A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments. “I have no idea what to do,” one said. Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘in the Dark’ After a Cyberattack Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSara Fischer / Axios: With Snapchat adding TikTok-like Spotlight, Twitter adding Snapchat-like Fleets, and Stories now ubiquitous, all social media apps are starting to look the same — Snapchat on Monday launched Spotlight, a video tab within its app that, like TikTok, distributes videos based more on how popular they are than on who created
Read MoreIf you need to move a lot of data, and fast, Gigabit Ethernet is a great way to do it. However, most network hardware outside of datacenters is fairly space inefficient, a headache if you’re building a robot or drone. Enter the Gigablox, a super-compact Gigabit router for just these applications. The Gigablox takes its
Read MoreThings have been tough this year for many of us, and while everyone loves giving great gifts to friends and family, you also don’t want to spend more than you’ve got. Well, don’t worry — we’ve got your back. There are loads of great gifts being discounted to under $50, and we’re letting you know
Read MoreSurface Laptop 4 and Surface Pro 8. | cozyplanes (Twitter) Microsoft’s next Surface Pro 8 tablet and its upcoming Surface Laptop 4 have appeared in leaked images online. Twitter user cozyplanes discovered the images at what appears to be an FCC-like filing, noting that the Surface Pro 8 may ship with LTE support. Both devices
Read MoreSquare, the fintech stock led by Twitter billionaire and beard-of-the-people Jack Dorsey, is on fire. In the past three days, Square‘s share price has set three consecutive all-time highs, both intraday and closing. It peaked at $208 on Monday, hit $209.36 on Tuesday, and broke $214 on Wednesday to close the day up 240% for
Read MoreApple AirPods Pro and Mario Kart Live for Switch lead Thursday’s best deals. Read more… Thursday's Best Deals: AirPods Pro, Mario Kart Live, CBD Spiced Drops, New iPad, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Ulta Soap & Glory, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreAlex Hern / The Guardian: Critics say Microsoft 365’s productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level — Tool allows managers to use Microsoft 365 to track their employees’ activity — Microsoft has been criticised for enabling … Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is
Read MoreWHIZZARD platform allows users to search and assemble content from various recorded video meetings. This start-up allows you to edit recordings of your video conferencing sessions Source: Tech Radar Software
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Read MoreYou’ve watched the parade and the dog show. You’ve cooked, cleaned and had dinner. You’ve managed to avoid (or at least tune out) football. Now what? Why not head outside and take a look at the Earth’s shadow? It will be easier to spot than usual both today and tomorrow. Here’s how to find it
Read MoreLauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: Thousands of Amazon workers in 15 countries, including call center workers, warehouse workers, and garment makers, to stage coordinated Black Friday protests — The day of action includes strikes and protests from garment manufacturers in Bangladesh to call center workers in the Philippines … Thousands of Amazon workers in 15
Read More{$inline_image} How do you instantly make any game better? By lighting it up and playing at night. We would normally say ‘drinking’, but we’re pretty sure that drinking is already a prerequisite for cornhole — that’s the game where you toss bean bags at holes in angled boards. [Hardware Unknown] loves cornhole, and was gifted
Read MoreHow do you instantly make any game better? By lighting it up and playing at night. We would normally say ‘drinking’, but we’re pretty sure that drinking is already a prerequisite for cornhole — that’s the game where you toss bean bags at holes in angled boards. [Hardware Unknown] loves cornhole, and was gifted a
Read MoreIf you’re worried about facial recognition firms or stalkers mining your online photos, a new tool called Anonymizer could help you escape their clutches. The app was created by Generated Media, a startup that provides AI-generated pictures to customers ranging from video game developers creating new characters to journalists protecting the identities of sources. The company says it built
Read MorePhoto by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Best Buy is offering a pair of great deals on Apple’s recently-released 10.2-inch iPad, with offers of up to $70 off. The retailer has knocked $50 off the price of the base 32GB model, which is now $280 compared to its usual asking price of $330. Meanwhile the
Read MoreAt the start of lockdown, the horror stories did the rounds: shirtless man joins 200-person Zoom call! Woman forgets to turn off camera, and takes a dump in front of colleagues! Jim picks his nose repeatedly while his 30 students watch in horror! These viral stories — I’ll admit, I did click, and I did giggle
Read MoreROME, ITALY – AUGUST 25: Health workers wait for passengers arriving from high-risk countries to carry out rapid antigenic tests for Covid-19 at a testing station set up inside Leonardo Da Vinci airport, on August 25, 2020 in Fiumicino, Rome, Italy. The region has introduced mandatory COVID-19 tests for anyone arriving from Croatia, Greece, Spain
Read MoreElaine Chen / Bloomberg: Crunchbase: US fintech firms raised $16.9B so far in 2020, up 20% YoY; female founders run 3.8% of them but got only 0.9% of total funding — – Firms started by women got just 0.9% of total funds raised — A record $16.9 billion has been plowed into fintechs this year
Read MoreThis is the best time of year to buy a new vacuum — or a robot vacuum. Biggest Black Friday vacuum deals: Discounts on Dyson, Shark, Bissell, Hoover, Neato and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhether you’re spending the holidays on your own, or (still) cooped up with the same people you’ve been quarantining with for months, you could probably use a break from your usual routine. Even if you’re not celebrating, you may still have a day (or at least part of a day) off to regroup. One way
Read MoreFor many of us, this is going to be a festive season like no other. Maybe it’s the first Christmas we can’t go home. Maybe we won’t be able to catch-up with friends. Or visit the pub. But there’s one thing most of us will probably have more of: time. And that’s what TNW’s 2020
Read MoreBiolite’s having a sitewide 25%-off sale for Black Friday. You can snag some nice deals on not only its popular smart firepit but its lighting products. Biolite's portable firepit is only 8 for Black Friday – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again, and the Black Friday router deals are flying fast ahead of schedule. Here’s what’s on sale right now, and what’s coming soon. Best Black Friday router deals: Upgrade to mesh or Wi-Fi 6 with a huge saving – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTSM CEO Andy Dinh said he believed the contract was the richest deal ever for a “League of Legends” pro or any other esports pro in North America. SwordArt signs with TSM for million over 2 years Source: Washington Post Tech
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