Today the tech news cycle belongs to Google—and yet!—the world continues to go on outside of Mountain View. Netflix has a new way to test your internet speed, Nokia phones are coming back, and more leftover breadcrumbs.
You may have heard that LinkedIn was hacked and [Dr. Evil voice] 117 MILLION emails and passwords are for sale. It’s true, but the hack occurred in 2012; at the time 6.5 million passwords were posted online but now all of the data has surfaced. LinkedIn has confirmed that the data is real and is invalidating the passwords of the accounts affected. [Motherboard]
Netflix now has their own super simple bandwidth tester so you can gauge the speed of your internet service. It’s called Fast.com, a reference to the desired speed. Clever word play. Why is Netflix doing this? “We want our members to have a simple, quick, commercial-free way to estimate the speed their ISP is providing.” Perhaps they want you to know where the bottleneck is. [Netflix]
Nokia is back. In phone form! Nokia is licensing their brand to a new company called HMD that will produce smartphones, tablets, and feature phones with the Nokia name. Related to that deal, Microsoft is selling the feature phone business that it purchased from Nokia to HMD and Foxconn. [Nokia via Gizmodo]
There’s a new touch-friendly universal OneDrive app for Windows 10. It’s a lot like browsing OneDrive on the web, meaning it doesn’t actually sync and download every file. Useful if you use Windows 10 on a tablet. [Microsoft Office Blog]
YouTube for iOS now lets you watch any video in VR mode (which you would use in conjunction with Google Cardboard or equivalent viewer). Of course, that doesn’t make every video 360 degrees or 3D; it just duplicates and adjusts the video for each of your respective peepers. [9to5Mac]
Fitbit is acquiring Coin (the company behind that “smart” credit card) to develop a wearable device that can work as a form of payment. Makes sense. Some Android smart watches have similar functionality, as do Jawbone fitness trackers. [The Verge]