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Here's your daily crunch. After essential failure, awesome, spelled OSOM, plans a new privacy first

handset. Over the years, the smartphone arena has sort of boiled down to

iPhone versus whatever Android phone is cool right now.

Is there room for another contender?

A bunch of former employees of essential think so

and are working on a privacy-centric Android phone under the brand awesome.

A popular Bluetooth COVID-19 test has bugs, an at-Covit-19 test that uses a Bluetooth enabled analyzer to provide certified results does sound handy,

but researcher Ken Gannon found a Bluetooth vulnerability allowing him to modify its results.

And Fisher Price's Chatterphone has bugs too. If you have one, it sounds like you might want to make sure it's properly hung up when not in use.

Ken Monroe, founder of the cybersecurity company Penn Test Partners, told Tech Crunch that Chief

among the concerns are that the chatter does not have a secure pairing

process to stop unauthorized phones in Bluetooth range from connecting to it.

Now let's see what's going on in the world of startups. Vio, a New York-based

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