PCMag Live 04/04/14: New Details on Google's Project Ara & Experian Data Breach

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Published Oct 6, 2020

PCMag Live for Friday, April 4, 2014 is hosted by Dan Costa and Will Greenwald.

In our Headline News segment, Experian, a company that makes its money from providing consumer credit histories, is being investigated by several states due to a data breach that exposed 200 million social security numbers to potential criminal activity. Experian wasn't hacked. No, they sold this information willingly. The brainiacs behind Project Ara are hoping consumers want a deeper level of customization than just picking a cool case when it comes to their smartphone. A dangerous and utterly ridiculous bug has been discovered in the Nest Project sensor that prompted the Google-owned company to pull the product from shelves. The smoke alarm apparently shuts down when you wave at it.

Today's Reader Question asks if a smart TV is a smart purchase. Will answers with a smart answer.

Finally, we always pull One Cool Thing off the shelves of the PCMag Labs, and today we look at the Amazon Fire TV Game Controller.

Give today's video a spin and catch up on past episodes via our YouTube Channel.