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Firefox Relay: Mozilla’s Solution to Tracking and Email Spam

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Admin

“Firefox, the popular web browser of Mozilla gets a new feature, Firefox Relay, to prevent tracking and email spam. Mozilla hopes for ending the email spamming and online tracking of its users.”

Firefox, the popular web browser of Mozilla gets a new feature, Firefox Relay, to prevent tracking and email spam. Mozilla hopes for ending the email spamming and online tracking of its users.

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This new feature, Firefox Relay was first unrolled in the beta version in August 202 as an extension. Firefox Relay can mask the email addresses of users when they sign up for new accounts on websites, disabling third parties to get direct access to their real email accounts.

With this new feature, Firefox users now don’t need to have access to the management dashboard to generate these email aliases. Rather than this, Firefox Relay will encourage users of the browser to use an existing mask to make a new one while creating an account on a webpage.

Masking Your Email

These aliases that the new Firefox feature makes forward messages to the user’s real email address, which means users remain anonymous while still being able to get advantages from various websites, and services online.

By having different aliases for different sites, users can easily delete and create new ones if they get spam messages without changing their actual email account address.

And in case your email is exposed to data breaches, then all the threat actors have is your alias instead of your actual email address, protecting their privacy and anonymity.

Till today, Mozilla claims that the new feature has prevented more than two million spam and unwanted emails from appearing in actual email accounts of users.

Unlike other similar features from other tech giants, Firefox Relay also removes trackers from emails before moving them forward to the user’s real email account.

Users need to first sign up for using this feature in Firefox, which includes free and paid tiers.

Sony will set PS5 Into the Honda Electric Car

Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 by Admin

Sony is going to set the PS5 in Electric cars of Honda. They are doing this to provide the customers with more entertainment on the go. An article has been published in Financial Time, “Sony-Honda venture plans to tap entertainment prowess for its electric cars”

In an interview with the Financial Times, president and COO of Sony Honda Mobility Izumi Kawanishi said it’s possible to integrate the PS5 into cars. The console and other Sony services are part of a greater vision to make a more entertainment-driven vehicle, competing with other electric models like Tesla.

Sony has content, services and entertainment technologies that move people. We are adapting these assets to mobility, and this is our strength against Tesla,” Kawanishi told the Financial Times.

According to ET Auto, “Sony Group and Honda Motor are reportedly mulling to fit a PS5 into their upcoming entertainment-focused electric vehicle (EV).

According to Sony Honda Mobility’s (joint venture) president Izumi Kawanishi, it is “technologically possible” for Sony to include the PlayStation 5 platform into the car it plans to build with Honda, reports The Verge.

The goal is to “develop a car as hardware that will cater to the entertainment and network we would like to offer,” said Yasuhide Mizuno, chairman of Sony Honda Mobility.

“To enjoy the space in your car, you have to make it a space where you don’t need to drive,” said Kawanishi, and also mentioned it will take some time to make that happen.”

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Apple Watch gets battery saver

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Admin

Earlier Apple watch users used to get a very less amount of battery life as it was only for a day but now they can get more as Apple watch is introducing battery saver mode. According to reports, Apple Watch users who are eligible for the watchOS 9 version are getting an update this week, which brings the new power-saving mode for users. Watch users can enable this feature manually to get more out of the Apple Watch whenever needed.

Other Perks

The best thing is that the software can automatically turn on when the battery level goes below 10 per cent, and disable it when the Watch has more than 80 per cent of juice. You can manually enable the new mode by going to the Control Centre of the Apple Watch or through the Settings on your iPhone.

How the feature works

According to News 18, “So, how does the Apple Watch achieve the additional load of the battery? The company has tuned the feature to turn off critical features like Always-on-Display, alerts from the heart rate monitor, blood oxygen measuring and workout reminders.”

They added, “Apple also says that if the Watch is not linked to an iPhone in its proximity, the Wi-Fi and cellular network on the Watch will also be disabled.

The company has not said how much difference will power-saving mode make on the overall life of the Watch but looking at the features that are getting disabled, we assume you can easily get an hour or two extra worth of juice from the battery. It is also expected that the mode will make the interface experience a bit sluggish and the animation on the Watch won’t be its usual fluid.”

