Chrome will clamp down on sites with annoying video ads

The Coalition for Better Ads surveyed 45,000 consumers worldwide, and found that most users are especially irritated by ads that make you wait five seconds to skip ahead, mid-roll ads that appear… Excerpt from: Chrome will clamp down on sites with annoying video ads

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Researchers can ‘steal’ data by tracking a PC monitor’s brightness

Don’t worry about someone reading your login details through the window any time soon, though. As the methods imply, a data thief would still have to breach the victim computer and have cameras… View post: Researchers can ‘steal’ data by tracking a PC monitor’s brightness

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How AI helped upscale an antique 1896 film to 4K

Shiryaev leveraged a pair of publically available enhancement programs, DAIN and Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI, to transform the original footage into a 4K 60FPS clip. Gigapixel AI uses a proprietary… View post: How AI helped upscale an antique 1896 film to 4K

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Microsoft Teams went down because of an expired certificate

It’s odd that Microsoft would forget to renew a critical authentication certificate, and it was rude timing, as so many were attempting to log in and start their week.Almost three years old,… View original post here: Microsoft Teams went down because of an expired certificate

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Apple wants to remind you Arcade exists

Apple was a no-show in the flurry of Super Bowl ads, but it made its presence felt seemingly everywhere else. The tech giant launched a full-on ad blitz for Apple Arcade shortly before the… See the original post here: Apple wants to remind you Arcade exists

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