US law enforcement agencies have reportedly been accessing the location of 250 million smartphones in order to access “hundreds of billions of records”, using a tool provided by a private company that purchases information on users collected by data brokers sourced from popular apps. The company’s device tracking tool relies on advertising IDs from user’s
Month: September 2022
In this article AMZN Amazon turned off solar energy systems at all of its U.S. facilities in 2021 after a rash of fires and explosions, including one at its Fresno warehouse in 2020. Fresno Fire Department On the afternoon of April 14, 2020, dozens of firefighters arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Fresno, California, as
Sea has reportedly cut jobs at its a livestream app that is part of its gaming unit Garena. The Singapore-based firm has halt its plans for a game livestream platform, which will no longer be updated, according to a report. It is also reportedly planning on shutting down some of the company’s projects related to blockchain
So far 2022 confirms that passwords are not dead yet. Neither will they be anytime soon. Even though Microsoft and Apple are championing passwordless authentication methods, most applications and websites will not remove this option for a very long time. Think about it, internal apps that you do not want to integrate with third-party identity
WhatsApp removed nearly 24 lakh accounts in India in July, the company stated in its monthly compliance report. The Meta-owned messaging service is an intermediary under the IT Rules, and publishes monthly reports on actions taken against accounts on the platform. According to WhatsApp, 14 lakh accounts were banned ‘proactively’, which means they were removed
A piece of digital artwork that won first place in a fine art competition has prompted discussion on social media about the nature of art and what it means to be an artist. Jason Allen came first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated artwork on Monday. According
iPhone 14 series — comprised of the purported iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max — are expected to make their debut at Apple’s ‘Far Out’ launch event scheduled for September 7. The company is rumoured to do away with the ‘mini’ form factor, in favour of a larger
Apple iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will feature a single pill-shaped cut out to display privacy indicators on iOS when the camera and microphone are in use, as per a new report. Recently, a report hinted that the purported pill-shaped and hole-punch cutouts on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro
Twitter is finally adding support for a feature that has been requested by users for several years — the ability to edit tweets. The company announced on Thursday that it will roll out the much-awaited edit button to select Twitter Blue subscribers over the coming weeks. The feature will allow users to make changes to
The push for India’s first 5G spectrum may be heating up, but rollout plans in the country are still “a big maze,” according to a former CEO of Indian telco Bharti Airtel. Speaking to CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Wednesday, Sanjay Kapoor, who is now an independent analyst, said Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio’s $25
LG OLED Flex TV LX3 with a bendable display has been launched, and will be on demo at IFA 2022. The new television from LG has a 42-inch 4K screen that is bendable, so the TV can be used both as a flat and curved panel. The flexible panel can offer a maximum curvature of
Deathloop is joining the list of games coming to the Playstation Plus Extra and Premium/ Deluxe catalogue this month. Starting September 20, high-tier PS Plus subscribers gain access to the latest entry from Arkane Studios, in addition to Assassin’s Creed Origins, Watch Dogs 2, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, and more. Those paying for the Rs.
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed details of a now-patched “high severity vulnerability” in the TikTok app for Android that could let attackers take over accounts when victims clicked on a malicious link. “Attackers could have leveraged the vulnerability to hijack an account without users’ awareness if a targeted user simply clicked a specially crafted link,” Dimitrios
Meta could soon offer additional features for paid users. The social media giant is reportedly setting up a new product organisation to work on “possible paid features” for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The unit is said to be led by Meta’s former Head of Research, Pratiti RayChoudhury. Other competitors in the space including Snap, and
NASA has announced to award five new missions to Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). The US Space agency, in a brief on Thursday, mentioned that the missions will help in the crew transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract. These five crewed missions
Lenovo Glasses T1 wearable private display was launched by the company on Thursday. The new smart glasses are a wearable display solution from the Hong Kong-based tech giant, and sport two Micro OLED displays for each eye, with a 1,080×1,920 pixels resolution and a 60Hz refresh rate. The Lenovo Glasses T1 also feature built-in speakers
iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max — Apple’s upcoming high-end smartphone models — could sport display cutouts that appear as a single, contiguous pill when the phone is in use, according to a report. Over the past year, several leaks and reports have tipped Apple to replace the notch on its smartphones with a hole and
A persistent Golang-based malware campaign dubbed GO#WEBBFUSCATOR has leveraged the deep field image taken from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as a lure to deploy malicious payloads on infected systems. The development, revealed by Securonix, points to the growing adoption of Go among threat actors, given the programming language’s cross-platform support, effectively allowing the