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“Hey Siri” command of Apple is about to change to “Siri” by 2024

Posted on November 8, 2022November 8, 2022 by Admin

Apple is going to change its ‘Hey Siri’ trigger command to just ‘Siri’ either the next year or in 2024. According to 9 to 5 Mac, “Apple is working on a big change to how its Siri voice assistant works. While you currently have to say “Hey Siri” to activate the assistant hands-free, that may not be the case for much longer. Bloomberg reports today that Apple engineers are working to drop the “Hey” part of the phrase, so you’d only have to say “Siri” followed by a command to activate the assistant…”

Though there’s a lot of training and behind-the-scenes work that goes into a change like this, 9 to 5 Mac’s view on this is that, “Apple’s mission to change Siri’s wake phrase from “Hey Siri” to just “Siri” shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Doing so would match what’s offered by Amazon, where you simply have to say “Alexa” to trigger the assistant, not “Hey Alexa.” It would also give Apple a leg up on Google, where the wake phrase is “Hey Google” or “OK Google.””

This change will make Apple’s voice assistant similar to Alexa in this case. In the case of Alexa, one don’t have to sayba two word phrase but one word phase, “Alexa”. But in the case of Apple’s voice assistant Siri, the wake up call is Hey Siri for now. In future most probably in 2024 Apple’s voice assistant Siri will wake up only with one word call, “Siri”.

Apple’s reason for doing so

According to NDTV, “It would also put Siri ahead of Google Assistant, which requires the ‘Ok Google’ or ‘Hey Google’ phrases to activate, though users do not have to repeat the wake word when saying back-to-back requests.

Before shutting down its voice assistant last year, even Microsoft had shifted from ‘Hey Cortana’ to ‘Cortana’ on smart speakers.

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Starlink’s bid for rural internet subsidies is rejected by FCC has rejected

Posted on August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 by Admin

Starlink’s application for $885 million has been rejected by The Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

FCC’s news release

FCC said in its news release, “2022—The Federal Communications Commission today announced that it is rejecting the long-form applications of LTD Broadband and Starlink to receive support through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program. The Commission determined that these applications failed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service. Funding these vast proposed networks would not be the best use of limited Universal Service Fund dollars to bring broadband to unserved areas across the United States, the Commission concluded.”

Public Notice

Their public notice says, “By this Public Notice, the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force (RBATF), Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB or Bureau), and the Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) announce they are ready to authorize Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (Auction 904) support for the Auction 904 winning bids identified in Attachment A of this Public Notice. To be authorized to receive the total 10-year support amounts listed in Attachment A, the longform applicants identified in that attachment are required to submit acceptable irrevocable stand-by letter(s) of credit and Bankruptcy Code opinion letter(s) from their legal counsel for each state where they have winning bids that are ready to be authorized in accordance with the instructions provided below by the applicable deadline – prior to 6:00 p.m. ET on August 24, 2022.”

According to The Verge, “The funding is part of the broader $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund that provides an incentive for telecom companies to extend internet service to rural and underserved locations. In 2020, Starlink won an initial $885.5 million subsidy as part of a Phase 1 rollout of the program. The FCC also rejected LTD Broadband’s bid for the funding after it initially received $1.3 billion in 2020.

Hyundai is planning to build its first EV factory

Posted on July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 by Admin

There was a time when Electric Vehicles existed in the imagination of human beings. Moreover they were attributed to the future imagined by people. But that future is here because Hyundai Motors is planning to build its first fully dedicated electric vehicle (EV) factory in South Korea, targeting production by 2025, the automaker’s union said on Tuesday, citing its leader. Hyundai Motor Group, in May, announced its plans to invest 63 trillion won ($48.07 billion) in South Korea through 2025. The company announced this after South Korea’s largest automaker said in May it planned to invest $5.5 billion to build full EV and battery manufacturing facilities in Georgia. Hyundai Motors said that The EV facility in Georgia is scheduled to break ground in early 2023 and begin commercial production in the first half of 2025. According to Business Standard, “Hyundai has seven domestic plants in Korea and 11 overseas plants — four in China, and one each in the U.S., the Czech Republic, Turkey, Russia, India, Brazil and Indonesia. Their combined capacity reaches 5.65 million vehicles.”

The agreement

A union spokesperson told Yonhap that news agency Hyundai and its union agreed to make a domestic EV plant in the carmaker’s main Ulsan plant, 414 kms southeast of Seoul. Early, from this month, they have plans to start the building but the agreement is subject to a vote by unionized workers.

Future plans

According to Automotive News, “Hyundai is currently expanding its EV lineup to include the Ioniq 6, which will debut in Europe in the second half, and the Ioniq 7, which is projected to hit the market in 2024.”

The company has plans to expand its EV facility around the globe. It will be very interesting to see how people accept this new technology where the fuel will be replaced by power and fuel pumps will be replaced by charging stations.

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