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After Douban , another social platform, Zhihu, was found to embed an imperceptible watermark on the mobile and web versions, which means that if a user takes a screenshot while logged in, Zhihu can find out the identity of the person who took the screenshot through the watermark. Zhihu users said that users can use […]

Game publisher 2K is adding launchers to its older games, taking the Steam platform as an example, which means players need to launch two launchers (one Steam and the other 2K) when playing the game. The latest game to add a launcher is the well-known dystopian game Bioshock Infinite . 2K is also dubbed ”

The Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct image of an exoplanet . The exoplanet, named HIP 65426 b, is an uninhabitable gas giant. It is 6 to 12 times the mass of Jupiter and is between 15 and 20 million years old. Astronomers discovered the planet in 2017 using the European Southern Observatory’s

The world’s highest September temperature was recorded in Death Valley, California: 127°F (or 53°C). The heatwave in Death Valley is expected to continue until Labor Day in the United States (next Monday). The previous record for the highest temperature on Earth in Death Valley was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913, but this recorded measurement

The EU is developing a new repair policy for smartphones and tablets , requiring manufacturers selling products in the EU to provide at least 15 parts to professional repairers within five years, allowing customers to replace batteries, back covers, front and rear cameras, audio Connectors, charging ports, microphones and speakers, SIM and memory card trays,

Samsung issued an announcement Friday confirming that some U.S. user information was stolen in a cyberattack in July. Samsung said it detected in late July that an unauthorized third party had stolen information from its U.S. systems. Around August 4 it determined that some customer information was accessed. Samsung said customers’ Social Security numbers or

California passed a law requiring companies to publish salary ranges in job postings. The law also requires California-based companies with more than 100 employees to publish median pay differentials by gender and race. California Governor Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the bill, and he has yet to take a position.

Astrophysicist Frank Drake, best known for founding the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, proposing the Drake equation and information on Arecibo, died Friday at his home in Aptos, California at the age of 92 . Drake has made numerous contributions to radio astronomy, and is best known for developing the Drake equation for calculating

According to the latest test results from the National Education Progress Evaluation System, the new crown epidemic has caused the math and reading skills of nine-year-olds to fall to the levels of 20 years ago, and the decline of black students is relatively more severe. It was the first time that math scores for this

According to a study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, a team of researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium used stem cells to generate a new type of human cell in the laboratory. The new cells are very similar to the natural cells in early human embryos, helping to better study what

Following a report from McAfee’s security researchers, Google removed five extensions from the Chrome Web Store with a combined total of more than 1.4 million downloads and installs. The extensions are accused of secretly tracking users’ browsing history and planting tracking codes when visiting certain e-commerce sites. Delisted extensions include Netflix streaming sharing extensions Netflix

The naming scheme for USB is becoming increasingly confusing. The USB Promoter Group announced the USB4 v2 standard, which can transfer data rates up to 80 Gbps, twice the existing USB4 v1 standard—but some USB4 v1s only support up to 20 Gbps instead of 40 Gbps. The reason is that the USB Type-C cable is

The recent open- source natural language image synthesis model Stable Diffusion has aroused strong interest from the community and users. One of the big advantages of Stable Diffusion is that it can run on a single graphics card, including Apple’s M1 Mac GPU , so ordinary users can use it locally without going to the