Month: November 2022

Nvidia’s new RTX 6000 may bust engineering department budgets at over $7,000

Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s about to launch its new for-serious-work-only RTX 6000 graphics card, and it’s going to be expensive. The new workstation card apparently showed up in retail listings on sites like ShopBLT and CompSource, according to VideoCardz, with prices coming in at a business expense-busting $7,378 to over $8,000. Announced in September, the RTX

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Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022 (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022  —  A Barcelona-based company that bills itself as a custom security solutions provider exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows …

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Google Stadia hardware refunds will be issued within two weeks

The Stadia Controller. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google will be issuing refunds for Stadia hardware purchased from the Google Store within two weeks, according to an email sent to customers on Wednesday. That means the refunds should arrive well ahead of the cloud gaming service’s impending January 18th shutdown. Purchases

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Marvel Snap’s new way to earn cards is live

Brood? I don’t need a Brood. | Image: Second Dinner Your Marvel Snap shop might look a bit different today. As The Verge reported last week, a new way to outright buy not yet unlocked cards is now live alongside some card updates, bug fixes, a new earnable currency, and a slew of new cards.

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SpaceX almost doubles its current Starlink prices in Ukraine

The price of Starlink terminals in Ukraine will increase from the equivalent of $385 to about $700. | Image: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters The price of a Starlink satellite terminal has almost doubled in Ukraine, according to a report from the Financial Times, following increased demand for the SpaceX satellite devices and targeted Russian attacks on the

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Salesforce Developers are Burnt Out – Spot it and Help Them

The expectations for Salesforce developers are increasing, and rising cybersecurity threats further the need for quickly-produced, pristine code. At the same time, the economic downturn and developer shortage is forcing companies to operate with a very limited team. All these factors increase the pressure resting on the shoulders of Salesforce developers — companies need to

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Spotify spices up its year-end roundup by giving you a ‘music personality’

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Spotify’s Wrapped 2022 has gone live. The annual year-end roundup is adding a couple of new features including “music personality” and daily listening habits. Music personality is a Myers-Briggs-like feature that puts you into one of 16 categories. It’s that time of year again, when all the year-end roundups

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Apple TV Plus’ Shrinking series starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford drops in January

Jason Segel and Harrison ford in Shrinking. | Apple TV Plus It’s been a few weeks since Apple officially announced its upcoming comedy series Shrinking from Brett Goldstein, Jason Segel, and Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence, but it turns out that the premiere date is right around the corner. Shrinking tells the story of Jimmy

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As annual inflation nears 100% in Argentina, a look at locals’ use of Mercado Pago and other digital wallets to protect their pesos, amid scam and theft issues (Lucía Cholakian Herrera/Rest of World)

Lucía Cholakian Herrera / Rest of World: As annual inflation nears 100% in Argentina, a look at locals’ use of Mercado Pago and other digital wallets to protect their pesos, amid scam and theft issues  —  Payment apps cushion users from a falling peso but won’t protect them from theft.  —  • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

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San Francisco approves use of remote-controlled robots to kill suspects

Remote-controlled robots like this are often used by police departments to examine, disarm, or detonate bombs. | Image: DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images San Francisco’s police will be allowed to use remote-controlled robots to kill suspects. The city’s board of supervisors last night approved a controversial policy that lets police robots “be used as a

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5 Practical Examples Of How AI Is Transforming Digital Marketing For Businesses

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has immensely impacted digital marketing, allowing businesses and marketers to control and analyze vast sets of consumer data without the need for direct human interventions. As consumer market trends change due to social influence, digital marketers are left leveraging the digital capabilities of AI to attract, retain and engage with customers in a

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Kraken crypto exchange lays off 30 percent of workforce

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced job cuts today, affecting 30 percent of its workforce, or around 1,100 employees. In a blog post, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell says the firm made the decision to help it weather the “crypto winter.” Kraken, a platform that lets users buy, sell, and

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Building Your Own Consensus

With billions of computers talking to each other daily, how do they decide anything? Even in a database or server deployment, how do the different computers that make up the database decide what values have been committed? How do they agree on what time it is? How do they come to a consensus? But first,

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As crypto miners default on loans, lenders could receive mining equipment as collateral, a popular financing tool, increasing losses as the rigs’ value plunges (David Pan/Bloomberg)

David Pan / Bloomberg: As crypto miners default on loans, lenders could receive mining equipment as collateral, a popular financing tool, increasing losses as the rigs’ value plunges  —  Beleaguered crypto lenders are being dealt another blow from Bitcoin miners as they weather the aftermath of the FTX collapse.

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OpenSea says NFT creators collectively earned $1.1B in royalties in 2022 so far, of which 80% were to collections outside the top 10 (Lucy Harley-McKeown/The Block)

Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block: OpenSea says NFT creators collectively earned $1.1B in royalties in 2022 so far, of which 80% were to collections outside the top 10  —  – OpenSea said that up to Nov. 23 this year, NFT creators had earned more than $1 billion through royalty payments on its platform in 2022.

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