October 18, 2022 - Kogonuso | Tech News, Reviews & Resources

Off-hours may not accurately describe flight attendants' ground time because much of it is spent planning their next flight. Help from the airlines for which...

At auction, a first-generation iPhone sold for nearly $40,000 USD.

Someone paid nearly $40,000 for a smartphone over the weekend. No, it was not gold-plated or encrusted with diamonds. It lacked even basic features, including...

According to Mark Zuckerberg, iMessage is less secure than WhatsApp.

WhatsApp and its parent company, Meta, have begun a new round of verbal sparring over who has the best and most secure messaging service. The...

Analogue is finishing up production of its SNES and Genesis clones.

Analogue, the maker of retro gaming hardware, has announced a final production run of its popular Super Nt and Mega Sg consoles. The Super Nt...

Networking: The more things change, the more they remain constant.

The world is full of networking protocols, which are the methods by which electronic devices and computers communicate. These protocols are widely used in data...

3.24.7509 3DMark Basic Edition Review and Download

3DMark includes a benchmark designed specifically for your device, whether you are gaming on a smartphone, tablet, notebook, laptop, desktop, or a high-performance gaming PC....

A new iPad Pro with M2 silicon is expected any day now.

Apple is reportedly just days away from releasing a refreshed iPad Pro with an upgraded processor. The upgraded models, codenamed J617 and J620, will have...

According to AV-Comparatives, Microsoft Defender lacks offline detection capabilities.

Microsoft Defender first appeared as a free anti-spyware download for Windows XP. Microsoft eventually evolved into a proper antivirus solution (under various names and iterations),...

Elon Musk retracts his statement, saying that SpaceX will fund Starlink in Ukraine “indefinitely”

Elon Musk appears to have backtracked on his claim that SpaceX cannot continue to fund Starlink in Ukraine indefinitely. The CEO has now stated that...

Game Tech

The developer blames the “potato” Xbox Series S for keeping Gotham Knights at 30 frames per second on consoles.

We are used to seeing performance modes for games on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, but not Gotham Knights. The highly anticipated Rocksteady...

Kanye West is set to purchase the “free-speech” platform Parler.

Ye, better known as Kanye West, has purchased Parler, a social media platform that positions itself as a non-censoring alternative to Twitter. Parlement Technologies, the...

What exactly is Kotlin? The Java alternative is described.

Kotlin has significant advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and it works well alongside Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a free,...

According to leaked documents, Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion per year. And it only gets worse.

Amazon fires employees at an alarming rate, far exceeding industry norms. That staggering attrition now has a cost, according to a tranche of documents marked...

Oracle Cloud is accessed via VirtualBox 7.

Oracle's virtualization application has been updated to include remote control of cloud-hosted VMs as well as the ability to fully encrypt virtual machines. The latest...

In ASP.NET Core 6, use model validation in minimal APIs.

When working with minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6, use FluentValidation to validate your model classes. When working with ASP.NET Core 6 applications, you will...

Ant Group has listed OceanBase on AWS Marketplace in order to broaden its reach.

The distributed SQL-compatible database, which supports hybrid transactional analytical processing (HTAP), is expected to support additional public cloud service providers in the near future. Ant...

To protect whales from ship collisions, a smart buoy ‘hears’ the sea.

Humans pose numerous threats to whales, not the least of which are ship collisions, which kill 18,000 to 25,000 animals each year, according to the...

Google intends to support BigLake data lakes for all unstructured data.

Google announced on Tuesday that it will add support for most commonly used open-source table formats in data lakes as part of its ongoing effort...

Comcast has increased the speeds of most of its Xfinity internet plans.

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Comcast's recent speed boosts now go beyond the high end. The cable company is increasing speeds for the majority of its Xfinity tiers across the...

Hearing aids are now available over-the-counter in the United States.

Adults in the United States with mild-to-moderate hearing loss can now purchase hearing aids without a prescription, medical exam, or audiologist fitting. In August, the...

The first Wear OS 3 smartwatch from Fossil is a minor update to last year’s model.

Fossil is following through on its promise to release Wear OS 3 watches, but you should temper your expectations. The Gen 6 Wellness Edition is...

Auto Tech

Cadillac’s $300,000 Celestiq EV prioritises comfort.

Cadillac has finally released more information about the Celestiq, and it is clear that the EV prioritises luxury over raw power. The custom sedan now...

Adult-only broadcasts are included in TikTok’s livestreaming updates.

TikTok is updating its livestreaming features once more, and this time the biggest improvements affect those who can not watch. To begin, the update now...

The Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile SDK is nearing completion.

The Kotlin SDK from JetBrains enables developers to share a codebase for networking, data storage, analytics, and other logic for Android and iOS applications. JetBrains...

Information

In Canada, Uber Eats now delivers cannabis.

Torontonians now have another option for getting cannabis without having to wait too long, as Uber Eats has begun offering deliveries in the city. Uber...

Moochers on Netflix can now transfer their profile to a new account.

Netflix is making it easier to kick moochers off your account while retaining their viewing preferences. So, if you are tired of an ex using...

On October 19th, Konami will reveal what is next in the Silent Hill series.

Konami is finally ready to reveal what is next for the Silent Hill franchise, almost a decade to the day since the last Silent Hill...

Microsoft introduces PostgreSQL support for Cosmos DB, as well as several Azure updates.