More than 20,000 American organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via a recently patched flaw in Microsoft Corp’s flagship email software program, a person familiar with the U.S. government’s response to the hacking spree said on Friday.It is the latest indication of how problems in widely used software can be used as jump...
TOKYO – Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking viral spread compared with one properly fitted mask.
The findings in part contradict recent recommendations from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that two masks were better than one at reducing a person’s exposure to the c...
Twitter is testing an “undo send” function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed Friday.
App researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who discovers unannounced social media features by looking at the sites’ code, tweeted an animation showing a tweet with a spelling error where an ‘undo’ button was av...
It's a beauty: The Drop CTRL keyboard
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As seen from the left...
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Closer. Closer.
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Even though it's a customizable pre-built (versus a total custom job), you can of course change the aesthetic of the Drop CTRL...
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Each key has its own set of RGB LEDs that ...
Cryptocurrency trading surged to record levels in February as the price of bitcoin swung wildly following Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment, new data show.
Crypto trading volumes soared 17 percent to more than $2.7 trillion last month as the electric-car maker and other major companies started to embrace digital currency, according to a Friday report...
YANGON, Myanmar — YouTube removed five channels run by Myanmar’s military for violating its guidelines, it announced Friday, as demonstrators defied growing violence by security forces and staged more anti-coup protests ahead of a special UN Security Council meeting on the country’s political crisis.
YouTube said it is watching for any further cont...
Beleaguered no-fee trading app Robinhood is now turning to its chief operating officer to help quell backlash over its response to the “Reddit rally” in January.
In a Thursday blog post, Robinhood COO Jim Swartwout vowed to “demystify” the company’s controversial practice of selling order flow to Wall Street.
Swartwout, a 50-year-old former executi...
Alphabet’s YouTube will lift its suspension on former President Donald Trump’s channel when it determines the risk of real-world violence has decreased, the company’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, said on Thursday.
YouTube suspended Trump’s channel for violating policies against inciting violence after the assault on the US Capitol by the former president’s...
SINGAPORE – Armed Myanmar soldiers and police are using TikTok to deliver death threats to protesters against last month’s coup, researchers said, leading the Chinese video-sharing app to announce it was removing content that incites violence.
Digital rights group Myanmar ICT for Development (MIDO) said it had found more than 800 pro-military video...
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The Amazon Fresh grocery store opens in London, Thursday March 4, 2021, where a sign explains for shoppers to pick up items and walk out of the store, contactless, without the need for a till. AP
LONDON — Amazon has opened a cashier-free supermarket in London, its first bricks and mortar expansion outside the US as the company bets...