Netflix is testing a feature that lets you speed up boring episodes

Oct29
by on October 29, 2019 at 7:39 am
Posted In: Apps


Netflix is always experimenting with new features to change your viewing experience. Its new test is a slightly weird one – the company is adding a feature to let you speed up or slow down video playback on your phone. According to a report by Android Police, the streaming platform is exploring an option on its Android app that’ll let you speed up episodes up to 1.5x and slow them down to 0.5x. The company confirmed it’s a mobile-only test in a blog post: We’re always experimenting with new ways to help members use Netflix.This is a mobile only test and…

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Oops — Adobe leaves 7.5 million Creative Cloud accounts exposed

Oct28
by on October 28, 2019 at 6:39 am
Posted In: Apps


Earlier this month, Adobe was the victim of a serious security incident that exposed the personal information of nearly 7.5 million users belonging to the company’s popular Creative Cloud service. Per security firm Comparitech, the software giant left an Elasticsearch server unsecured that was accessible on the web without any password or authentication. The leak, which was discovered on October 19, was plugged on the same day by Adobe upon alerting the company. “Late last week, Adobe became aware of a vulnerability related to work on one of our prototype environments. We promptly shut down the misconfigured environment, addressing the vulnerability,” Adobe…

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Modern cybersecurity is inaccessible to smaller companies — and that’s bad for you

Oct26
by on October 26, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Podium


It’s about time that the cybersecurity technology that was once only available to wealthy corporations will become accessible for all.  It used to be scary and thought-provoking when a resourceful hacker cracked open a hoard of user information, but the sheer number of massive hacks that happened, in 2018 alone of Equifax, Twitter, Quora, Facebook, and many others, has ensured our collective desensitization to this issue. We find ourselves in an era when it’s not a question of if but when you’ll get hacked. So, this is also an appropriate moment to stop, look at the state of cybersecurity, and…

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