Apple is trying to make this method a tad bit more secure through domain-bound messages for developers. Make no mistake, the company’s new effort is trying to improve autofill — a function that lets you automatically put received code in the field. Here’s how it works: developers will need to implement this functionality in their apps and websites. Once they do that, your autofill will only get code if it finds that the SMS delivered to your phone has the same domain as the app or website you’re authenticating....

“We found a white dwarf with a unique surface composition of hydrogen and carbon. This star stood out as something we had never seen before,” Dr Hollands, from Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics group and author on a paper detailing the findings published in the journal Nature Astronomy, says. “This is not possible to explain from the stellar evolution of a single star, as we would also expect to see a lot of helium....

Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their fuel supply. They are extremely dense, with a mass similar to the Sun crammed into a region the size of Sydney. Pulsars emit beams of radio waves from their poles. As those beams sweep across Earth, we can detect rapid pulses as often as hundreds of times per second. With this knowledge, scientists are always on the lookout for new pulsars within and outside our Milky Way galaxy....

Through a series of statements, it became clear that the US is finally fully committed to reducing its greenhouse emissions and building a more sustainable transportation model. Ford, GM, and Stellantis announced their common goal to achieve, by 2030, 40% to 50% of their total US sales in electric models (battery electric, fuel cell, and plug-in hybrid vehicles). They also expressed their eagerness to work with the Biden administration and the respective state and governmental bodies in order to ensure the success of their ambitions....

It’s instructive to know just how big Big Data really is. And the reality is that it’s now so big that the word big doesn’t even effectively do it justice anymore. Right now, humankind is creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And it’s growing exponentially, with 90 percent of all data created in just the past two years. By 2023, the big data industry will be worth about $77 billion — and that’s despite the fact that unstructured data is identified as a problem by 95 percent of all businesses....

“I wanted a little bit more due diligence to confirm that the percentage of renewable energy usage is most likely at or above 50%, and that there is a trend towards increasing that number, and if so Tesla would resume accepting Bitcoin,” said Musk, echoing a statement he’d tweeted in June. The BBC noted this caused the price of Bitcoin to surge past the $30,000 mark. At the time of writing, the cryptocurrency is valued at $31,899....

The fraudsters have reportedly sent letters requesting donations to save the UK economy – because people would totally fall for that, right? The letters, dated September 16, claim this is the second time the Queen has reached out to a “certain number of people to save Great Britain’s economy” because “Brexit will happen quite quickly” – if only it were that easy! For those of you unfamiliar with British politics, Brexit refers to the UK’s impending divorce from the European Union (EU)....

Basically, if you have an iPad that works with the Magic Keyboard you’ll be aware of a current quirk: an always portrait Apple logo when starting up your tablet. Effectively, when you turn the iPad on while it’s connected to the keyboard (meaning the device is in a landscape orientation), the boot screen is always in a portrait mode. All that might sound confusing, but it’s really pretty simple. Basically, booting my iPad looks like this: Is living life like this a constant trial?...

Brody Jenner and Scott Disick — as well as influencer Danielle Cohn — recently posted profile photos that were fed through the Gradient’s “AI Face” feature. Disick’s initial tweet showed his face modified to appear that he’s from Europe, Asia, and India.“Tried new filters in the Gradient app,” he wrote. “Which one is better?” A raft of critics on social media accused them of dehumanizing Black people and stereotyping entire continents, while others wondered whether the app’s developers know that India is in Asia....

That’s according to the trustee overseeing bankruptcy proceedings, the Globe and Mail reports. The exchange made headlines all over the world after its founder and CEO, Gerald Cotten, allegedly passed away in India from complications deriving from a chronic illness. He was thought to be the only person with access to the company’s wallets, private keys, and passwords. Following weeks of uncertainty, and adding to the mounting speculation, EY said in March that QuadrigaCX’s offline Bitcoin wallets were empty – aside from a single transfer of $400,000 in Bitcoin....

