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How to Finally Use Google Authenticator Without Your Phone
Ever since it came out, Google Authenticator has been a popular choice for generating two-factor authentication codes on the fly. The service is reliable and secure, but has always had one glaring issue: the inability to sync authentication codes between devices, leaving you at risk of losing access to all of your 2FA accounts.
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Here Are the Most Popular Original Shows on Streaming
There’s always time for more TV, and new data published by Bloomberg earlier this week revealed that we watched a lot of it. A new report helps characterise the blackbox that is streaming shows to audiences — which is especially important in a world where Netflix has a reputation for cancelling your favourite show (I’m…
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Meta Avatar Upgrade Could Use an Upgrade
It’s been about 20 years since the life-simulator game, Second Life, came out. Nintendo Miis first emerged on the scene more than a decade and a half ago. We live in an era where near-photo-realistic video game graphics are possible. For better or worse, you can deepfake images and videos of notable people with a…
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Buckle Up, Zuck: AI Coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and ‘Metaverse’
Meta’s latest quarterly earnings report is hung up on the “efficiency” buzzword. In his call with investors on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked up “efficiency work,” more than once, all while sprinkling in talk of “monetisation efficiency” and “organizational efficiency.”