MediaTek has announced that it will be showcasing a host of demos on innovations and developments undertaken by the chipset manufacturer at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 scheduled to commence in Barcelona, Spain on February 27, 2023. The demonstrations will include MediaTek's take on enabling satellite connectivity on Android smartphones, through support for 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Network … [Read more...]
CISA Sounds Alarm on Cybersecurity Threats Amid Russia's Invasion Anniversary
Feb 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cybersecurity The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging organizations and individuals to increase their cyber vigilance, as Russia's military invasion of Ukraine officially enters one year. "CISA assesses that the United States and European nations may experience disruptive and defacement attacks against websites in an … [Read more...]
Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure Expansion Release Date Set for March 29: All Details
Forza Horizon 5 raced to success and acclaim when it launched in November 2021 on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X consoles. Playground Games followed up with the Hot Wheels expansion in July last year. Now, the developers have announced the game's second major expansion, Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure. In a livestream early Friday, Playground Games revealed that the Rally Adventure expansion … [Read more...]
TikTok Faces Another Ban, EU Bodies Direct Staff to Remove App Citing Security Reasons
The European Union's two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its users' data.TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, is under scrutiny from governments and regulators because of concerns that China's government could use its app to harvest users' data or … [Read more...]
Distributed Workforces and the Human Cloud, Tech’s Recession Busters
Many companies face an arduous balancing act at the start of 2023 between an uncertain economic climate and the critical advantage they must maintain for competitive innovation. New technologies from Web3, blockchain, machine learning, and artificial intelligence continue to evolve work ethics that make that task more challenging. Cory Hymel, vice president of product at Gigster, an enterprise … [Read more...]
How to turn on Bluetooth in Windows 11
Bluetooth is one of the primary wireless technologies we use in our everyday lives. Aside from Wi-Fi and cellular networks, it's probably the most common wireless standard, allowing us to connect devices like wireless headphones to our phones and computers. While many of us are probably already familiar with using Bluetooth, it's possible you're not sure how to turn it on and use it … [Read more...]
Meet the couple that built an EV rock crawler for King of the Hammers
Electrified powertrains are not favored by many fans of rock-crawling, off-roading events like California’s King of the Hammers. But Keith and Melissa Silva pushed themselves and their rig to the limit at this year’s Every Man Challenge.When you think of an electric vehicle, you likely think of the ubiquitous Tesla, making its way on a daily commute. Maybe you think of a luxury Lucid Air cutting … [Read more...]
Meta Verified is rolling out to users in Australia and New Zeland
Meta announced its subscription plan, Meta Verified, earlier this week and now the social media company is rolling out to users based in Australia and New Zealand. The company began the rollout around 6.30 PM Sydney time on Friday. The subscription offers a verified label, improved reach, better protection from impersonation, access to customer support, and exclusive stickers on Facebook and … [Read more...]
ULA targets May 4th for Vulcan Centaur rocket's inaugural flight
United Launch Alliance has a target date for its Vulcan Centaur rocket's inaugural flight: May 4th, 2023. Company chief Tory Bruno has announced the four-day launch window starting on May 4th in a call with reporters, where he explained the factors that prompted the company to come up with the schedule. According to Parabolic Arc, the primary "pacing item" for the launch is Blue Origin's … [Read more...]
ONDC, Amazon’s SmartCommerce Services to Empower India’s Small Retailers, Buyers
Amazon has announced a partnership with India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) on Friday, February 24. This teaming-up is aimed at providing small retailers and day-to-day buyers with Amazon's SmartCommerce services. ONDC is a private non-profit company overseen by the government of India. Meanwhile, the SmartCommerce is an Amazon Web Services (AWS)-powered suite of software as a service … [Read more...]
Poshmark lays off employees just two months after being acquired by Naver
Poshmark, a Redwood City, California-headquartered secondhand apparel marketplace, is laying off a proportion of its 800+ employees. The reduction is coming about two months after South Korean internet firm Naver completed its acquisition of the company earlier this year for $1.2 billion. Poshmark confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is cutting its workforce due to the economic … [Read more...]
IMF Outlines Nine-Point Crypto Action Plan, Aims to Block Cryptocurrencies From Becoming Legal Tender
The International Monetary Fund has laid out a nine-point action plan for how countries should treat crypto assets, with point number one a plea not to give cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin legal tender status.The global lender of last resort said its Executive Board had discussed a paper, "Elements of Effective Policies for Crypto Assets," that provided "guidance to IMF member countries on key … [Read more...]
Google, Twitter Supreme Court Cases Won’t Break the Internet
Despite all the furor, the future of the internet does not hinge on a pair of cases argued this week at the US Supreme Court. There's no risk that the statutory immunity that Congress granted long ago to internet service providers will collapse. The justices are being asked to decide a narrow and technical legal question. Should the ISPs lose, they'll make a handful of tweaks in the algorithms … [Read more...]
A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience
Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”. It would be fair to say that TechCrunch can only concur with … [Read more...]
Hackers Using Pirated macOS Apps to Deploy Evasive Malware
Security researchers at Jamf Threat Labs team have recently uncovered a sneaky cryptomining operation aimed at macOS users. The attackers are using a fraudulent version of the popular video editing software, Final Cut Pro, which has been modified to include malicious code. What’s even more alarming is that this scheme has managed to fly under the radar of most antivirus … [Read more...]
Friday’s top tech news: 1080p but better
YouTube is testing another perk for its Premium subscribers that offers a higher bitrate than existing 1080p streams. The option, named “1080p Premium,” is currently in testing for a small number of users, and appears to boost the bitrate of video streams by a couple of Mbps. It could be a neat option for subscribers who watch primarily on smartphones, where 1080p-resolution displays are far more … [Read more...]
The Morning After: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ and the problem with too much VFX
It’s time for more Marvel Cinematic Universe, more special effects, more families in danger and more sinister baddies, with a bigger role for Kang the Conqueror – the big cross-movie threat, a la Thanos – played by Jonathan Majors. Alas, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania suffers from too many special effects, sadly. It uses Industrial Light and Magic's (ILM) StageCraft technology (AKA “the … [Read more...]
The Morning After:‘ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ and problem with too much VFX
It’s time for more Marvel Cinematic Universe, more special effects, more families in danger and more sinister baddies, with a bigger role for Kang the Conqueror – the big cross-movie threat, a la Thanos – played by Jonathan Majors. Alas, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania suffers from too many special effects, sadly. It uses Industrial Light and Magic's (ILM) StageCraft technology (AKA “the … [Read more...]
Different Loops in JavaScript
Overview:Loops are very useful in programming, whenever we want to perform any task and we want to repeat that task a particular number of times. For instance, If we want to print orange 6 times : console.log('orange'); console.log('orange'); console.log('orange'); console.log('orange'); console.log('orange'); console.log('orange'); In this example, we have written the same statement 6 … [Read more...]
HTML Basic and Structure of HTML Page
Do you know what an HTML document is? It's like a recipe for a webpage that tells your computer how to display the content you want to share with others. Can you explain the two sections of an HTML document and their importance? What are some of the elements used in the head section of an HTML document and why are they important? Lastly, can you differentiate between attributes and properties in … [Read more...]