I like watching Netflix on my TV, but if I’m away from home or doing a Netlfix Party with friends, I have to use my laptop. At first, I thought it was a handy feature, but over time it got annoying as hell. Sometimes I just want to see the description, Netflix. Thankfully, the company has rolled out a new option that lets you turn off previews, sounds, or both....

Apple today rolled out Apple One, the bundle that joins together subscriptions for all of Apple’s different services. It could be a real bargain if you’re an Apple user, and it comes with a free trial to boot. Here’s how you can try it out for yourself. In case you haven’t heard, Apple One bundles together Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and iCloud. With all of these available under a single price, it could potentially save you a lot of money if you already use all of those services individually....

Facebook has made it easier to quit the social media platform. The company has rebuilt a tool that makes it easier to transfer data from Facebook to other services. The “Transfer Your Information” tool was launched in April to give users more control over their data. It could previously transfer notes and posts to Google Docs, Blogger, and WordPress.com, as well as port photos and videos to Backblaze, Dropbox, Google Photos, and Koofr....

Google owner Alphabet was fined €150 million (£125 million) and Facebook owner Meta €60 million. Alphabet was fined more because its breaches affected more people and it had been in trouble for violations in the past. Both companies were also given three months to change their systems to make it as easy for users to reject cookie requests. Meta and Alphabet have yet to comply, though they have until April to do so....

The biggest bottleneck I face when creating music in my home studio is the mixing process. The days I spend writing and recording are filled with joy. But once it’s time to knuckle-down and engineer the tracks, a dark cloud casts a soul-sucking shadow across my console. And there I sit: listening to the same clips a million times to make a million minute adjustments to dozens of different parameters....

At this roundtable, India’s richest man and owner of the country’s biggest telecom company, — Reliance Jio — Mukesh Ambani, boasted about not using any Chinese components in his mobile network: In response, Trump said, “Well, that’s good. Good. Put a bid in (to build a 5G network).” Just to give you context, Reliance Jio has more than 380 million mobile subscribers in India. That’s probably bigger than top carriers in the US such as Verizon and T-Mobile combined, given that the country’s population is roughly only 330 million....

That’s from The Economic Times, which has reviewed a copy of the government’s notification. Quartz noted back in 2016 that while many international airlines offer Wi-Fi on board flights to India, they have to turn off connectivity when they enter the country’s airspace. It’s a particularly odd quirk, especially given that companies like Gogo have been able to help airlines deliver inflight Wi-Fi since 2008. Read: I finally get why noise-canceling headphones are so great — thanks, flying The move has been in the works for a long time: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) approved a proposal for inflight Wi-Fi back in May 2018....

Security researcher Dhiraj Mishra discovered the vulnerability, and informed CERT-In, the country’s nodal agency to deal with cybersecurity threats. The agency acknowledged the bug and it was patched silently. [Read: Mozilla launches a VPN app for Android and Windows] The website was vulnerable to SharePoint RCE (Remote Code Execution) — code CVE-2019-0604 — which was discovered last year. The exploit allows attackers to run arbitrary code on the server to affect operations of the site....

To that end, Insta360’s new Go 2 action camera is a great place for amateurs to start. It’s a tiny little thing, about the size of your thumb, that goes anywhere, fits on a variety of mounts and grips, and captures high-quality video in a bunch of modes. I tried it for a few weeks and came away impressed with how much one can do with this minuscule camera....

According to a new leak from tipster Jon Prosser, the iPhone 12 Pro Max will have a display with a 120Hz refresh rate, slimmed-down notch, LiDAR-supported autofocus in its cameras , and support for recording 240fps video at 4K resolution. Prosser has clarified in his video that all the info is based on a Performance Verification Testing (PVT) unit of the 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max. So, if Apple finds that any of the features are not working as intended, they might not end up in the final product....

We already know that this year’s iPhones will feature a smaller front notch and the Pro models will have a display with 120Hz refresh rate support. Now, in a recent investor note seen by MacRumors, Kuo has said that the new model will also feature larger batteries — and this will make the iPhone 13 heavier than its predecessor. This is possible to a design change that Kuo refers to as “space-saving design,” which includes integrating the SIM card slot with the main circuit board, and reducing the front camera module’s thickness....

For years, you’ve been hearing that having a VPN subscription is one of the smartest, most secure ways of protecting yourself and your sensitive information from scammers and cybercrooks online. And that’s true. Yet like any technology, improvements and new ideas come along to modify and often even replace the old. If IzzBie Smart Private Internet has anything to say about it, they may ultimately make the VPN we know today a thing of the past....

Johnny-come-latelys to the coding scene can gush about their Pythons or their Ruby on Rails all they want. But when it’s all said and done, JavaScript still rules the programming roost. The venerable language has been the core of the web and web development for 25 years, with no real signs that its dominance will come to a close anytime soon. That means any coder who really wants to work in web production better be fluent in exactly how JavaScript works and what it can do....

Back in the old days, serious web coders used to do the equivalent of walking barefoot through the snow three miles in both directions to get a website build finished. Nowadays, these young whipper-snappers just use their website building apps and spit one up in a hour. Of course, these kids today don’t actually know how a website is really built. They just click and drag their way to a finished product....

Some of the more thorny problems arise from apps designed to track others, like those made for parents to track their kids. For example, there are specific apps that allow parents to monitor their child’s GPS location, who they call, what they text, which apps they use, what they view online and the phone number of their contacts. As a bioethicist who specializes in the ethics of emerging technologies, I worry that such tracking technologies are transforming prudent parenting into surveillance parenting....

If you haven’t heard about Deep Nostalgia, you need to check it out. It’s the brainchild of genealogy platform MyHeritage, taking old photos, enhancing them, and infusing them with artificial intelligence to effectively bring faces to life, including images taken decades before film technology existed. While it’s a magical intersection between history and technology, the reality is that skilled photographers have been imbibing life into photos since the dawn of the medium....

“I hereby order that every branch of Banco de Venezuela opens exchange desks so that everyone can transact with El Petro and start using it,” said Maduro on Wednesday. “This is the new world where we can lead by example. We can do this from Venezuela. The world is looking at us,” hed added. As expected, Maduro touched on the sanctions imposed by the US government on the country. “Cryptocurrencies must be democratized against a backdrop of economic sanctions, block, and financial persecution,” Maduro said....

It is important to take time out from work in order to fully live our lives, but there are several issues that can discourage us from taking annual leave. Some people have doubts about whether taking time out will allow for full psychological detachment from work, for example. The fear that thoughts of work will invade our minds encourages many people to just keep working. A common trend among those who are obsessively passionate about their work, these feelings can become overbearing, controlling their thoughts and making them unable to temporarily forget about work....

Last year, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI with a goal to build supercomputers that leverages Azure’s cloud services. Now, that investment is showing its first results. In terms of specifications, the new supercomputer packs some impressive numbers. It a single system with more than 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs, and 400 gigabits per second of network connectivity for each GPU server. Both companies said they want to build multitasking large-scale AI models to make them available for developers and the public to use....

The company offers options for alternative sign-in, such as the authenticator app or physical security keys. If you choose to go with those, you can ditch your password entirely. On Windows-based laptops, you can use Windows Hello facial recognition or fingerprint sign-in to get around the hassle of remembering passwords. Here’s how you’ll be able to remove password from your account: First, make sure you have the Microsoft Authenticator app installed on your phone, and linked with your account....