Hundreds of advertisers, including major brands like L’Oreal and Victoria’s Secret, flocked to the Lower East Side on Thursday night for TikTok’s annual spring pitch to marketers. It had been about a week since President Biden signed a law that says TikTok must be sold from its Chinese parent company or face a potential ban, […]
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Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down
People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said. At times on Yahoo Answers, the people asking questions of strangers lunged for the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity: What would a heaven for elephants be […]
LG confirms it is closing down its mobile phone business
LG has confirmed it is exiting the global mobile phone business. The Korean company announced the news on Monday, April 5, local time, saying that leaving the “incredibly competitive” mobile phone sector will enable it to focus on growth areas “such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence, and business-to-business solutions, […]
The C.E.O. of the self-driving car company Waymo will step down after more than 5 years.
Waymo, the autonomous car unit of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said John Krafcik is stepping down as chief executive after five and a half years at the helm. In a statement, Waymo said the chief executive duties will be divided between two current company executives — Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov. Ms. Mawakana was Waymo’s […]
Feds say man broke into public water system and shut down safety processes
Enlarge Getty Images Federal prosecutors have indicted a Kansas man for allegedly logging into a computer system at a public water system and tampering with the process for cleaning and disinfecting customers’ drinking water. An indictment filed in US District Court for the District of Kansas said Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth County, Kansas, […]
Facebook shuts down hackers who infected iOS and Android devices
Enlarge Getty Images Facebook said it has disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. Malware for both mobile OSes had advanced capabilities that could steal just about anything stored on an infected device. The hackers, […]
Doom 3 and five more games coming to PSVR as Sony doubles down on the tech
Six new games are coming to PSVR, including a VR version of Doom 3. The announcements come hot off the heels of Sony doubling down on its commitment to VR outlining its plans for a new headset. The new titles will release on Sony’s current VR headset, which works with both the PS5 and PS4. […]
Take-Two DMCA takes down reverse-engineered GTA source code
Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. The recompiled versions haven’t done anything about the ever-present fog shrouding far-off objects, unfortunately. Shiny roads. Cool guys walking away from sunrises. A Github project that generated reverse-engineered code for Grand Theft Auto III and Vice […]
Apple hardware chief Dan Riccio stepped down to focus on AR/VR
Enlarge / Former Apple hardware engineering leader Dan Riccio. Apple A couple of weeks ago, Apple announced that longtime hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio will step down from his role to focus entirely on a “new project” within the company. According to yet another report at Bloomberg based on sources with knowledge of Apple’s plans […]
Emotet botnet taken down by international police swoop
Getty Images Police have seized thousands of computers running one of the most dangerous hacking networks worldwide. The Emotet network obtains access to victims’ computers, via malicious email attachments, then sells it to criminals who install more dangerous malware. Police from the UK, EU, US and Canada worked together to “disrupt” Emotet. Europol called it […]
Apple doubles down on Fitness+ with new “Time to Walk” Apple Watch content
Time to Walk will display photos to match speakers’ stories and talks while you walk. Apple It will of course provide you a workout summary at the walk’s conclusion. Apple Watch Dolly Parton is one of four people in the first four episodes. The others are… Apple …Draymond Green… Apple …Shawn Mendes… Apple …and Uzo […]
iFixit tears down Apple’s $550 AirPods Max headphones
Removing the ear cups is actually not that hard. iFixit Here are the logic boards—one for each ear. iFixit These are the sorts of screws you’ll have to unscrew to service this product—and there are a lot of them. iFixit This time, iFixit partnered with Creative Electron to get an extra-high-quality X-ray view. iFixit As […]
Nintendo uses copyright claims to take down Game & Watch hacking videos
While two videos have been taken down, this stacksmashing video on loading Doom onto the Game & Watch unit remains up. Nintendo is using copyright strikes to take down YouTube videos that detail how to hack the recently released Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. color handheld. A hacker going by the handle stacksmashing managed […]
Firefox continues cracking down on tracking with cache partitioning
Enlarge / Breaking up the browser cache into separate pools prevents sophisticated timing probes that let one site know whether you’re logged in to another. Mozilla / Jim Salter Firefox version 85 will be released in January 2021, and one of its features is increased user privacy via improvements in client-side storage (cache) partitioning. This […]
Review: Alice in Borderland takes us down a deliciously bonkers rabbit hole
Enlarge / Tokyo residents find themselves trapped in a post-apocalyptic parallel world called Borderland, where they must compete in deadly games to survive. Netflix In the carefree, pre-pandemic Before Times, escape rooms were all the rage as fun group activities, where people had to solve a puzzle or mystery, or complete a series of tasks, […]