Microsoft Will Cancel And Refund Inactive Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions

This move from the Silicon Valley giant comes following UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into the online console video gaming sector it had started on April 5, 2019, and concluded on January 26, 2022. During its investigation, it identified concerns about certain features of Microsoft’s auto-renewing subscriptions. Those concerns included the use of auto-renewals for online gaming contracts, their cancellation, and refund policies, and their terms and conditions....

November 14, 2022 · 3 min · 537 words · Darlene Chambers

Microsoft Word 2019 Free Download 62 Bit 32 Bit Official

Get it for your computer and start creating and editing important documents with carefully crafted features that help in bringing out content in a pleasing manner. You will also learn to install Microsoft Word 2019 through the ISO file by mounting it in Windows 10. We will go step by step to download the file and then proceed to the installation of MS Word by skipping other programs, thus saving space and time in the process....

November 14, 2022 · 4 min · 642 words · Lorenzo Garza

Minecraft Is The Most Targeted Game For Hiding Malware Report

While the gaming industry has been expanding ever since at a rapid pace, it has also attracted a lot of bad threat actors who view it as a lucrative target to execute their crimes and spread malware. According to a new report from security researchers at Kaspersky, Mojang Studios’ popular sandbox game, Minecraft, is the most severely targeted game title used by cybercriminals as bait with 23,239 files distributed using the Minecraft name affecting 131,005 users from July 2021 through June 2022....

November 14, 2022 · 4 min · 699 words · Hilda Wyckoff

My Personal Experience On Passing Vmware 3V0 624 Exam Techworm

My Preparation Experience To kick start my preparation, I picked up the 6.0 Blueprint because I learnt that the 6.5 exam guide was not as detailed as it should be. Well, I discovered that the 6.0 Blueprint is also not as helpful as I thought it would be. Unfortunately, because the VMware 3V0-624 exam is relatively new, there have been not much write-ups on it. Prior to writing the test, I knew the exam consists of 60 questions and they are multiple-choice ones, drag and drop, and matching formats....

November 14, 2022 · 5 min · 880 words · William Brooks

Nvidia Launches Geforce Rtx 3080 Ti And Rtx 3070 Ti Graphics Cards

According to NVIDIA, the RTX 3080 Ti is the new flagship gaming GPU of the GeForce RTX family. The RTX 3080 Ti features the GA102-225 graphics chip containing 10240 CUDA Cores, 80 RT cores, 112 ROPs, and 320 Tensor cores. It is clocked at 1,440 MHz base and 1,665 MHz boost and can draw up to 350 watts of power. Further, the RTX 3080 Ti is equipped with 12 GB of GDDR6X VRAM memory on a 384-bit wide bus and aims for a bandwidth of 912GB/s....

November 14, 2022 · 2 min · 420 words · Timothy Vandermark

Open Bug Bounty The Alternative Crowd Security Platform For Security Researchers Techworm

HackerOne has recently announced a $40 million investment, bringing the total amount of cash invested into the prominent startup to $74 million. The company, however, does not disclose the valuation or profitability. In light of similar VC deals, involving other crowd security companies such as BugCrowd, one may think that you need a lot of money to build your own bug bounty platform, but it’s not always the case. What is the concept behind Open Bug Bounty?...

November 14, 2022 · 3 min · 562 words · Lisa Papitto

Snapchat Announces Snapchat For 3 99 Per Month

“Over 332 million people worldwide use Snapchat every day to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. We’ve always enjoyed creating new features for our community, and historically we’ve tested new features in different ways, rolling them out to various Snapchatters and geographies,” Team Snap said in a news release about Snapchat+. “This subscription will allow us to deliver new Snapchat features to some of the most passionate members of our community and allow us to provide prioritized support....

November 14, 2022 · 2 min · 418 words · Glenna Albrecht

Star Citizen Reaches 350 Million In Crowdfunding

According to the latest reports from Cloud Imperium Games, Star Citizen has now earned more than $350 million. It is worth noting that, the long-in-development game reached the $300 million mark in June of 2020 and it managed to make $50 million in just nine months. In addition to crowdfunding, the two other major sources of revenue are the sales of starter packs and in-game items. The entire project has been supported by more than three million backers....

November 14, 2022 · 2 min · 239 words · Phyllis Bogdon

Surprise Coca Cola Own 61 Variants On The Domain Ahh Com Techworm

Back in 2013, Coca-Cola had launched an ad campaign with a strange series of games, videos and nightmare fuel that populated a series of websites that could all be traced back to ahh.com. It’s called the “Ahh Effect” campaign. Each site was a variation of “ahh,” extending from two Hs way up to sixty Hs in the URL. However, it remains to be seen if Coca-Cola will go the extreme route and get all the way up to 1,999 Hs in their domain....

November 14, 2022 · 2 min · 305 words · Amy Simmering

Whatsapp Rolls Out Banner Alerts Mute Feature On Group Voice Calls

The three new features added to group voice calls, include a notification sent to the group call host when more people join large calls, the ability to mute specific people who forget to mute themselves or mute someone whose background noise is disturbing everyone during a group call, and message select participants in the call. “Some new features for group calls on @WhatsApp. You can now mute or message specific people on a call (great if someone forgets to mute themselves!...

