Tag: OFFLINE

17 OCT

Gran Turismo Sport is extremely limited in offline mode

Enlarge (credit: Polyphony Digital / Aurich Lawson) On Tuesday, October 17, the long-awaited Gran Turismo Sport arrives for the Playstation 4. This seventh installment of one of the world’s best-selling games franchises introduces a number of updates designed for high-end TVs, virtual reality, and e-sports enthusiasts. Although we’ve had a copy for a few days now, you’ll have […]

02 SEP

Torrent BLACKOUT – Mystery as almost a DOZEN sites go offline amid huge crackdown fears

Torrent users have been left wondering if a secret crackdown is taking place after The Pirate Bay was among almost a dozen sites that went offline. The Pirate Bay suffered connection issues on Monday and Tuesday as the site received a surge in traffic following the Game of Thrones season 7 finale. However, a few […]

25 AUG

Google expands its offline YouTube Go app to Indonesia

Google is rolling out a flurry of products in Indonesia. Chief among the new additions are YouTube Go and Google Assistant. The announcements (made at its second annual Google for Indonesia event) tie into the web giant’s plan to get its apps to the “next billion” internet users. Until now, this strategy has mainly focused […]

17 AUG

Cloudflare CEO: Hackers pushed The Daily Stormer offline as soon as Cloudflare stopped protecting it

The CEO of Cloudflare said he is “deeply uncomfortable” with his own decision to have his company stop protecting The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. He decided to stop working with The Daily Stormer after its team suggested that Cloudflare sympathized with its Nazi ideology. The Daily Stormer’s site was taken down by attackers as soon […]

15 AUG

DJI drones are getting an offline mode for secret flights

Chinese manufacturer DJI is adding a local data mode to its drones. Once enabled, the new feature will stop the company’s apps from collecting user data (such as photos, videos, and flight logs). Although, DJI claims the update is in response to public demand, it’s hard to ignore the security concerns recently raised by the […]

31 JUL

Android apps can find nearby devices even when they’re offline

If you’ve ever wished that your smartphone’s apps would automatically do your bidding the moment you neared a device, you’re in luck. After previewing it at I/O in May, Google has made the second generation of its Nearby Connections toolkit available to Android developers. The updated framework uses Bluetooth and WiFi to find nearby devices, […]

31 JUL

Google’s new scheme to connect online to offline shopping scrutinized

Enlarge / Physical home button surrounded by typical Android capacitive buttons. A privacy advocacy group has filed a formal legal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to begin an investigation “into Google’s in-store tracking algorithm to determine whether it adequately protects the privacy of millions of American consumers.” In the Monday filing, […]