Month: October 2022
Google’s Pixel Buds Pro drop to $150, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
Some of the biggest deals in tech right now come courtesy of Samsung Week, a sales event running through November 1st, in which the electronics giant has discounted a wide swath of their current-model devices. We’re seeing record low prices almost everywhere — as in, lower than Amazon’s October Prime…
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Interpol says the metaverse could open up a whole new world of crime
Audio player loading… The metaverse could be used not just to facilitate crime in the physical realm, but could also be used for various other dangerous forms of cybercrime, as well, a new warning from Interpol has warned. Interpol’s executive director for technology and innovation, Madan Oberoi, explained that member…
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People are pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ
There are plenty of problems with what these two men say to reporters. The most glaring is that one man identifies himself as a software engineer named “Rahul Ligma.” The Verge has confirmed that name does not exist in Twitter’s Slack or email system. There is also no evidence that…
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Apple has launched a brand new security hub to help spot bugs and flaws
Audio player loading… Apple has unveiled a new security hub (opens in new tab) and an upgraded bounty hunting program as it looks to improve the way it discovers, and remedies, different flaws and vulnerabilities in its ecosystem. “Our groundbreaking security technologies protect the users of over 1.8 billion active…
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Traffic jams are tied to lower birth weights, study finds
Traffic jams are linked to lower birth weights, new research finds. Pregnant people in the most congested neighborhoods gave birth to babies who weighed less than babies in less congested areas, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. A baby with low birth weight faces a…
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AWS warns customer cloud demand is slowing as Amazon results stutter
Audio player loading… Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported third-quarter revenue growth of 27.5%, its slowest year-on-year rise since the company began reporting its finances separately in 2014. The cloud giant’s revenue for the quarter was $20.5 billion, while AWS’s operating income was $5.4 billion, a year-on-year rise from $4.9…
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