BIT Mining said it was exiting the mainland China market and ceasing its registration of new users from mainland China to comply with local regulations. The company said it expects to begin retiring accounts of users in mainland China on Friday. “BTC.com’s discontinuation of service to users in mainland China may adversely impact the consolidated financial statements of the company,” the company said. “However, the company believes that its growth in global markets will help offset the loss of business in mainland China....

This significant case in the history of blockchain technology concerns an issue between deceased forensics expert David Kleiman and Dr. Craig Wright, the Australian entrepreneur who claims to have invented Bitcoin. W&K Info Defense Research is a company that Dr. Wright and the late computer forensics expert Dave Kleiman founded. Dr. Wright’s ex-wife Lynn appears to be the majority shareholder in the company after shares were transferred into her name after her divorce from Wright in 2013....

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, the Apple Watch Series 7 is a great smartwatch that will give you a ton of health-focused features. The Always-on Retina display features 20% more screen area than the Watch Series 6 so you can see, tap, and text with ease. You will be able to check your blood oxygen levels at any time along with an ECG. In addition to your biometrics, you can check your heart rate, noting any highs and lows, and even get life-saving heart rhythm notifications....

Most Bluetooth connections feature a single transmitter and a single receiver. This is typically something like a laptop feeding sound to a pair of headphones or a smartphone outputting audio via an external speaker. However, Auracast promises to power massive numbers of headphones and other devices using only a single transmitter. The transmitter could be something as complex as a public address system or something as simple as a smartphone, a laptop, or a TV....

You need no experience whatsoever with Raspberry Pi to start with “Raspberry Pi For Beginners: Complete Course”. You’ll learn how to use Python 3, Flask, GPIOs, and more to build incredible projects. “Arduino for Beginners: Complete Course” doesn’t require any previous Arduino experience either. All of the projects and hands-on activities will take you from novice to master. Then you can move on to the “Arduino OOP (Object Oriented Programming)” course....

“This past year and a half, everything we’ve been doing has been consistent with our long-term vision,” Box CEO Aaron Levie said to ZDNet. “But the rate of change and number of things we’re doing vastly exceeds what we would’ve imagined.” For instance, Levie said, strong customer demand drove Box’s entry into the e-signature market – something he didn’t necessarily foresee happening a few years ago, he said. “But because of COVID-19, everyone’s moving to digital workflows, and we’re now entering a multi-billion dollar category....

The findings were made based on the observation that as people throughout the world become more digitally connected online than ever before, thanks in part to the global pandemic, so too is the potential for institutions, infrastructures, and personal lives to be more exposed to cybercriminals. “Big institutions remain vulnerable, despite spending millions on security, and cybercriminals have plenty of opportunities to exploit weak technologies,” the report said. Experian identified five top data breach trends to expect in 2022: 1....

According to the text, ANPD will be transformed into an autarchy of a special nature while still maintaining the organizational structure and competences of the law that created it in 2018. The provisional measure notes that, considering the scope of the powers of the authority, which oversees both the public and private sectors, the shift towards becoming an autarchy is legally important to ensure independence. The effects of the provisional measure become immediate after its signature, thus giving full administrative and budgetary autonomy to ANPD, which previously had only technical and decision-making autonomy....

According to the new plans around the Digital Real project, the tests that were supposed to commence later this year have been pushed to 2023. This is due to a workers’ strike at the Central Bank, which impacted the original schedule. During an event about the topic promoted by the Brazilian Banking Federation (Febraban) on Monday (30), the bank’s representatives said the intention was to start the pilots towards year-end, but the timescales were significantly delayed....

The updates of the decree signed by president Jair Bolsonaro on March 16 are intended to further improve the quality of citizen services provided through the Gov.br platform. The government sees the role of govtechs (technology-based startups focused on the public sector) as one of the key measures to enable these improvements. According to the government, the idea is to integrate govtechs developing technology, work processes and agile solutions intended to generate innovation and resource efficiency for the public sector to Brazil’s digital transformation efforts....

