I look to the stars, and I see semicolons. | Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI It turns out that JavaScript, the programming language that web developers and users alike love to complain about, had a hand in delivering the stunning images that the James Webb Space Telescope has been beaming back to Earth. And…
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Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good base for machine learning surveillance. (credit: Ring) Amazon quietly but quickly patched a vulnerability in its Ring app that could have exposed users’ camera recordings and other data, according to security firm Checkmarx. Checkmarx researchers…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The presence of advertisements apparently won’t be the only major difference between Netflix’s ad-supported and ad-free plans. Text reportedly found in the code of Netflix’s iPhone app suggests the ad-supported plan won’t let users download movies and shows for offline viewing. The text says, “Downloads available on all plans…
Enlarge / A critical vulnerability in Zoom for MacOS, patched once last weekend, could still be bypassed as of Wednesday. Users should update again. (credit: Getty Images) It’s time for Zoom users on Mac to update—again. After Zoom patched a vulnerability in its Mac auto-update utility that could give malicious actors root access earlier this week,…
Enlarge / Mods like this one, which replaces Lebron James with Jesus, no longer work in Multiversus. (credit: GameBanana / ShoeGrease) The hit new free-to-play Warner Bros. arena fighter MultiVersus has enjoyed a robust modding scene since the game was still in its early access beta. This week, though, that community is on life support…
Since we launched Patterns in 2020, we’ve been steadily adding to our library of prebuilt Block templates for you to easily make your site stand out even more. There are now over 260 Patterns that can be inserted into your pages and posts in just seconds. If you’ve never used Patterns before, you can access…
Quora is shutting down the English version of its Partner Program on September 1st, the company announced on its website. The Partner Program will remain active in other languages, including German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Swedish, Dutch, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Indonesian, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian. The Partner Program, which launched four years ago,…
Snap may have flown a bit too close to the sun in its development of the palm-sized selfie drone, Pixy. Following a late-April announcement, the social media firm has already begun pumping the brakes on the project, per a Wall Street Journal report. CEO Evan Spiegel has apparently relayed the message that the hardware is…
Daniel Faloppa Contributor Share on Twitter Daniel Faloppa founded Equidam after completing his M.Sc. in Finance and Investments at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University with the goal of making valuations less problematic for entrepreneurs and investors. A new day, a new interest rate hike. A few serious faces from the Fed have announced that…