November 14, 2022 · 3 min · 478 words · Pat Alexander

You Can Now Stream Android Games And Apps To Facebook Live From Your Pc Techworm

Mobile gaming is a huge business, as people like to record videos of their gameplay or stream the action. While streaming your favourite smartphone apps on Twitch is very time consuming, it is even more difficult to set it up on Facebook Live. Since, the Android emulator basically runs the Google OS inside your PC or Mac, it becomes very easy to fire up the Play Store and download any app or game that you want....

November 14, 2022 · 2 min · 245 words · Victor Spencer

20 Best Free Movie Download Apps For Android In 2022

In this article, we will help you to find out the 20 Best Free Movie Download Apps For Android mobile using which you can stream or even download free movies for offline watching. Smartphones have completely revolutionized the way we watch movies and TV shows. Gone are the days when people relied on physical Compact discs for storing and sharing media files. The new generation prefers watching movies on smartphones and tablets....

November 13, 2022 · 16 min · 3310 words · Clarence Jarvis

Adobe Is Testing A Free Web Version Of Photoshop

The company plans to call the free service of the most popular photo editing tool “freemium”, which means that while users will have enough “core function” tools to perform the essential functions of image editing, some of the features of the software won’t be available for free. In other words, Adobe plans to paywall some features to paying subscribers. This means such features will be offered exclusively to only those who will buy the subscription for the service....

November 13, 2022 · 2 min · 405 words · Teresa Norris

Amd Announces Ryzen 7000 Desktop Cpus With New Zen 4 Architecture

Based on TSMC’s 5nm process technology, the new Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processor is projected to provide a greater than 15% uplift in single-thread performance as compared to its predecessor, for a better desktop PC experience. The new desktop processors will feature up to 2x chiplets or CCDs (Core Complex Dies). Each 5nm chiplet will have up to eight cores and the L2 cache has also doubled to 1MB per CPU core....

November 13, 2022 · 2 min · 375 words · Ellie Joseph

Apple Acknowledges Studio Display Speaker Problems

In a memo sent to authorized service providers and obtained by MacRumors, Apple acknowledges the problem with Studio Display and suggests a temporary fix. “Apple says that customers facing issues should unplug the Studio Display from power, unplug any accessories or devices connected to the display, wait ten seconds, then reconnect the Studio Display to power,” reads the report. Thankfully, the company describes the problem as a software issue, and not a faulty hardware issue....

November 13, 2022 · 3 min · 540 words · Greg Leonard

Apple Releases Patches To Fix Webkit Vulnerability Mac Battery Drain

The zero-day vulnerability dubbed as CVE-2022-22620 was disclosed to Apple by an anonymous researcher. This bug is a use-after-free memory corruption bug in the WebKit rendering engine, which powers Apple’s web browser Safari. The successful exploitation of the ‘CVE-2022-22620’ bug could allow threat actors to process maliciously crafted web content leading to ‘arbitrary code execution’ on a range of Apple devices. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” the company said in a statement while acknowledging the flaw....

November 13, 2022 · 2 min · 299 words · Floyd Murphy

Chingari Tops Google Play S As India S Most Popular Social Media App

Chingari – a video sharing app that’s similar to TikTok – said it finally replaced Instagram at the top of the charts, thanks to a surge in interest that resulted from its recent moves to embrace cryptocurrency. The app’s creators – Sumit Ghosh, Deepak Salvi, Aditya Kothari and Biswatma Nayak – announced their digital currency push earlier this year with the launch of the platform’s $GARI token at a special event hosted by brand ambassador Khan....

November 13, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Cynthia Gibson

Difference Between Linux And Unix Operating Systems

You may have often heard about both Unix and Linux operating systems. In today’s world, Linux is more famous than Unix but Unix has its own users. While Linux is an open source, free to use operating system widely used for computer hardware and software, game development, tablet PCS, mainframes, Unix is a proprietary operating system commonly used in internet servers, workstations and PCs by Solaris, Intel, HP etc. Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others....

November 13, 2022 · 7 min · 1280 words · Carlos Malaspina

German Government To Pay Over 800 000 For Windows 7 Extended Security Updates

The end of support means the company would now no longer be offering public security updates or fixes, software updates or technical support for Windows 7. However, businesses that haven’t migrated to Windows 10 in time can pay for Extended Security Updates (ESU). According to a local German newspaper, Handelsblatt, the German government which still has more than 33,000 computers running on Windows 7 has decided to pay €800,000 ($887,000) to Microsoft this year for ESU in order to keep their PCs updated and patched....

November 13, 2022 · 2 min · 257 words · Raymond Giles

Google Delays Removal Of Third Party Cookies In Chrome Until 2023

According to the company, this will allow sufficient time for the general public, regulators, publishers, and the advertising industry to migrate their services and prepare for the change. Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative (originally announced in 2019), along with its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) technology, aims to create web technologies that both improve privacy and gives companies and developers a tool they need for viable advertising business models. For those unaware, in January 2020, Google announced a plan to stop support for third-party cookies in Chrome “within two years” as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative....

November 13, 2022 · 3 min · 529 words · Traci Hass