A new study suggests that a popular artificial sweetener may not be as harmless as thought. The researchers say they found evidence in both animals and humans that the sugar alcohol erythritol, commonly included in keto diets, can raise certain people’s risk of cardiovascular disease. Importantly, however, the study…
TikTok is introducing new settings that are meant to reduce how much time teens are spending in the app. In an update, the company says it will automatically default teens under the age of 18 to a daily screen time limit of 60 minutes.
With the change, teens will still be able to bypass the daily limit, but they’ll be required to enter a passcode, “requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time,” the company says. Additionally, if teens opt to turn off the screen time limit altogether, TikTok will further prompt them to set a limit if they spend more than 100 minutes in the app.
The company is also adding new parental control features via the app’s “Family Pairing” feature, which allows parents to monitor their children’s activity on TikTok. Parents will be able to set their own custom screen time limits, and view a dashboard that details stats about their child’s time in the app, like how often they open it and what times of the day they use it most. Parents can also set a schedule for when their children can receive notifications, and choose to filter topics they don’t want to appear in their For You feeds.
The update comes as lawmakers in the United States have renewed their efforts to ban TikTok entirely. In addition to national security concerns, Congress has also criticized the company for not doing enough to protect its youngest users.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-will-automatically-limit-screen-time-for-teens-110056722.html?src=rss
LastPass posted an update on its investigation regarding a couple of security incidents last year, and they sound worse than we thought. The hackers infiltrated a company DevOps engineer’s home computer by exploiting a third-party media software package. They implanted a keylogger into the software and captured the engineer’s master password for an account with access to the LastPass corporate vault. After they got in, they exported the vault’s entries and shared folders with decryption keys. The company insisted all sensitive customer vault data, aside from some exceptions, “can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password.” The company added it doesn’t store users’ master passwords.
– Mat Smith
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Windows 11 Phone Link supports limited iPhone syncing in preview
Polar is bringing its fitness tracking tech to rival watches
A first look at Tecno’s Phantom V Fold, a surprisingly affordable foldable phone
White House’s $39 billion in chip manufacturing incentives are now up for grabs
Tesla selects Monterrey, Mexico, as the site of its next Gigafactory
We’ve already reviewed the Galaxy S23 Ultra which, thanks to a large screen, onboard S-Pen and 200-megapixel camera, is aggressively targeted at power users. For everyone else looking to get a new Android phone, there’s the Galaxy S23+ or the S23. We tested the plus model and were impressed by the battery life, screen and, well, all the areas Samsung typically delivers on. But with few meaningful changes, the S23+ isn’t a hugely worthy upgrade if you’re using an S22 or S21.
Three weeks after introducing the new AI-infused Bing, Microsoft is ready to shove it into a Windows 11 update today. If you’re in the Bing AI preview, you’ll be able to access all of its new features from the search box in the Windows 11 taskbar. Just imagine a slightly more streamlined version of what we saw with the Bing AI on Edge: In addition to general web searching, you can ask Bing natural language queries, and its intelligent chatbot will reply conversationally.
Realme’s 240W phone charging tech was big news last month. Given it’s MWC week, today Xiaomi has swiftly responded with a whopping 300W demo, which brought the charging time down to a little under five minutes. The charger is the same size as the 200W equivalent. The phone reached 20 percent in a little over one minute and hit 50 percent in two minutes 12 seconds.
As well as revealing its latest experimental phone, which it envisions to have liquid cooling capabilities, OnePlus announced it’ll launch its first foldable smartphone in the second half of 2023. In the background at the OnePlus 11 event earlier this month, the company teased a mysterious Q3 2023 launch with what seemed to be silhouettes of devices that fold, but it fell short of saying what exactly they would be.
Nishad Singh, a co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has pleaded guilty to US federal fraud and conspiracy charges. Singh, who was FTX’s director of engineering, is the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle to agree to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against him. Singh admitted to making illegal donations to political candidates and PACs under his name using funds from Alameda Research (FTX’s sibling hedge fund and crypto trading firm).
Developer FromSoftware has confirmed the rumors circulating since earlier this year: Elden Ring is getting a big chunk of DLC. In an announcement posted on the game’s Twitter account, the Japanese developer said an upcoming expansion entitled Shadow of the Erdtree is currently in development.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-hackers-broke-into-a-lastpass-employees-pc-to-steal-the-companys-password-vault-121516607.html?src=rss
The coffee-olive oil concoction has provoked both amusement and curiosity among Italians.
