Pac-Man 99, a new battle royale game set in the Pac-Man universe, has been announced for Nintendo Switch. The game will be available on April 7, 6pm PST (April 8, 6:30am IST) free-of-cost for Nintendo Switch Online members. Being a battle royale game, the concept is self-explanatory but with some key differences. There are power-ups,
When dealing with user data, it’s essential that we design our password policies around compliance. These policies are defined both internally and externally. While companies uphold their own password standards, outside forces like HIPAA and NIST have a heavy influence. Impacts are defined by industry and one’s unique infrastructure. How do IT departments maintain compliance
A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made “false and deceptive” statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and other material that violates its rules. The lawsuit, filed by Muslim Advocates in Washington, DC, Superior Court on Thursday, claims Zuckerberg and other
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Salesforce’s Tableau arm is making a case for employing AI to drive a new era of business science
Google Pixel 5a 5G launch was officially confirmed on Friday, April 9, after reports suggested that it had been cancelled due to supply constraints. Refuting the rumours, Google released a statement saying that the Pixel 5a 5G would be available later this year. The new smartphone in the Pixel lineup is expected to be a
Amazon.com warehouse workers in Alabama voted against forming a union by a more than 2-to-1 margin in a major win for the retailer, but the union hoping to reignite the US labour movement said on Friday it would challenge the results, citing election interference. National Labor Relations Board representatives counted 1,798 voting against forming a
Networking equipment major Cisco Systems has said it does not plan to fix a critical security vulnerability affecting some of its Small Business routers, instead urging users to replace the devices. The bug, tracked as CVE-2021-1459, is rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10, and affects RV110W VPN firewall and Small Business
They are boisterous, argumentative and at times downright hilarious. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Arab world are turning to Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio chat app, to mock and vent against longtime rulers, debate sensitive issues from abortion to sexual harassment, or argue where to find the best and cheapest shawarma sandwich during an
NASA helicopter placed on Mars could make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency said Friday. The current plan for the first-ever attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet is for the four-pound (1.8kg) helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, to take
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. IBM is releasing Qiskit Machine Learning, a set of new application modules that’s part of its open-source quantum
Realme 8 5G launch date is set for April 21, the Chinese company revealed via its social media account on Friday. The new Realme phone will be an upgrade to the Realme 8 that debuted in India last month. The Realme 8 5G is teased to have a gradient back finish, sans the company’s ‘Dare
In this article TSLA Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere — in phones, laptops, tablets, cameras and increasingly cars. Demand for lithium-ion batteries has risen sharply in the past five years and is expected to grow from a $44.2 billion market in 2020 to a $94.4 billion market by 2025, mostly due to the boom in electric
Huawei Smart Screen V-series TVs have launched in China and they range from 55-inch to 85-inch. They are powered by a quad-core CPU and have an aluminium alloy frame with a plastic back panel. All the models come with 4K display with support for 120Hz refresh rate. The 55-inch model has peak brightness of 750
Ahead of IPL 2021, fantasy sports platform MyTeam11 has introduced a new T20 season campaign called ‘Ab Poora India Khelega’ to gear up for the upcoming cricket tournament which begins this week, on April 9. The company says that it saw a rise of 3x-3.5x during the 2020 IPL tournament, and it is hoping to
Facebook said on Friday that it is converting a part of its Menlo Park headquarters into a vaccination site, joining the government effort to speed up the vaccination drive in the US. For this initiative, the company is teaming up with Ravenswood Family Health Centre, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote in a post. “We’re
Mar.31 — Kimbal Musk, Big Green executive chairman and co-founder, discusses educating students through gardening at home. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller and Amanda Lang on “Bloomberg Markets.”
APKPure, one of the largest alternative app stores outside of the Google Play Store, was infected with malware this week, allowing threat actors to distribute Trojans to Android devices. In an incident that’s similar to that of German telecommunications equipment manufacturer Gigaset, the APKPure client version 3.17.18 is said to have been tampered with in
Facebook users may not be learning about jobs for which they are qualified because the company’s tools can disproportionately direct ads to a particular gender “beyond what can be legally justified,” university researchers said in a study published on Friday. According to the study, in one of three examples that generated similar results, Facebook targeted
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. State-of-the-art AI systems are remarkably capable, but they suffer from a key limitation: statisticity. Algorithms are trained once
Apple is refusing to testify at an upcoming US Senate subcommittee hearing on competition issues related to mobile app stores, the bipartisan leaders of the panel said on Friday. App makers long have accused Apple’s App Store for iPhones and iPads, along with Google’s Play store for Android devices, of engaging in anticompetitive behaviour by
Exterior of Alibaba Group Beijing Headquarters on November 10, 2019 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese regulators hit Alibaba with a 18.23 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) fine in its anti-monopoly investigation of the tech giant. In a Saturday statement, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation accused Alibaba of abusing
Samsung Smart Monitor M5 and Smart Monitor M7 have launched in India. The Smart Monitor M5 has a 27-inch display, while the Smart Monitor M7 has a 32-inch display. Samsung calls its Smart Monitor ‘Do-It-All’ screens as they allow you to watch Netflix, YouTube, Apple TV and other OTT apps without having to connect it
E3 2021 will be held from June 12 to June 15. The organisers, Entertainment Software Association (ESA), has announced that it is going to conduct the gaming expo online for this year’s edition. The confirmed developers’ lineup includes Capcom, Konami, Nintendo, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Games, and Xbox. Notably, Sony hasn’t announced its participation
For organizations that deal with the defense infrastructure – cybersecurity is more than just a buzzword. Recently the US Department of Defense (DoD) created a new certification process – the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certificate (CMMC) – to ensure that all its vendors and contractors follow established best cybersecurity practices. For organizations that work along the
LinkedIn is the latest victim of a massive data breach and data of over 500 million of its users has been scraped from the platform and posted online for sale. The dataset includes sensitive information like email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, full names, account IDs, links to their social media accounts, and gender details.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink startup is developing a brain-machine interface that will enable users to control computers and smartphones directly from their brain. Founded in 2016, Neuralink is now demonstrating the progress it has made over the years by showing a macaque named Pager playing Pong video game using a N1 neural link chip. In the
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. As part of Microsoft’s research in ways to use machine learning and AI to improve security defenses, the
Nokia 4.2 is receiving the latest Android 11 update in India. Nokia 4.2 was launched in May 2019 with Android 9 Pie and got an Android 10 update in April 2020. As per Nokia licensee HMD Global, India and many other countries are receiving the update for Nokia 4.2 as part of the first wave,
Election booth slip can be downloaded online to get a smooth experience while voting in the ongoing elections. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has provided a website from which you can download election booth slips online. This is to cut the inconvenience that voters might face when going to vote at their nearby polling
A previously undocumented malware downloader has been spotted in the wild in phishing attacks to deploy credential stealers and other malicious payloads. Dubbed “Saint Bot,” the malware is said to have first appeared on the scene in January 2021, with indications that it’s under active development. “Saint Bot is a downloader that appeared quite recently,