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Ring, Amazon's smart home security subsidiary, has announced its first-ever smart lock — and promises to "end smart lock anxiety" by adding a hand-crank handle to generate power if the battery runs out. "Almost everything in our lives today is digital, yet we still carry around
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Save $80: Prime Day may be over, but a few great deals are still hanging around. Thermal Master’s P3 Thermal Camera for iPhone and Android is still $80 off directly from Thermal Master, bringing the price down to $269. Just use promo code THERMCAM10 at checkout to get this
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Cupertino brings the tech backlash to the CBS procedural — an initially awkward combination, but with rewarding results. The show starts off just slightly unsure, but quickly figures out what to do with these strange times, creating fictionalized dupes of the Zizians, Polymarket, Jeff Bezos’ looksmaxxing obsession, OpenAI stealing Scarlett Johansson’
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* Windows 11 search is getting a major overhaul * It'll be made faster, more efficient with RAM usage, and be tweaked to better understand what you're searching for * Microsoft is also adding 'actions' to allow users to directly adjust Windows 11 options in the search
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Vodafone Netherlands and Ziggo merged in 2017, creating VodafoneZiggo, a domestic and business network provider which has around 6,000 employees and serves more than nine million customers throughout the Netherlands. It has spent the last year implementing the Atlassian platform, initially in marketing, but soon expanded out to allow
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Publica, the pension fund that provides pensions for staff of the Swiss federal government, has confirmed today that a data leak occurred as a result of a cyberattack on one of its external software suppliers. The Swiss government stated that the supplier discovered the attack at the end of September
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Samsung Electronics expects its operating profit for the third quarter to reach a record level of about 107.4 trillion won ($80bn), a significant increase from 12.17 trillion won a year earlier. The South Korean company released its preliminary figures today. It represents an increase of nearly nine times,
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Dex, a London-based AI recruitment platform for software engineers, has hired two former founders for senior roles. Tom Valentine, co-founder of travel deals site Secret Escapes, joins as chief operating officer. And Jonny Burch, co-founder of career development platform Progression, becomes head of design. “Tom and Jonny have built businesses
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The person behind a wave of cyberattacks on South Korean banks may be a 26-year-old living in China’s Guangdong province, US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says. The suspect has not been named or charged, and South Korean authorities have not identified anyone. CrowdStrike set out its findings in a report
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According to a new unsealed filing in New York’s lawsuit, TikTok gave thousands of users, including teenagers and children, a safety tool that did not work. Reuters reported the allegations on October 7, after a judge ordered the filings unsealed. They appear in an amended complaint that New York
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Butterfly Effect, the company behind AI agent startup Manus, said that it has closed a funding round of more than $500 million. This would be the first raise since Meta’s $2 billion-plus purchase of Manus was undone on Beijing’s orders. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round.
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Big quote: Adobe, a company that was once sued by the US government over its early cancelation fees, has seen plenty of customers abandon its products in favor of free alternatives. One developer has
