Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Sony has made an investment in video startup Kiswe. While the amount wasn’t disclosed, Kiswe has now raised $46 million since its inception in 2013. The Sony Innovation Fund has invested in New Jersey-based Kiswe, which is
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed details of a new vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions in macOS and take complete control of the device to perform arbitrary operations on the device without getting flagged by traditional security solutions. Dubbed “Shrootless” and tracked as CVE-2021-30892, the “vulnerability lies in how Apple-signed packages with
WhatsApp will no longer support a list of Android devices starting Monday, November 1. As a result of the update, affected users will lose all their chats if they have not yet been backed up and exported. WhatsApp has also recommended the users to switch to a supported device to continue to use its instant
Microblogging site Twitter, which regularly tests new features ahead of their official rollout, has created a new way for some people to check out these new features before everyone else. Twitter has announced that subscribers to its paid Twitter Blue service will get early access to some new features under a new Labs banner. Like
Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Versa 3 users are getting a new software update that brings some new features to the wearables including status indicators. The Fitbit OS 5.3 update brings status indicators on the smartwatch that will let users know when the device’s battery is critically low right on the watch face. Users will also
Xiaomi led the Indian smartphone market shipments in Q3 2021 with 22 percent share, as per Counterpoint’s latest research. The total Indian smartphone shipments cross 52 million units in the third quarter, and while Xiaomi is on top, Apple was the fastest growing brand this quarter. Xiaomi’s top position was driven by the Redmi 9
Indian digital payments leader Paytm has boosted the size of its initial public offering to Rs. 18,300 crore from Rs. 16,600 crore, as existing shareholders look to sell more stake ahead of the country’s largest stock market listing. Paytm was likely to target a price band of Rs. 2,080 – Rs. 2,150 per share for the
Samsung said on Thursday it expects component shortages to affect chip demand from some customers in the current quarter, after reporting its highest quarterly profit in three years. The warning comes as producers of goods from televisions to cars have faced a host of supply chain issues ranging from a shortage of logic chip parts,
According to a new Forrester study commissioned by Cyware, 64% of respondents note that sharing cyber threat intelligence between their organizations’ security operations center (SOC), incident response, and threat intelligence teams is limited. Chief information security offers (CISOs) must better understand the technology and data access challenges preventing their SOCs from enabling the holistic defense
Google on Thursday rolled out an emergency update for its Chrome web browser, including fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that it says are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003, the weaknesses relate to insufficient validation of untrusted input in a feature called Intents as well as a case of inappropriate
Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast. After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook acknowledged in internal documents obtained by The Associated Press that it was “under-enforcing on confirmed abusive
More than a year after NASA launched the Perseverance rover for Mars, the space agency is bringing the focus back on how its precise landing spot was decided or who chose where it should land. In an Instagram post, NASA said that the rover made the decision moments before it touched down on the surface
Honor X30 Max and Honor X30i were launched on Thursday as the company’s latest smartphones. Both new Honor X30 models come with MediaTek Dimensity chipsets and have up to 256GB of onboard storage. In terms of distinction, the Honor X30 Max carries a massive 7.09-inch display and dual stereo speakers to target consumers looking for
In this article AAPL Apple revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, which Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed to larger-than-expected supply constraints on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Apple fell over 4% in extended trading. “We had a very strong performance despite larger than expected supply constraints, which we estimate to
Pikmin Bloom, a new location-based augmented reality (AR) mobile game, is now being rolling out for users in Singapore and Australia. The free game is developed by Pokemon Go developer Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and will be launched globally in the coming days. Similar to Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom will ask players to go
According to a new report by HP Wolf Security, 79% of IT teams have seen an increase in rebuild rates, indicating that hackers are becoming more successful at breaching the endpoint and compromising organizations’ devices and data. This sudden increase in rebuild rates is particularly affecting enterprises with 1,000 employees or more — organizations of
Over 70% of Wi-Fi networks from a sample size of 5,000 were hacked with “relative ease” in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, highlighting how unsecure Wi-Fi passwords can become a gateway for serious threats to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises alike. CyberArk security researcher Ido Hoorvitch, who used a Wi-Fi sniffing equipment costing about
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro found himself in social media time-out Monday after his video warning of a supposed link between Covid-19 vaccines and AIDS triggered action by Facebook and YouTube. Facebook removed the offending video, while YouTube went further, suspending the far-right leader for one week in addition to blocking the clip. “We removed a