Due to Bitcoin’s sharp drop in value, industrial miners were forced to change their financial strategy and sell all 100% of the mined cryptocurrency in May. The profitability of mining has dropped significantly – the bitcoin rate has...
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Brave Software, creators of the privacy-focused browser of the same name, has announced that its rapidly growing search service has ended beta. At the same time, the developers began beta testing the Goggles feature, which allows you to filter and...
head meta* Platforms Mark Zuckerberg said during an interview with CNBC that the Metaverse should become a significant part of the company’s business in the second half of this decade. It expects to interact with Meta’s virtual world*...
Meta* Platforms secured court assistance to obtain information from the video service TikTok, the WeChat messenger and the Telegram messenger to strengthen their position in the dispute with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This was reported...
Apple released the second beta of iOS 16 for developers this week and it will be available for users next month. One of the interesting innovations of the operating system is an improved function to combat spam SMS. Image source: Pixabay iOS users...
Chinese regulators have announced that opinion-forming online influencers must now be qualified to speak on certain topics, including law and medicine. The list of new restrictions does not end here. Image source: Jean Beller/unsplash.com In order...
Quite controversial from an ethical point of view, Amazon demonstrated yesterday at the Re: Mars conference in Las Vegas. The company is developing a speaker that can speak to the voices of the user’s loved ones – even if they’ve...
Twitter plans to test a new feature called Notes, which will allow users to post text of up to 2,500 words. About that reported on the official Twitter account of the service. With its help, the company wants to keep users’ attention without...
eBay announced the acquisition of KnownOrigin, which owns the eponymous platform for creating and then monetizing digital art in the form of NFT tokens. The deal was reportedly finalized on June 22nd. Financial details of the agreement were not...
Mega Cloud Storage Service was founded by Kim Dotcom and has been around for almost 10 years. According to the authors of the project, the service uses end-to-end encryption of user data, so even company employees cannot access it. However, a recent...
Cryptocurrency company Tether announced on plans to issue a stablecoin pegged to the British pound sterling next month. Great Britain itself has considered such an instrument. Image source: tether.to Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies created to...
Developer from Playground Games Studio released A major update to the arcade racing game Forza Horizon 5, adding support for temporal smoothing, Horizon Stories co-op, and more. Series 9 update is now available on PC (steam and Microsoft store)...
Proponents of cryptocurrencies believe that decentralization is their main advantage over other financial systems: no company, bank or government has control over them. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) commissioned a study...
Open source software is very popular among developers and technology companies, but unrestricted use of solutions based on it becomes a major security risk for users. About that reported in The State of Open-Source Security, co-authored by Snyk and...
According to network sources, testing of a new feature on the social network Twitter has begun. We’re talking about the Twitter notes tool that allows you to publish full-fledged texts on the social network, including with media files. At this...
Non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation announced the names of the first customers of their commercial service Wikimedia Enterprise: Google and the Internet Archive gain access to the knowledge of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. Anyone...
head meta* Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will expand the range of monetization tools for content creators – some tools will be available to more bloggers. A number of tools (private events, paid subscriptions) will remain free for...
It became known that the German Cartel Office has initiated investigations against the American company Google and its parent company Alphabet. According to the regulator, Google could use its market dominance to promote its own mapping service in...
Publisher Devolver Digital and developer WolfEye have announced the release of update 1.03 for their fantasy role-playing western Weird West. The free update is called The Miners and the Restless. Image source: Epic Games Store The latest patch...
An unnamed representative of Sony Interactive Entertainment at the request of the German portal games economy comments on whether the company will participate in the upcoming gamescom 2022. Image source: Sony Interactive Entertainment As has become...
