Month: January 2021
Pinterest is the latest app to add a carousel of stories to its home screen
Pinterest now displays a row of stories at the top of its home screen when you open up the app. It’s an interface that should look familiar to anyone who has used a social media app in the past few years: it’s the same tack taken by Instagram, Twitter, Facebook…
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Doom Eternal VR game seems likely as new Bethesda title gets leaked Doom Eternal
The hell-razing FPS game Doom Eternal could be getting a VR port this year, after an online listing on an Australian government website appeared to leak the news. Australia’s media classification board has confirmed the existence of a VR game coming from Bethesda, developed by the team at id Software.…
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LA-based Sidecar Health’s low-cost, cash-pay health insurance service is now valued at $1 billion
Meet Sidecar Health, the newest member of the tech industry’s billion dollar healthcare startup club. The valuation comes thanks to $125 million in new funding that the company will use to expand its new model for health insurance. Sidecar Health’s insurance plans give consumers the ability to pay directly for…
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Twitter jumps into newsletters with Revue acquisition
Twitter wants a piece of the fast-growing newsletter industry. Today, the company announced that it’s acquired Revue for an undisclosed sum. The latter is one of the best-known services for creating and managing a newsletter — the other being Substac… Source
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Windows 10 zero-day gets quick fix courtesy of third-party devs Windows 10
Third-party developers have issued a fix for the vulnerability discovered earlier this month that corrupts Windows 10 hard drives. Given that the flaw can be triggered simply by delivering a seemingly harmless shortcut file, affected individuals will no doubt be happy to employ any temporary fix, as long as it…
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Mastercard launches ‘enhanced’ contactless payments Mastercard
Mastercard has launched Ecos, the latest evolution of its contactless payment system, promising more efficient and secure transactions through using the latest ‘quantum-resistant’ technologies. In what Mastercard claims is an industry-first, the Enhanced Contactless (Ecos) system incorporates a more secure, future-proof contactless payment design. Its development has been accelerated by…
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