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The delightful Ratatouille TikTok musical has already sold more than $1 million in tickets

The TikTok Ratatouille musical— aka the Ratatousical— debuted online on New Year’s Day and has already sold more than $1 million in tickets, in quite the feel-good start to 2021. A portion of the ticket sales will benefit The Actors Fund, which supports performers and workers in the entertainment industry. The musical came together on… Read more

Tesla fell just short of delivering 500,000 vehicles in 2020

Tesla fell just shy of hitting CEO Elon Musk’s goal of delivering 500,000 vehicles in 2020, the company announced Saturday, having shipped a record 499,550 throughout the year — or 99.91 percent. Tesla said the final tally could vary by as much as 0.5 percent, though, so it’s possible that it will eclipse the 500,000… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 website promised free DLC in early 2021 — but don’t bet on ‘soon’

In my opinion, Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t quite the disaster some have suggested. The game is fun. The bugs are fun! The bugs that really, really weren’t fun have been patched. Refunds were made widely available, and despite that refund option, the game sold 13 million copies in just two weeks. But publisher CD Projekt still… Read more

Teamviewer boss: effort against cyber attacks increased massively

Teamviewer invests a two-digit million sum annually for permanent measures to protect against cyber attacks. (Image: II.studio/Shutterstock.com) The fight against hackers is becoming more and more complex and difficult, according to the software provider Teamviewer. “Cyber attacks on the entire industry have been increasing for years, and the hackers are becoming more and more professional,”… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Review: Heir to the Titan Throne

Our Verdict Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition takes the crown as the fastest GPU around, but at twice the price of an RTX 3080. It’s blazingly fast, comes with gobs of memory, and the Founders Edition is absolutely massive … and most gamers don’t need it. We discuss price, performance, availability, power, and more… Read more

Production volume increased: PS5 sold 3.4 million times so far

The industry magazine DigiTimes claims from suppliers that Sony has now sold 3.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles. Since 12. November 2020 the new consoles will be sold in two versions in the USA and Japan. At the 19. November saw the start of sales in Europe. From the beginning, the PlayStation 5, just like the… Read more

Reduced developer commission: First devs are allowed to pay less to Apple

15 instead of 30 Percentage of sales commission to the iPhone group: Smaller developers should have this advantage in the App Store in the future. For this purpose, Apple has set up the so-called App Store Small Business Program, which starts on January 1st 2021. The central condition: Developers must not have turned over more… Read more

Steam – this holiday, players broke the record. There have been so many players logged in on Steam at no Christmas yet

After all, the year 2020 was a positive year for the video game industry. The coronavirus pandemic left gamers spending more time at home, which also led to more games being purchased. Few, however, could have predicted that this year’s holidays the Steam platform would be so popular. The number of players logged into the… Read more

Sony PlayStation 5 with good sales figures. By the end of 2021, up to 18 million PS5 consoles may hit the market

At the end of November, we learned that the next-generation PlayStation 5 console boasts the best debut of all PlayStation so far. Although Sony did not disclose specific sales results at the time, the interest in the equipment is undoubtedly high, although due to the very limited availability it is missing in stores. According to… Read more

rC3: Mastodon, Matrix & Co. – Building blocks and hurdles for decentralized online systems

Internet users spend a lot of time in the central silos of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. The US giants benefit from network effects that are driving more and more users to the platforms. A wide range of technical initiatives have set themselves the goal of combating the resulting monopoly structures in online services… Read more

rC3: Massive vulnerabilities in apps from mobile network providers

Florian Schweitzer presented his personal collection of vulnerabilities in the area of Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in web applications of Austrian mobile phone providers at the remote Chaos Communication Congress (rC3). The hackers described the security gaps, also known as “session riding” or “sea surf”, and the attacks based on them as “particularly dramatic”… Read more

Volkswagen's exhaust fraud: more than 25,000 individual lawsuits ended with settlement

The compensation payments by the Volkswagen Group to around 55. 000 Individual diesel plaintiffs were settled in almost half of all cases at the turn of the year. As the dpa learned from the company, in the separate proceedings outside of the large sample comparison, “a total of 25. 000 “Agreements concluded. In these cases,… Read more

MSI Optix G242 – 24 '' Full HD esports monitor with IPS panel, 144 Hz refresh rate and VRR support

MSI has introduced another gaming monitor for esports players. I’m talking about MSI Optix G 242, in which the model name from “MAG “, Which proves a higher segment. The newly presented monitor is intended for less wealthy players, but the manufacturer tried to maintain an appropriate value for money. MSI Optix G 242 offers… Read more

11 great apps ready for your new 2020 M1 Mac

This year marked the introduction of the first Macs to be powered by Apple’s own silicon instead of Intel chips. As is evidenced by our reviews of the M1 MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, these machines are incredibly powerful and offer wicked fast performance. This is especially true for apps that are… Read more

Sony targets 18m PlayStation 5 sales in 2021 following increased TSMC production

Home / Software & Gaming / Console / Sony targets 18m PlayStation 5 sales in 2021 following increased TSMC production Andrzej 3 hours ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming While sales of Sony’s brand new PS5 console have been hampered by significant chip supply issues, the Japanese giant is looking forward to a… Read more