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Accurate, last week’s news, but we’ve missed it so far, so we’re now reporting that FarmVille 3, the latest installment of the popular farming game, has been released for Android and iOS.
The original FarmVille was launched on Facebook back in 2009 and soon became a huge success, with more than 300 million users at its peak. FarmVille 2 was released soon after, in 2012, and in 2014 it also received a mobile release for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
And now FarmVille 3 has arrived, offering a much more modern experience with expanded capabilities. In addition to crop production, there has been a strong emphasis on animal husbandry, with 150 new exotic animal species in the game and a real-time weather system created by the developers.
FarmVille 3 is now available for download on Android and iOS, the installation costs nothing, but of course, there will be in-game purchases.
Glen de Vries, 49, died due to a plane collision. He had also been on Jeff Bezos’ spaceship a month before, which had taken William Shatner on a short journey.
According to US outlets, including CNN, a Blue Origin astronaut, Glen de Vries, was killed in a plane crash on Friday. A space corporation owned by Jeff Bezos also confirmed the news. Glen de Vries, 49, was a pilot of a tiny plane that crashed in New Jersey for unexplained reasons. Thomas P. Fischer, a 54-year-old pilot, was on board with the astronaut. He was also killed in the tragedy.
We are devastated to hear of the sudden passing of Glen de Vries. He brought so much life and energy to the entire Blue Origin team and to his fellow crewmates. His passion for aviation, his charitable work, and his dedication to his craft will long be revered and admired. pic.twitter.com/1hwnjntTVs
This October, Glen de Vries also made it to space a few minutes when he soared with his three companions, including Canadian acting legend William Shatner of Star Trek films. Blue Origin organized the mission.
De Vries, an obsessed pilot who was a wealthy businessman, was known for flying various small planes several times. It is known that at the time of the accident, they were in a Cessna 172.
Glen de Vries was the founder of a U.S. company called Medidata Solutions, which develops software tools for medical examinations and clinical trials. The company is particularly successful: its partners include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and work with academic and government institutions.
Following the previous Fast Laughs feature, Netflix would reintroduce another feature for kids based on TikTok’s short video concept.
It announced the Fast Laughs feature for its Netflix iOS app in the spring. Like TikTok, you can browse short videos here, not just any videos. Users do not make these, but by Netflix: the clips show funny scenes from the series and movies available on Netflix.
The streaming provider is doing something similar again; however, according to Bloomberg, this time, it would focus on children. The Kids Clips feature would also be included in the iOS app, presenting short favorites from the kids. (No information about the android version yet.)
The big difference compared to Fast Laughs is that the “kids videos” appear horizontally, and the small one can only watch 10-20 such clips at a time. Netflix is said to add new clips to its offer every day based on available movies and current shows. Perhaps this is how the purpose of both features is similar: to promote Netflix content and make the movie/series selection decision more straightforward.
Kids Clips is still in the testing phase for the time being and is only available on Netflix in specific markets (US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Latin America).
There are several ways Microsoft can try to persuade users to upgrade to the latest operating system possible. They also deployed a desktop application of their cloud service for the cause.
Microsoft recently announcedthat the OneDrive desktop application on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 would not be updated as of January 1, 2022. That synchronization of personal OneDrive accounts configured in the desktop application will also cease on March 1. Of course, your OneDrive account will still be available over the Internet, but the desktop version is only supported on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
To maintain the OneDrive experience, Microsoft recommends that users switch to the latest versions of Windows. Those who do not are advised to back up and protect their files by manually uploading them to OneDrive on the web. From here, they can still access, edit, and share their files on all of their devices.
Microsoft also provided information for those using the OneDrive desktop app for business. As of January 1, 2022, application support will adapt to the Windows support lifecycle. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, support will end on January 10, 2023, but Windows 8 will no longer be supported.
All this, Engadgetnotes, is not an unexpected move. Microsoft has long failed to persuade a good few customers to upgrade to newer versions of Windows – companies and governments prefer to pay for special support contracts rather than upgrades. Of course, this hurts Microsoft, but it also has security risks: WannaCry, for example, has taken advantage of organizations running outdated versions of Windows. The new OneDrive policy may encourage some users to install more recent versions of Windows, even if they are otherwise satisfied with an old operating system.
It’ll only be a matter of time before iOS games start showing up on Netflix. The App Store policy, on the other hand, poses significant difficulties in this regard.
From early November, Android games will be available on Netflix’s subscription service, and it won’t take a lot of luck to figure out that, sooner or later, iOS games will have to be available as well.