Alongside overfishing, it is the biggest danger spiny lobsters are facing today. This is important because the species plays a vital role as both predator and prey in Caribbean seagrass and reef ecosystems. The annual catch of about 40,000 tonnes supports local fisheries and provides a food source for people across the world. The virus replaces blood cells, eventually turning infected lobsters’ blood (referred to as haemolymph) milky white, leaving the disease visible to the human eye through their translucent abdomens....

With electric vehicle (EV) sales booming across the US in recent years, cities must keep pace and begin actively planning their city’s electric vehicle infrastructure, ensuring residents and businesses are able to easily electrify. The number of EVs on US roads is projected to reach 18.7 million by 2030, up from 1 million at the end of 2018. States including California and Massachusetts have already committed to phasing out sales of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, and more are expected to follow....

Listen, nerd — reading is great. And you should read more. Also the waterproof Kindle Paperwhite is on offer and it’s only $85. So go and buy it and save yourself from reading the rest of the article. Okay? You bought it yet? Go on, click here and buy it. Oh, what’s that? You’d actually like to read something more about the waterpoof Kindle Paperwhite? How about a video instead?...

Oh yeah we’ve got something you’re going to like today: a 4TB external hard drive from Western Digital for only $94! Normally, the 4TB My Passport (which is portable btw) retails for $160, but this deal takes 41 percent off and pushes it under a hundred bucks. What are you waiting for? Go and buy this thing before it’s too late! I’ve owned (and still own) a variety of Western Digital hard drives – including an older My Passport – and I’m incredibly happy with their performance....

When I’m in the market for a new camera, I rarely pay attention to its video capabilities. Sure, it’s a nice bonus, but I mostly look for the crispest image quality. That’s not the case for everyone, though. For some, video capabilities are the priority. And then there’s a third pack that seeks the best of both worlds. Here’s what you get for that money: A 20.3-megapixel micro Four Thirds sensor with no low pass filter....

According to a report by Axios, Luo Daiqing, a 20-year-old freshman in Minnesota, was arrested in July 2019 for allegedly posting cartoons that resembled China’s president, Xi Jinping. The publication obtained court documents that suggested Luo was detained from his hometown of Wuhan for posting several tweets comparing Jinping with cartoon characters such as Winnie the pooh, and a villain from a show called Biker Mice from Mars. [Read: Shanghai is testing facial recognition at pharmacies to catch drug abusers] Documents noted that the student tweeted these pictures that disparaged a national leader and “created a negative social impact,” while he was in the US....

Named Xin Xiaowei, the publicity stunt avatar was jointly developed by Xinhua and search engine Sogou. The 3D anchor is modeled on Zhao Wanwei, a real-life reporter for the news agency. Her digital counterpart is brought to life by “multi-modal recognition and synthesis, facial recognition and animation and transfer learning,” according to Sogou. The company claims that this allows it to imitate human voices, facial expressions, lip movements, and mannerisms using only text inputs....

Magic Transit supports any IP protocol or standard, so you could just as easily connect games or email servers to it as you would a standard web server. That’s important because, as we’ve seen in recent years, DDoS attacks have morphed to include other common networked applications, like DNS servers (the Mirai attack of 2016 being perhaps the best example of that). The tool also includes a suite of network security tools, including packet filtering and firewalling, as well as other features that’ll be useful for high-demand applications, like load balancing and traffic management....

For Xfinity Mobile subscribers, the bad news doesn’t stop there. The company also plans to remove the 480p streaming cap from its “by the gig” plans, an obvious nudge toward paying for each gigabyte used. In fact, the company dropped the price on these plans, charging customers $30 for 3GB of data instead of $36 as it had before. These caps are shared, meaning if you have multiple lines, each of the lines pools the allotted data....

Coronavirus-related petitions on Change.org have cumulatively attracted 3,590,563 signatures from concerned users, according to data gathered by TNW. That amounts to an average of 2,164 signatures per petition. Needless to say, some entries have generated a vastly larger volume of signatures than others. [Read: That unexpected ‘HIV test result’ email you just got is probably a scam] To reach this number, we tallied the total number of signatures from all 1,659 petitions filed on Change....