Month: March 2021
Five Bethesda games on Xbox Game Pass will benefit from Xbox Series X FPS Boost Bethesda games on Xbox Game Pass
Shortly after the announcement that twenty Bethesda games are now available on Xbox Game Pass, it’s been confirmed that five of these games will also receive a frame rate boost on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. Speaking to Larry Hryb, on the Official Xbox podcast, Xbox Comms manager…
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This crafty email scam smuggles malware behind .zipx files compression
Researchers have identified a new email scam that applies a number of crafty techniques to bypass security filters and infect victims with malware. As described in a blog post from security firm Trustwave, cybercriminals are abusing file compression techniques to smuggle NanoCore malware into inboxes. By concealing the malicious executable…
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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities
While London, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm feature regularly in tech coverage, the rest of Europe has been busy. The Czech Republic may be better known for beer, hockey and the sights of Prague, but its entrepreneurial community is as ambitious as any. Pipedrive is an EU-based CRM company with offices…
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Researchers build 700TB optical disc that can probably store all of Netflix CDs
Researchers have managed to pack a quantity of data equivalent to 28,000 Blu-Rays inside a single 12-cm optical disk. The academics, from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), RMIT University and the National University of Singapore (NUS), worked jointly to demonstrate a mechanism that improves the data…
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Facebook Execs Told Employees It Isn’t A “Root Cause” Of Polarization In The US
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1, 2018, in San Jose, California. Facebook has created a ”playbook” to help its employees rebut criticism that the company’s products fuel political polarization and social division. The document, which…
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Tiger Global in talks to invest in young Indian social network at $170M valuation
Who says there is no room for a new social network? Tiger Global is in advanced stages of talks to lead a round of $15 million to $20 million in seven-month-old Kutumb that values the Indian startup at about $170 million, four people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The…
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