Netflix Launches Its 3 Month Mobile Only Subscription In India

The plan is valid for one concurrent stream and will work with Android and iOS tablets. Netflix said consumers will be able to stream content at Standard Definition (SD). It added that users won’t be able to cast or mirror content Earlier this month, the company had confirmed its plan to launch a mobile-only subscription in India. It had tested this plan in India and Malaysia earlier this year. At the event, Netflix’s director for product innovation, Ajay Arora, said Indian Netflix consumer watch shows on their mobile phone more than anywhere in the world: Previously, Netflix’s cheapest plan in India cost Rs 450 ($6....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 134 words · Karen Napper

Netflix Shows Free Episode To Non Subscribers As Streaming Competition Heats Up

The streaming company is offering to show the first episode of its new series, Bard of Blood, for free even if you’re not a Netflix subscriber. The company said the free offering is only for a limited time: Emraan Hashmi, the lead actor of the series, tweeted the link of the first episode for everyone to see. — Emraan Hashmi (@emraanhashmi) September 28, 2019 Earlier this month, Netflix aired a free episode of its series Elite in Mexico and Columbia....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 147 words · Rowena Covey

Neutrinos From Our Sun Hold The Secrets To Nuclear Fusion

Typically, there are two processes by which smaller stars create fusion. The first of these, the proton-proton (pp) reaction is the simpler, as well as the more common, of the two. The second, the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (CNO) cycle, is thought to be the predominant means of producing energy in hotter, more massive stars. However, a new study finds neutrinos from the Sun providing the first direct evidence of the CNO cycle taking place deep within our parent star....

December 19, 2022 · 6 min · 1104 words · Karen Prechtl

New Ai Tool Detects Child Sexual Abuse Material With 99 Precision

A new AI-powered tool called Safer aims to stem the flow of abusive content, find the victims, and identify the perpetrators. The system uses machine learning to detect new and unreported child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Thorn, the non-profit behind Safer, says it spots the content with greater than 99% precision. Thorn built the tool for businesses that don’t have their own content filtering systems. “What we realized was that the [smaller] organizations just didn’t have the resources to identify, remove, and report this type of material,” Caitlin Borgman, Safer’s VP of business development, told TNW....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 470 words · Howard Desano

New Android 11 Feature Suggests Pixel 5 Might Support Reverse Wireless Charging

Sleuths at XDA Developers who installed the developer preview, found a hidden menu called Battery Share under settings. The report notes that Google has added new code for this feature, and it might be working on reverse wireless charging for the upcoming Pixel 5. [Read: Google introduces one-time location access for apps in Android 11] The code suggested it’s a Google feature, and not an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) feature that’ll be available to all phones with Android 11....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 217 words · James Byrd

Notepad Gets A New Design In Windows 11 Including A Dark Mode

Most note-ably, it finally, at long last, includes a dark mode. That means you won’t have to sear your eyeballs when you’re writing something up in the middle of the night, or it might just fit your stealthy aesthetic better. Notepad will adapt to your system theme by default, but you can also edit the app’s look in the new settings menu located in the upper right corner, which is also where you can now select your preferred font....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Celeste Collins

Nvidia S New Ai Magic Turns 2D Photos Into 3D Graphics

After converting 2D images into 3D scenes, models, and videos, the company has turned its focus to editing. The GPU giant today unveiled a new AI method that transforms still photos into 3D objects that creators can modify with ease. Dubbed 3D MoMa, the technique could give game studios a simple way to alter images and scenes. This typically relies on time-consuming photogrammetry, which takes measurements from photos. 3D MoMa speeds up the task through inverse rendering....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 432 words · Karen Livingston

Oh Great Apple Is Letting Parler Back Onto The App Store

The iPhone maker banned the controversial app in January after receiving complaints that the service had been used to coordinate the siege on the US Capitol. The Silicon Valley giant also found posts on the social network that “encouraged violence, denigrated various ethnic groups, races, and religions, glorified Nazism, and called for violence against specific people.” [Read: The biggest tech trends of 2021, according to 3 founders] Apple CEO Tim Cook said in April that he hoped the company would return, after putting in the “moderation that’s required to be on the store....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 217 words · Robert Clary

Ohio Businesses Can No Longer Use Bitcoin To Pay Taxes But Will They Care

According to Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague, OhioCrypto.com – the website used to pay taxes in Bitcoin – could be legally operating as a “financial transaction device.” As such, the provider, in this case BitPay, should have been chosen through a “competitive selection process,” The Fresno Bee reports. It appears that OhioCrypto.com’s initiation may have happened unlawfully. Sprague said that it’s vital to explore new technologies, but those that are implemented should be done so in line with Ohio law....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 297 words · Harold Kelly

Oi Developer This Is How To Create A Side Project To Get You Noticed

One of the most underrated things you can do in your career is learning how to stand out. If you want to find a new job, get projects as a freelancer, or increase your chances of getting a promotion, you will need to stand out. In every one of these cases, there is a person on the other end that needs to pick you, and for that, they need to notice you and trust that you are the right person....

