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With all the viruses, phishing scams and other malware lurking on the internet, using a web browser can be risky business these days. But one firm thinks it could make your web surfing much safer without adding any hassle. A company named SquareX has just raised $6 million to develop an extension that would create virtual sandboxes within your web browser. Any time you’re tempted to open a file or click a link that comes from an unknown sender or could potentially pose a threat, SquareX’s extension would step in and…

Monday November 2, 2020, marked 20 years since the first crew took up residence on the International Space Station. Since then the football field-sized feat of engineering has hosted 26 European missions and supported over 2700 international experiments to improve life on Earth and in space. Credit: ESA/NASAThe <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>International Space Station</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The…

The closed beta for first-person shooter XDefiant is coming to an end this week, following developer Ubisoft‘s decision to extend the test by two days. On Friday night (April 21), Ubisoft confirmed that while XDefiant‘s closed beta was originally meant to close on Sunday (April 23), it would be kept open for an extra two days. While this will see the game’s beta close on April 25 in America, those in the UK will be able to play until 7AM BST on April 26. 🎉 We’ve heard the requests and are extending the Closed Beta for…

Tax day is April 18th—today. We shouldn’t have to be here, but here we are. Sure, you can labor through the labyrinthine official tax forms and send those to the U.S. government yourself. But as is the case every year in the U.S., the best options for less stress when filing taxes online for free are also the same services that have helped created this whole mess in the first place.How Can You Be a Steward of Good Tech in 2023? | Gizmodo InterviewCompanies are regularly trying to upsell you on tax filing services.…

Some philosophers have pointed out that immortality, while it may initially be desirable, would eventually lose its sheen. Credit: Shutterstock Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, recently invested US$180 million into Retro Biosciences—a company seeking to extend human lifespans by ten healthy years. One way it plans to…

June Wan/ZDNETSamsung on Thursday shared that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing agreement, giving the South Korean tech giant access to the U.S. chipmaker's Radeon graphics IP.Also: Samsung's new ultra-wideband chip gives phones precise distance measuringThe pair signed the original agreement back in 2019 for AMD to license its custom graphics IP based on RDNA graphics architecture to Samsung for use in smartphones and other mobile devices. Since then, Samsung has been using the AMD…

Indian financial technology company Paytm Payments Services has received an extension from the country's banking regulator to apply for a payment aggregator licence and aims to reapply in about 15 days, the company said on Sunday.Paytm Payments Services, in the meantime, can continue with the online payment aggregation business for its existing partners, without taking on any new merchants, the company said in a notification to stock exchanges on Sunday.Paytm Payments Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of One 97…

Indian financial technology company Paytm Payments Services Ltd has received an extension from the country's banking regulator to apply for a payment aggregator licence and aims to reapply in about 15 days, the company said. Paytm Payments Services, in the meantime, can continue with the online payment aggregation business for its existing partners, without taking on any new merchants, the company said in a notification to stock exchanges on Sunday. Paytm Payments Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of One 97…

Indian financial technology company Paytm Payments Services Ltd has received an extension from the country's banking regulator to apply for a payment aggregator licence and aims to reapply in about 15 days, the company said on Sunday.Paytm Payments Services, in the meantime, can continue with the online payment aggregation business for its existing partners, without taking on any new merchants, the company said in a notification to stock exchanges on Sunday.Paytm Payments Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of One…

As intriguing as the new Bing chat might be, the only way to access it after you get an invite is by using Microsoft’s Edge browser. According to Statcounter, Edge accounts for less than 5% of the global browser market share. Thankfully, if you don’t want to switch browsers, there is a Chrome extension that brings a similar ChatGPT-powered search assistant to Chrome. LINER adds an AI assistant to Google Search The Chrome extension itself isn’t actually new, as LINER has been available on the Chrome Web Store…