When Amazon first introduced Alexa and the Echo speaker six years ago, the idea of talking to a digital assistant wasnt totally novel. Both the iPhone and Android phones had semi-intelligent voice controls — but with the Echo, Amazon took its first step toward making something like Alexa a constant presence in your home. Since then, Apple and Google have followed suit, and now theres a huge variety of sma...

April 10th, 2021 Nathan Ingraham/Engadget All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In the last few weeks, we’ve been keeping ourselves busy with plenty of new videos and guides — and of course, a bunch of product reviews Chris Velazco spent some time trying out all the new features on OnePlus’ ...

April 9th, 2021 Billy Steele / Engadget All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. A bunch of Apple devices went on sale this week across the web. Beats Solo Pro headphones are more than 50 percent off right now and the MacBook Air M1 remains at its lowest price yet. Fitbits sale on Charge 4 trackers k...

A new speaker from Sonos, automate your spring cleaning for your iOS devices and more!

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