South Korea pardoned Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong so he can help the country overcome its economic crisis. Kim Min-Hee/Getty Images South Korea just pardoned Samsung’s de facto leader, Jay Y. Lee, for bribing a former president. The justice ministry said Lee needs to help the country overcome a “national economic crisis.” South Korea…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
If you visit a website you see on Facebook and Instagram, you’ve likely noticed that you’re not redirected to your browser of choice but rather a custom in-app browser. It turns out that those browsers inject javascript code into each website visited, allowing parent Meta to potentially track you across websites, researcher Felix Krause has…
When Apple announced it was turning an eight-year-old commercial about an American football coach taking over a Premier League club into a series, not many people were expecting it to be a success. However, Ted Lasso won over viewers with his unflinching positivity, Roy Kent might be one of the funniest characters on TV and…
One of iOS 16’s most useful new features is Live Activities, which are essentially live notifications on the Lock Screen. The new feature will allow users to keep track of things happening in real time, such as the score of a sports game, the progress of an Uber ride, or the status of a food…
Is FIFA 23 Beta crashing when you try to log in on PS4 or PS5? Does it still crash when you uninstall and reinstall the game? Many users are experiencing the “Something went wrong with this game or app” error. Here’s the second part of the error, “Reporting this error to Sony Interactive Entertainment helps…
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee will receive a presidential pardon on Monday, South Korea’s Ministry of Justice said, paving way for the heir to the country’s biggest company to regain power at the top. Lee was paroled from prison last year after serving 18 months in jail for bribing former South Korean president…
Amazon is working on a television show compiling videos taken from Ring security cameras. Called Ring Nation, the clip show will be hosted by comedian Wanda Sykes and serve as an ever-timely reminder that privacy is eroding into nothing more than a vaguely remembered relic of the faded past. Deadline reports Ring Nation is scheduled…
Meta has announced it is testing secure storage on Messenger that will allow you to back up end-to-end encypted chats, and it is also testing plans to turn end-to-end encryption on by default for message threads on the platform. End-to-end encyption means that only participants of messages can view them and Meta doesn’t have access…
Fittingly for a camera that will be the last to bear the ‘Olympus’ badge, the OM System OM-1 is one of the best mirrorless cameras we’ve seen this year – and the rumors suggest it could soon get a smaller, more affordable sibling called the OM System OM-5. Seasoned fans of Olympus cameras, which were sold…
Google is updating its search engine to cut down on misleading snippets and improve the ways it educates people by adding more contextual information. Put another way, Google’s expanding its efforts to stamp out misinformation across its formidable search service. Snippets are the text you see highlighted at the top of a Search results page…