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You’ll find plenty of Kindle Unlimited free trials right now, which means you’re shopping at just the right time to grab unlimited access to the library without spending any cash. That’s a welcome relief, especially seeing as the cost isn’t included in the Amazon Prime price. Not only can you scope out the library of titles on offer to make sure your interests are served, but the free time gives you the chance to see if you will actually use the membership enough to be worth the monthly cost. The length of Amazon’s offers varies, ranging from the standard 30 day…
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. This year’s Black Friday deals are just several weeks away, but it’s highly recommended that you take advantage of early Amazon Black Friday deals to avoid the supply chain issues that arise during the holiday season. If you wait until Black Friday, the items that you purchase may not arrive on time, and they may even go on backorder if the product that you bought is a popular one. Products such as Apple devices, tablets, and laptops are always in demand, so the discounts that are…
Want more Smash Bros Ultimate DLC? We don’t blame you – Super Smash Bros Ultimate is the biggest, and possibly the best, Smash Bros fighting game to grace our Nintendo consoles. But if you’ve fought the main 74 Smash Bros Ultimate DLC characters to exhaustion, don’t worry – there’s a number of add-in fighters beyond the base roster, from fan-favorites like Banjo-Kazooie and Persona 5’s Joker to even more Fire Emblem characters (for some reason).The latest Smash Bros Ultimate DLC character is Sora, the face of the Kingdom Hearts games developed by Square Enix in collaboration with Disney. It’s not what…
Snapchat is rolling out a new ‘Run for Office’ in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office. The company says the new Run for Office tool is designed to help younger users engage with democracy in an easy way. The goal of the tool is to tackle common barriers that young people face when determining whether they want to get involved in local politics. “Powered with information from BallotReady, this simple tool will help Snapchatters explore hundreds of opportunities to run for local office based on the issues they care most about — from City Neighborhood Board…
VMware is all in at the edge as the company has rolled out new software to help enterprises support and manage ever-more distributed applications and data.At its virtual VMworld conference this week the company took the wraps off VMware Edge, an amalgamation of new and existing software packages that together let enterprises run, manage, and secure what VMware calls “edge-native” apps across multiple clouds at local and far-flung edge locations.The edge that VMware envisions includes multicloud support that brings together private and public network offerings as well as support for overlay services such as secure access service edge (SASE) and…
Blockchain data platform Chainalysis announced it has acquired Excygent, a professional services firm that helps government agencies with cybercrime investigations, data processing and lead generation, for an undisclosed amount.The deal marks Chainalysis’ first acquisition and follows its $100 million Series D funding round in March at a $2 billion valuation.“Cybercrime like ransomware is one of the biggest barriers to building trust in cryptocurrency,” said Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager in a press release. “The expertise brought by the Excygent team directly aligns with our mission to leverage the transparency of blockchains to weed out bad actors from the ecosystem…
Across the US, it was easy to joke about the productivity boost allowed by seven hours without the distraction factors of Facebook and Instagram, a company-wide meltdown that outside experts suggested and then Facebook reported was the fault of a network routing-configuration change gone epically wrong. But the lengthy outage left a much bigger dent in places where WhatsApp doesn’t occupy a distant third place in Facebook’s trinity of social apps. Which is to say, a large part of the globe outside the United States.“In much of the world, WhatsApp is synonymous with texting and phone calls,” tweets PCMag’s Jill Duffy, author…
After a two-year hiatus, Android’s creative and sweet dessert names are seemingly back for good. Dave Burke, Google’s vice president of engineering for Android, has just confirmed on Twitter that Android 12 carries wait for it… the Snow Cone name. Yep, Android 12 Snow Cone it is! This is as official as it gets, because it’s coming straight from one of Android’s head honchos. It’s subjectively a welcome reversal to Google’s naming policies, as it adds some flavor and recognizability to an otherwise forgettable name. Google abandoned the official use of dessert names after Android 9 Pie in 2018. It…
This is an incredible feature of Bitcoin, which exists only because it is a single market, in which every miner competes for the same exact finite resource (new units of bitcoin). Thus, a new unit of hashrate no longer empowers existing miners, economically, speaking. If enough sustainable units come online, especially if they are subsidized (and so the equilibrium for hashrate is higher than it otherwise would be, at normal breakevens), some regular miners with a generic energy mix will no longer be profitable and will shutter their operations. Few other industries are this directly open and competitive. Source Link
Ever miss your pet when you’re at work? Can’t leave the house without wondering what your fur babies are up to and whether they’re safe? You might want to consider investing in a pet camera.Fortunately, there are plenty of cameras on the market that let you monitor the inside of your home—and any pets within view—from your phone. We’ve rounded up the best dedicated pet cameras we’ve tested, as well as some traditional security cameras that do double duty as pet monitors. We also have a few pointers to keep in mind while shopping for the perfect camera for you…