Google Launches $3 Million Fund To Fight COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

The uncertainty and developing nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to generate related misinformation. While the COVID-19 infodemic has been global in nature, misinformation has also been used to target specific populations. Googlesaid it will prioritize collaborative projects with an interdisciplinary team and clear ways to measure success. source: www.techworm.net

January 13, 2021 · 1 min · 50 words · Jennifer Peterson

College Students Can Now Stream Hulu For $1.99/Month

This plan can be streamed on up to two devices at once. you’re able to also watch Hulu via a online window on your laptop. College students interested in subscribing to the plan can visitHulu.com/studentto learn more and sign-up for Hulus student offer. source: www.techworm.net

January 12, 2021 · 1 min · 45 words · Mary Perez

Microsoft Asks Users To Move To Skype After WhatsApp Introduces New Privacy Policy

Redmond tech giantMicrosoftis recommending users to migrate to Skype after Facebook-owned WhatsApp recently introduced its new Privacy Policy. Back then, WhatsApp had assured that its goal is to know as little as possible. Skype respects your privacy. This page explains what kind of personal data does the company collect and how they use it. source: www.techworm.net

January 11, 2021 · 1 min · 56 words · Dustin Foley

Roku Acquires Quibi’s TV Shows And Documentaries

The content ranges from Emmy award-winning scripted series to alternative and reality programming and documentaries. Launched in April 2020, Quibi failed to find footing as well as audience. Although Quibi struggled to gain traction, Roku has experienced rapid growth amid the Covid-19 pandemic. source: www.techworm.net

January 11, 2021 · 1 min · 45 words · Michael Brown

Microsoft’s AI Model Outperforms Humans In Natural Language Understanding

Microsofton Tuesdayannouncedthat its AI model has surpassed humans In Natural Language Understanding (NLU) With SuperGLUE benchmarks. The Redmond tech giant took the causal reasoning task as an example. DeBERTa is a Transformer-based neural language model pretrained on large amounts of raw text corpora using self-supervised learning. The model also sits at the top of the GLUE benchmark rankings with a macro-average score of 90.8. This is not the first time that an AI model has outperformed human baselines....

January 8, 2021 · 1 min · 123 words · John Dominguez

Facebook Removes The ‘Like’ Button From Public Pages

Users can now easily navigate between a personal profile and public Page. This will also ensure account safety and integrity. Additionally, Facebook has also added a new text-basedQ&A formatto support richer, interactive conversations. source: www.techworm.net

January 7, 2021 · 1 min · 35 words · Jennifer Rush

Nintendo Claims $15 Million In Damages From ROM Website RomUniverse

The Website is among the most visited and notorious online hubs for pirated Nintendo video games. Storman saw himself as a Service Provider, who was not part of the forum itself. He also pointed out that people who buy games are allowed to dispose of these as they wish. Eventually, after some back and forths in court, both parties met at the end of September 2020. However, a week later, he informed Nintendo that he no longer had access to this information....

January 7, 2021 · 1 min · 183 words · Patricia Shea

Microsoft’s Minecraft Earth To Shut Down In June 2021

Minecraft Earth will be closing down in June 2021. kindly read our full message below for details. We appreciate all the support from the community! Were eternally grateful for the amazing talent in the Minecraft community, Minecraft said. source: www.techworm.net

January 6, 2021 · 1 min · 40 words · Amy Gentry

Huawei Restores All Tencent Games On Its App Store After Legal Dispute

Apparently, Huawei was demanding a 50% cut of Tencents game sales on the app store. It, however, did not provide a detailed explanation of the changes. source: www.techworm.net

January 2, 2021 · 1 min · 28 words · Timothy Conway

Adobe Ends Support For Flash Player

Finally, Adobe has gone ahead and pulled the plug on its Flash Player on December 31, 2020. Downloadable resources related to Adobe Flash Player that are hosted on Microsoft websites will no longer be available. However, Adobe wont be blocking Flash content from running in Flash Player until January 12, 2021. Launched in 1996, the Adobe Flash Player gained popularity bringing games and animations to the web. Besides these, Flash also lent support to YouTube and similar websites stream high-quality video....

January 1, 2021 · 1 min · 125 words · Christopher Duncan

Tesla Confirms India Launch For Model 3 In Mid-2021

They will be as technically advanced as Tesla and available at a more affordable price. 55-60 lakhs due to import duties and other local taxes. Tesla may open up pre-bookings for its Model 3 vehicle in January 2021 and start deliveries by June 2021. source: www.techworm.net

December 31, 2020 · 1 min · 46 words · Amanda Lambert

Cyberpunk 2077 For Android: An Obvious Ransomware

Despite the initial release bugs and compatibility issues, Cyberpunk 2077 lived up to its hype. The Cyberpunk 2077 mobile program thats being circulated over the internet is clearly malware. After downloading the software you end up installing CoderWare ransomware. RC4 algorithm with hardcoded key (in this example “21983453453435435738912738921”) is used for encryption. But in actuality, this website has been tricking people into downloading and installing ransomware onto their mobile devices....

December 27, 2020 · 1 min · 106 words · Brandon Carson

Google Researchers Reveal Privilege Escalation Flaw In Windows

This zero-day flaw in Windows (originally tracked as CVE-2020-0986) is apparently not new. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. Microsoft released a patch in June, but that patch didnt fix the vuln,she tweetedon Wednesday. After reporting that bad fix in Sept. under a 90-day deadline, its still not fixed....

December 27, 2020 · 1 min · 106 words · Zachary Preston