If you have not recently updated your Chrome, Opera, or Edge web browser to the latest available version, it would be a good idea to do so as soon as possible. Cybersecurity investigators on Monday released details of a zero-day bug in Chromium-based web browsers for Windows, Mac and Android …
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The MTA of New York is asking Apple to create a Face ID that works with masks
Patrick Foye, the CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook – received by CNN – asking the tech company to develop better Face ID technology so people do not have to remove their face masks off to unlock their phones while driving. Although …
Read More »Facebook bans blackface and certain anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
Facebook will ban posts that contain blackface or that promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jewish people run the world. The social media giant announced the extension of its policy on hate speech in a press release on Tuesday morning. Under the new policy, Facebook will no longer allow visual or …
Read More »Hawaii sees the fastest rate of COVID-19 spread from anywhere in the US
Hawaii is struggling with the highest rate of coronavirus transmission in the nation, new data shows. COVID-19 cases spread across the tropical state at a rate of 1.6, meaning that every person who gets sick on average infects on average one other person, Hawaii News Now reports. “That’s very, very …
Read More »Unusual new species of dinosaurs discovered – “We were shocked by just how hollow this animal was”
Artists impression of the last moments of the dinosaur. Credit: Trudie Wilson Scientists in Southampton believe that four bones recently found on the Isle of Wight belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur. A new study by Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests that four bones recently found …
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