Mega Dice, an online gambling platform, launched a crypto presale for its native token DICE last month and has already raised over $780,000 in the first few weeks. Let’s try to find out what exactly Mega Dice is and why its presale is attracting decent interest, at least so far. What is Mega Dice? Mega
Read MoreDraftKings has heralded its performance metrics in Q1 after reporting a 52.7% year-on-year spike in its revenue, up to $1.18 billion (£936.2m/€1.09b). Company CEO and co-founder Jason Robins lauded the “outstanding” numbers which have led to a raise in the gambling operator’s full-year guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA. For the first three months of
Read MoreThreads, the social media platform linked to Instagram, has made a few tweaks to give users more control over how their posts are quoted. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the update on his account over the weekend, saying, “The ability to limit who can quote your Threads posts is now available to everyone.” Threads quote
Read MoreMacworld If you haven’t been counting down the days like us, Apple is holding an event this week on Tuesday, May 7. Dubbed “Let Loose,” the keynote is expected to bring several new product announcements, including updates to the iPad Air, iPad Pro, and an Apple Pencil. The event will be available for everyone to
Read MoreBluesky has confirmed the departure of Jack Dorsey from its board with the decentralized social media platform now seeking a replacement to take his place at the top table. Having assisted the fledgling app in its initial stages, Bluesky publicly thanked the Twitter co-founder for his contribution, adding it wants to appoint a new representative “who
Read MoreThe iPhone maker has detected spyware attacks against people in more than 150 countries. Knowing if your device is infected can be tricky—but there are a few steps you can take to protect yourself.
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro Max was the top-selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2024, with iPhones occupying half the spots in the top ten. iPhone 15 Pro Max Apple and Samsung are still the top two highest-selling smartphone vendors in the world, and have been for some time. On a per model basis, though,
Read MoreWednesday Rest of World noticed an overlooked tech story in Argentina: Olga de León looked confused as she walked out of a nightclub on the edge of Buenos Aires on a recent Tuesday afternoon. She had just had her iris scanned. “No one told me what they’ll do with my eye,” de León, 57, told
Read MoreA cryptocurrency trader has reportedly fallen victim to a sophisticated “address poisoning” scam, resulting in the loss of tens of millions of dollars. Address poisoning is a type of fraud where scammers create fake accounts that mimic their victim’s online crypto address. They then send a small amount of currency to the victim, hoping that
Read MoreInvesting guru Warren Buffett recently raised his concern about the rising misuse of deep fake artificial intelligence (AI) and compared the emerging technology with ‘nukes’. The billionaire founder of Berkshire Hathaway told tens of thousands of shareholders during an annual meeting that a deepfake video of his created by AI “scares the hell out of
Read MoreApple has changed its “Let Loose” event logo to include the ability to erase it by dragging a mouse — or presumably a forthcoming Apple Pencil — across it. Users can now “erase” the Apple event logo The “Let Loose” event already had a series of artwork logos, with the primary one including the image
Read MoreAn Apple analyst believes that a foldable iPhone and an all-screen MacBook Pro are coming far sooner than expected, but there are reasons to be cautious about the latest rumor. The ‘iPhone Fold’ is expected to take design cues from existing Apple products In a note to investors seen by AppleInsider, Jeff Pu from Hatton
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google has embraced AI in its searches for a while now via its so-called SGE initiative. This sees AI being used for result summaries and more. However, it turns out that OpenAI might offer an AI-powered search engine of its own. Should search engines bother with infusing AI into
Read MoreMacworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during
Read MoreOn May 6, 1998, Steve Jobs announced the iMac, and we wouldn’t now have the iPhone, the Apple Store, or even Apple itself, if it hadn’t been such a success. Steve Jobs, famously sitting with an original iMac If there’s ever any doubt that the iMac is a phenomenal success, just try to think of
Read MoreApple is holding a special event on May 7 that will most likely focus on new models of the iPad Air and iPad Pro. Here’s what to expect from the “Let Loose” event. iPads are expected at Apple’s next event Apple has not made a meaningful update to the iPad lineup since October 2022, with
Read MoreApple’s largest iPhone manufacturer has reported almost a fifth higher revenue for April 2024 compared to the same month in 2023, in part because of diversification. Workers in a Foxconn factory In March 2024, Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai Precision Industry Co reported a 10% revenue drop in Q1, specifically because of slowing demand over
Read MoreHandheld tablets are sold with the expectation that those behind bars can use them to stay in touch with loved ones. But a WIRED investigation found that federal prisons disable the tablets’ chat apps.
Read MoreNo one thinks software development is easy, but who would have thought it could be hard in so many different ways? Evans Data estimates there are 26.9 million software developers globally. Recently more than 100 of those developers weighed in on Ali Spittel’s question, “What’s the most difficult part of your job as a developer?”
Read MoreAbout a decade ago, I was a CIO evaluating a technology solution and I shared our primary requirements with a prospective vendor’s rep. He demoed at least three products from the company’s portfolio. Each tool had its own user experience, development approach, and learning requirements, but all three were needed to solve our business requirements.
Read MoreSynthetic DNA could be used to spark a pandemic. A move by President Biden aims to create new standards for the safety and security of mail-order genetic material.
Read MoreMacworld New iPads are great, but longtime Apple users have always wanted to see a touchscreen Mac, something along the lines of the Microsoft Surface. Reports of such a device by Apple have barely surfaced (pun intended) in recent years, but a new patent offers some hope that itt may still one day arrive. Apple was
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority The iPhone 17 series will reportedly include a new 6.6-inch Slim variant that replaces the existing 6.7-inch Plus model. The iPhone 17 Pro Max may exclusively offer a smaller Face ID sensor, which would significantly shrink the Dynamic Island’s size. All iPhone 17 models are rumored to feature 24MP
Read MoreISP-supplied routers are improving as Vodafone offers the Wi-Fi 6E Ultra Hub with backup mobile network service in the UK.
Read MoreIt shouldn’t be a surprise that the idea of a planetarium originated with an electrical engineer, [Oskar von Miller] from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. According to [Allison Marsh] in IEEE Spectrum, he thought about the invention in 1912 as a way to demonstrate astronomical principles to the general public. While it seems obvious today
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