Month: December 2020

A coalition of human rights and press freedom groups have filed a brief supporting Facebook’s lawsuit against the Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group, arguing that the “very core of the principles that America represents” are at stake in the case. Facebook last year initiated the lawsuit against NSO Group, accusing the company of reverse-engineering
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Polish gaming studio CD Projekt SA sold 13 million copies of its troubled Cyberpunk 2077 game by December 20, a figure which factors in the number of refund requests the company has received. The studio’s awaited sales update doesn’t include information about the scale of refunds themselves, just providing the net sales number. Cyberpunk was
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We’re bringing you a shorter Really Useful Podcast this week, taking a look at what tech we’d most like to find in our stockings for Christmas 2020. This week’s Really Useful Podcast is hosted by Christian Cawley, with appearances by Gavin Philips, James Frew, and Ben Stegner. Look out for our other shows—subscribe to the
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is indeed coming with S Pen support, a document on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website has suggested. A support page of the Galaxy S21 Ultra has also emerged on an official Samsung site. Separately, benchmark results of the Exynos 2100 SoC surfaced online to suggest competitive performance against the newly
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OnePlus Watch is set to launch early next year, Co-Founder and CEO Pete Lau has revealed on Twitter. The smartwatch by the Chinese company has been in speculation for some time. It was expected to arrive alongside the OnePlus 8T in October. However, OnePlus didn’t make its official announcement at that time. Alongside the OnePlus
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Steam Winter Sale offers good deals on thousands of games, with deeper discounts than ever before on Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Need for Speed Payback, Sea of Thieves, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Ghostrunner. Many other games are available at prices matching their previous best offer, including the likes of Control, Crusader Kings 3,
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Alphabet’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult
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In response to demands from Chinese authorities, Apple has reportedly purged thousands of games from the country’s local version of the App Store in 2020, and there are likely more on the chopping block. Following previous warnings to China’s iOS developers, and suspending updates, Apple has reportedly now removed a large but unspecified number of
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Realme Watch S Series smartwatches and Buds Air Pro Master Edition true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones are set to launch in India today, December 23. Realme CEO Madhav Seth has been posting teasers that reveal the design and key features of both the devices. The Realme Watch S Series is expected to include the Realme
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  Other than the cutting edge of computing, exactly what is “edge computing?” You may have heard this term thrown around, but as devices get smarter and smaller and wireless connections become faster, edge computing is likely to become more and more important. This article will define edge computing and its similarities and differences with
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Facebook is rolling out heightened security measures in 2021. But there’s a catch: only certain users will be given access to the security features. Facebook Protect Eligibility Will Expand in 2021 A report by Axios revealed that Facebook plans on amping up security measures in 2021. Facebook will be expanding its Facebook Protect feature to more users in
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Let’s Encrypt, an open certificate authority that gives digital certificates to websites to enable HTTPS, has extended Android compatibility for its certificates for older phones allowing for continued safe Web browsing. The development was shared on the official website of Let’s Encrypt. The certificate authority said it was able to come up with a solution
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Facebook on Tuesday released the India-specific 2020 Year in Review and top pop-culture moments of the year on the social networking site. The passing of renowned personalities including Irrfan Khan and Sushant Singh Rajput echoed deeply in the conversations among Indian users on Facebook. One of the prominent trends the company observed this year was
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