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US Military Reveals Intriguing New UFO Footage
The Pentagon's UFO task force brought clips to Capitol Hill for a historic Congressional hearing on Tuesday. US military officials unveiled new footage of UFOs -- or what they're now calling unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP -- during a 90-minute committee hearing in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday morning. Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shared clips recorded by ... Read more
2022-05-17 21:40:40
Verizon, T-Mobile and My Personal Attempt to Replace Cable Internet With 5G
T-Mobile and Verizon's respective 5G home internet offerings have potential, but both need work to fix consistency. Over the past few weeks, I ditched my Spectrum cable home internet and television services and embraced the future: 5G. The overhyped next generation of wireless has been labeled a solution to plenty of problems, but one of its early successes has been providing competition to the l ... Read more
2022-05-17 21:39:19
Netflix cuts 150 US-based jobs after losing subscribers
Netflix has laid off about 150 staff, just a month after the entertainment giant said it was losing subscribers for the first time in a decade. The redundancies, announced by the streaming service on Tuesday, will mainly affect its US office in California. They account for about 2% of its North American workforce. Netflix said the job losses were due to the slump in the company's revenue. The s ... Read more
2022-05-17 21:37:14
Social platforms' Buffalo shooting response called inadequate
Social-media sites are facing criticism for the spread of graphic and far-right material from Saturday's attack in Buffalo, New York. Campaign group Hope Not Hate called the response "wholly inadequate". The gunman livestreamed the fatal shooting of 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on Twitch. Twitch quickly took down the livestream, on Saturday - but Meta and Twitter's moderation re ... Read more
2022-05-17 21:36:17
iOS 15.5 Release: Everything to Know About the New iOS Update
Apple launched iOS 15.5 on Monday. It's not the biggest update, but it brings new features to Apple Cash, Memories and more. Apple released iOS 15.5 on Monday, bringing a few smaller changes to iPhones. Most of the updates made in this version are smaller tweaks to apps and other behind-the-scenes updates that lay the groundwork for larger future changes, rather than bigger new features like Univ ... Read more
2022-05-17 06:27:18
Elon Musk warns Twitter deal stuck without fake account proof
Elon Musk has said his $44bn deal to buy Twitter may be in jeopardy due to a disagreement over the number of fake accounts on the social media platform. Mr Musk tweeted that the deal "cannot move forward" unless Twitter backs up its claims that less than 5% of accounts are fake or spam accounts. Twitter's boss has hit back at claims that the figure may be inaccurate. Analysts have spe ... Read more
2022-05-17 06:26:18
Mullvad Review: Solid Security and Privacy, But Swedish Jurisdiction is Concerning
Mullvad is a small but mighty VPN provider that offers incredible speeds along with security and performance that stacks up with the best VPNs. Mullvad is a Swedish-based, independently owned, open-source VPN provider that puts security and privacy above all else. Every other VPN provider says it does as well, but Mullvad goes to great lengths to convey that it genuinely does put security and pri ... Read more
2022-05-17 05:47:45
Asus ROG Flow Z13 Review: Spare the Expense
Asus' gaming tablet-slash-laptop promises a lot. In a lot of ways, the Asus ROG Flow Z13 is a terrific idea. The company's tablet-plus-detachable-keyboard gaming laptop comes to the product line launched with the Flow X13 convertible last year and its external GPU dock accessory, the XG Mobile. Detachables in the style of the Microsoft Surface Pro 8 make more sense to me than convertibles, which ... Read more
2022-05-17 05:47:10
US warns over risk of hiring North Korea IT workers
The US has warned that IT workers from North Korea are trying to get remote working jobs by hiding their true identities for the purpose of stealing money for Pyongyang. Many of them pretend to be from other parts of Asia, according to three US government agencies. They are allegedly helping to fund North Korea's weapons programmes, in violation of international sanctions. The country has condu ... Read more
2022-05-17 05:45:31
iOS 15.5 Release: Everything to Know About the New iOS Update
Apple launched iOS 15.5 on Monday. It's not the biggest update, but it brings new features to Apple Cash, Memories and more. Apple released iOS 15.5 on Monday, bringing a few smaller changes to iPhones. Most of the updates made in this version are smaller tweaks to apps and other behind-the-scenes updates that lay the groundwork for larger future changes, rather than bigger new features like Un ... Read more
2022-05-16 21:25:22