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This topic is also addressed by a notable Bloombergjournalist, who claims that the matches would be available on the App Store. This implies that you can’t download or play the games on Netflix; you can only start them from there.
Of course, this isn’t surprising because it also works for Android games: if you select an app from the Dedicated Games tab, the Google Play Store will open, prompting you to download the app and sign in to your Netflix account.
On iOS, the procedure would most likely be the same. You might be able to get the game from the App Store and then log in to your Netflix account to play it. Netflix would not legally violate App Store standards due to this, but it wouldn’t be remarkable if Apple forbade Netflix from displaying an Android-style game page, according to 9to5Mac. Netflix is unlikely to get the excellent, coherent, all-in-one solution they desire.
As a result, the author of the Bloomberg piece anticipates that Netflix will move its games to the cloud in the future.
Again, this would be ideal for Android, but Apple’s regulations make cloud gaming solutions nearly hard to implement, forcing services to settle with mediocre online apps. If Netflix decides to embrace cloud-based gaming, it’s unclear what will happen to the service on iOS.
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But don’t go too fast. For the time being, the App Store solution will be used, albeit the service’s success will ultimately be determined by Apple, which, while an old partner, is becoming a significant competitor to Netflix.
Netflix’s gaming selection is still limited, especially compared to Apple Arcade, which offers users hundreds of titles to download.
WhatsApp is already experimenting with a feature that determines who cannot see if your message has been read.
WhatsApp, like Facebook Messenger, informs users whether the intended recipient received the message they sent and, if so, whether they read it.
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In many circumstances, this feature is helpful, but the user may not want to know whether they have already seen a message.WhatsApp already offered to hide this type of information from our partners, but the developers added another option.
WABetaInfo, which was sent out to WhatsApp for Android smartphones, is now accessible in a beta version of a switch that allows you to create a unique screening list.
You can choose folks on your contact list who you don’t want to know whether they’ve received your message, but you don’t want to see if they’ve read it.
According to Apple’s newly discovered patent plan, the company’s miracle glasses would also receive a unique safety feature.
If someone uses their smartphone in a public place, there is always a risk that others may see your private messages, personal information, or just photos flipped through your mobile phone. While there is room to prevent this, Apple appears to have come up with a much more effective solution to the problem.
Patently Apple discovered the patent, which the Cupertino company has produced and which can provide a beneficial way to use Apple’s smart glasses in the future. Indeed, there are indications that they plan to give the glasses a feature that will allow only the person wearing the glasses to see what is displayed on the iPhone’s display – and pair it with the device it is wearing.
By the way, a similar patent had already appeared earlier: in the summer of 2020, there were also signs that Appel glasses could be given such use.
Isaac Benbenistit, head of a blacklisted spyware company in the United States, has taken over from NSO.
According to Reuters, the chief executive of NSO Group, the maker of spyware software Pegasus, resigned after the U.S. Department of Commerce blacklisted NSO. Isaac Benbenistit has only been acting CEO since October 31 but has not officially filled the position.
The United States has imposed sanctions on the company following the outbreak of the Pegasus scandal, citing Benbenistit’s ongoing legal and economic hurdles resulting from the scandal’s eruption. Benbenistit only worked for the company for three months.
According to scientists at the Universities of Geneva and Bern, the theory-based method can also be used on Earth: it can be used to filter out illegal landfills.
An image recognition method based on artificial intelligence can help scientists discover exoplanets. Scientists at the University of Geneva and the University of Bern described a process developed jointly with Diasitek in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Most exoplanets have been discovered by the transit method so far. This is based on tiny fadings of starlight caused by the passage of planets orbiting their sun. But in many planetary systems, the interaction between worlds changes this repetition and makes it impossible to detect planets. This is why Swiss scientists used artificial intelligence for image recognition. The computer was taught to calculate the effect of interplanetary interactions, which made it possible to discover exoplanets – planets outside the solar system – that had hitherto been incapable of being detected by experts.
The method they have developed can also be used to detect illegal dumping on Earth, for example.
“Using a large number of examples, it is possible to teach a machine to consider all parameters and calculate the effect of interaction between planets,” reads a statement from the University of Geneva.
When the method was first applied, the researchers discovered two exoplanets, Kepler-1705b and Kepler-1705c, which could not be detected with the prior art. The planetary system thus revealed is a gold mine to gain knowledge about exoplanets. The method makes it possible to estimate the radii of planets and provides information about their mass, density, and composition.
The use of artificial intelligence, especially deep-learning AI, is becoming more widespread in astrophysics, whether in processing observational data or analyzing the results of massive computational simulations, noted Yann Alibert, a professor at the University of Bern.
