The Apple TV 4K checks all the boxes and is the most pleasant to use, but plenty of people will be just fine with a Chromecast, Roku, or Fire TV.Looking for a new TV gadget to stream all of your favorite entertainment? The selection has never been better, and the prices are only growing more affordable. Our top overall pick, the Apple TV 4K, now comes at a lower price. And you can spend as little … [Read more...]
‘The Mageseeker’ is a League of Legends RPG from the studio behind ‘Moonlighter’
2023 will be another big year for fans of Riot Games and League of Legends. This morning, the studio announced it will release not one but three games from its Riot Forge publishing label before 2024. The slate opens with The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story, a new action RPG from Digital Sun Games, the studio behind 2018’s Moonlighter. The Mageseeker casts you as Sylas, everyone’s favorite … [Read more...]
Plugable USB-C Stand Dock review: Helping make your tablet more useful
One of the cool parts of owning a great tablet like the iPad Pro or Surface Pro 9 is the versatility. Attach the Type Cover keyboard to the Surface Pro 9 and you get a laptop-like experience. Or with an iPad, you can prop the iPad Pro into the Magic Keyboard, so you get a device great for more casual computing. What's not so great about these devices, though, is the port selection. Tablets … [Read more...]
Your next swipe might be on an AI chatbot
Land of the Giants/Podcasts / The future of dating has virtual reality, AI, and the metaverse. Will daters just give up and meet in person instead? 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...]
Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 to Get Apple-Like Menstrual Cycle Tracker: Details
Samsung has announced that it is bringing an Apple Watch-style women's health tracker to its Galaxy Watch 5 series soon. The company has partnered with Natural Cycles to introduce temperature-based menstrual cycle tracking. It will be available in the second quarter of the year. Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro users across 32 countries including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the … [Read more...]
Instagram to Remove Live Shopping Feature From Next Month: All Details
Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Meta, is bringing a new feature next month. It will be doing away with the popular live Shop tab from March 16. The feature, announced in 2020, lets creators directly tag products and promote links in their live broadcasts. While the ability to tag links will not be available anymore, other live broadcasting features like scheduling a broadcast, inviting … [Read more...]
Webinar — A MythBusting Special: 9 Myths about File-based Threats
Feb 15, 2023The Hacker NewsCybersecurity Webinar Bad actors love to deliver threats in files. Persistent and persuasive messages convince unsuspecting victims to accept and open files from unknown sources, executing the first step in a cyber attack. This continues to happen whether the file is an EXE or a Microsoft Excel document. Far too often, end users have an illusion of security, masked by … [Read more...]
100 Days of Code : A Skill Up Journey !
IntroductionHello everyone, I am Srikar - An engineering student, Developer, Podcaster, Writer, and Designer. I am an aspiring full-stack developer and learning the MERN stack currently. Would love to connect with amazing people out there and hope that my blog reaches out to all the people starting their coding journey! My entry to coding was through HTML, CSS and JS in high school and I left it a … [Read more...]
Dozens of Vulnerabilities Patched in Intel Products
Intel this week announced patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including critical- and high-severity issues. The most severe of these flaws is CVE-2021-39296 (CVSS score of 10), which impacts the Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) and OpenBMC firmware of several Intel platforms. The bug was identified in 2021 in the netipmid (IPMI lan+) interface and … [Read more...]
Set up NGINX with SSL on a Ubuntu server to serve static pages.
NGINX is an open-source software used in web serving. Some of its other uses include reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming and more. It is similar to Apache and the main difference is NGINX uses an event-driven architecture handling multiple requests within a single thread. Apache is process-driven creating a thread per each request. This allows NGINX to have generally better … [Read more...]
Xiaomi 13 Pro Confirmed to Be Sold in India Via Amazon From February 26
Xiaomi 13 Pro is scheduled to launch in India on February 26. This flagship handset has already made its debut in China alongside the vanilla Xiaomi 13. Both handsets are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. However, there is no confirmation regarding the global availability of the latter model. Xiaomi has now confirmed that the Xiaomi 13 Pro will be made available for purchase in India … [Read more...]
Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware
Feb 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Ransomware A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) … [Read more...]
React’s Virtual DOM: Headache or Painkiller for Developers? 🤒
There is something magical about the virtual DOM in React. ✨ However, a great deal of complexity and difficulty in understanding it.The virtual DOM is what makes React great; it’s neither a headache nor a painkiller for sure. I explain it in a detailed, yet easy-to-understand manner in this post. 🚀 You can read the actual post here: The Functioning Mechanisms of the Virtual … [Read more...]
The first trailer for Extrapolations features a cast only Apple money can buy
/ The first trailer for the upcoming Apple TV Plus series depicts a star-studded cast of characters surviving devastating climate change.Apple has released the first trailer for its upcoming limited drama Extrapolations, the latest anthology series from writer, director, and executive producer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum). The show is loaded with Hollywood A-listers, with … [Read more...]
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X75 modem for "the next phase of 5G"
MWC is just around the corner, and Qualcomm is here to kick things off with the announcement of its new Snapdragon X75 modem. The company says that this chipset is ready to support 5G Advanced, "the next phase of 5G". The big step forward here is the inclusion of a hardware tensor accelerator for improved artificial intelligence performance, though that's not all. This modem also … [Read more...]
IFC leads $17M investment in South African insurtech Naked
Naked, a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard. The news follows the Naspers-led $11 million Series A round … [Read more...]
Here’s why you’re still waiting for Bing AI
/ Microsoft says it’s now testing the new Bing in 169 countries and that millions have signed up to the waitlist. 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 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft … [Read more...]
Smartrr bags $10M for its customer experience approach to e-commerce subscriptions
Getting a subscription service going and keeping it, complete with fulfillment and delivery, is complicated. Brands use technologies that can cause them to end up with double billing and delivery that the customer is then left to manage. Subscriptions are big business: The direct-to-consumer subscription market is forecasted to reach $478 billion by 2025. Companies like Upscribe and Rebill are … [Read more...]
Here are all the keyboard shortcuts for WhatsApp Web and desktop on Windows and Mac
Although messaging apps like Telegram and Signal have become quite popular lately, WhatsApp remains the most widely-used messaging platform globally. The messaging app has released many new features to keep up with the competition, and despite privacy concerns by some users, its user base has continued to rise. If you're a long-time WhatsApp user, chances are you already use the web or … [Read more...]
Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round
Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. Take Descope, for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital with additional funds contributed by Dell … [Read more...]