With theme parks and a movie, the company is pushing outside of its traditional console gaming comfort zone.Over the last few years, video games have penetrated pop culture in a big way. Everyone seems to want a piece: the most popular franchises, like Halo, The Last of Us, and League of Legends, all have hit TV shows, while Netflix is trying to make gaming a pillar of its future. So many gaming … [Read more...]
Google Paid Out $12 Million via Bug Bounty Programs in 2022
Google paid out a total of $12 million through its bug bounty programs in 2022. This includes a $605,000 payout that represents the company’s highest reward ever. More than 700 researchers from 68 countries were rewarded in 2022 for helping Google make its products and services more secure, roughly the same as in 2021. However, the total bug bounties paid out in 2022 were significantly higher than … [Read more...]
Getting Started With WunderGraph: An API Gateway That Turns GraphQL Into RPC on the Fly
A comprehensive guide to WunderGraph, the API Gateway that turns GraphQL into RPC on the fly, with a focus on its TypeScript Operations.I’ve been using WunderGraph a lot lately for my NextJS projects. I really dig it. It lets me define all my data sources as dependencies in config — and NOT hardcoded in my app code — which it then introspects into a virtual graph that I can write GraphQL queries … [Read more...]
Cruise’s robotaxis have driven 1 million miles with nobody behind the wheel
For autonomous vehicle developers, every mile driven serves as proof that their technology works and as an opportunity to gather data for further improvement. Which is why Cruise, which has just announced that it has completed 1 million fully driverless miles, calls the achievement one of its biggest milestones yet. A spokesperson told us that those were miles driven with no safety driver behind … [Read more...]
Dear Sophie: Is there a domestic pilot program for H-1B and L visa stamping?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: Do I qualify for an … [Read more...]
Google's Vulnerability Program helped it identify and fix 2,900 security flaws last year
Vulnerabilities are a certainty in software, and developers will always assume that their software is vulnerable in some way, shape, or form to some kind of attack. However, it's not always possible for companies to identify every single problem with a piece of software, and often, a fix for a vulnerability may result in another vulnerability cropping up elsewhere. Bug bounties and … [Read more...]
Best Apple iPad 10 screen protectors in 2023
Apple iPads are great for illustration, reading, note-taking, watching series, and more. That's because they generally have large displays, allowing them to become more immersive and functional. Though this is a double-edged sword, as the larger the screen is, the more likely you're going to scratch or shatter it. If you plan to buy an iPad 10, we advise you to invest in a case and a … [Read more...]
Acer Swift 3 OLED review: a great package with one thing missing
This is a portable, powerful laptop with a battery life problem.The last Acer Swift 3 I reviewed was an affordable, AMD-powered student laptop. It was respectable all around but not a standout in any particular area. The new Acer Swift 3 is not that. This latest Swift 3 has two very notable features: an OLED screen and one of the most powerful mobile processors Alder Lake has to offer. … [Read more...]
How to set up and use Alexa multiroom music
/ Get your Echo speakers (and more!) in sync with wireless multiroom audio playback and learn how to use the new features in the Alexa app to control your music. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd … [Read more...]
Stripe expands Tap to Pay to Android, turning NFC-enabled Android devices into payment terminals
Stripe, the payments and financial services upstart, made waves in the world of mobile commerce last year when it became Apple’s first payment partner for “Tap to Pay”, the iPhone giant’s move to turn any iOS device into a payment-making or payment-taking terminal. Now, Stripe is expanding that business by a factor of googol. From today, businesses that use Stripe Terminal to take in-person … [Read more...]
Authentication with Supabase
Authenticating users is an important part of building web applications. Supabase offers a range of authentication options to help developers build secure applications quickly and easily. Supabase offers authentication through OAuth providers such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as through email and password authentication. With email and password authentication, Supabase uses bcrypt to … [Read more...]
A Deep dive into Docker
Docker is one of the most fascinating tools I have ever seen. Even though I have used docker I never had a deep understanding of what docker is.So if you are someone, who is new to docker or trying to know more about docker, this is a perfect place. So let's learn about docker. Before knowing what docker is, we need to know why even use Docker You probably had a scenario where, when you are … [Read more...]
Amazon officially becomes a health care provider after closing purchase of One Medical
Amazon's months-long effort to acquire One Medical is finished — for now, at least. The company has officially completed its $3.9 billion purchase, giving it a primary healthcare provider with in-person and virtual treatment as well as lab tests. The successful buyout isn't leading to any immediate changes in One Medical's services beyond a temporary $55 discount on a one-year membership (now … [Read more...]
SBI Partners With PayNow for Cross-Border Payments Through Bhim App
A day after a real-time payments system linkage was established between India and Singapore using the UPI platform, State Bank of India on Wednesday announced a partnership with PayNow, the online payment system of the city state, for cross-border payments.The facility is offered through SBI's Bhim SBIPay mobile application and the linkage will allow fund transfers from India to Singapore through … [Read more...]
Resident Evil 4 Remake’s VR Mode Will Be Available as Free DLC on PS VR2, Capcom Confirms
Resident Evil 4 remake's virtual reality version will be available as free DLC on PS5's PS VR2. In a tweet, developer Capcom stated that RE4's VR mode had begun development, and quote-retweeted it later to confirm that it will be available at no extra cost. As usual, players are required to own a copy of the base game in order to access the DLC. Given that Capcom has just started working on the … [Read more...]
Visual Studio 2022 17.5 now available
Microsoft incorporated a number of features into this release that are designed to reduce friction in daily development workflows. A number of productivity enhancements were made, including all-in-one search and Intent-Based Suggestions. All-in-one search enables Visual Studio users to find files, types, and members in code. With this release the company has significantly improved the … [Read more...]
The CSA is addressing smart home data privacy, and it’s about damn time
/ The organization behind Matter has formed a data privacy working group to create a privacy certification for smart devices. But once again, it will rely on buy-in from Big Tech. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 … [Read more...]
Samsung debuts a Bixby feature that creates an AI-generated copy of a user’s voice to answer calls
Samsung has announced a new feature for its Bixby mobile assistant that creates an AI-generated copy of a user’s voice to answer calls. The new “Custom Voice Creator” lets users record different sentences for Bixby to analyze and create an AI-generated copy of their tone and voice. Unfortunately, the feature is currently only available in Korean on Galaxy S23 series devices. The feature is … [Read more...]
I Coded a Website with 60k+ Daily Visitors Using ChatGPT
ChatGPT, a groundbreaking language model that made its debut at the end of last year, has been increasingly used many different disciplines. Nevertheless, some people complaint the responses from ChatGPT was not very good. The root cause of this issue lies in imprecise and poor-quality prompts.To address this problem, we have developed a user-friendly webpage that enables users to copy precise and … [Read more...]
Realme's Dynamic Island lookalike could debut with new C-series smartphones
It looks like Realme is prepping to release new C-series smartphones, set to arrive sometime in the coming months. While little is known about these devices, the company's VP, Madhav Sheth has been very vocal on Twitter, sharing his excitement for the upcoming handsets. In a tweet which has since been deleted, Sheth might have been a bit too excited and looks to have jumped the gun, sharing … [Read more...]