Month: October 2024
Hundreds of malicious apps are lurking on the Android Play Store, and have already been downloaded by millions
We’ve all made the mistake of downloading some useless apps at one point or another, but there used to be a degree of certainty that the fake beer drinking app or the wild west sound effect buttons wouldn’t turn out to be spyware – as long as you got it…
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Real-Time Video Deepfake Scams Are Here. This Tool Attempts to Zap Them
Reality Defender, a startup focused on AI detection, has developed a tool to verify human participants in video calls and catch fraudsters using AI deepfakes for scams. Source
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SimpliSafe’s new camera lets live agents watch your property
Home security company SimpliSafe has launched its new live monitoring feature — Active Guard Outdoor Protection. Announced earlier this year, the service is powered by a new outdoor camera that uses on-device and cloud-based AI to alert call center agents about potential threats on your property. The agent then gets…
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The Morning After: Our verdict on the Meta Quest 3S
Meta’s latest play to get you into VR is a cheaper VR headset almost as capable as the $500 Quest 3. The Quest 3S brings some but not all of the top features of the more expensive headset. Compared to the Quest 2, it has a more capable processor, better…
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Samsung TVs’ free update to One UI is already happening – here are the changes coming to TVs
Samsung has begun the rollout of its One UI software update to select Samsung TVs earlier than anticipated, as reported by SamMobile. Following a recent announcement that Samsung would incorporate its One UI software design to its TVs – bringing them more in-line with how its phones, such as the…
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A new wave of GameCube controllers is reportedly in the works – could they be for the Nintendo Switch 2?
Nintendo could be working on a new wave of GameCube controllers. That’s according to Resetera user RandomlyRandom67, who shared component shipment details in a recent post that they believe are for the Nintendo Switch 2 and a new product that could be a GameCube controller (via NintendoLife). Dataminer LuigiBlood was…
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