August 18, 2022 Netflix’s ad-supported plan likely to have another drawback: No video downloads Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The presence of advertisements apparently won’t be the only major difference between Netflix’s ad-supported and ad-free plans. Text…
August 18, 2022 Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good base for machine learning…
August 18, 2022 Hundreds of Unionized Google Staff Push for More Abortion Protections More than 650 members of the Alphabet Workers Union, the recently-established minority union made up mostly of Google engineering folks, demanded in a letter…
August 18, 2022 Free Chinese VPN exposed millions of users’ data A free VPN service aimed at Chinese users has been found guilty of exposing over 5.7 billion data entries. An investigation by Cybernews revealed…
August 18, 2022 A ‘De-Extinction’ Company Says It’ll Bring Back the Tasmanian Tiger The last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tiger) died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Now, a genetic engineering company that last year…
August 18, 2022 Acura shows off a Precision EV concept inspired by Italian power boats Honda’s Acura division has pulled back the curtain on a sleek Precision EV concept at Monterey Car Week. Acura took inspiration from Italian power…
August 18, 2022 She-Hulk Is Here With an MCU-Heavy Origin Story Three years ago this week, Marvel announced that it was making a series based on the popular character She-Hulk. The wait has been long,…
August 18, 2022 Netflix And Chill? Streaming Viewership Beats Cable For the First Time Are you still watching? Well, obviously you are. Viewership on streaming platforms has surpassed cable last month, marking a significant shift in how people…
August 18, 2022 Google will downrank click-farm garbage and aggregators to improve search results Google says it’s doing more to downrank low-quality content that’s designed primarily to generate traffic through search engine optimization. Over the coming months, it…
August 18, 2022 Google Search is changing, in a big way Google is readying a wide-reaching search engine update that it says will improve the quality and authenticity of results. In a new blog post,…