Ikea’s 2019 Art Collection was to feature rugs, eight of them from notables in the industry, including Virgil Abhoh, the art director for Louis Vuitton’s men’s line. For anyone willing to plop down $500, they could own the artistic works of one of the world’s foremost designers. Or, that’s what they thought anyway. Unfortunately, these limited edition pieces were just as likely to end up on eBay as they were in a customers’ home....

The platform will be free to watch with ads to support the streaming; there’s no premium tier to get rid of the ads at the moment. MX Player has more than 175 million monthly users in India, streaming its original and licensed content. The ad-supported platform launched content streaming mid-2018, after Indian media conglomerate, Times Internet, acquired it earlier that year. The company, said it has more than 20,000 hours of license content from largely India-focused studios such as Sonar, Hoichoi, Shemaroo, and Hungama....

A relatively recent development in neighbor conflicts are clashes centered on home surveillance products, such as CCTV cameras and smart doorbells. These technologies, which may capture footage beyond the householder’s property, can pit householders against neighbors who feel their homes and private lives are being unfairly spied upon. Indeed, a UK judge recently ruled that a man’s home security system invaded his neighbor’s privacy, and he now faces a fine of up to £100,000....

The World Federation of Exchanges said today that there is a need to find a balance between innovation and keeping consumers protected, Reuters reports. But it doesn’t think banning cryptocurrency-based investment products is the right answer. “The WFE recognizes the volatility identified by the FCA in its consultation report and is supportive of ensuring that proper consumer protection is put in place as a priority for any new and relatively untested product on the market,” the WFE said in a statement....

My favorite feature is gesture control that’s activated by tapping on the back of the iPhone. You can head to Settings > Accessibility> Touch in your iPhone when you have iOS 14 and activate the Back Tap option Currently, you can define gestures for double tap and triple tap on the back of your iPhone. The list is expansive: App switcher, control center, volume control, screenshot, scroll up or down, and magnifier....

Europe and California have introduced regulations to protect individual consumer data, attempting to fundamentally change the universal perspective on consumer privacy rights, yet there is no federal law to protect the rights of the individual. Data privacy will only continue to get more convoluted as we get further into the era of tech innovation, but with the right rules and regulations in place, we have the power to stay in the driver’s seat and maintain full control....

Hola pandemic pals, The whole time this pandemic’s been going on, the world’s been looking to big tech for answers. Technology is always the answer, right? Sure, but it doesn’t have to be new technology. Our greatest tool in the fight against a disease that’s spread via droplets is clothing, not software. Yes, I’m talking about face masks. I know a lot of folks HATE wearing them. I’ve seen the videos....

At the end of 2017, parliament passed the Digital Economy Act, which detailed plans for age-verification on online porn sites. It was initially due to be introduced in March 2018, months after the law was first passed – but it was then delayed until July 15 2019, and then again today. The law would see sites like PornHub introduce an 18+ age-checking system, also known as the “UK porn block....

The complaint was filed on Tuesday by two immigrants’ rights groups and four individual political activists. They allege that Clearview has violated the privacy rights of Californians by scraping their photos and extracting their biometric data without gaining consent. The suit also argues that Clearview’s facial recognition tech facilitates government monitoring of protesters, immigrants, and people of color. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] The software has reportedly been used by more than 2,400 law enforcement agencies....

MacRumors contributor Steve Moser took a close look at the latest macOS Monterey beta and found two mysterious new resolutions that don’t match any existing Mac: 3456 x 2234 and 3024 x 1964. There are a couple of interesting things about these resolutions. For one, they’re obviously higher resolution than the current MacBook Pro models, which are 3072 x 1920 (16-inch) and 2560 x 1600 (13-inch). It’s curious that Apple would opt to increase the resolution and pixel density (about 250 ppi) by a fairly significant margin, considering the existing MacBook’s are already at ‘Retina’ quality (roughly 227 ppi)....

