Tech Giants Meta*, Microsoft, Epic Games, and 33 other tech companies have formed a group to standardize Metaverse technologies. The so-called Metaverse Standards Forum aims to strengthen open, interoperable standards for augmented and virtual...
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Twitter’s board of directors advised the social network’s shareholders to accept a deal to sell the platform to Elon Musk. This is stated in documents sold to the US Securities Commission (SEC). When the final vote will take place has...
This fall, Apple will release a new version of its mobile operating system, iOS 16. It became known that, among other things, there will be a function called “Automatic verification”. With its help, it will be possible to eliminate the...
Positive Technologies Company active in the field of information security analyzed current threats in the first quarter of 2022. A study conducted by experts revealed a reduction in attacks by ransomware programs that block access to data and demand...
The Chinese government has tightened rules governing the operation of local websites. Now all resources that have a commenting feature must pre-screen each comment before publishing it. The corresponding ordinance, titled “Regulation for the...
The American company Cloudflare reports a major outage, as a result of which various resources and web services became unavailable in many regions of the world. Image source: Cloudflare The issue specifically affected Discord, Omegle, DoorDash...
portal Xbox Achievements Referring to a press release from Prime Matter and TaleWorlds Entertainment, he revealed the release date and full list of target platforms for the release version of the strategic action game Mount & Blade II:...
The leadership of the Chinese company Tencent Holdings announced to employees the creation of an “Augmented Reality” department, which will develop the concept of the metaverse. About that writes Reuters news agency, citing its own informed sources...
The Japanese government intends to punish large foreign IT companies that do not open official representative offices in the country. Reportedly Google, Meta*Twitter and 45 other companies were due to open representative offices in Japan in March...
Earlier this month, Microsoft released another test build that added more tabs to the File Explorer interface. This approach makes interacting with this element of Windows 11 more convenient, since users don’t have to open new windows, but...
Short video service TikTok is embroiled in another US user privacy scandal. According to publication BuzzFeed NewsCiting audio recordings of the company’s internal meetings, TikTok employees in China have repeatedly accessed US users’...
Cryptocurrency market participants are keeping a particularly close eye this morning as the exchange rate of the main digital currency, Bitcoin, fluctuates. The industry fears that a fall in the long-term cryptocurrency price below $20,000 could...
Cryptocurrency Dogecoin’s Kursk is up nearly 10% from a fairly significant low set over the weekend. This was due to the tweets of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who is not the first to support the meme digital currency. Image...
Publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer TT Games shared information on the recent hit of its action-adventure LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga in terms of audience reach. Image Credit: Warner Bros. Games Remember that in the first two weeks...
The Forge, which allows players to create their own modes using a variety of tools and scenarios, should be coming to Halo Infinite later this year. However, now online scattered “Forge” shots demonstrating the flexibility of weapon mods...
WhatsApp has added a number of new features to its arsenal, including muting individual users during group calls. The possibility is useful when someone forgets to do it themselves or when there are several interlocutors in the same room, creating...
To the owner of Facebook services*Instagram* and the WhatsApp company Meta* filed a lawsuit accusing her of secretly leaking confidential information to Facebook* — this is supposed to happen when patients work with health portals. Image source:...
Microsoft’s decision to end support for Internet Explorer marked the end of a love-hate relationship between South Korean software engineer Jung Ki-young. To commemorate this event, he spent a month of his life and 430,000 won (US$330)...
Unlike the payment service Apple Pay, which can only be used by owners of Apple Watch smartwatches or iPhone smartphones, the mobile payment platforms Google Pay and Samsung Pay can be used not only on mobile devices from Google or Samsung, but also...
Management of the TikTok short video service reportedthat has overcome “significant milestone” in ensuring data security for users from the United States – now the related sensitive information is stored in the country by default...
