Month: February 2022

Digital activists can celebrate a memorable victory after the IRS ditched a controversial facial recognition system. The agency had planned to use third-party facial recognition tech (FRT) to verify millions of people…

We all knew it, but Apple finally made it official: it will now allow businesses to accept card payments through iPhones. The company announced that, later this year, US merchants will be…

Europeans were either excited or shocked as Meta threatened to pull out of the region over upcoming data laws. Hey Europeans, Meta’s going nowhere. For the uninitiated, lawmakers are considering a new…

Unlike the cloak of mystery that usually accompanies bike development, Triumph has been very transparent with its electric vehicle: the TE-1 prototype demonstrator.  Having successfully completed the first two phases of the…

Are you considering a career move in 2022? The last two years have made us all reevaluate what we want from our jobs. Perhaps it’s time to try something new, reskill, or…

News emerged overnight of the potential theft of more than US$326 million (A$457.7 million) of Ethereum tokens from a blockchain bridge (which connects two blockchains so cryptocurrency can be exchanged between them)….

Update (February 9, 2022, 11.30AM IST): Last night, Apple officially launched its “Tap to pay” feature that’ll let you turn your iPhones into payment terminals. While the company didn’t specify a roll-out date,…

Windows has a rocky history with widgets. Vista had the Windows Sidebar, a collection of widgets (then called ‘gadgets’) that provided glanceable information on one side of your desktop. Windows 7 allowed…

Canadian quantum computing startup D-Wave today announced its intent to go public. In doing so, the company will merge with financial corp DPCM to reach a predicted valuation of approximately $1.6 billion….

After being overtaken by Europe in 2020, China is back on top and leading the charge in new energy vehicle (NEV) global sales According to Chinese EV media outlet CnEVPost, China sold…