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Facebook has started testing a new interface feature that will prompt people to at least open a link before they share it with their network. The company says it’s trying out the message to see if it promotes more informed sharing. “You’re about to share this article without opening it,” the prompt says. “Sharing articles […]
NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place no earlier than January 2022. NASA and Axiom Space have agreed to take civilans to the ISS. Axiom Mission 1 will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida “no earlier than January 2022,” […]
Ford announced the name of its upcoming electric pickup truck: the F-150 Lightning. The new electric vehicle is set to debut on May 19th at an event held at the automaker’s Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters. It will also be live-streamed. The Ford F-150 has been the bestselling truck in the US for more than 40 years, […]
The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, a person close to the investigation said Sunday. Bloomberg say the hack was likely the work […]
While Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live, Dogecoin investors sold. When SNL first went live, the cryptocurrency hovered around 69 cents (nice). But as the show wore on, the price dropped. As of this writing, it is worth 56 cents, an 18 percent plunge. Musk didn’t shy away from Dogecoin during the show. SNL devoted […]
A cyberattack just led to a significant disruption of American infrastructure. Reuters reports that industry giant Colonial Pipeline has temporarily shut down all its fuel line operations and parts of its network after learning of a breach that compromised “some of [its] IT systems.” The pipeline is 5,500 miles long and carries jet fuel and […]
TikTok announced two new integrations for its app on Thursday: sharing audio back into TikTok using the new Sound Kit, and using your TikTok account to log in to other apps with Login Kit. Developers can apply to use the new SDKs to insert the short-form video app’s content in even more places, but they […]
It seems that in the United States, at least, app developers and advertisers who rely on targeted mobile advertising for revenue are seeing their worst fears realized: Analytics data published this week suggests that US users choose to opt out of tracking 96 percent of the time in the wake of iOS 14.5. When Apple […]
As you well know, microchips are found in virtually everything. In your car, there are computer modules controlling virtually everything, from engine and transmission operation to in-car tech and virtually everything in between. Long gone are the days of cars having “a” computer. Today, they’re everywhere, and interconnected in ways that make them all vital […]
Microsoft has been trying to build a lighter version of Windows for more than 10 years without success. The latest effort, Windows 10X, has reportedly now been shelved, in favor of improving Windows 10 instead. Following a delay and a change of focus to single-screen devices, it now seems Windows 10X may never see the […]
A week after Roku removed the YouTube TV app from its store amid a dispute, viewers have another way to watch the live TV service. Google simply added YouTube TV to the main YouTube app with a button on the left menu bar. The company plans to bring YouTube TV to the main app on […]
The site was infamous for hosting explicit and violent content, including executions. Now, anyone visiting the old web domain Liveleak.com will be redirected to a new site called ItemFix. ItemFix says on its website that it is a platform that allows users to post and edit video and audio files. It is currently in beta […]
Xbox games aren’t opening or launching for many across Europe today, with an error message being presented instead. “The person who bought this needs to sign in,” the error message said, alongside a long message that suggested the wrong person was playing the game. It was also accompanied by a long error code, reading: 0x803f9006. […]
YouTube TV subscribers now have a new platform available: PlayStation 5. The console was quietly added to Google’s support website for the service, in a change that was first spotted by Android Police. The addition comes as Google and Roku are in the midst of a very public spat over YouTube TV. YouTube TV costs […]
Google is about to take a pretty significant step that will help keep user accounts more secure: it’s going to enroll people in two-factor authentication by default. Today the company wrote in a blog post that it will soon start enrolling customers in two-factor authentication (or “two-step verification,” as Google calls it) if their accounts […]