It’s one of those shadowy corners of the Adobe Creative Cloud that frightens even some of its most ardent fans. Most Adobe users sink their teeth into perennial favorites like Photoshop or Illustrator or Premiere, but when you ask them about some of the less-explored apps under Adobe’s broad umbrella, users get a little nervous. Take After Effects, for example. While many users swear by Adobe Premiere for all their video editing needs, significantly fewer feel comfortable using Adobe After Effects, the suite’s app for creating special effects for video productions....

There’s a reason answering emails starts to feel like shoveling snow during a Minnesota January. The moment you think you’re finished, you turn around and another dump has erased all your past work and you get to do it all over again. Digging out from an email avalanche can feel just as repetitive, often forcing you to write the same lines and include the same information in email after email after email over and over and over again....

Trump retweeted his tweet from Scavino’s account. Later, Machine Shop Entertainment, a management company owned by the band Linkin Park, filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice to take down the content. [Read — Review: The Hifiman Deva are premium $300 headphones that happen to come with Bluetooth] Twitter removed this video on Saturday with a notice saying that “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner....

If sharing cute animal content is your love language, you’re not alone — you are part of a bigger cultural phenomenon called the cute economy. The cute economy is not only a network of cute content that people participate in making, sharing and circulating but also a multibillion-dollar business due to creators’ ability to monetize their content. What is the cute economy? Media researcher James Meese defines the cute economy as the creation and circulation of user-generated content depicting entities (animals, babies, plants, objects, etc....

James Bruton, a robotics engineer and YouTube creator, teamed up with a group of students from the University of Portsmouth to create a robot that fights back when provoked. It’s a thing we’ve all dreamed about since childhood — a robot that hits back during fighting games — but after seeing it, I’m not so sure I still want one. The robot is powered by an Arduino Mega interface and trackers from HTC’s Vive headset....

Yikes. The majority might have this one wrong. But we’ll get into why in a moment. The survey Researchers interviewed 2,769 Europeans representing varying demographics. Questions ranged from whether they’d prefer to vote via smartphone all the way to whether they’d replace existing politicians with algorithms given the chance. Per the survey: On the surface, this makes perfect sense – younger people are more likely to embrace a new technology, no matter how radical....

Up front: The images were taken by the Mars Hope Probe’s EMUS (Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer) instrument, and show a ghostly glow known as the discrete aurora. The pictures fully characterize the discrete aurora phenomenon in Mars’ atmosphere for the first time in history. Scientists believe they could challenge the notion that large scale solar events are needed to drive Mars auroral events “The implications for our understanding of Mars’ atmospheric and magnetospheric science are tremendous and provide new support to the theory that solar storms are not necessary to drive Mars‘ aurora,” said Hessa Al Matroushi, the Emirates Mars Mission’s science lead....

You’ll get more than 114 hours of instruction and well over 800 lessons in a variety of IT fields as you learn about Google Cloud, CompTIA, AWS, Microsoft and Kubernetes. There are 12 classes in total, and with lifetime access to all of them, you can take your time and focus on the ones the matter the most to you, saving the others for later learning. Or you can have them at your fingertips for review whenever you need a refresher on any of the subject matter....

Dubbed “MasterMana Botnet,” the ongoing campaign is believed to be connected to the “Gorgon Group,” a crew of cyberbaddies linked to worldwide criminal activity and repeated attacks on governments. “This operation, which began as early as December of 2018, appears financially motivated, given the seemingly indiscriminate targeting of business email addresses via phishing and the inclusion of specific functions to steal information associated with cryptocurrency wallets,” said security firm Prevailion....

Microsoft maintains the $6.99 a month pricing but is introducing a wealth of new features today, leveraging new AI features to make your life a little easier. Perhaps most notable the new Microsoft Editor, which is basically Microsoft’s take on Grammarly. The company is leveling up its grammar and syntax correction that’s long been available in Office. The new Editor is able to provide advanced grammar and style suggestions to help improve your writing....