Microsoft Solitaire Turns 30 Years Old Today
Microsoft’s Solitaire game is turning 30 years old today. Microsoft is celebrating the occasion with a world record attempt of the most games of Microsoft Solitaire completed in one day. The “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” was first released in 1990 under the name “Microsoft Solitaire” for Windows 3. Microsoft said...
WhatsApp Tests New Feature That Lets You Add Contacts Via QR Codes
WhatsApp’s latest beta version lets you add contacts by scanning their QR Codes, WABetaInfo reports. The feature, which is available in beta on both iOS and Android, can be found in the app’s settings menu, where there are options to display your own code, as well as to scan...
Windows Hello Can Now Be Used To Complete Payments In Google Chrome
Windows Hello is a more personal, more secure way to get instant access to your Windows 10 devices using fingerprint, facial recognition, or a secure PIN. Windows Hello sign-in mechanism is also supported on the web-based services, courtesy of the FIDO2 protocol. Google is now rolling...
Hacker Shares 40 Million Wishbone User Records For Free
A hacker has put up for sale today the details of 40 million users registered on Wishbone, a popular mobile app that lets users compare two items in a simple voting poll. BleepingComputer has been able to independently confirm that the data is legitimate as it...
Facebook Expects Half Its Employees To Work Remotely Permanently
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expects half of the tech giant’s 48,000 employees to be working remotely in the next five to 10 years as part of a major shift in how the company operates. “We’re going to be the most forward-leaning company on...
Now You Can Easily Cancel Your Netflix Subscriptions
Online movie streaming service Netflix is trying to make it easier for people to cancel their service with a new automated prompt that will ask subscribers if they want to continue paying after a lengthy period of inactivity. On May 18th, the company started reaching...
iOS 13.5 | Now You Can Unlock Your iPhone While Wearing a Mask
The tech giant Apple released iOS 13.5 on Wednesday, a software update that makes it easier to unlock Face ID-enabled iPhones while wearing a mask, among other things. The update simplifies the unlock process while you’re wearing a mask, allowing you to get into your...
SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Speed
The SD Association announced today the SD 8.0 Specification for SD Express memory cards receives even faster transfer speeds by using the popular PCI Express® (PCIe®) 4.0 specification delivering a maximum of nearly 4 gigabytes per second (GB/s) data transfer rate. These full sized cards continue...
Google’s App Is Getting A Dark Mode On Both Android And iOS Devices
The tech giant company Google is rolling out a new feature called dark mode on both Android and iOS devices After the update, the app will automatically use whatever theme your operating system is already set to if you use Android or iOS 13. Google...
EasyJet Admits 9 Million Customers Hacked
EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected nine million customers. It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”. In a statement it said: “We take issues of security...
Samsung Announces 50-Megapixel Camera Sensor With AutoFocus
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced Samsung ISOCELL GN1, a new 50-megapixel (Mp) image sensor with large 1.2μm-sized pixels. The ISOCELL GN1 is Samsung’s first image sensor to offer both Dual Pixel and Tetracell technologies. Thanks to the relatively larger...
How To Make A Facebook Avatar
Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this week, after launching it last year in other countries. Similar to Snapchat’s Bitmoji, the feature allows Facebook users to create a cartoon avatar of themselves. They can use the avatar in comments, Facebook...
Who Is Ignoring Your Follow Request On Instagram? Find Out Here
Have you ever wished for actually seeing who is ignoring your follow request on Instagram? Many Instagram users may not be familiar with this but there is a way in which we can actually see our pending follow requests. Here, we will talk about an...
Supercomputers Hacked Across Europe To Mine Cryptocurrency
Several high-performance computers (HPCs) and data centers used for research projects have been shut down this week across Europe due to security incidents. Security incidents have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, while a similar intrusion is rumored to have also happened at...
Apple Details Its Plan To Safely Reopen More Than 25 US Locations Next Week
Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations at its retail stores. Apple shut all of its stores outside Greater China in March as COVID-19 spread worldwide; all the Greater China...
Zoom Hit With Sunday Morning Outage
Users of video conferencing platform Zoom are reporting issues internet hosting and becoming a member of conferences and the corporate is investigating, in response to the its status page. “Our team is investigating the root cause of issues joining Zoom Meetings. These issues appear to...
Google Chrome Will Soon Allow Users To Group Their Tabs Together
The tech giant company Google is rolling out a new tool to organize tabs in its Chrome browser and group them together, it announced Wednesday. We’ve all been there: 27 browser tabs open and struggling to find the one we need. Google wants to help. Users can...
How To Use Windows Defender Offline In Windows 10
Windows Defender Offline is a powerful offline scanning tool that runs from a trusted environment, without starting your operating system. If you come across a threat that's hard to find and remove, you can use the Windows Defender Offline.
How To Block Emails On Gmail
It can get annoying when most of the emails you get are junk, spam, or simply unwanted. It’s time to take control of your inbox and start weeding out the culprits. Today we’ll show you how to block emails on Gmail.
What Is M.2 SSD?
An M.2 SSD is a solid-state drive (SSD) that conforms to a computer industry specification and is used in internally mounted storage expansion cards of a small form factor.
