Public Domain Photo of Coronavirus Getting Sold for $500
Last week, graphic designers from the American National Institute of Health created an illustration of the novel coronavirus. The picture is available free of charge in the public domain, which does not prevent Getty Images from selling it for a lot of money.
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April 7, 2020
YouTube Will Limit Access to Videos Falsely Linking 5G and Coronavirus
YouTube plans to reduce the visibility of videos suggesting a link between the coronavirus and the 5G network, and in some cases remove them completely. The decision was made after a series of arson attacks on 5G transmitter masts in the UK.
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Bart Swiatek
April 6, 2020
Project Tempo - Amazon is Working on Its Own Streaming Service
The NY Times reports that Amazon is preparing a response to Google Stadia and GeForce NOW. The mysterious product is to be Project Tempo, a streaming platform. An early version of the service is to launch this or next year.
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Konrad Serafinski
April 4, 2020
Someone Just Developed an Autopilot For Chrome's T-Rex Game
If you're bored, why don't you create something like an automatically running T-Rex? TikTok user built a simple „autopilot” mechanism for the offline game implemented in Google Chrome.
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Mateusz Popielak
April 3, 2020
YouTube is Working on Equivalent of TikTok - Shorts
Google is creating an app to be a rival for TikTok. Will users like Shorts? Or will it end up like so many other technological solutions from the company - on a dumpster?
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Mateusz Popielak
April 2, 2020
Microsoft Reveals News Bar - Headlines on Windows Desktop
Microsoft Store has launched the News Bar for Windows 10 - a tool that can provide us with the most interesting information from the world in the form of a bar.
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Mateusz Popielak
March 31, 2020
New Games in GeForce NOW Every Thursday, Beginning With RT Control
GeForce NOW will offer its users a new title every Thursday. One of the first productions added to the offer is Control with ray tracing support.
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Mateusz Popielak
March 30, 2020
Game Download Speed on PS4 Will be Reduced
Sony intends to reduce the download speed and performance of its Internet service in Europe. This is to avoid overloading the connections necessary for remote operation and communication.
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Milosz Szubert
March 24, 2020
Here's Remote Work Control Program That Takes Your Photo Every 5 Minutes
The popularity of Sneek has increased in recent days. With its help, business owners can take pictures of their subordinates working from home every five minutes and check if they are actually doing their job.
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Milosz Szubert
March 24, 2020
Folding@Home is Earth's Mightiest Supercomputer Battling the Coronavirus
Greg Bowman, the man responsible for the Folding@Home project, reported that the initiative currently has 470 petaflops of computing power, making it „the most powerful supercomputer in the world”. Such a high level has been achieved thanks to the increased interest in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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Bart Swiatek
March 24, 2020
YouTube Changes Default Video Quality in Europe
Like Netflix, YouTube has also decided to take action to reduce data consumption in the current period in Europe. However, the method used by Google will not be so intrusive - only the default video quality will be changed.
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Paul Wozniak
March 20, 2020
Counter Strike: Global Offensive Breaks Yet Another Activity Record
It is not difficult to notice that the complicated situation in the world related to the coronavirus pandemic encourages the use of the Internet. This can be seen very well from titles such as CS: GO, which for the first time since its launch in 2012 exceeded the barrier of a million active players.
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Conrad Hazi
March 15, 2020
Steam Reaches New Activity Record
Competition can double and triple, but it seems that Steam's position is still very strong. This is undoubtedly evidenced by the fact that the platform has once again broken its record of simultaneous logged-in users and has come close to 20 million.
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Conrad Hazi
March 15, 2020
Scientists Dispel Doubts: 5G Does Not Harm Your Health
Independent scientists affiliated to the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) have concluded that, based on current scientific knowledge, the 5G communication standard does not represent a risk to human health.
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Bart Swiatek
March 13, 2020
Google Chrome Tracks Us Even When We Use VPN, TOR or Are Logged Out
There has been a change in Google's privacy regulations. Chrome browser monitors user traffic even if the user is not signed in to their account or is using a proxy server.
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March 12, 2020
Ubisoft Will Support Nvidia's GeForce NOW
French company Ubisoft informed that all its titles - including the popular Assassin's Creed or Far Cry series - will be available on the GeForce NOW streaming platform.
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Bart Swiatek
March 11, 2020
Bitcoin in Decline, Lowest Prices Since January
Bitcoin - one of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the market - has recently lost quite a lot. In just a few days, the price fell by as much as 17%. One of the reasons is the scandal related to the PlusToken pyramid scheme. The general condition of the markets is also important.
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Bart Swiatek
March 10, 2020
Australia Sues Facebook; Up to 529 Billion Australian Dollars at Stake
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OIAC), the Australian authority responsible for privacy, has sued Facebook for negligence related to the Cambridge Analytica affair. The lawsuit concerns the disclosure of private information of over 300,000 users, which may result in a fine of nearly 530 billion Australian dollars.
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Bart Swiatek
March 10, 2020
99.9% of Hacked Microsoft Accounts Were Not Properly Secured
Microsoft engineers warn against hackers who hack into accounts without multi-step authentication enabled. 1.2 million accounts were attacked un January alone.
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March 10, 2020
DuckDuckGo Provides a Great List of Websites That Track Us on the Web
DuckDuckGo has released Tracker Radar - a huge database of websites that track Internet users. The company hopes that this will increase the privacy of web browser users. In addition, it was revealed which companies most often collect information about our online activities.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 6, 2020