The best thing about new tech is that giddiness that washes over you when some new device does something no device has ever done before. Seeing technology advance in front of your eyes is pretty awe-inspiring. But the second best thing about new tech? It’s that the tech that was new tech 10 minutes before your new tech made it old tech is still pretty ridiculously good. And because it’s now old tech, it’s invariably going on sale…usually for a whole lot less....

Now, Chelmsford-based Precreate Solutions has apparently launched a service where it operates ‘virtual updates’ whilst its clients are sunning themselves in the south of France – for a small fee, of course. The Telegraph reports that the security firm’s director, Gary Jackson, said that “Putting up a Facebook posting of photographs on a beach to 300-400 ‘friends’ is like leaving an advert on your door to a burglar telling him when you will be out....

The Information reports that a number of US-based investors who already have a stake in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, are considering purchasing the subsidiary company to gain control of the platform. The move could ease some concerns among governments and users about TikTok handing user data over to Chinese authorities. There isn’t yet a timeline in place for this, but Bytedance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming has previously said he would be open to the idea of selling TikTok if that’s what’s ‘best for the future of the app....

While the company removed these apps from the stores, it’s not clear if citizens who’ve already downloaded them, will be able to access TikTok. The company cited China’s controversial security law for Hong Kong that was passed last week. This rule enforces tighter content policing rules on citizens and tries to squash any dissent against the communist party in China. It also requires companies operating in Hong Kong to hand over user data and follow censorship guidelines of the Chinese government....

Currently, users are able to hide their sexual preferences and gender identity manually by setting their profile to private. Now, if an LGBTQ+ person travels to a country with discriminatory laws against homosexuality, an alert will pop up once Tinder has been opened cautioning them about using the app in the country they’re currently visiting. A post published by the dating app outlined: “If you have added a sexual orientation to your profile and choose to be shown on Tinder, we will hide your sexual orientation from your profile until you leave that area....

Well, the increasing popularity of the enterprise mobile apps is well evident from the report presented by Gartner. It says that by the end of this year, i.e. 2017, the enterprise apps will outshine the internal IT organizations will grow five times faster. Another research conducted by ABI Research on enterprise apps reveal that these applications will generate an estimated revenue about $430 billion by the year 2021. The same survey also indicates that about 69% of company departments are using two to three enterprise apps, whereas 27% are using more than six apps....

The big sell here is that Blue subscribers will get access to an “undo tweet” ability, bookmark folders, “reader” mode, and “dedicated subscription customer support.” None of that makes any sense. Wasn’t the algorithm supposed to solve the customer support crisis? If Twitter’s having such a problem serving people in a timely manner, why on Earth would anyone pay extra for poor customer service from an apparently overworked staff? Let’s break this down piece by piece....

After this decision, the social networking platform’s share prices dived and fell 7.2% in pre-market trading as per Bloomberg. However, it would be too early to say if these prices would plunge further as the markets will open later this morning in the US. A bunch of Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr., lashed out against the ban and said that accounts of numerous other dictators who have threatened genocide were active....

According to CARB’s announcement, the regulation dictates that by 2030 rideshare companies should achieve a level of zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure that 90% of their vehicle miles are fully electric. This brings into question Uber and Lyft both of which announced last year their commitment to go all electric within the same time frame. It might sound like California, Uber, and Lyft are finally in sync, but there’s a catch....

While the GameStop stock story has used up almost all the available bandwidth for talking about the intersection of video games and Wall Street lately, there’s been another such story in recent months that hasn’t received nearly the fanfare. Since joining the ranks of publicly traded companies in October, Unity Technologies has seen its value nearly double. That probably shouldn’t come as a huge shock considering Unity and its game engine’s place in the industry....

A new study finds that US cities could be underestimating their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 18.3% and in some cases by up to 145%. The researchers put the discrepancies largely down to inconsistencies in the way cities calculate emissions. The study, published in Nature Communications, compared the self-reported emissions inventories of 48 major US cities to estimates from a detailed emissions information system developed by researchers at Northern Arizona University....

V2G technology is an efficient and cheap way to store and use renewable energy. The idea is simple: the transfer of electricity from cars to the grid. That way, the high-capacity storage of EV batteries doesn’t go to waste, while they’re not in use, and they can feed back into the grid as an alternative form of sustainable energy. Even though this technology is still at an early stage, Utrecht is leading the way and in the last two years has installed almost 500 bidirectional public charging stations....

At the end of a hard 12 months, it’s a good time to reflect on what we learned over the past year. It’s been an incredibly tough time across all 50 European cities in which we operate. But while things looked very bleak this time last year, at Voi, we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. For us, 2020 was a breakthrough year in many ways....

“Man came by to hook up my cable TV; We settled in for the night, my baby and me. We switched ’round and ’round ’til half-past dawn: There was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on.” – Bruce Springsteen, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” Cable TV is headed toward irrelevance. In a few more decades, screens that only serve as televisions will likely follow them. A lot has changed in the 30 years since The Boss penned his slam on the boob tube, but one truth remains the same — for many, it still feels like there’s nothin’ on....

The concept is pretty simple. Parodi simply maps different piano keys to buttons on the N64 remote. Considering the N64 only had one analog stick and Goldeneye made you aim with four C-buttons or the D-Pad anyway, it’s not as inconvenient a setup as it might seem. You can watch it embedded below, or by clicking here: As you might expect, playing the game on a piano doesn’t result in the most fascinating melodies, but at least it adds a little ambiance – plus you get to improvise during the cutscenes....

But the introduction of social distancing measures this year suddenly placed major barriers on movement. This caused a rapid acceleration in the transition to digital and the adoption of emerging tech, as society quickly adapted to this new reality. Although more and more cities and businesses are opening up again, this period of rapid transformation has left its mark. Now that everyone from family-owned businesses to employees of major organizations has gotten a taste of what the digitized and optimized way of living and working could bring, there’s no going back....

The authors behind the paper, published in Nature Astronomy, claim the technique could produce habitable regions on the red planet and potentially allow life to develop and thrive thanks to photosynthesis – the process by which plants can convert sunlight into energy. But is this really the case? And, if so, should we do it? Some 3.8 billion years ago, when life was starting on Earth, conditions on Mars were habitable....

With the effects of COVID still lingering well into its second year and a workforce in no hurry to scamper back to the office, there’s a good chance it could be a long time before any office staff is ever back in one central location again. In fact, the idea of an office like The Office may already be as outdated as NBC’s Must-See Thursday lineup. With most companies coming to grips with the idea of a remote workforce TFN, many are now getting serious about addressing their video communication needs....

The order of 100,000 Tesla Model 3s is potentially the largest ever purchase of electric vehicles. The announcement drove Tesla’s market value beyond $1 trillion on Monday and pumped up Elon Musk’s personal wealth up by $36 billion. The tycoon is now worth an eye-watering $289 billion. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jeff Bezos at this difficult time. These figures, however, barely scratch the surface. To understand the true enormity of the deal, you’d need a team of math whizzes....

But what exactly is a knowledge graph? Well, there’s actually some debate on what the best definition is, but a recent research paper put it like this: In other words, a knowledge graph is a programmatic way to model a knowledge domain with the help of subject-matter experts, data interlinking, and machine learning algorithms. The easiest example is probably the box you see in Google’s results. A knowledge graph is typically built on top of the existing databases to link all data together at web-scale combining both structured information (i....