December 19, 2022 · 7 min · 1283 words · Kathy Johnson

Olympus Throws In The Towel And Exits The Camera Business

This comes hot on the heels of Olympus claiming that it definitely wasn’t going to sell its camera business just over a year ago. There are various reasons Olympus is jettisoning its camera business. One is that the company now makes the majority of its money from creating medical equipment. Another is that the company’s cameras have been losing cash over the past three years. This, according to the company, is partly down to the “rapid [camera] market shrink caused by the evolution of smartphones....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 267 words · Natasha Doke

Oneplus Slick Live Wallpaper Will Guilt You Into Using Your Phone Less

The app currently has three wallpapers to show you the time you spent on six different categories of apps such as tools, lifestyle & communication, games, and entertainment — each represented by a different color. Once you set the wallpaper, you can double-tap on any empty space to see how much time you’ve spent with that category of apps. Alternatively, you can open the app and check out your screen time by category and by apps....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 167 words · Gordon Miller

Oneplus Is Launching Cheaper Smart Tvs For India Next Month

Having launched its Q1 premium TV last year, The Chinese hardware brand is said to be working on smart TVs with a starting price of $200 (Rs. 15,000) for the Indian market; that should allow it to compete with the likes of Xiaomi, TCL, and VU in the low-end segment, which includes smaller screen sizes like 32 inches and 43 inches. OnePlus is set to launch two new series of TVs at a live streamed event on July 2....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 393 words · Christopher Rivera

Oppo Reveals The World S First Under The Display Selfie Camera

This technology is the latest attempt from the company at hiding components to make for a bezel-less front fascia. Previously, it has attempted a sliding mechanism and a wedge-shaped pop-up selfie camera as an antidote to the notch. — OPPO India (@oppomobileindia) June 26, 2019 To make this work, Oppo’s using a special camera module with a highly transparent lens. The camera features a large sensor with a greater pixel size to avoid light refraction....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 186 words · Susie Laravie

Our Next Visits To Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Are Incredibly Important

Yet they remain the least explored – especially the “ice giants” Uranus and Neptune – due to their distance from Earth, and the extreme conditions spacecraft must survive to enter their atmospheres. As such, they’re also the least understood planets in the Solar System. Our ongoing research looks at how to overcome the harsh entry conditions experienced during giant planet missions. As we look forward to potential future missions, here’s what we might expect....

December 19, 2022 · 5 min · 1022 words · John Sanders

Podcast How Banks Detect Money Laundering

The inaugural episode discussed how analyzing bank data can help human trafficking victims, who are believed to number 40 million around the world. The second episode is finally here, this time on the topic of how banks detect money laundering. According to the IMF, money laundering makes up 2-5% of all gross domestic product. Doesn’t sound like a lot? That’s about $1.8 to 2 trillion a year. This vast sum of money could be used to fuel underground economies, crime, and even undermine democracy....

December 19, 2022 · 12 min · 2476 words · John Rodriguez

Porn Sites Have Turned Coronavirus Into A Viral Marketing Scheme

In the past 30 days alone, there was a total of 6,877,922 coronavirus searches on Pornhub. The hunt for COVID-19-themed porn peaked on March 5, with over 1.5 searches in a day. Viewers in Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ireland, Malaysia, and Serbia seem to be particularly fascinated by viral porn. The upward trend in coronavirus porn searches isn’t unique to Pornhub. Rival adult content platform xHamster saw a similar spike in COVID-19-related searches in the period around March 7, according to data shared with TNW....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 506 words · Stuart Warren

Product Led Growth Means Changing Your Whole Business Not Just The Product

Initially, many B2B founders viewed PLG as more of a go-to-market motion where providing a freemium offering would enable a company to be product-led. However, this is not enough. End-users aren’t simply the people who use the product and decide whether to recommend it to the organization. They often hold the position of ‘buyer’ as getting started with the solution can commonly be done on a credit card and then later expensed....

December 19, 2022 · 5 min · 875 words · Gina Williams

Psa Microsoft S Edge Browser Comes To Linux Next Month

Starting next month, Microsoft will make Edge available on Linux as a developer preview build. Users will be able to download it right from the Edge Insider’s site or pick it up from Linux’s package manager. [Read: Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked] Given Chromium’s existing popularity, Edge should, for the most part, work just the same on Linux as on other platforms. Microsoft’s new browser can run the Chrome extensions you’re already used to, and is altogether a capable browser in my experience....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 151 words · Vanessa Frank

Quantum Physicists Say Time Travelers Don T Have To Worry About The Butterfly Effect

Think about it. Back to the Future, The Terminator, The Time Machine, all of these stories share a central theme where traveling through time is a dangerous proposition that could destroy the very fabric of our reality. It’s called the butterfly effect. The big idea is that you’d step out of your time travel machine and accidentally step on a bug. Because this bug doesn’t exist… maybe a frog goes hungry and dies....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 632 words · Howard Keeler