Month: April 2022
DuckDuckGo insists it didn’t ‘purge’ piracy sites from search results
Users of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo have been unable to site search the domains of some well-known pirated media sites recently, as reported by TorrentFreak on Friday. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg called it “completely made up,” tweeting over the weekend that this is the result of a site operator error.…
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Overwatch developers confirm my conspiracy theory about Lúcio’s hair
At long last, I’ve finally uncovered the truth behind an Overwatch question that’s plagued me for six years: what the hell is going on with Lúcio’s hair? Last week, I talked with Overwatch 2 developers Geoff Goodman and Dion Rogers about Sojourn, the game’s first Black female hero. Since this…
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Blackmagic launches DaVinci Resolve 18 with real-time cloud collaboration
Blackmagic Design has unveiled a raft of new products including the DaVinci Resolve 18 video editing/color correction app and Blackmagic Cloud, a cloud collaboration system designed for editors, VFX artists and others. It also launched the "Cloud Store" networked storage box that uses a familiar-looking enclosure. The key product is…
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An Intel chip that mimics the human brain could end up in your next PC
Audio player loading… Intel’s neuromorphic Loihi chips could end up in future CPUs though they might also be available as a cloud service. After being in development for the past several years, we now have a better idea regarding several potential commercial use cases for Intel’s Loihi neuromorphic chips. Unlike…
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This recent DuckDuckGo update was terrible news for pirates
Audio player loading… DuckDuckGo users were recently unable to find links to The Pirate Bay and other popular torrenting sites in the company’s search engine. While initially it seemed that the company deindexed a number of domains used for illegally downloading movies, TV shows and even YouTube videos, it turns…
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Twitter is not gonna let you destroy old tweets by editing them
Audio player loading… Twitter’s approach to editable tweets is starting to make sense. Two weeks after announcing that Editable Tweets were coming to the social platform, the beta code is starting to pop up for some users – though most of it doesn’t appear functional. Even so, we’re learning about…
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