Month: March 2022
How to control your robot vacuum with Alexa
Connecting your robot vacuum to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant levels up your hands-free cleaning experience. Once set up, you won’t need to open an app on your smartphone or push a button on the bot to get the cleaning party started. With a voice assistant on tap, just say a…
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Firefox update fixes two nasty security vulnerabilities, so patch now
Audio player loading… Mozilla has released four new updates in an attempt to patch two critical Firefox vulnerabilities that are allegedly being exploited in the wild. Firefox 97.0.2., Firefox ESR 91.6.1., Firefox for Android 97.3.0., and Focus 97.3.0, have been launched addressing two serious zero-day flaws. The zero-days in question…
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How Telegram found itself at the heart of the Ukrainian conflict
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for…
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It’s now quicker than ever to start a Microsoft Teams call
Audio player loading… There could soon be no escape from a quick Microsoft Teams catch-up after the company released a new update that makes setting up a call easier than ever. The video conferencing service will soon let users cast directly from their desktop to Microsoft Teams Rooms hardware, meaning…
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These artists are making tiny ROMs that will probably outlive us all
In 2017, on a 10-meter-long sailboat off the coast of French Polynesia, Canadian artists Devine Lu Linvega and Rekka Bellum — also known as the two-person studio / collective Hundred Rabbits — realized that something had to change about the way they worked. Devine is a software developer who also…
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Apple Event may reveal M2 MacBook Air, alongside another Mac
Audio player loading… Apple is rumored to have been testing an M2 chip with 8-cores ahead of its big press event, and so we might see this SoC in one of the Macs which is revealed on March 8 tomorrow. This is the latest from the grapevine courtesy of reliable…
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