[ad_1] These new charges allege that Huawei has run a decades-long attempt to steal intellectual property from six specific but unnamed US companies. Huawei allegedly got its hands on trade secrets and copyrighted work by entering into and then breaking confidentiality agreements, recruiting employees from competitors and using professors as proxies. Huawei even offered bonuses […]
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Puerto Rico’s government lost $2.6 million to a phishing scam
[ad_1] Rubén Rivera, finance director of the island’s Industrial Development Company, told AP that the agency received an email alleging a change to a bank account tied to remittance payments. In response, the agency transferred the funds to the fake account. It’s still unclear how officials discovered the scam, if anyone has been dismissed or […]
Google’s Area 120 brings quick web games to slow phones
[ad_1] All titles work with both touch as well as a PC’s mouse and keyboard, and are designed to run on virtually any platform and device. Like many casual games, they’re designed to be playable with a minimum of instructions — important when they’re meant to reach people across many different languages. Some are not-so-subtle […]
Facebook Dating’s Valentine’s Day launch in Europe is canceled
[ad_1] Facebook Dating is the company’s rival to Tinder and OKCupid, harnessing the combined power of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to help people connect. That includes the ability to use Instagram stories as dating pictures and to list secret crushes just in case they feel the same way. Facebook had initially said, back when it […]
Apple brings code-teaching app Swift Playgrounds to the Mac
[ad_1] The app’s transition from tablet to desktop (and MacBook) has been enabled by Catalyst, Apple’s framework for making iOS software run on macOS. It’s not entirely the same app as it was on the tablet, and now Swift Playgrounds works with the mouse, enabling click-and-drag for you to build your programs. And, with iCloud […]
Sony Pictures signs on for ‘Crossfire’ movie based on the popular FPS
[ad_1] While the Crossfire name won’t register as one of the most popular shooters for some US gamers — no, it’s not related to the board game with the tiny metal balls — the free-to-play tactical first person shooter is extremely popular in China and South Korea. In operation for over ten years, it claims […]
Bloomberg: India may soon make controversial social media rules official
[ad_1] That means the provisions in earlier drafts still remain, including one that would require platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok to help the government trace the origins of a post within 72 hours even without a warrant or a judicial order. In addition, they have to disable the poster’s access to the platform […]
AI can automatically rewrite outdated text in Wikipedia articles
[ad_1] The machine learning-based system is trained to recognize the differences between a Wikipedia article sentence and a claim sentence with updated facts. If it sees any contradictions between the two sentences, it uses a “neutrality masker” to pinpoint both the contradictory words that need deleting and the ones it absolutely has to keep. After […]
Android saw a 98 percent drop in apps asking for call and text data
[ad_1] The internet pioneer also pointed to “improved vetting mechanisms” that stopped 790,000 policy-breaking apps from reaching the Play Store, and a May 2019 policy that asked developers to say whether or not apps were targeted at kids. Malware appeared to have ben kept at bay, too, with Google Play Protect blocking over 1.9 billion […]
E3 2020 registration opens February 15 at 11AM ET
[ad_1] Be sure to temper your expectations accordingly. It’s no secret that Sony won’t be there, for instance. While you may see PlayStation 5 games, the odds aren’t great of seeing first-party titles or any big hardware news. Microsoft is expected to use E3 for a splashy Xbox Series X preview, but you probably won’t […]