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According to a report by the Financial Times, state-backed China Advertising Association (CAA) is testing a tool to bypass the new Apple privacy rules. This will then allow companies to continue tracking users without their consent. In turn, this allows the companies to continue serving targeted ads. The tool is known as CAID, and it’s being touted as “a substitute if the user’s IDFA is unavailable”. Though the CAA claims that the CAID is both not yet formally implemented, and “does not stand in opposition to Apple’s privacy policy”....

“The one-dose vaccine is important to facilitate the authorities in vaccinating residents in the interior including Orang Asli in Gua Musang, Kuala Krai and so on, as there is no need to enter the areas twice,” he said. Dr. Noor Hisham, health director-general, announced on Tuesday that the Drug Control Authority (NPRA) had given conditional approval for the use of the CanSino and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines, both of which only require a single dose....

In its announcement blog post, the company says that it plans to collect feedback from the community over the next few weeks. Then it will be addressing said feedback, fixing issues and adding features before a broader rollout outside of the US. No date was given as to when this is happening. It could take awhile, considering that in a week the Android version of Clubhouse went from what’s basically a closed beta to an open one for the US only....

Now, nearly seven years since its bankruptcy, CoinDesk, one of Mt. Gox’s largest creditors, says it should be able to help investors that have a stake in the 850000 Bitcoin within the exchange, to recover up to 90% of that amount. The news comes after the creditor reportedly cut a deal with Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy trustee and will give investors two choices: agree to early payment, or wait for the ongoing litigation to finish in order to recover more....

The Caribbean island with a population of 11.2 million says that it plans to inoculate all its children before reopening schools. The campaign to vaccinate children started last Friday with teens 12 and over, with those in the 2-11 age group in the central province of Cienfuegos getting their shots on Monday. The Abdala vaccine is a three-dose shot, while the Soberana vaccine only requires two doses. The two are the first to be given the green light out of Cuba’s five coronavirus vaccine candidates....

The idea behind this method of scam makes sense. After all, whenever you type in, for example, YouTube in a browser search bar, Google will more often than not put an ad for the YouTube home page at the very top of the search results. The actual link to the same page will appear immediately below, and clicking both brings you to the same page anyway. That is of course assuming that you’ve clicked on a genuine “ad”....

In another announcement on 19 June, the Polish video game studio has revealed that those who have purchased Cyberpunk 2077 for their PlayStation 4 (PS4) or Xbox One are also able to play it on the upcoming PlayStation 5 (PS5) and Xbox Series X consoles for free. — Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) June 19, 2020 CD Projekt Red added that on top of supporting backwards compatibility on both next-gen consoles, players will also receive a graphics upgrade to the game....

Thoman and two other co-founders calls their studio PH3 Games. The name was chosen because it’s “somewhat pronounceable” in English as well as German, and also because all three co-founders have a PhD. The venture has been reportedly around since September last year, but that it’s finally gotten the paperwork sorted out with the government of Austria, where the studio is based. For those who are unfamiliar, the first Dark Souls game on PC was infamous for being a pretty buggy port....

Dinga Bakaba, the game director of Deathloop, shared the interaction between the game and the DualSense controller on a PlayStation Blog post. He describes using the controller to make each gun in the game feel as differently from one another. He also describes having the game block the triggers when your weapons jam in-game. This gives the player physical feedback on what’s going on. It’s an amazing way to make use of adaptive triggers, a feature that sounds so innocuous....

As the images suggest, this new generation Digivice comes in the form of a wearable. In fact, it looks very similar to the one that came before it, called the Vital Breath Digital Monster. And according to Famitsu, it does come with a few of the more basic features that you’d expect from an actual wearable. A few examples include a built-in heart rate monitor and a pedometer. It also has a companion smartphone app called Digital Monster Vital Breath Lab....

