10 Perfect Movies for Hosting Your Netflix Watch Party

Gonna have a Netflix watch party, we don’t need nobody. Social distancing has forced us to change the way we get together with our friends, and that can include remote watch parties. We’ve pulled out our picks of some wonderful (and wonderfully bad) movies to have a movie-fest with. If you’ve gotta be a homebody,…

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Sale of .Org Registry to Private Equity Vampires Stalled After California AG Warning

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed a decision on whether to allow the sale of the organization that controls .org registrations to a band of private equity ghouls after the California attorney general’s office issued a warning

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Zoom Has a Google Problem

Last week saw the U.S. Senate join the ever-growing chorus of federal officials advising staff against using Zoom, with one top official calling the video software a “privacy and security concern.” And while there are myriad reasons to be concerned about the video-call platform—from the potential for foreign snooping

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Hacking Attacks Against Corporations Have More the Doubled in the Last Month

Since the massive shift to remote work last month, hacking activity targeting U.S. corporations and businesses other countries has more than doubled, Reuters reported. According to software and security company VMWare Carbon Black, ransomware attacks rose a whopping 148 percent in March compared to February and the…

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First OnePlus 8/Pro update for OxygenOS gives boost to camera, connectivity

Today the folks at OnePlus released the first major software update for OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. This update was released in the period between reveal and release for the OnePlus 8 series, having been first revealed on April 14, 2020, with a release date of April 29, 2020. This device will likely have this software ready to roll … Continue reading

NASA and SpaceX set the date for Crew Dragon’s historic launch

NASA has set a date for the first SpaceX Crew Dragon launch with astronauts onboard, marking a return to US missions taking off from US soil. It’s been almost a decade since NASA mothballed the Space Shuttle program back in 2011, relying since then on foreign launches to take American astronauts to the International Space Station. Back then, the Space … Continue reading

Google Card leaked: Contactless payments, simple digital money hardware

The Google Card was leaked today in full color, complete with co-branding with a set of bank partners. Early indicators suggest Google is working with Stanford Federal Credit Union, CITI, and other bank brands. This is not the first time Google’s had plans for (or gone so far as to release) a physical, plastic card with which to pay for … Continue reading

Google is reportedly working on a smart debit card

Google’s push into banking could include a not-so-subtle parallel to the Apple Card. A TechCrunch leak suggests that Google is developing a smart debit card. While the payment format would clearly dictate changes compared to its Apple rival (you coul…

'Minecraft' looks like a whole new game with NVIDIA's RTX ray tracing

When you think of Minecraft, you probably imagine blocky graphics and simplistic textures. But the recent beta launch of ray tracing support for NVIDIA’s RTX graphics cards transforms it into an entirely new game. To put it simply, ray tracing enable…

Security Guard Tasers Muslim Health Care Worker For Refusing To Remove Face Mask: Advocates

The incident occurred at a Maryland grocery store, the Council on American-Islamic Relations claims.