For the past month, I’ve been testing the Brydge 12.9 Max Plus wireless keyboard case with trackpad and people that see me working away on the combo think I have a slick new laptop under my fingers. The keyboard takes full advantage of the size of the iPad Pro 12.9 and has the largest trackpad I’ve ever used on any type of computer. The hinge and connection design has evolved over the years, and this new keyboard offers an elegant solution for iPad users....

BNPL offerings are now plastered across thousands of e-retailer websites, including clothing stores, beauty and makeup vendors, home products, technology stores, DIY, toy manufacturers, and even grocery shops, with partner brands including popular vendors such as Samsung, PrettyLittleThing, and ASOS. You can now encounter BNPL when you are buying “luxury” goods as well as making necessary purchases, representing a potential shift in the market and the rapid adoption of this payment method....

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair-programming service that launched publicly earlier this year for $10 per user per month or a $100 per user per year. Since launching, researchers have been curious to know whether these AI tools really translate into a boost to developer productivity. The catch is that it’s not easy to identify the right metrics to measure performance changes. Copilot is used as an extension to code editors, such as Microsoft’s VS Code....

Start with “AutoCAD VBA Programming - Beginner Course” to learn all of the fundamentals and concepts of VBA that will allow you to begin developing applications of your own. Or there is another beginner’s course, “AutoCAD Programming using C#.NET”, that provides a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of C# and how to create AutoCAD objects. This is an intensive class that also covers Visual Studio 2017 and the AutoCAD ....

Also: 6 things ChatGPT can’t do (and another 20 it refuses to do) Preply, a tutoring marketplace for language learning, tested ChatGPT and Google’s “intelligence” by asking a series of questions and analyzing their responses. The answers were measured using criteria that included context, details, efficiency, functionality, impartialness, and more. Here is how they both performed. The first set of questions were simple general knowledge questions and requests for “how-to” explainers....

Analyst IDC reports that tablets sales in the fourth quarter of 2021 dipped 11.9% compared to Q4 2020, leaving full-year tablet shipments of 169 million units, 3.2% ahead of 2020. Shipments of Chromebooks, a popular acquisition for many during the earlier stages of the pandemic, declined a massive 63.6% in Q4 2021 year on year, albeit still leaving its full-year growth at 13.5%. The decline in Chromebook shipments is much worse than was predicted by IDC back in June when it expected Chromebook full-year 2021 shipments would reach 43 million units, 33....

What is hybrid work? It’s a mixture of remote and in-office workers coexisting. According to Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager of security and collaboration at Cisco, the company’s own research predicts that 98% of meetings will have at least one participant who joins remotely. There are inherent problems with the hybrid approach, especially for those who aren’t in the office. As someone who has worked remotely for the last 12 years or so, it dawned on me that I’ve experienced all of the hybrid issues Patel and Cisco’s web conferencing company Webex are aiming to fix....

In a blog post, Cloudflare’s Omer Yoachimik explained that the company serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average in 2021 Q2, illustrating the enormity of the attack. He added that the attack was launched by a botnet that was targeting a financial industry customer of Cloudflare. It managed to hit the Cloudflare edge with over 330 million attack requests within seconds, he said. “The attack traffic originated from more than 20 000 bots in 125 countries around the world....

Wall Street had expected earnings of $1.82 per share on revenue of $1.6 billion, according to FactSet. Coinbase shares continued trading lower afterhours. Coinbase, which relies on the market value of digital currencies to generate income, noted that transaction revenue was $1.1 billion and $145 million in subscription and services revenue. In addition, Verified Users grew to 73 million from 68 million the previous quarter, but retail Monthly Transacting Users, or MTUs, were 7....

Now back to personalized digital experiences. Take it away Alex. You’ve seen the headlines about Google removing support for third-party cookies. While the timeline continues to shift, the writing has been in the sand for a while now. And for good reason. According to a study by Pew Research Center, 72% of people feel that almost all of what they do online is being tracked by advertisers, technology firms or other companies, and 81% say that the potential risks they face because of data collection outweigh the benefits....