Month: April 2022
Microsoft partners with Mastercard to stop you getting defrauded online
Audio player loading… Mastercard has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to launch an enhanced identity solution aimed at tackling digital fraud. Although online shopping is quite convenient for consumers, it can be very expensive for businesses especially when they have to deal with fraudsters. Of the many types…
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Apple supplier Foxconn shuts down Shanghai factories – but there’s actually good news
Audio player loading… Taiwanese electronics company and major Apple supplier Foxconn is going to be shutting down two of its factories in the city of Kushan, China, as COVID-19 cases surge in the area. According to the South China Morning Post, the factories are near Shanghai, and to prevent COVID…
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The unsurprising lesson Microsoft learned after upgrading its own PCs to Windows 11
Audio player loading… After upgrading its own business PCs to its latest operating system, Microsoft has reached a rather unsurprising conclusion: Windows 11 is good. In a new blog post, Microsoft explained it has now upgraded almost the entirety of its circa 182,000-strong workforce to Windows 11, claiming it had…
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Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to young adults in the US
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is counteracting a ban on certain books by letting anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 apply for a digital library card. This gives teens and young adults, regardless of their location in the United States, access to the library’s entire ebook collection. The…
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Doctors Are Dropping Out Of This Medical NFT Project, Which Promised DMs With TikTok-Famous Physicians
A group of TikTok- and Instagram-famous physicians say they have a solution for the “red tape” of the current medical system: NFTs of cartoon doctors. These NFTs, called MetaDocs, are supposed to give buyers access to real doctors, almost like a Web3 telehealth subscription. When MetaDocs launched in December, it…
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Elon Musk buys Twitter
Audio player loading… You don’t even need 280 characters to deliver this momentous news: Elon Musk just bought Twitter. The Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder has been circling the popular social media platform for weeks, using Twitter itself as a medium to announce both his intentions and ongoing frustrations with…
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