I’ve been using my new M1 MacBook Air for almost three months. The price/performance of Apple Silicon is excellent, but it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. Before you buy, here’s what I would have wanted to know. I bought a
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The app allows gamers to talk while playing video games. Microsoft is in negotiations to acquire Discord — a messaging app for gamers — for $10 billion, Bloomberg reported Monday. That followed an earlier report by VentureBeat that the San Francisco-based company had received
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The search giant says the change is part of its push for privacy. Google on Wednesday said it will stop selling ads based on a person’s individual browsing across websites, a move that could shake up the digital advertising industry as consumers call for more privacy online.
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Researchers detail two new types of ransomware – AlumniLocker and Humble. Both are new and have very different ways of doing things, demonstrating the diversity in a space attackers are keen to get involved in. Two newly discovered forms of
Read More about These two unusual versions of ransomware tell us a lot about how attacks are evolvingSamsung’s 5G trial pushes 5.23Gbps speed onto single device
The test was conducted in Samsung’s 5G lab based in South Korea. Samsung Electronics on Thursday announced it has achieved 5.23Gbps data speeds on its 5G network, which it claimed is the fastest speed ever on such a network. The
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With 90,000 cameras already installed in major public locations across the island, the Singapore government is looking to deploy “many more” of the “game-changer” device as well as other technologies to improve service efficiencies. Singapore is looking to expand its
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Verizon bids more than $45 billion for licenses of the valuable mid-band spectrum in the C band auction to build its 5G network. The nation’s largest wireless carriers dominated the Federal Communications Commission’s latest 5G spectrum auction, pushing revenue to a record-shattering
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The proposed US ban on TikTok last summer turned people towards VPNs to secure their online activity. TikTok, the video-sharing social network, drove a lot of interest from consumers last year. It also piqued their interest in Virtual Private Networks
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It’s Black Mirror come to life. An AI chatbot that lets you interact with dead loved ones sounds like something straight out of science fiction. But if technology in a patent granted to Microsoft comes to fruition, interacting with a chatty 3D digital version
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Microsoft still wants to re-use your voice clips, but will now ask for permission first. Users of Microsoft’s voice-enabled services such as Cortana will now be able to decide whether or not the audio recordings of their interactions can be
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