PPSSPP Android Apps Gets Game Rewinding PPSSPP, an open-source emulator for Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) has now got a big upgrade in its Android client. It was just updated to version 1.11, and now has support for rewinding to earlier states in a game. This means users can resume playing from a previous situation in the game, instead of starting from the whole. This avoids a lot of time being wasted and is available in the Windows version of PPSSPP for so long....

Delay due to outburst The masterpieces, PS5 and Xbox Series X are made up of higher SSDs, Ray-tracing tech, 4K/8K gaming support, 120Hz refresh rates etc. Though the PS5 specs aren’t made official yet, Xbox gave its preview already. But both these machines will be making their way to market slower than expected. Daniel Ahmad, a video gaming industry analyst says that over 96% of the gaming consoles production of Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation happens in China only....

Certain projects with significant downloads in the past six months and others that are tagged as critical will soon be forced to secure, says PyPI. While it’s a good move, few developers are against it. Extra Security For Critical Python Projects Last year, we’ve seen popular npm packages like ‘ua-parser-js,’ ‘coa‘ and ‘rc‘ were modified with malware to compromise the dependent software, triggering the community to push for more security measures....

WhatsApp users are switching to either of the platforms to safeguard their chats from prying eyes like Facebook. But, how safe are Signal and Telegram though? Here’s our guide to learn more about them. Checkout; 1.) Privacy Policies Signal and Telegram collects the basic identifiable data like your name, phone number, and IP address while logged in. This is to ensure you’re on the right path and verify. And of course, they may share this data if they’re enforced by law....

I Was Raised on Basic Basic or new Visual Basic.NET is still widely used, and there is nothing wrong with teaching your children how to use it. However, Python is also an easily readable language good for beginners and is perhaps a little more popular than Basic. On the other hand, if you or your child are struggling with Python, there is nothing wrong with learning Basic. I Was Raised on BasicDo People Hire Python Programmers?...

Many Hackers Across the Globe Have Been Eyeing on TeamViewer Software TeamViewer is one such software which gives people from across the world a chance to access other person’s computer securely. Some millions of people from across the world have been using this software. Because of this popularity and a chance to access other’s computers, the software has become the prime target for hackers across the world. The Chinese hackers used Winnti Trojan malware to attack this software....

Cryptocurrency-based NFTs are just blockchain entries, that define the ownership of a digital item. And since people are paying millions to own them, The NFT Bay showed up with a torrent file worth 19.5TB – containing all the NFTs stored in Ethereum and Solana blockchains. Pirating NFTs Too! Non-Fungible Tokens, or popularly the NFTs are growing craze in the cryptocurrency community since last year. We’ve seen people racing to buy little digital arts with millions worth of cryptocurrency, just to have the ownership title....

Truecaller Can Now Translate Your Texts! Truecaller has got all the power in the world to be the number one phone caller app. As a phone number directory, the platform lets users lookup of phone numbers for free and has added several new features to be as a native app on every phone. This includes the introduction of payments, which had an unfortunate start in India, though. Yet, it was applauded for many other features like the recently launched Caller ID, which tells who’s calling and what basis....

Twitter Explains How the High-profile Accounts Were Hacked: After completing the thorough investigation into the high-profile accounts hacking incident, Twitter now comes up with an explanation about how it happened. In a series of tweets by Twitter Support, the company’s official handle for support updates has explained the incident yesterday. It said the attacks targeted a few of their employees via phone spear-phishing attacks to gain their company’s internal network credentials....

Twitter Uses Google Cloud For Data Processing Twitter is a platform having millions of users posting billions of tweets every day. This amounts to large dumps of data regarding every user’s activities, which may not be useful for everyone. But Twitter uses this data to better its services and make its platform appealing as ever. Thus, it has to pick a partner that can handle and process this data effectively. And it shook hands with Google Cloud in 2018 and used it for processing its cold data and Hadoop clusters to date....

Users who want to post long messages are now forced to upload a notepad screenshot – which includes all their text. This aside, Musk said Twitter would bring more tools for creator monetization and also improve the internal search soon. Twitter’s Upcoming Features After revamping the homepage for logged-out users and Blue subscription, Elon Musk-led Twitter is planning to add new tools for creator monetization. As the new boss revealed, these tools would help content creators earn money through their activities on the platform....

Uber could be prohibited from London. The city’s ride-hailing controller, Transport for London (Tfl), has denied the organization another permit since it is “not fit and appropriate” and permitted various uninsured and suspended drivers from working in the city. One of the significant change in the Uber’s system that was observed is “any driver can upload their pictures in other Uber’s driver accounts without any authorization”. In addition to this, Uber allows their suspended drivers to create a new account on the panel and re-start their services....

UK May Ban Huawei From Its 5G Plans Trump administration’s strongarm against Huawei has been successful so far, as the FCC has declared Huawei and ZTE as national threats and barred from dealing with US companies. Further, the US has also been actively convincing other nations to avoid using Huawei’s technologies too. While few countries like Taiwan and Australia did block Huawei, now the UK seems to join the list by barring Huawei in its 5G deal....

While it also highlighted the moves it’s making to combat such things, lawmakers aren’t satisfied much. Thus, a group of US states is now launching an investigation into how this issue, to find out further and end anything found troublesome for good. Investigation into Instagram Aside from video games, social media platforms face a fair share of addiction accusations from parents and lawmakers and are subject to many regulations for the public’s good....

Well, the secret lies in their video editing skills and the editors they use. Video editors certainly can bring the best out of even a regular video. But again, editors can be of several types, such as professional video editors, cut/ crop/ trim/ editors, Fx editors, and more. Luckily, if you are a vlogger, then there are various options available today. However, if you are looking for an all-in-one solution, VideoProc Vlogger is worth a try....

Through his post and on the official WhatsApp blog, the platform officially announced Communities – a new feature where relevant groups are brought together for being engaged in a better way. Also, some of the features currently in testing are also confirmed by WhatsApp. WhatsApp Communities is Coming To keep up with the pace, WhatsApp has been testing a lot of new features lately. These include the increased file sharing limit, message reactions, new drawing tools, etc....

This change was spotted in WhatsApp for Android’s latest beta and is still available in iOS and web clients. Instead of showing the last active status, WhatsApp replaced it with Business Account in that place. Update For WhatsApp Businesses After serving the general users, WhatsApp started helping businesses to interact with their clients lately. It has given such users a special business account status and is now planning to bring Shops soon....

The Black Shark series is a wonderful competitor in gaming phone segment, going against the likes of Asus, Nubia, Razer etc. The Black Shark 3, if priced as its predecessors, can definitely beat other gaming handsets in the market. Black Shark series (both 1 and 2) are much liked by the community due to their high-end features at a low price. And here’s yet another one feature, which isn’t available in any other phone in the market now....

The picture-in-picture mode is available in Android for years and is yet to generally available for Apple users. Soon, everyone with a YouTube Premium subscription will have this support. YouTube Picture-in-Picture Mode Picture-in-picture mode is when you can play a video in a part of a screen and simultaneously work on other apps. This support from YouTube is critical, as many works on various applications while listening to songs or streaming videos simultaneously....

YouTube Taking TikTok’s Feature? Tech platforms of similar genre copying their rival’s hit features are common. TikTok was blamed for consuming Musical.ly, Instagram for story features from Snapchat and now, YouTube is taking a pinch from TikTok. As seen from YouTube’s new experiments forum, the American video platform is trailing with a new short-video recording feature, just like TikTok. It said, content creators who’re in the beta program, can see a new “Create a Video” option at the Upload flow, which would let them record videos for a maximum of 15-seconds....