Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by Jake Fraser, head of business development at Mogul Productions. NFT sales skyrocketed in 2021. From a transaction volume of merely USD $40.69 million in 2018, NFT trading volume surged over $44.2 billion in 2021 and is
Destiny 2 — the popular free-to-play online-only multiplayer first-person shooter — is now in its fifth year and will soon receive its sixth expansion with Destiny 2: The Witch Queen this week. The Witch Queen expansion pack brings a new location in Savathûn’s Throne World along with new maps, weapons, mission, and a lot more.
Vivo V23e is all set to go official in India on February 21. Just days before its official debut, live images of the smartphone have surfaced online suggesting the design. The renders show the handset in two different colour options and suggest a triple camera setup at the back. Vivo V23e was launched initially in
Researchers have detailed what they call the “first successful attempt” at decrypting data infected with Hive ransomware without relying on the private key used to lock access to the content. “We were able to recover the master key for generating the file encryption key without the attacker’s private key, by using a cryptographic vulnerability identified
Twitter has introduced a pinned conversations feature for its Direct Messages (DM) service on iOS, Android, and the Web, allowing users to pin chats to the top of their inbox. Pinning conversations keeps them at the top of the chat list, even if newer messages from other chats are received. The feature was previously part
DENVER — The Denver Broncos are up for sale, and a group of crypto enthusiasts is aiming to raise more than $4 billion using a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, to make it their own. You can think of a DAO like a group of individuals acting in concert with no single leader. Unlike a
US securities regulators responded to allegations that they are harassing Elon Musk, writing in a letter that they’re following a judge’s instructions in trying to speak with the Tesla CEO’s lawyers about his posts on Twitter. In a letter dated Friday, Steven Buchholz of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s San Francisco Office wrote that the
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by Humpty Calderon, head of community at Ontology. Over the last several years, the gaming industry has witnessed incredible growth. Expanding 23% in 2020 from the year prior, its integration with blockchain has seen play-to-earn and crypto
Oppo A76 was silently launched in Malaysia. The new smartphone is the successor to Oppo A74 that launched in April last year. Oppo A76 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 SoC paired with 6GB of RAM and 5GB of extended RAM. The handset sports a 6.56-inch HD+ LCD display with up to a 90Hz
Patches have been issued to contain a “severe” security vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with over three million installations, that can be weaponized to download the site’s private data using an account on the vulnerable sites. “All versions of UpdraftPlus from March 2019 onwards have contained a vulnerability caused by a missing permissions-level check,
Elon Musk compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Adolf Hitler in a tweet that appeared to support truckers protesting vaccine mandates – and which immediately triggered a storm on Twitter. Musk sent the tweet on Wednesday just before midnight in California, and had deleted it by midday on Thursday, without explanation. He did not
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is celebrating the completion of its one-year stay on the Red Planet by learning to run on its rocky surface. The roughly 1,025-kg machine has accomplished several milestones, including new distance records, since its touch down on the rocky surface a year ago on February 18, 2021. And now, it is trying to gain
Cyberpunk 2077 has released on next-generation consoles after a long wait, with Polish developer CD Projekt unveiling it during a livestream event on Tuesday. The company has been working to fix the game ever since a bug-ridden launch led Sony to pull it from its PlayStation Store for six months. “Of course, the premiere is
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by Gergo Varga, author of the Fraud Prevention Guide for Dummies and senior content manager and product evangelist at SEON. In 2022, online fraud is projected to be a huge industry. Just in the U.K., over $187
In this article AMZN In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, Dilip Kumar, vice president of physical retail and technology for Amazon, poses for a photo inside an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Ted S. Warren | AP Amazon has spent almost three decades perfecting the art of
Russian military hackers were behind a spate of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that briefly knocked Ukrainian banking and government websites offline, the United States and the United Kingdom said on Friday. US deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told journalists at the White House that Washington was seeking to hold Russia to account
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has added a new Team Death Match (TDM) map to the popular battle royale game as part of the February 1.8.5 update. The new map, Santorini, is the first 8×8 TDM map in the game, and follows the addition of new features and gameplay changes introduced by Krafton including the ability
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) earlier this week appointed Eun Young Choi to serve as the first Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) it established last year. The NCET was created to tackle the criminal misuse of cryptocurrencies and digital assets,” with a focus on illegal activities in virtual currency exchanges, mixing
Skype has announced that its US users can now use the platform to dial 911 from their home computer and that its software can share their location with emergency services if required. According to The Verge, the US is the latest addition to the list of regions with a Skype emergency service calling feature. Until
We know how flames behave on Earth, thanks to our use of fire for thousands of years. But how it would behave in microgravity in space is still a puzzle. Understanding its behaviour in space is crucial for the safety of astronomers on future space missions. In space, the reduced gravity creates flames that look
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Disney Advertising Sales has seen demand for data capabilities grow with clients: The number of campaigns using data of any kind to target audiences has increased 56% during the past year, representing 110% revenue growth. To bring all of its information