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On April 3, 2010, Steve Jobs debuted the iPad. What for most people was basically a more convenient form factor was something far more consequential for non-speakers: a life-­changing revolution in access to a portable, powerful communication device for just a few hundred dollars.But a piece of hardware, however impressively designed and engineered, is only as valuable as what a person can do with it. After the iPad’s release, the flood of new, easy-to-use augmentative and alternative communication apps that users were…

Goldman, in a paper published in March, calls this type of lawsuit a “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (or “SAD Scheme”). When these cases are filed, the names of defendants are put into a document, Schedule A, that is often immediately made confidential at the request of the plaintiff. As a result, the cases can involve hundreds of sellers at the same time, yet the sellers don’t know who else is being sued, and they usually don’t know they are being sued themselves until the court orders Amazon to freeze their accounts.…

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico —  Some of the pills looked just like antibiotics. Others were unlabeled white tablets. Several mimicked well-known American pills, and a few came in sealed bottles.They were all purchased in Mexico, at legitimate pharmacies from Tulum, at the country’s southeast tip, to Tijuana, at the northwest border with California.And at least half of them were fakes.Earlier this year, The Times found that pharmacies in several northwestern Mexico cities were selling counterfeit pills over the counter,…

ChargerLab's Power-Z KM003C USB-C meter. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETUSB testers have gone far beyond just testing the output voltages and power of ports, and can now test and check for counterfeit Apple chargers and cables.I have dozens of different testers, but undoubtedly the most powerful is ChargerLab's Power-Z KM003C USB-C meterZDNET RECOMMENDS ChargerLab's Power-Z KM003C USB-C meter A powerful USB-C tester that includes all the normal functions you'd expect of a USB-C meter (such as the ability to measure…

ChargerLab's Power-Z KM003C USB-C meter. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETUSB testers have gone far beyond just testing the output voltages and power of ports, and can now test and check for counterfeit Apple chargers and cables.I have dozens of different testers, but undoubtedly the most powerful is ChargerLab's Power-Z KM003C USB-C meterZDNET RECOMMENDS ChargerLab's Power-Z KM003C USB-C meter A powerful USB-C tester that includes all the normal functions you'd expect of a USB-C meter (such as the ability to measure…

Ecommerce major Amazon removed six million counterfeit items globally from the supply chain in 2022, the company said in a report on Tuesday. The ecommerce firm said that it stopped over 800,000 attempts to create new selling accounts in 2022, preventing bad actors from publishing a single product for sale. The figure has come down from 2.5 million attempts in 2021, and 6 million attempts in 2020. "The strategic combination of industry-leading technology and experts are successfully stopping bad actors and making an…

Too Long; Didn't ReadThe modern sneaker industry has been on a collision course with Web3. The counterfeit sneaker epidemic is the catalyst that will ultimately bring about the propagation of Web3 technology across the entire industry. What is the industry to do to eliminate the constant state of paranoia that sneakerheads live in? Too Long; Didn't ReadThe modern sneaker industry has been on a collision course with Web3. The counterfeit sneaker epidemic is the catalyst that will ultimately bring about the propagation…

We received an email from one of our loyal newsletter subscribers, Patrick K., who told us about fraudulent stamp ads that he found on Facebook. He was able to gather and share with us a number of fraudulent Facebook ads and their corresponding scam websites.CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER The selling of fake postal stamps has been an issue for quite some time now, and the U.S. Postal Service has warned against this.  (Patrick…

The U.S. State Department issued a warning Friday for Americans to “exercise caution” when buying medications from drugstores in Mexico, posting the health alert a week after a letter from two lawmakers and an investigation by The Times.“The U.S. Department of State is aware of recent media reports regarding counterfeit pharmaceuticals available at pharmacies in Mexico, including those tainted with fentanyl and methamphetamine,” the alert said. “Counterfeit pills are readily advertised on social media and can be purchased…

A New York federal jury found a former 21st Century Fox executive guilty of bribing FIFA officials for the broadcasting rights to lucrative soccer matches, but acquitted his former subordinate on the same charges.  Hernan Lopez, the former head of subsidiary Fox International Channels, was convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud and launder money, in a scheme to make tens of millions of dollars in illicit payments and kickbacks between 2000 and 2015 to South American soccer officials in…