If you, like millions of other people, use the same password for just about every application you use, then I’m sorry to break it to you, but one of these days, you’ll probably get hacked, if you aren’t already. Although you probably imagine a hacker as a hooded, geeky man sat behind a laptop breaking into accounts by guessing people’s favorite movies and lucky numbers, surprisingly, that’s not how it works....
As we’re all huddling in our houses waiting for the world to start turning again, we should take advantage of any opportunity to entertain ourselves. This can be hard if you’re an extrovert who enjoys watching movies and shows with your friends. The good news is there are a number of streaming services that can help you cover the distance. Sure, the video quality may be a little on the low side depending on where in the world you are — multiple services have committed to lower streaming quality in order to preserve the integrity of the internet while more people are working from home....
You and The Colonel?… Went on a first date?… to KFC?… Haha?.. just kidding?… Unless?? https://t.co/8gcZy3YKEN — KFC Gaming (@kfcgaming) September 10, 2019 The game, titled I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator (wow, that’s more of a mouthful than an Extra Crispy drumstick), is an official KFC product, according to a statement they gave Polygon. It was developed by Psyop, a game developer that apparently specializes in licensed marketing....
I’m a manager at Zapier. I work on the success team, which means I need to have time to take care of my customers and my direct reports, all while getting through all the other work I need to do. It’s… a lot. And I’m not alone. I’ve talked with other managers here, and they feel the same way. It’s easy for scheduled meetings and calls to multiply until they take up every moment, and at that point, necessary work is going to fall through the cracks....
At eXp Realty we use our own virtual workplace called VirBELA. That means not only that my colleagues and team don’t see me in person very often, but they don’t even see me. That’s because in the virtual world, we all have avatars — just like in a video game. Turns out, I still have my magic, even though I couldn’t tell you with certainty what color hair some of my colleagues have....
In a partnership that’s likely to involve lots of RGB lights, IKEA has announced it’s collaborating with ASUS’ gaming sub-brand, ROG, to create a new line of furniture specifically built for gamers. The range, which will consist of about 30 products, is slated to launch next February in China, with plans to make the furniture available in other regions by October 2021. Unfortunately, other than the promise of being affordable, IKEA is keeping shush about what furniture and accessories we can expect....
The country’s IT ministry invoked Section 69A of the IT Act 2000 that lets the government block services if they’re deemed dangerous for sovereignty and integrity of the country: — Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) June 29, 2020 The list includes some major names such as TikTok and Helo that has hundreds of millions of users in India. TikTok has more than 200 million users in India and almost a third of its downloads are by the users in the country....
Mosseri talked about ‘shadowbans,’ harassment, and content takedown disagreements of black creators. He said the company will focus on four areas to improve its services: harassment, account verification, content distribution, and algorithmic bias. • Harassment• Account verification• Content distribution• Algorithmic bias — Adam Mosseri ? (@mosseri) June 15, 2020 Out of these four, algorithmic bias and content distribution go hand in hand, as people spend most of their time on their feed or the explore tab....
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used test accounts to investigate the recommendations on Instagram’s Explore page and new Suggested Post feature. They found that the tools encourage users to view misinformation and then push those who engage with the posts towards other extremist content: The researchers generated the recommendations by creating 15 Instagram profiles and following different lists of accounts, from health authorities to anti-vaxxers. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget?...
The plan, more commonly known as the Coordicide, will ensure the network remains stable and secure without the need for a central entity. While the IOTA research team is confident it has found a workaround, the timeline for implementing the solution remains unclear. “The IOTA Foundation is already working on implementation, but the timeline will depend on a number of variables,” an IOTA rep told Hard Fork. “The IOTA Foundation has a loose timeline of early 2020, but this could happen faster or sooner depending on these variables....
The merger will give Aurora an infusion of cash to develop autonomous trucks and, later, self-driving passenger cars. Going public is not the norm for companies that don’t have a working and profitable business model. And what makes Aurora’s reverse IPO even more odd is that it comes at a time that the self-driving car industry is struggling with missed deadlines, shuttered projects, unsettled technical challenges, growing cash-burn rates, and loss of public trust....
In these muddled times, at least one thing is clear: Nearly everyone’s tracking you, always. But there is one area that has been largely off-limits to digital data collectors for 20 years: podcast listening. Traditionally, the podcast ecosystem has been tracking-resistant, in part because podcasters release their shows through RSS, free technology dating back to 1999. Podcast players, also known as podcatchers, like Apple Podcasts and Castro then aggregate those episodes in easy-to-use apps....
If you have two similar-looking USB-C to C cables, chances are that you might not be able to tell anything about their capabilities by just looking at them. The USB-C standard can handle a lot of things: charging, data transfer, and audio and video streaming. But not all USB-C cables are made alike. When I bought my M1-powered MacBook Air, I was excited about carrying only one charger to juice up all my gadgets....
Last week, Samsung Australia was fined A$14 million by the Australian Federal Court over false representations in ads of the water resistance of its Galaxy phones. The tech giant admitted that submerging Galaxy phones in pool or sea water could corrode the charging ports and stop the phones from working, if charged while still wet. Similarly, in 2020, Apple was fined €10 million (about A$15.3 million) in Italy for misleading claims about the water resistance of iPhones....
The global steel industry is one of the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide, representing approximately 7% of global CO2 emissions. Demand for fossil-free steel is growing substantially with solid interest from global market leaders in automotive, commercial vehicles, white goods, furniture, etc. And the most significant noise is therefore around “green steel”. What is green steel? Traditionally, steel is made using a classic blast furnace. This emits an average of more than two tons of CO2 per ton....
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 16, 2020 To be more specific, the company revealed — in about three seconds of footage from an hour-long presentation, so thank you for that, Sony — that the company would be launching the PS5 on November 12 in the US, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. It’ll come to the rest of the world on November 19, with the possible exception of China, as a footnote declares that region is “still under exploration....
The company is currently working on its Reflect Eternal on-ear wireless headphones, which incorporate solar charging technology, so you can juice them up just by going outside or sitting indoors in a well-lit space — no wires necessary. That’s not the worst idea I’ve heard, and JBL didn’t go overboard in pushing this gimmick. The headphones can be fast charged over USB (the company claims two hours of play time in just 15 minutes), and they’re fairly reasonably priced at $164 (early bird buyers can order them for $99 on Indiegogo)....
Website managers in the U.S. make an average of $55,000 a year. And when experienced, well-connected freelancers can charge (and get!) top dollar for their services, it isn’t hard to see how bills rack up quickly when you start asking your web guy to make changes to your site. The secret most web design pros don’t want you to know is that much of website management isn’t difficult. In fact, with the training like these Technical SEO courses from TNW Deals, you’ll quickly learn how to do much of what your web guy does for collecting those big fees....
It’s Plugged In time once again, and guess what? This week, everything’s a little bit moist. Anyway, let’s get straight to the point: YOU NEED A SHOWER SPEAKER IN YOUR LIFE. The question is this: Why? And, specifically, why now? Well, let me spin a tale that’s mercifully short, yet somehow still painfully dull. The other week, I was chatting with some colleagues and mentioned in passing how I listened to music and podcasts in the shower....
So I decided to take a deep dive into what it is, where it comes from, how it’s mined, its environmental impact, and what we can do to make it greener. And don’t worry — no geology degree is needed. What is lithium? Lithium is a naturally occurring substance found in ionic minerals such as petalite, lepidolite, and spodumene. These minerals occur primarily in two places: rock formations, or underground brine reservoirs....
