Month: November 2022
Mass Layoffs Underway At Twitter
These aren’t the first cuts Musk has made to the social media platform’s workforce: Upon taking over Twitter on October 27, Musk immediately fired some of the company’s top executives, including its CEO, Parag Agrawal, and chief counsel Vijaya Gadde, who was in charge of online safety. A lawsuit has…
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How to use Continuity Camera on macOS
Continuity Camera is one of the most exciting features of macOS Ventura. It allows you — if you’re taking a call from your MacBook — to substitute an iPhone’s camera for the webcam. The feature can be a bit of a hassle to set up, but once you’ve got all…
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Roku’s Streaming Stick 4K hits a new low of $25, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
Black Friday doesn’t officially arrive for a few more weeks, but we’re already starting to see retailers run early holiday sales on several gadgets we recommend. Roku’s Streaming Stick 4K, for instance, has fallen to a new low of $25, while Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to the price…
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Microsoft launches passwordless authentication for Azure AD on iOS and Android
Audio player loading… Microsoft is looking to better protect hybrid workers connecting to its Azure Active Directory (AD) service via iOS or Android endpoints (opens in new tab) from phishing and password (opens in new tab)-stealing attacks. The company has introduced a new authentication method for the enterprise identity service…
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Twitter verification has always been a mess. Charging $8 a month won’t fix it.
It’s only been a matter of days since Elon Musk took over Twitter, but he’s already shaking up the platform in major ways. Few of his ideas have attracted as much attention, or controversy, as his plan to start charging for verification as part of a bigger overhaul to Twitter’s…
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Asteroid surveys are on the hunt for ‘city killers’
This week, astronomers announced the discovery of three previously unknown near-Earth asteroids that had been hiding in the glare of the Sun — and one of them is a giant. At nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across, it is big enough to cause planet-wide destruction if it hit the Earth,…
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