Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped up recently-shuttered California-based productivity startup Pulse. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine…
Monthly Archives: December 2022
The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they…
Today’s Google Doodle lets you make, play and share your own mini arcade game to honor the memory of videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson. Lawson led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges. Today would have been his 82nd birthday. The interactive Doodle starts off by taking you through…
In what can only be characterized as a stunning turn of events, Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor announced his resignation yesterday, claiming he wanted to return to his entrepreneurial roots. Whatever his reasons, it was a shock to all who cover this company, and it’s safe to say that few if any saw this coming —…
SAVE $50: The Beats True Wireless Studio Buds are on sale for less than $100, which saves you 33% off their regular price of $149.99. Black Friday might be over, but don’t despair: If you missed all the great deals on this massive shopping holiday and now wish you could invent a time machine, we…
SAVE $110: As of Dec. 1, the Bose 700 Noise-Cancelling Wireless Headphones are down to their lowest-ever price of $269 at Best Buy as part of their “Deal of the Day” offers. The nearly 30% discount lasts until the end of the day. While your earphones may have good sound quality, they probably fall short…
Chris Hemsworth is no stranger to the challenges of getting into god-like shape, but the Thor star’s training regime for his upcoming Netflix movie sounds even more ludicrous than usual. While promoting Hemsworth’s new Disney Plus series, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, in a recent interview with TechRadar, sports scientist and ultra-marathon swimmer Ross Edgley gave…
Three Android apps designed to let users use their phones as a keyboard for a workstation may be exposing key presses to threat actors and allowing them to execute remote code. According to BleepingComputer, analysts at electronic design automation (EDA) company Synopsys have found critical vulnerabilities in “PC Keyboard”, “Lazy Mouse”, and “Telepad”, and published…
New research from CRM giant Salesforce suggests that an alarming proportion of UK workers are not confident in their digital capabilities, despite ranking digital skills as the most important for the future workplace. The report comes in the wake of the UK’s Autumn Statement, during which the Chancellor “pledged to make the UK ‘the world’s…
Sony unveiled the PlayStation Classic back in 2018 in an attempt to emulate the successes of Nintendo’s NES Classic Mini and SNES Classic Mini. All these years on, the plug-and-play mini-console is no longer manufactured so it’s difficult to find it in stock, let alone at a reduced price. That means any stores that still…