The DownDetector pages for Twitter are exploding in activity — again — and users are sharing that the social network seems to be broken for them. Over the past couple of hours, thousands of users reported issues accessing Twitter.com and seeing just a “Welcome to Twitter” message in their timeline with zero tweets. Other have said their Android and iOS timelines remained stuck in the past.
Twitter’s Support account has yet to issue a statement, but some parts of the website are working just fine. Users can still tweet if they want to, or read and respond to their notifications. Weirdly, Tweetdeck appears to be unaffected.
The outage comes shortly after the company reportedly laid off more employees. According to various sources, Twitter released around 200 people on Saturday night, a week after the company’s Slack was taken offline. Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is believed to be one of the affected personnel. It’s unclear at the moment if the layoffs have anything to do with the outage, but since Twitter has no PR team, we’ll have to wait for the company to issue a statement.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitter-faces-another-global-outage-122800803.html?src=rss
The family of the late Kobe Bryant has agreed to settle legal issues surrounding photos of the body of the NBA star and others who were killed in a 2020 helicopter crash.
Making me seriously regret not stockpiling them when they came out and storing them in the basement for the past 15 years; a first-generation iPhone (Model A1203) recently sold at auction for a staggering $63,356.40. That’s a 10,500% increase. Why is hindsight 20/20, but my ability to see the future like 20/400 with astigmatism AND tons of lens flare when I try to drive at night?
Unveiled by Steve Jobs at MacWorld San Francisco in January of 2007, this particular model iPhone features a “3.5-inch TFT screen, a 412MHz ARM 11 CPU, PowerVR MBX GPU, 8GB of internal storage, a 2MP rear camera, and a 1400mAh Lithium-ion battery.” A 2MP camera! You can take higher-resolution photos with today’s potatoes. We sure have come a long way, haven’t we?
What I want to know is who it is that bought this iPhone. And not just because I still have several old Motorola pagers they might be interested in, but clearly, this person has an appreciation for new vintage technology, and I’d be more than happy to take their money.
[via TechEBlog]
Twitter is down for thousands of users this morning. When users log in, they see a message that says “Welcome to Twitter!” but are unable to see new posts.
There’s been a resurgence of interest in the moon, now that we’re getting closer to re-establishing a foothold on the celestial body. Space agencies and private companies around the world have been scheduling their own lunar missions to take place over the coming years, and it will be quite complicated having to coordinate with each other when they use different time zones. During a meeting at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC technology center in the Netherlands last year, space organizations talked about the “importance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time.” In a new announcement, ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano said a “joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this.”
At the moment, different space organizations still use their own time zones for their onboard chronometers and their two-way communications systems. The ESA said doing so “will not be sustainable” in the new era of lunar exploration. Missions from different countries will be doing joint observations, and they may have to communicate with each other even if they’re not directly working together if they’re on the moon at the same time.
Deciding on and keeping lunar time won’t be easy, though, and they will come with a unique set of challenges. As the ESA notes, “accurate navigation demands rigorous timekeeping,” which is why one of the topics the international group of space organizations will have to discuss is if there should be a single organization responsible for maintaining the moon’s time zone. Further, they’ll have to decide whether to keep lunar time synchronized with Earth’s or not, because clocks on the moon run faster based on the satellite’s position. While they have a lot of factors to consider, whatever they come up with will have to practical for astronauts orbiting or stepping on the lunar surface in the end.
Bernhard Hufenbach, a member of the ESA’s Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration’s Moonlight Management Team, said: “This will be quite a challenge on a planetary surface where in the equatorial region each day is 29.5 days long, including freezing fortnight-long lunar nights, with the whole of Earth just a small blue circle in the dark sky. But having established a working time system for the moon, we can go on to do the same for other planetary destinations.”
🕝How do we tell the time on the Moon? 🤔
A new era of space exploration needs a shared clock.
We are working with @NASA & other international partners towards a common timing system, allowing lunar missions to synch up, interoperate & self-navigate.👉https://t.co/0S4T2HTaBNpic.twitter.com/wubLGvLv3G
— ESA (@esa) February 27, 2023
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/moon-own-time-zone-esa-113547009.html?src=rss
“The Tonight Show” host also ridiculed the Florida Republican governor over one particular admission in his new memoir.
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