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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cybersecurity research firm Check Point Research says it found “multiple vulnerabilities” within video sharing app TikTok that demonstrated its insecurity as scrutiny for the Chinese-owned company continues to grow. Check Point found that it was possible to spoof text messages to make them appear to come from TikTok.
Read MoreWhen you search for a popular brand or a person, Bing will display a beautiful search results page highlighting the official website, social media pages and sometimes even the recent social media activities. For example, when you search for Bill Gates on Bing, you will get a search results page like the below. Bing Pages
Read MoreMost people will recognize a self-driving car based on the whirling sensor perched on the roof. LIDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, uses laser pulses to build a 3D model of the environment around the car. Essentially, they help autonomous vehicles “see” other objects, like cars, pedestrians, and cyclists. Chris Urmson, the former
Read MoreSometimes you read about all the new gadgets at CES and have FOMO because you’re not there, and other times you read about an AI cat litter box. LuluPet says that it has the world’s first litter box with “built-in stool and urine image recognition” to analyze cats’… deposits. The goal of the Taiwan-based company’s
Read MoreImage: Netatmo An innovation borne of ingenuity, not thousands of engineers Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Remute German musician Remute has made and released music on a variety of old mediums, but his newest effort marks a quirky milestone: The Cult Of Remute is claimed to be the first music album made entirely for the Super Nintendo’s sound chip and released on an SNES cartridge. Creating within severe restraints is
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Images of strangers on a Xiaomi camera’s stream to a Google Nest Hub were due to a “cache update,” Xiaomi told The Verge. The company added that it has fixed the issue, but Nest integration remains suspended until the “root cause has been completely solved.” As first reported
Read MoreReady for a surprise? Brace yourself: GTA V on Xbox Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass subscribers are now able to download Grand Theft Auto 5 as Rockstar’s highly popular open-world game has been added to the subscription service. Rockstar Games’ 2013 billion-dollar-plus video game is only available on the console version of Microsoft’s subscription, but
Read MoreMany years ago Microsoft’s cloud storage solution had a run-in with the court and was forced to change its name from SkyDrive to OneDrive. Now the company is fighting a rather more fundamental battle after a company called SynKloud started going after Microsoft’s commercial OneDrive customers claiming patent infringement. Microsoft claims that SynKloud “has launched
Read MoreMicrosoft has posted a video that shows off the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator world blanketed in a lovely layer of fresh snow. Microsoft Flight Simulator uses real-time 4K cameras, Bing Maps, and the power of Microsoft Azure in order to make sure that your next trip around the world is just like the real thing,
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