REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shareholders on Tuesday asked a judge to find that Elon Musk forced the company’s board of directors into a deal for SolarCity in 2016 and wanted the CEO convicted, the electric vehicle maker one of the largest judgments in history paid $13 billion. “This case was always about […]
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Microsoft to gobble up Activision in $69 billion metaverse bet
(Mike Blake, Reuters) Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is buying “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their claims to a virtual future. The deal announced by Microsoft on Tuesday, its biggest-ever and set to be the largest all-cash acquisition on […]
WHATSAPP FOR ANDROID, DESKTOP TO GET NEW FEATURES
The Android app will get new pencil and drawing tools in a future update, while WhatsApp Desktop will get new chat bubble colors. The desktop app also gets a new dark blue color that is only visible in dark theme mode. The instant messaging app is also testing a new emoji message reaction info tab […]
WHO says no evidence healthy children, adolescents need COVID-19 boosters
Photo Credit: Fabrice Coffrini | Reuters At present, there is no evidence that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, World Health Organization chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Tuesday. Speaking at a news briefing, she said that while there seems to be some waning of vaccine immunity over time against […]
Microsoft fixes Patch Tuesday bug that broke VPN in Windows 10 and 11
Aurich Lawson reader comments 16 with 16 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday updates for Windows are generally meant to fix problems, but that isn’t how it always goes. January’s updates, released last week, caused a handful of problems for businesses in particular. The most serious, especially for people still dealing with […]
Safari and iOS users: Your browsing activity is being leaked in real time
Getty Images reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story For the past four months, Apple’s iOS and iPadOS devices and Safari browser have violated one of the Internet’s most sacrosanct security policies. The violation results from a bug that leaks user identities and browsing activity in real time. The same-origin policy is […]
Tonga’s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here’s what it will take to get it reconnected.
“There’s a priority over whose cable gets fixed first,” says Madory. “Countries pay a little premium to get fixed first.” Once one of these vessels arrives on scene, which itself could take days, it drops a hook to snag the cable that runs along the sea floor. The hooked cable, which when in the deep […]
Apple confirms that the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro do not support noise cancellation during phone calls
Photo credit: Gadgets Now Apple has confirmed that iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro do not cancel noise during phone calls, including iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Apple included the feature in the iPhone 12 series and earlier models to improve call quality in noise environment. No reason was given to remove […]
Samsung unveils Exynos 2200 with Xclipse GPU, based on AMD RDNA2 architecture
Samsung today unveiled the Exynos 2200, its latest flagship chipset that will power Galaxy S22 smartphones in certain regions. The new platform is based on 4nm EUV process technology and comes with a custom GPU called Xclipse. It is based on the AMD RDNA2 architecture and as such is a “single hybrid graphics processor” that […]
There Are So Many Details From Marvel’s ‘Eternals’ You Probably Missed
Photo credit: Marvel Studios Marvel’s Eternals is a very different beast to many other MCU movies; directed by autheor Chloe Zhao, is a slow-paced, meditative story that explores the emotional toll of immortality on a group of extraterrestrials who have lived on the fringes of human society for millennia. This departure from the familiar house […]