Late last month, a mysterious new video app called Zynn began appearing at the top of app store charts, beating out household names like Instagram and YouTube. Zynn is a near identical copy of TikTok, and both apps are the product of Chinese tech giants. The biggest difference is that Zynn, in an effort to …

As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to pick up mainstream traction, the asset's blockchain scalability remains an issue, according to Decred co-founder Jake … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

They say a summer body is made in winter, so now is the time to up your game and get back into it with the Fitbit Versa 2, now discounted by a solid 27%. With this nifty smart watch you can gain insights about your body, such as your heart rate and the amount of …

A Swiss startup called HMCARE, spun out of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, has raised a million Swiss Francs (equivalent to about $105 million) to commercialize its transparent and relatively eco-friendly surgical masks. The founders were inspired by healthcare workers in the 2015 Ebola outbreak and at children’s hospitals around the world working closely …

UK media watchdogs are calling for a new investigation to see if loot boxes are gambling and if games with "surprise mechanics" should be restricted. by …

Microsoft Teams users will now be able to upload their own custom background images as Microsoft has released a new update to its video conferencing software. The software giant already gave meeting participants a way to hide what’s behind them in the form of background blur effects and other pre-installed template backgrounds but now they …

The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme. It looks like the problems started around 2:30pm PT and spread from there. Best we can tell, this is a worldwide problem and involves a …

In Lombardia, dall’inizio dell’epidemia di coronavirus, sono risultate positive al Sars-CoV-19 90.581 persone (+192 rispetto a ieri, quando i casi positivi segnalati erano 90.389 e l’aumento sul giorno precedente era stato di +194). I dati sono stati forniti dalla Regione Lombardia. Di queste, sono decedute 16.317 persone (+15, ieri +32). I ricoveri in ospedale sono …

Law enforcement has used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with many other protests in US history. License plate readers, facial recognition, and wireless text message interception are just some of the tools at its disposal. While none of this is new, the exposure that domestic …