Month: April 2022
Google Photos’ biggest rival right now is a company you probably never heard of
Audio player loading… Less than one year after it was launched, iDrive Photos (opens in new tab), from the makers of TechRadar’s editor choice for best cloud storage, iDrive, has added a new feature that makes it an even more attractive offer for those looking to move away from Google…
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Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With “The Orb.” Now They Feel Robbed.
Blania described a futuristic world awash in Orbs of varying shapes and sizes, where each person would be assigned a unique and anonymized code linked to their iris that they could use to log in to a host of web and blockchain-based applications. Blania did not rule out the possibility…
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New Microsoft Azure services will help us learn about the darkest reaches of space
Audio player loading… As part of its efforts to expand its focus toward space, Microsoft has developed a platform for on-orbit compute so that spaceships running AI (opens in new tab) workloads can be connected to the hyperscale Azure (opens in new tab) cloud. In the first of a series…
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Plex’s latest beta features can help you navigate every streaming service you have
Plex’s latest beta features are a modern solution to a modern problem — having to search through HBO Max, Netflix, Disney Plus, and like, three other services to find something to watch. The company announced a new “Discover” feature, which aggregates and recommends content from various streaming services and a…
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Apple’s test of a new iOS subscription payment system is a huge step back
Audio player loading… Apple is testing out a new subscription payment system for iOS devices that would let developers automatically charge a higher subscription-renewal price rather than ask for explicit acceptance, so long as the user is notified ahead of the renewal price increase and given the chance to cancel…
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Block is contacting 8.2 million customers after a former employee downloaded company reports
Block, the parent company of products like Cash App and Tidal, said in an SEC filing that a former employee downloaded “certain reports” that “contained some US customer information” without permission from Cash App Investing (via Protocol). Data in the reports, which Block said were downloaded on December 10th, included…
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