Category: NEWS

This month, Netflix sheds light on America’s broken immigration system with its original series, Immigration Nation. The docuseries takes a unique and nuanced look at both the inner workings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the often-overlooked stories of immigrants trying to make a life in the...

Netflix is letting people choose the speed at which they want to watch something on their phone or tablet with new playback controls, according to theverge Netflix will allow anyone on an Android mobile device to stream at either 0.5x or 0.75x speeds for slowed-down...

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 third quarter ended June 27, 2020. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $59.7 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.58, up 18 percent. International sales...

G Electronics Inc. (LG) second-quarter 2020 financial results were affected significantly by the worldwide impact of the pandemic. Consolidated revenue of KRW 12.83 trillion (USD 10.51 billion) was 17.9 percent lower than the same period of 2019 while operating profit of KRW 495.4 billion (USD...

The tech giant Samsung announced KRW 52.97 trillion in consolidated revenue and KRW 8.15 trillion in operating profit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Even as the spread of COVID-19 caused closures and slowdowns at stores and production sites around the world, the...

With heightened threats during COVID-19, the Internal Revenue Service and Security Summit partners today called on tax professionals to select multi-factor authentication options whenever possible to prevent identity thieves from gaining access to client accounts. Starting in 2021, all tax software providers will be required to offer...

The pandemic has completely changed the way we live. It forces us to stay at home. We’re juggling work, life, kids and the state of the world today. This has been a particularly tough situation for parents, who need to look after their kids while...

Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today a security breach after a hacker published the details of 7,516,625 users on a public forum. In an email to ZDNet today, Dave said the security breach originated on the network of a former business partner, Waydev, an analytics platform used by...

TikTok has blocked a number of hashtags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory from appearing in search results, amid concern about misinformation, the BBC reported. The video sharing app has blocked the terms “QAnon,” “QAnonTruth” and the related phrase “Out of Shadows,” which are used...

LG Electronics will offer free repair of TV power boards in South Korea due to a possible heating risk, Yonhap News reports. The South Korean tech firm said it will replace power board components for 18 OLED TV models, including the OLED 65G8 and the OLED...

Brazil’s central bank will authorize a payments system involving Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp messaging service, to send money and make payments via chats, as long as all rules are respected, director Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello said on Monday, Reuters Reported. “We view the entry...

IBM published second quarter financial results on Monday, reporting its second straight quarter of revenue declines despite beating expectations.  The business technology giant delivered non-GAAP EPS of $2.18 on revenue of $18.1 billion, down 5.4% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.07 per share on revenue of...

Cloudflare is having an outage that is affecting many sites including Discord, BleepingComputer, and other. The issues started at around 5PM ET, and lasted nearly an hour. Patreon, Deliveroo, GitLab, Zendesk, Medium, and many other sites were also down, and Cloudflare acknowledged issues with its network affected...

The tech giant company Google will ban publishers from using its ad platform to show advertisements next to content that promotes conspiracy theories about Covid-19, CNBC reported. It will also ban ads that promote those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold...