Category: NEWS

The streaming giant Netflix says it will now start to cancel accounts that have watched nothing in more than a year but have still been paying subscription fees. Netflix said there are hundreds of thousands of accounts that are inactive and the streaming giant is…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

They tech giant company google announced on a blog post that it will automatically block annoying resource-heavy ads on Google Chrome that drain your battery life.  “We have recently discovered that a fraction of a percent of ads consume a disproportionate share of device resources,…

The Epic Game Store is letting you claim the Premium Edition of GTA V, which includes “the complete GTA V story, Grand Theft Auto Online and all existing gameplay upgrades and content,” according to the studio, as well as the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which gives you additional content and $1,000,000…

YouTuber Carry Minati’s ‘Youtube vs Tiktok’ video was remove from YouTube for violating its ‘terms of service’. According to YouTube’s Harassment and Cyberbullying Policy, “Content that threatens individuals is not allowed on YouTube. We also do not allow content that targets an individual with prolonged…

An Amazon warehouse worker in Indianapolis, Indiana, has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. According to theverge, “The death brings the known total of COVID-19 deaths at Amazon warehouses to seven, but Amazon’s process for notifying workers makes the true number difficult to determine. Several…

President Donald Trump has extended his executive order banning US companies from working with or buying telecommunications equipment from companies deemed a national security risk until May 2021, via Reuters. While the ban doesn’t explicitly call out specific companies, it’s been used to virtually shut down US operations with…

Instagram is launching and testing multiple new features starting today that are aimed at making the platform a more positive space. The company says it’s rolling out the ability to delete up to 25 comments at once and also block or restrict multiple accounts at the same…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling them that they’d be allowed to work from home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Some jobs that require physical presence, such as maintaining servers, will still require employees to come in. “We’ve been very thoughtful…

Zoom has acquired secure messaging and identity management firm Keybase as its looks to shore up security capabilities on its platform with end-to-end encryption. The acquisition will give Zoom access to Keybase’s encryption technology, used to secure online identities, as well as its team of…

Apple will reopen some stores in the United States next week, with temperature checks and a limited number of customers in the location at one time, the company told CNBC. The vast majority of Apple’s stores outside of China have been closed since March in…

Twitter starts to showing warning to its users that the legacy version will be shut down on June 1st, 2020. If you have installed a browser extension to trick Twitter into thinking you were running Internet Explorer 11, which is unsupported, Twitter would continue to…

The social media giant Facebook will allow most of its employees to continue working from home through the end of 2020, a company spokeswoman told CNBC.  The social media company will allow any employees who can do their work remotely to continue to do so,…

NASA said Tuesday it is working with Tom Cruise to film a movie on the International Space Station, but details on the arrangements are scarce. The news that Cruise was in talks with to shoot an action-adventure film on the space station was first reported…

Nike is donating 30,000 pairs of shoes — specifically designed for healthcare workers — to health systems and hospitals in cities across the United States. The Air Zoom Pulse, which was released in November 2019, is the company’s “first shoe designed for the healthcare athlete, an…