Kevin Paffrath, Kevin Paffrath smiles for a selfie in front of the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Friday, July 16, 2021. Kevin Paffrath via AP Last year at this time, Kevin Paffrath was focused on his YouTube channel, where his half-million-plus followers could tune in for daily commentary on housing, stocks and stimulus checks.
In this article 9999-HK 700-HK 7974.T-JP MSFT 6758.T-JP Gamers visit Sony’s PlayStation booth at the annual China Joy gaming conference in Shanghai on July 30, 2021. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC GUANGZHOU, China — For 14 years, gaming consoles from the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo were banned in China. The ban was finally lifted
The country’s apex child rights body NCPCR has summoned Facebook officials Tuesday for not responding to its notice flagging Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Instagram post allegedly revealing the identity of a nine-year-old rape and murder victim. The latest NCPCR communication to Facebook, which owns the photo and video-sharing social networking platform Instagram, follows its notice
While people across the world now use Twitter, they also long for the days when updates from those they followed appeared in chronological order. When they knew exactly where to look and did not have to sift through hundreds of tweets. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, too, seems to be among those who preferred the old
Snapchat this Independence Day has something special for its Indian users. The social media platform has brought its augmented reality (AR) feature ‘Landmarker’ to New Delhi’s India Gate. The feature will allow Snapchat users, aka Snapchatters, to superimpose augmented reality experiences on top of the historic monument. Alongside bringing Landmarker to India Gate, Snapchat has
There are plenty of places to turn for accurate information about COVID-19. Your physician. Local health departments. The US Centers for Disease Control. But not, perhaps, your local government’s public comment session. During a meeting of the St. Louis County Council earlier this month, opponents of a possible mask mandate made so many misleading comments
Facebook and a team of African and global telecoms companies will add four more countries to its world’s largest subsea cable project, widening the build project in Africa earlier than planned, they said in a joint statement on Monday. Internet connectivity will be expanded to the Seychelles, the Comoros Islands, Angola, and bring a new
Elon Musk’s ambitions around space travel and exploration only seems to be getting bigger and more eclectic with time. Now, the SpaceX CEO is joining hands with a Canada-based startup to make advertising in space a reality. According to reports, the tech billionaire and the startup are working towards putting a billboard into low-Earth orbit.
Two spacecraft flew past Venus recently in a rare double flyby that captured unique imagery and data. This data is now being analysed, but scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have been able to translate some of it into sounds to let people experience how it would feel if a gigantic planet flew next
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Saturday the first orbital stack of the Starship rocket should be ready for flight in the coming weeks, taking the unorthodox billionaire a step closer to his dream of orbital and then interplanetary travel. SpaceX in May successfully landed its Starship prototype, SN15, a reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle that
A team of Indian researchers has developed what appears to be a first-of-a-kind human authentication through teeth for mobile and other hand-held devices. The team says that the app acquires biometric samples using the camera on a mobile handset. The app has specific markers that register the teeth of a human for authentication, similar to
Mi 11T and Redmi K40 Ultra may launch soon as some of their key specifications have surfaced online. Both smartphones are expected to come with similar specifications barring the camera setup. The upcoming Mi 11T is touted to be launched in India and other global markets while Redmi K40 Ultra may only launch in the
Xiaomi has announced the arrival of its annual Smarter Living 2022 event. The event will be held on August 22 at 12pm (noon). Teasers suggest that the company may unveil new television sets and a new Mi Notebook as well. Xiaomi is also anticipated to launch new truly wireless earbuds in the Indian market and
It is Zhang Yuchen’s last summer break before high school, but events have taken an unwelcome turn – the 14-year-old’s game time has been decimated as China’s tech firms try to dispel accusations that they are selling “spiritual opium” to the country’s youth. An edict by gaming giant Tencent means players under 12 can no
Battlegrounds Mobile India has crossed the 50 million downloads mark. The game was officially launched on July 2 and has seen significant growth in the past month, although it was available a little ahead of the official launch. Krafton shared the development through a press release and rewarded players in-game with a permanent outfit as
Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse is now available for purchase in India. The gaming mouse, as the name suggests, is an upgraded version of the Logitech G Pro wired mouse and comes with ambidextrous shape. It is a lightweight wireless mouse that is powered by the company’s Hero 25K sensor that offers advanced accuracy. It
Facebook on Friday said it’s extending end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls in Messenger, along with testing a new opt-in setting that will turn on end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. “The content of your messages and calls in an end-to-end encrypted conversation is protected from the moment it leaves your device to the
Ransomware operators such as Magniber and Vice Society are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler to compromise victims and spread laterally across a victim’s network to deploy file-encrypting payloads on targeted systems. “Multiple, distinct threat actors view this vulnerability as attractive to use during their attacks and may indicate that this vulnerability will continue
A novel technique leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from a distance of as much as 35 meters. Dubbed the “Glowworm attack,” the findings were published by a group of academics from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev earlier this week,
A new wave of attacks involving a notorious macOS adware family has evolved to leverage around 150 unique samples in the wild in 2021 alone, some of which have slipped past Apple’s on-device malware scanner and even signed by its own notarization service, highlighting the malicious software ongoing attempts to adapt and evade detection. “AdLoad,”