On the day a Spanish court’s ruling in favor of his extradition was made public, John McAfee died in a prison cell outside Barcelona. The antivirus pioneer turned fugitive was 75 years old. McAfee had been detained in Spain since last fall, when he was arrested on allegations of... Read more
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. The Veracode State of Software Security (SoSS) v11: Open Source Edition found that 79% of the time, third-party libraries are never updated by developers after being included in a codebase. This edition... Read more
Peloton has come up with an interesting solution to its treadmill safety issues, which have been connected to a child’s death: Force owners of its $4,295 Tread+ to either return the machine for a refund or pay a $39 monthly membership fee to use it at all. Users are... Read more
Altice is slashing its cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86 percent starting on July 12. Altice Optimum Online plans that currently have advertised upload speeds of 35Mbps will be reduced to uploads of either 5Mbps, 10Mbps, or 20Mbps, depending on the plan. Altice did not announce any immediate... Read more
A view of Earth and the sun from thousands of miles above our planet. Stars that enter and exit a position where they can see Earth as a transiting planet around our sun are brightened. OpenSpace/American Museum of Natural History Scientists have been scanning the cosmos for possible signals... Read more
After 48 full hours, Amazon Prime Day 2021 is officially over. Whew. We hope you were able to find useful discounts among the speakers, laptops, LifeStraws, and other great deals we found sifting through Amazon. If you missed out, fear not, a few deals remain. The event may be... Read more
TiMi opens Seattle studio to make triple-A games
News June 23, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. TiMi Studio Group has had huge hits in mobile games such as Call of Duty: Mobile and Honor of Kings. And now this Tencent division launching a new studio to make triple-A games dubbed TiMi Seattle. The Shenzhen, China-based... Read more
Instagram Reels and Creator Shops: How some new features amp up pressure on creators
News June 23, 2021
Rachel Reichenbach likes to joke that she is the overlord of an internet frog cult. It’s not a bad job for a 22-year-old artist. Reichenbach, who is also a full-time college student in California, began selling keychains, pins, plushies, apparel, and other paraphernalia of her amphibian sketches in 2019,... Read more
The Suicide Squad is just under two months away. Warner Bros. A new trailer just dropped for James Gunn’s absurd and violent The Suicide Squad, revealing more of its five-armed villain — a giant starfish — and that Harley Quinn makes sure she uses the facilities — aka the... Read more
On Amazon’s 20th birthday, in 2015, the megalodon of ecommerce celebrated the way most 20-year-olds would: By having a giant garage sale. OK, so maybe most 20-year-olds don’t celebrate their birthdays by having a garage sale. But Amazon says on its corporate blog that the impetus for the first... Read more