Month: March 2021

If your Fitbit’s time is wrong, perhaps due to changing time zones or some sort of glitch, it’s easy to change the time on your Fitbit. You can have your wearable set the time through the internet, or set the time zone manually if you prefer. Let’s look at how to change the time on
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Arm unveiled the biggest overhaul of its technology in almost a decade, with new designs targeting markets currently dominated by Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker. The Cambridge, UK-based company is adding capabilities to help chips handle machine learning, a powerful type of artificial intelligence software. Extra security features will lock down data and computer code
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Apple Maps has started showing COVID-19 airport travel guidance to iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to let them easily access local airport health requirements including face coverings, health tests, or screenings, and quarantine guidelines. The data has been sourced from the Airports Council International (ACI) for major airports across the globe, including key ones in
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You’ve probably listened to your favorite artists and songs across a range of streaming services. You may even have checked out their latest video on YouTube, listened to a playlist on Spotify, or used Amazon Music on your smart speaker. Each service needs to have up-to-date information on the performer or artist. That’s not to
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imToken, the blockchain tech startup and crypto wallet developer, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Qiming Venture Partners. Participants included returning investor IDG Capital, and new backers Breyer Capital, HashKey, Signum Capital, Longling Capital, SNZ and Liang Xinjun, the co-founder of Fosun International. Founded in 2016, the startup’s
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You’ve probably heard of Clubhouse by now: the invite-only voice chat app for iOS that’s become so popular that every other major social media platform is trying to copy it. Clubhouse surpassed 13 million downloads (says App Annie) in time for its first anniversary, which was almost two weeks ago on March 17. Considering the more business-focused
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Google announced that it is implementing Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), that is an essential part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome. FLoC is touted to be an alternative to third-party cookies for advertisement targeting. It runs locally and categorises your browsing behaviour that groups together like-minded users into a cohort. It will enable
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Uber’s ride-hailing service is the biggest in the US and one of the most popular in the world, with a market capitalization of over $75 billion. Driving people around town in the comfort of your own vehicle sounds like a great side hustle to many. So, in the past couple of years, anyone who wishes
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The Taiwanese computer manufacturing and electronics giant, Acer, was hit by the REvil ransomware attack. For safe decryption of data, the hackers demanded a record ransom of $50,000,000. To anyone keeping tabs on cybersecurity, this might be not come as a surprise: attacks such as these have become more and more common with time. So what is malware? How
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Nvidia’s new 30-series GPUs represent the first major performance leap in graphics technology in at least half a decade. To hear Nvidia’s own claims, the flagship RTX 3080 roughly doubles the performance of the outgoing RTX 2080. The RTX 3070, meanwhile, supposedly outperforms the reigning 2080 Ti at a fraction of the price. Most PC
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If you like to pass the time watching Facebook stories, you’ve probably found yourself trying to watch them in a public area without headphones and struggled. Those days may soon be over, as Facebook is working on automatic captions for Stories. Making Facebook Stories More Accessible With Automatic Captions More accessibility is always a good
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Instagram is one of the most popular social media app across the world with users sharing photos, videos, and stories on the platform for business, entertainment, and mass dissemination purposes. Over the years, it’s grown into a cultural hub that is home to a bunch of influencers. There are several businesses that have generated massive
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Facebook has removed the Instagram accounts with which Welsh internationals Rabbi Matondo and Ben Cabango were racially abused following the 1-0 win over Mexico on Saturday. Facebook owns Instagram and acted a few hours after Matondo had slammed the social media platform, accusing Instagram of doing nothing about racist abuse. The Stoke City winger and
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