Technology News for Thursday 2nd May 2024

1. LinkedIn forays into gaming with the launch of 3 new puzzle games

LinkedIn is jumping onto the gaming bandwagon as part of the Microsoft-owned firm's efforts to boost the engagement of over a billion users on its platform. On May 1, the professional networking platform launched three new puzzle games - Pinpoint, ...

2. 3D LED screen technology used to film Barbie, Dune, The Mandalorian comes to Melbourne university

After a year of construction, the new LED Volume Screen has opened at the Victorian College of the Arts. (Supplied: Drew Eschberg). abc.net.au/news/film-students-melbourne-hollywood-technology-led-screens/103789392. Link copied. ShareShare article.

3. Disease related changes in ATAC-seq of iPSC-derived motor neuron lines from ALS patients and controls

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), like many other neurodegenerative diseases, is highly heritable, but with only a small fraction of cases explained by monogenic disease alleles. To better understand sporadic ALS, we report epigenomic profiles, ...

4. Google blocked more than 2 million apps from the Play Store: Key details

Google ramped up its efforts to secure the Google Play Store, blocking over 2.28 million apps from being published in 2023 due to policy violations. This is a significant increase from the 1.43 million apps, that were rejected in 2022.

5. The industry speaks: World Password Day

The good news is there are more secure alternatives that provide better digital experiences for the user. Passwordless authentication replaces traditional passwords with more seamless and secure methods and helps enterprises reduce risk and stop threats at ...

6. Warning Against New Brokewell Android Malware That Spreads Through Fake Chrome Update, Targets Banking Apps

In today's digital landscape, our smartphones are more than just devices; they're extensions of our lives. But with great connectivity comes great vulnerability. Malware poses a significant threat to Android phones, compromising personal data, ...

7. This might be why your iPhone alarms don't go off when they're supposed to

One of the culprits could be Apple's “Attention Aware Features," which, when switched on, allow the iPhone to lower sound alerts. iphone alarm. Prev Next. Photo by: Tero Vesalainen / Shutterstock. Phone alarm on a table next to a sleeping woman.

8. Read Lucian Grainge's Memo on UMG-TikTok Deal: 'Entire Music Ecosystem' Will Benefit

The new agreement, announced in the early morning, addresses "key changes in several critical areas," Grainge said in outlining what UMG achieved in negotiations. By Dan ...

9. Universal Music Artists Will Return to TikTok

TikTok and Universal Music Group have reached a new licensing deal, ending a three-month stalemate that had blocked songs from some of pop's biggest stars from the influential social media platform. In a joint announcement early Thursday, ...

10. Universal Orlando unveils images, new details about Super Nintendo World

The colorful landscapes of the Mushroom Kingdom come to life in Super Mario Land, where guests can experience: • Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge: Guests are invited to join Team Mario and battle Team Bowser for ...

11. Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive

Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts to replace the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys. Their passwordless approach relies on device-based authentication instead, making logging in ...

12. Engineers create dissolving circuit boards that can be recycled over and over again

Inside the phone or computer you are reading this story on is a fiberglass board bearing all the circuit chips, wires and other electronic components that make the device work. And every year, hundreds of thousands of tons of these printed circuit ...

13. Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch

Microsoft's April 2024 security update blues continue with confirmation of a "significant increase" in NTLM authentication traffic in Windows Server. The issue is caused by installing the update (KB5036909) on domain controllers.

14. Epigenomic analysis sheds light on risk factors for ALS

Working with the Answer ALS consortium, a team of MIT researchers has analyzed epigenetic modifications — tags that determine which genes are turned on in a cell — in motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells from 380 ALS patients.

15. Ceiling fans can save you money all year long

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) ...

16. Developmental origins shape the paediatric cancer genome

Originating from developing tissues, paediatric cancers generally have low mutation burden and are driven by variants that disrupt the transcriptional activity, chromatin state, non-coding cis-regulatory regions and other biological functions. Within each ...

17. Super Nintendo World to debut at Universal Orlando's Epic Universe in 2025

The attraction will feature dining, shopping and interactive experiences inspired by the Super Mario franchise, and for the first time in the United States, Donkey Kong Country, park officials said. The action will begin ...

18. Microsoft is changing how you log in to your accounts

The company said Thursday that users logging in to Microsoft 365 workplace software, Copilot, Xbox and Skype can now use “passkeys” rather than traditional passwords or an authenticator app. That means whatever biometric authentication ( ...

19. Ziyad Al-Aly

Anytime an important new study on Long COVID comes out, there's a good chance Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is behind it. Since 2020, Al-Aly has published about 20 studies—a ...

20. Pilot, 23, escapes injury when small plane crashes Wednesday in southwest Kansas

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21. Dear Škoda: make this concept a real rally car

How are you? Sorry to interrupt your planning for Portugal, but having seen your latest work today, we felt we really had to reach out. The Škoda Enyaq RS Race. Love it. (Would love it even more if it was called the Škoda Enyaq RS Rally/Rallye, ...

22. Hutchinson's new 'fastest gravel tyre on the market' only comes in one size

As with gravel bikes, so gravel tyres are diverging fast into 'race' and 'normal'. Today Hutchinson throws its hat into the speedy end of the market with its new Caracal tyre, the 'race' version of which it claims is the fastest gravel tyre on the ...