Since March, YouTube has been testing the impact on videos and content producers of seeing Dislikes only for creators. The feedback was so positive that the company decided to introduce it.
YouTube has made an important decision: the company has announced that it will remove the number of dislikes from the videos from November 10th. According to the company, the change is intended to prevent minor creators from being subjected to any form of harassment or psychological abuse. Many people use the Dislike button to embarrass others, and the reaction has nothing to do with that content.
The company noted that the button will still be visible and pressed, but only the creators can see how many such reactions have been received on a video.
The move is not entirely unexpected, and the company announced back in March that it was working on a better place for video sharing. As part of this, the possibility of taking down the number of dislikes also came up, but the company was still testing this possibility. However, there were indications that the feedback was positive, so they introduced this solution to everyone. True, only gradually, so we may still encounter the counter for a while.
According to YouTube, when they tested to eliminate the number of dislikes, they found that people pressed it less often to offend the creator. According to the company, the comment “I just came to dislike” alone is likely to make a person less satisfied if they don’t see the specific result of pressing the button.
And of course, there’s another benefit to this: because of the minor dislike, YouTube’s ranking algorithm won’t see a single video that needs to be shown less to others.
The change applies to all services in the Meta Empire, including religious affiliation.
Starting next January 19, it will no longer be possible to post targeted ads on Facebookand Instagram based on user-sensitive features, Axios wrote. According to the portal, it was classified as such.
political, ethnic, sexual orientation, same-sex marriage, and content related to the Catholic Church.
The Axios emphasized that the change is not based on the individual’s characteristics but on those who engaged in social media. Thus, the phenomenon of targeted advertising will no longer disappear on the site.
Meta– the parent company behind Facebook and Instagram – explained the change so that advertisers can less manipulate users. However, critics (especially interest groups) see that this could dramatically reduce the number of positive messages.
The ban applies to all services in the Meta Empire, including WhatsApp.
Google has developed a new way to improve the performance of Chrome (and Chromium derivatives) and reduce memory and CPU usage.
RawDraw has named Google a new feature that can reduce the load on your system resources by changing how your page is displayed and rasterizing only the parts you need.
When the Chrome browser rasterizes the output, it selects the pixels to use to draw that page, Android Police explains. The browser starts by dividing the page into a grid of tiles of approximately 256×256 pixels and then assigns resources to each tile. While this process saves Chrome from recalculating an entire webpage after each frame, the user interacts with (, or when playing a multimedia item), this method isn’t perfect either.
This is because individual side tiles can be pretty resource-intensive on modern, high-resolution displays and can sometimes use up to 10 MB of RAM, and now we’re talking about just one tile. Thinking about all the tabs you open in Chrome makes it easy to understand the vast resource requirements. The chromium.org development approach, however, is different from the previous ones as the question of snapping the device RawDraw called for the development of the prototype.
Using RawDraw, a process called Riz, which is responsible for rasterizing the screen by deploying the GPU, no longer allocates textures to individual tiles. This reduces memory and CPU usage so the GPU can quickly rasterize the required and only the needed tiles. This can reduce the amount displayed by up to 90 percent.
The RawDraw tool is now technically available under Chrome flags. However, since it is still in the early stages of development and can cause very unstable and fatal errors, its use is not recommended.
A flying figure was seen several times over Los Angeles, which led to an extensive investigation. It seems that a runaway Halloween decoration will be responsible for the violation.
A structure called a jetpack a jetpack is a compelling but dangerous device. This is because the wearer can quickly reach higher heights of up to tens of meters. And those who are experimental (and regular, officially licensed) travel even greater distances.
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The subject kept people feverish last year as well, especially after such a reckless pilot appeared over Los Angeles. On the other hand, he was never identified or videotaped, and, as it turned out, not by chance: the mysterious figure, according to investigators, does not exist. More specifically, the eyewitnesses did not see a flesh-and-blood person,
but a runaway Halloween decoration, a human-shaped balloon.
The “flights” that can be traced back to last year were always only spotted for a few moments by pilots of planes passing through the airspace, who also immediately reported to the control tower. And the personnel there are to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The investigation into the case was undertaken by the FBI (i.e., the Federal Bureau of Investigation), which has now announced that the jetpack could be a balloon patterned from the protagonist of the Tim Burton film.
The mysterious figure was wanted to be held accountable primarily because he performed the flights each time in a place and altitude where he should not have been. The latter had already raised suspicions in some eyewitnesses at the first sightings, but it seems unnecessary: what they saw over Los Angeles was just a piece.
