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Mobile gaming now represents 61 per cent of the overall gaming market and is set to surpass $136 billion in 2022 a" growing 1.7x faster than the gaming market overall, a new report has shown.The overall gaming market is set to hit $222 billion in 2022, according to data.ai (formerly App Annie) and the International Data Corporation (IDC).Globally, users downloaded 45 per cent more mobile games per week in Q1 2021 from pre-pandemic levels, clocking in at over 1.1 billion games per week."We are seeing greater diversity…

Plenty to keep the security team busy: the US cybersecurity authority is urging everyone to patch a number of software flaws, including some older ones in Microsoft's Silverlight plug-in and Adobe Flash Player. The Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added three batches of must-fix bugs to its catalog of known exploited software vulnerabilities this week. The first covered 21 bugs, the second 20 known exploited bugs and the third covers a further 34. US federal agencies are required to patch the flaws…

Showcase your best work to potential employers with a coding portfolio. ShutterstockCoding portfolios are online resumes showcasing your coding projects to employers. While a resume tells hiring managers about your coding abilities, a portfolio demonstrates what you've actually done.All programming professionals, including data scientists, software engineers, and web developers, should maintain a portfolio. This guide offers advice on how to build a coding portfolio, what to include, what format to use, and how to…

Technology budgets in Brazilian banks are set to increase this year as digital transformation accelerates in the sector, according to a yearly report by the National Banking Federation (FEBRABAN), carried out by Deloitte. According to the study, tech budgets are set to reach $7.4 billion in 2022, up 18% in relation to last year. The estimate is based on the responses from 17 Brazilian banks, which concentrate around 82% of all banking assets in Brazil. Within last year's total tech budget at Brazilian banks of $6.3…

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 %600X | GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | RAM: 8GB | Storage: 1TB HDD | Power supply: 850W | VR ready: YesAlienware is one of the biggest names in PC gaming, and you can get your hands on the Aurora R10 Ryzen Edition desktop for less than $1,200. It features 8GB of RAM, which you can expand later as your needs change, a 1TB HDD for plenty of storage space, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU. And just because it's an older graphics card, that doesn't mean it can't keep up with the latest games, but you…

If you're graduating in 2022 (whether that's from high school, college, a bootcamp, or something else), you can join GitHub's graduation celebration in person or virtually. Drs Producoes/E+/Getty ImagesGitHub is bringing back in-person graduation events."Yes, GitHub Graduation 2022 will be our first in-person event following the pandemic," Elise Hollowed, senior program manager with GitHub Education, confirmed to ZDNet. The software development and internet hosting company plans to host in-person events in New Delhi…

Southwest AirlinesLet's start with the good news.Business travel is (allegedly) back, and Southwest Airlines has finally committed itself to giving customers the basic technology they expect on a flight.The airline is spending $2 billion on enhanced -- and even free -- wifi on its planes. It's finally installing power ports, too. Yes, Southwest planes were always known for having no outlets and now, voilá, USB-A and USB-C ports. Now there'll be more entertainment options, new "self-service capabilities," and even…

Sharks have long inspired our fascination and our fear. However, a growing body of scientific evidence has shown that instead of being afraid of sharks—which have killed fewer humans within a year than such risks as accidents taking scenic selfies and encounters with vending machines—we should be afraid for sharks. The latest numbers from the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List show that nearly one third of all known species of sharks and their relatives are considered threatened with extinction.…

On May 4, three-and-a-half years into its mission, NASA’s InSight lander registered the largest “marsquake” ever detected. The magnitude 5.0 quake was nearly 10 times more powerful than the previous record-holding Red Planet temblor, reaching the upper limits of what NASA geologists had dreamed of finding on Mars. And it may prove to be the mission’s swan song. Less than two weeks after the record-shattering quake, NASA announced that InSight is in trouble—not from seismic activity but from a slowly accumulating layer of…

The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted a screed. Most of the people he killed were Black. The document’s 180 pages cited not only racist conspiracy theories, but also scientific research on behavioral genetics. The research focused on finding heritable differences in IQ and propensity to violence between racial groups. There’s no reason to believe, on the basis of his screed, that the Buffalo shooter understood, or even read, the scientific…