The list now adds the latest midranger offerings from OnePlus, the Nord CE 2 and Nord 2T. This is in addition to older midrange phones such as the Nord CE and Nord CE 2. Of course, the list includes the brand’s latest flagship, the OnePlus 10 Pro. It also includes two of its previous flagships, the 9 Pro and the 8T, with the latter being the oldest OnePlus device on the list....

Called Dota: Dragon’s Blood, the new series will be making its way to Netflix in Malaysia on 25 March 2021. Here is the synopsis of the series, as provided by the streaming service: “The sweeping fantasy series tells the story of Davion, a renowned Dragon Knight devoted to wiping the scourge from the face of the world. Following encounters with a powerful, ancient eldwurm as well as the noble Princess Mirana on a secret mission of her own, Davion becomes embroiled in events much larger than he could have ever imagined....

In 2017, John Wick: Chapter Two graced the big screens (this time helmed only by Stahelski as Leitch went on to make Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde) and once again blew the minds of fans and critics alike. Chapter Two expanded the mythos of the secret assassin community while also delivering insane action sequences. The film went on to make more than double of its predecessor at the global box office, raking in $US 171....

Musk, a prominent crypocurrency enthusiast, further tweeted, “To be clear, I strongly believe in crypto, but it can’t drive a massive increase in fossil fuel use, especially coal.” Bitcoin mining has often been criticised for its staggeringly high energy costs, which in turn generate more carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Musk himself tweeted a chart of bitcoin’s electricity consumption: — Elon Musk, the 2nd (@elonmusk) May 13, 2021 Many have highlighted the billionaire entrepreneur’s apparently contradictory support for both environmental causes and cryptocurrency....

When Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($US 2 billion) failed to outdo both Titanic and Avatar at the global box office, most of us wondered if those records would ever be broken in the near future. That is until Endgame proved to be a completely different beast entirely when it grossed more than $US 1 billion in its opening weekend — the first movie in history to ever accomplish that....

In fact, there’s so much more we could’ve explored. How many people who lost their loved ones after the snap committed suicide? How many moved on and remarried? We may never find out. However, one minor plot we almost got was that of Black Widow leading an organization for orphan children. Speaking to Slate’s Podcast The Gist, the Russo brothers had this to say: I believe at one point really early in development, Black Widow was actually leading the organization in D....

But the EU General Court in Luxembourg found that, while the logos were similar in some ways, their visual differences were significant, a BBC report said. “Chanel’s marks have more rounded curves, thicker lines and a horizontal orientation, whereas the orientation of the Huawei mark is vertical. Consequently, the General Court concludes that the marks are different,” the court said. The BBC noted that in 2017, Huawei applied for EU trademark protection for a logo it wanted to use for computer hardware, but ran into opposition from Chanel....

“As currently stands, operators of online platforms do not, in principle, themselves make a communication to the public of copyright-protected content illegally posted online by users of those platforms,” the European Court of Justice said. But if YouTube is aware of the illegal content on its platform and doesn’t act quickly, then it might find itself in hot soup. The court also noted that platforms could be liable if they don’t install the appropriate technological tools to stem copyright violations or if they offer tools for illegal content sharing....

For the uninitiated and those that haven’t actually looked beyond MSI’s Afterburner or ASUS’ GPU Tweak tools, Precision X1 is a precision overclocking tool, launched around the same time that NVIDIA’s first ever GeForce RTX cards first came on to the scene. In other words, sometime in the year 2018, when the Turing-based RTX 20 Series made its debut. As a quick primer, EVGA announced back in September that it was getting out of the graphics card manufacturing business and has even said that it doesn’t not have any plans in the future of partnering up with either of its rivals, AMD and Intel....

This should come as a surprise to no one, and probably least of all to Blizzard. After all, a single glance at the mobile and F2P gaming space would’ve highlighted as much. There have been so many other games like it out there, even including some premium live service titles, and they’ve all been slammed to some degree or another. For a company to still bullishly plough ahead using strategies that are tried and tested to fail, despite the countless warning signs and case studies, it can only be a calculated move....