On April 20th, 2021 with 1 comments
PayPal on Tuesday will begin allowing select customers of its Venmo app to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies as consumers increasingly look for ways to pile...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hackers backed by nation-states are exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Pulse Secure VPN to...
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Index
On April 20th, 2021 with 9 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The operators of the REvil ransomware are demanding that Apple pay a ransom demand to avoid having confidential information leaked...
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Security,
Apple,
Index
On April 20th, 2021 with 26 comments
Microsoft and video-game chat company Discord have ended takeover talks after Discord rejected a $12 billion bid, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing a people...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 28 comments
At today's Spring Loaded event, Apple unveiled a new version of the iPad Pro, equipped with the M1 chip that was first introduced on the company's Mac line....
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Desktops (Apple),
Hardware,
Apple,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 31 comments
The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that it's taking a hard look at bias in AI, warning businesses that selling or using such systems could constitute a...
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AI,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 23 comments
Facebook wants you to believe that the scraping of 533 million people's personal data from its platform, and the dumping of that data online by nefarious...
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Facebook,
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Index
On April 20th, 2021 with 59 comments
Now that Apple's lost item finder AirTag has officially been introduced, competitor Tile is going on record ahead of its testimony in front of Congress...
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Apple,
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Technology,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 15 comments
Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has fixed a security bug that let fraudsters steal customers' driver's license numbers from its website....
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On April 20th, 2021 with 128 comments
Apple has finally given the world a dramatic new iMac redesign, aimed at the company's long-standing goal of "making the computer disappear." From a report:...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 36 comments
Apple has launched a Tile-like item tracker that will work with the company's software and services. From a report: Dubbed AirTag, the small circular tag will...
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Apple,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 48 comments
The White House unveiled on Tuesday a 100-day plan intended to protect the U.S. power grid from cyber-attacks, mainly by creating a stronger relationship...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 21 comments
Magic Leap's next augmented realty headset is on track to be unveiled later this year. From a report: In an interview with Protocol published on Tuesday, CEO...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 16 comments
PayPal plans to set up a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments. From a report: In January, the U.S. fintech company became the first foreign...
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China,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 33 comments
Online electronics retailer Newegg said it is now accepting dogecoin as a method of payment. From a report: Customers will be able to complete transactions...
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The Almighty Buck,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 6 comments
Amazon.com has opened a new hair salon in East London to showcase augmented reality and "point and learn" marketing technology that lets customers point their...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 112 comments
According to a new report by industry analysts Mark Mulligan and Keith Jopling of Midia Research, songwriters are getting drastically short-changed in the...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 106 comments
Dave Knott writes: Microsoft has announced Visual Studio 2022, the next major revision of their flagship development IDE. A public beta will be arriving this...
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Microsoft,
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On April 20th, 2021 with 246 comments
Rei writes: After a Tesla crash in The Woodlands killed two people last Saturday night, news reports were quick to jump to the conclusion that Autopilot (or...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Extreme weather has become the new normal -- whether it's precipitation, drought, wind, heat, or cold....
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On April 19th, 2021 with 15 comments
Researchers have developed a tool that can design complex DNA robots and nanodevices in minutes instead of days. Phys.Org reports: In a paper published today...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 23 comments
Reddit unveiled its take on a Clubhouse-like social audio product on Monday, called Reddit Talk. The Verge reports: The company is billing Monday's...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 45 comments
April 20th or 4/20 is the unofficial marijuana holiday where thousands of cannabis smokers celebrate the smoking of marijuana with marijuana. But this year, it...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 37 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A small miracle happened at 3:31am ET on Monday morning. Ingenuity, a tiny NASA helicopter, became the first...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 89 comments
Here's something to do if that TV commercial is too loud: complain to the feds, who just might do something about it. From a report: The U.S. Federal...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 33 comments
Last month, Sony said that PlayStation Store access for the PS3, PS Vita, and PSP would end this summer. Today, Sony has partially reversed course, announcing...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: The latest addition coming to Microsoft Edge is "performance mode." Rolling out first to the Canary...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 48 comments
NASA's first attempt to fly its "Ingenuity" helicopter on Mars was a success, marking what the space agency says is the first powered, controlled flight by an...
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On April 19th, 2021 with 78 comments
Translation tools from Google and other companies could be contributing to significant misunderstanding of legal terms with conflicting meanings such as...
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Google,
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On April 19th, 2021 with 71 comments
AmiMoJo writes: WordPress announced over the weekend that they plan on treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and hence block it...
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