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Sony’s PlayStation 6 will not launch until 2027, according to an internal document, which is highly probable given the 7-year gap between PS4 and PS5.

The PS5, the current generation of PlayStation, made its debut in 2020. While the PS4 was introduced seven years ago, in 2013,

WhatsApp users can now send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves using the “Message Yourself” feature.

When starting a new chat on WhatsApp, users will see their contact at the top of the contacts list. They can message themselves using the chat feature by tapping that contact to access it.

A hacker forum has made available for free more than 5.4 million Twitter user records that contained private data that was acquired through an API flaw rectified in January.

By utilising a Twitter API vulnerability, this data was gathered in December 2021. Private phone numbers and email addresses that are not intended for public use are mixed in with scraped public data.

The eight zero-day vulnerability used in cyberattacks this year has been fixed by Google in an emergency security update for the desktop version of the Chrome web browser.

Google has withheld information about the issue to stop its malicious exploitation from spreading since users need time to apply the security update to their Chrome systems.

The Progressive Web App (PWA) for the social media platform would function through Microsoft Edge on machines running Windows 10 and 11.

This application will be built on the web version of Snap. This is powered by Microsoft Edge, a Chromium-based browser that was released earlier this year.

The new vehicle features rounded edges and wide windows that give it a toy-like appearance rather than the appearance of a technological advance.

Instead of spending money on pricey sensors, it uses cameras and lasers to find its way. For the time being, the bus will operate on its own, travelling 3.4 kilometres in 20 minutes around a brief circuit in central Seoul.

TV Block is the name of the technology, which is “pre-loaded on all Samsung TV products.” When a TV is proven to have been stolen, Samsung records its serial number and then waits for it to be online.

The serial number is then examined, and if it appears on the list, “the blocking system is implemented, disabling all the television functions.”

A database of 487 million mobile numbers used for WhatsApp, updated for 2022 and containing information from 84 countries, is for sale.

Of the disclosed records, more than 32 million are from US users, and 11 million are from UK users. Egypt, Italy, Saudi Arabia, France, Turkey, and Russia are some countries that are impacted.

In an effort to stop demonstrations, Foxconn has offered to pay freshly hired employees 10,000 yuan ($1,400) to leave the largest iPhone assembly plant in the world.

In a text message sent to staff members on Wednesday, the Apple supplier made the offer in response to dramatic images of violent protests on its campus in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

Users will be able to attach audio notes to their status updates with the new functionality.

When users don’t write any text, the microphone icon will appear, allowing them to post a voice message up to 30 seconds long to their status updates.

Due to concerns about national security, the FCC has prohibited communications and video surveillance equipment from numerous China-based companies, including Huawei and ZTE.

The US government has frequently targeted Huawei and ZTE due to espionage fears. However, the restriction also bars Dahua, Hytera, and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology from selling equipment in the US.

The closure of Twitter’s entire Brussels headquarters raises concerns about the social media giant’s compliance with recent EU regulations governing the major IT industry.

Senior officials have expressed confidence that  Twitter’s ability to abide by important EU legislation impacting large tech companies is not in danger as a result of the withdrawals from the Brussels office.

Government agencies have been urged not to link such equipment to their departmental core networks and to think about removing and replacing Chinese video cameras placed in ‘sensitive’ locations.

Additionally, departments have been urged to think about whether they want to extend the same regulation to any locations that do not fall under the category of “sensitive”.

The Stable Diffusion 2.0 version features reliable text-to-image models that were trained using a brand-new text encoder (OpenCLIP), created by LAION with assistance from Stability AI.

It improves the quality of the generated images compared to earlier V1 releases. The text-to-image models in this edition can create images with 512×512 and 768×768 pixel resolutions as their default settings.

Amazon plans to produce 12 to 15 films a year for theatrical release. Given that Universal and Warner have nearly comparable budgets, the investment might increase revenues by 15%–20%.

Next year, Amazon will distribute fewer movies in theatres, but it will gradually expand that number. It has the same number of releases as well-known studios like Paramount Pictures.

With two distinct products, Shadow is now officially a tech company. In addition to its cloud computing service, the business is introducing Shadow Drive, a cloud storage solution built on Nextcloud.

Like WordPress.com can handle your WordPress website for you, Shadow Drive is a hosted service, so you don’t have to operate your own server or maintain anything.