Month: March 2022
EU, US set to agree on landmark transatlantic data transfer pact
Audio player loading… In an effort to make it easier for businesses to transfer data between Europe and the United States, the EU and the US have announced a new preliminary data transfer deal. If the deal is approved, it would help companies that have found themselves in limbo after…
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Ransomware payments hit a new all-time high last year
Audio player loading… As ransomware attacks hit more businesses than ever before in 2021, so too did the number of businesses that paid cybercriminals to unlock their data. According to a new report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, ransomware payments reached a new high last year driven by the…
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The latest Pixel 6 update turned notification vibrations way down
This may sound familiar, but there’s something wrong with the latest software update for Google’s Pixel 6 phones. As Google tweaks the version of Android it distributes to phones running its custom Tensor chip, there have been some odd issues, but instead of problems with Wi-Fi or a slow thumbprint…
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Where is Fitbit’s Wear OS watch?
2022 is going to be a big year for Wear OS. Google’s rumored to be making its own Pixel Watch (again). Older Wear OS 2 watches are expected to finally make the transition to Wear OS 3. Samsung’s promised that Google Assistant will be coming to its Galaxy Watch 4…
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Video game history is colliding: Sierra founders are bringing a seminal text adventure game to VR
Ken and Roberta Williams, two of the most influential figures in video game history, are bringing the original 1976 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure to virtual reality, as well as Mac and Windows PC. It sounds pretty straightforward when I put it like that, right? And then I remind you…
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Look out OLED, Samsung’s flagship 4K QLED TV is coming to the US
Audio player loading… Samsung has confirmed that it will be bringing its flagship QLED TV, the Samsung QN95B QLED, to the US in 2022. That’s a departure from last year’s plan, when the company released the Samsung QN95A in Europe and the UK, but never brought the TV stateside. As…
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