Category: Technology

Comcast is in the process of boosting Internet connection speeds for millions of customers in the US. Starting this week, new and existing customers subscribed to the Performance Starter / Connect package will see download speeds increase from 50 Mbps to 75 Mbps while those with the Performance / Connect More tier will go from […]

Netflix is rolling out a new feature designed to make it easier for users to transfer their profiles to standalone accounts. Profile Transfer is designed for secondary users – as in, not the primary account holder that pays for the service. When leveraging the tool, these users will be able to transfer their profile including […]

Microsoft has become the latest tech giant to lay off employees, again, as the economic downturn impacts even the most established industry titans. The company cut jobs across multiple divisions and locations yesterday in a move Microsoft has defined as “structural adjustments.” Axios writes that while Microsoft didn’t confirm how many people it let go […]

A data center fire is raising concerns that South Korea’s domestic web industry has too many of its eggs in one basket. The incident was so disruptive for the country that its president called for an investigation into the cause, questioning whether too much of South Korea’s infrastructure depends on a handful of companies. A […]

The new spec includes improvements to make DisplayPort tunneling through a USB4 link more efficient and, thus, allows higher concurrent data transfer speeds. DisplayPort 2.1 cables also have more stringent requirements, allowing them to be longer without compromising on the supported bandwidth. VESA announced that it released the updated DisplayPort 2.1 specification, which continues to […]

Billionaires do seem to enjoy private planes, especially for journeys so short that the rest of us would use ground-based transport to complete them. But what’s someone worth $133 billion to do when their jet is being tracked by Twitter users exposing their environment-destroying traveling? Sell it, of course. As reported by Gizmodo, Bernard Arnault […]

The heads of WhatsApp and parent company Meta have opened another round of verbal jousting over who has the best and most secure messaging service. Like before, the main flashpoints are cloud backup security and cross-platform interoperability. This week’s new advertisement for WhatsApp is the latest jab at Apple for refusing to extend encrypted messaging […]