Enlarge (credit: Andre Malerba/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In a few weeks, Ethereum is slated to undergo the most significant change in its seven-year history. Until now, the Ethereum blockchain has been secured using a method called “proof-of-work,” which consumes more electricity than the entire nation of Belgium. Next month’s switch to a new method called…
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Companies like Meta and TikTok use JavaScript to track virtually everything you do in-app. “Deposit Photos” It’s no big secret that tech companies like Meta, TikTok, and Google routinely keep a close eye on as much of its users’ activity as possible, but a new website tool is exposing just how sneakily (and creepily) they…
Last month, Andreessen Horowitz — one of venture capital’s largest and most prominent players — announced that its “headquarters will be in the cloud” going forward. Founded in 2009 in Menlo Park, California, the firm — also known as a16z — has for years been a symbol of Silicon Valley investing. Its new philosophy in…
Lucid Group, the publicly traded EV manufacturer, has launched a new high-performance luxury brand called Sapphire that pushes the bounds of performance and price. As part of the public debut, which occurred Friday morning at the Quail Lodge during Monterey Car Week, the company gave its first EV — the Lucid Air sedan — the…
“Venture capital” is semantically equivalent to “dangerous money,” which is part of its mystique. Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. And sometimes, a massive pile of investor cash burns so brightly, it gets picked up on satellites. But where does all that…
If you’re seeing TikTok posts with a circle made up of yellow, red, orange, blue, and green bars with a symbol in the middle, this may or may not be your first contact with American pastor and author Gary Chapman’s “5 Love Languages” concept. The quiz in question lives on Chapman’s official site, and it’s…
Google claims to have stopped on of the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks ever seen. In a blog post, the company’s Senior Product Manager for Cloud Armor, Emil Kiner, and Technical Lead Satya Konduru, said its tool stopped a Layer 7 HTTPS DDoS attack that peaked at 46 million requests per second (rps),…
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New laptops feature full-functioned Type-C ports for charging and more. FellowNeko/Shutterstock If your laptop has a full-functioned Type-C port, that means you can use that single port to transfer data, audio, video, and power. Most full-functioned Type-C ports will have a unique lightning bolt symbol next to them. You’ll also need a USB-C Thunderbolt 3…
An overview of damaged aircraft at Saki Airbase after attack, in Novofedorivka, Crimea August 10, 2022. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS Recent explosions at a Russian base in occupied Crimea damaged multiple combat aircraft. Over half Russia’s Black Sea fleet’s combat jets are knocked out, Western intel and officials said. Ukraine did not immediately claim public…