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Amazon’s Echo Show adds more accessibility features, including ‘Gestures’ and text-to-speech

December 13, 2022

Amazon today is introducing a small handful of new features for its digital assistant Alexa that aim to make the device more accessible. The company is launching two new ways to interact with Alexa without speaking including support for Gestures on Echo Show devices that will users to interact with the device by raising their […]

Amazon’s Echo Show adds more accessibility features, including ‘Gestures’ and text-to-speech by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

A quick guide to all the checkmarks and badges on Twitter

December 13, 2022

Elon Musk-led Twitter is shaking up its verification system. Instead of one checkmark, now there are multicolored checkmarks to denote different things. This could be very confusing for users to track. So here’s a handy guide to all checkmarks and badges on the social network. Checkmarks Blue checkmark: It currently means two things. 1) Account […]

A quick guide to all the checkmarks and badges on Twitter by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

California’s finance department confirms breach as LockBit claims data theft

December 13, 2022

California’s Department of Finance has confirmed it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after the prolific LockBit ransomware group claims to have stolen confidential data from the agency. The California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) in a statement on Monday described the threat as an “intrusion” that was “identified through coordination with state and federal security […]

California’s finance department confirms breach as LockBit claims data theft by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

SEC, CFTC and SDNY attorney’s office charge FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors

December 13, 2022

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially charged disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (aka SBF) with defrauding investors, it revealed on Tuesday morning follwing his arrest in the Bahamas. The SEC said in a press release that in addition to being charges with fraud regarding equity investors in FTX, he’s also being investigated regarding […]

SEC, CFTC and SDNY attorney’s office charge FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

Google Photos’ New Upgrade Worsens Key Feature

December 13, 2022
The new update in google has changed the accuracy of location information which is stored with some photos. This potentially causes a loss of their precise location and users would not be able to search for the pictures based on the location they were taken in.

Twitter Launches New Three-Colour Verification

December 13, 2022
According to a report by The Verge, the microblogging platform’s ‘Twitter Blue’ subscriptions rolled out despite warnings from Twitter’s own trust and safety staff

TheyDo fires the starting gun on the race to own the customer journey

December 13, 2022

It doesn’t matter what kind of web site it is, the ‘customer journey’ has always been important, otherwise you lose that engagement and the end result can hit the bottom line. That was always the case. But in the modern era, customers expect an easy and simple experience, otherwise they move elsewhere. And with the […]

TheyDo fires the starting gun on the race to own the customer journey by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch