Month: May 2024
YouTube is becoming a cybercriminal gateway for human manipulation
Human manipulation is the leading driver behind the success of cyberthreats, new research from Avast has found. Social engineering campaigns employed to distribute scams and similar threats accounted for 90% of all threats blocked in the mobile device landscape. YouTube is also fast becoming a breeding ground for phishing campaigns,…
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LG’s new super-bright OLED panel could give the next Meta Quest an edge over the Apple Vision Pro
LG Display has unveiled an eye-wateringly bright OLED display that’s specially designed for VR headsets – a 10,000-nit OLEDoS (OLED on silicon) panel that could help to bring Meta headsets more in line with the Apple Vision Pro’s visual superiority. For context, the Meta Quest 3’s displays offer a mere…
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LG’s cheapest OLED TV just crashed to a new record-low price ahead of Memorial Day
The LG B3 is ranked in our best TV list as the best cheap OLED display, thanks to its stunning picture quality, excellent gaming features, and affordable price. Just ahead of this year’s Memorial Day sales event, I spotted the 65-inch model on sale for $1,199.99 (was $1,499.99). That’s a…
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Uber will soon let you reserve a shuttle to get home from a big concert or ballgame
Google I/O isn’t the only tech-adjacent event this week. Uber just held its annual GO-GET event and announced a whole bunch of new features coming to the rideshare platform/taxi app/whatever you wanna call it. Much of this news concerns shuttles and expanded ride sharing options, specifically a new option called…
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Google I/O 2024: Everything revealed including Gemini AI, Android 15 and more
At the end of I/O, Google’s annual developer conference at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company had said “AI” 121 times. That, essentially, was the crux of Google’s two-hour keynote — stuffing AI into every Google app and service used by more…
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PPSSPP brings PSP emulation to the iPhone
It’s the PlayStation Portable’s turn to get an emulator on the iOS App Store thanks to PPSSPP, which just went live today. This emulator, from developer Henrik Rydgård, has been in development for more than a decade, and it’s free to download for the iPhone and iPad. Rydgård says in…
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