This macOS App Lets You Easily Convert Videos to GIFs There are times in our daily life when we come across an epic GIF opportunity, especially when watching TV shows. However, we tend to give up on making a GIF out of it as the process is usually complicated, time-consuming, and the results are often not as appealing as expected. Full stack developer Jonny Thaw probably had too many of these situations, which is when he saw the need for an application that could make the process of GIF creation much easier ,and developed Stacc....

This Website Lets You Find and Use Royalty-Free Music With increasing emphasis on copyright rules and regulations, finding a free-to-use audio track for using as a background tune can turn out to be a quite tiresome task. It involves doing a lot of manual searches and listening to fix that one song that would suit the theme of the video. To make this process easier, there exists a website named BentenSound which acts as a one-stop destination for music....

Amazon Working on Echo Speaker with High Quality Audio to Rival Sonos, HomePod Amazon’s line of Echo speakers so far is full of options for almost every use-case you could think of. However, if there is one group of people the company’s in-house Alexa powered smart speakers don’t cater to, it’s audiophiles and people who want high-quality audio and high-end speakers for their home. For that, people have so far turned to offerings from companies like Sonos....

Facebook Reaches $5 Billion Settlement With US Govt For Privacy Violations The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly agreed to a $5 billion settlement with Facebook to end its probe into the latter’scontroversial privacy practices. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the 5-member FTC panel voted 3-2 to approve the deal, which now awaits the green signal from the US Justice Department. It is still unclear, however, as to what restrictions, if any, will be imposed on the social media giant as per the settlement....

Japanese Crypto Exchange Bitpoint Hacked for $32 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, Bitpoint, has reportedly lost crypto assets worth $32 million after being hacked by unknown malicious actors. According toBloomberg, the majority of the lost money belonged to customers, while the rest belonged to the exchange. In the aftermath of the hack, the company halted all transactions, including trading, deposit and withdrawal of all assets. It’s not immediately clear as to which types of assets were stolen by the hackers, but the Bloomberg report states that Ripple was one of the affected tokens, although, it was apparently far from the only one....

Mozilla Firefox to Block Social Media Tracking by Default Mozilla Firefox and its various forks – official or otherwise – have been the go-to web-browsers for privacy conscious netizens for the better part of two decades, and thatcontinues to remain the caseeven amidst the public outcry about the organization’s plans to introduce advertising to earn more revenues. The non-profit organization is now working on adding a new dedicated social tracking protection component to the browser’sexisting tracker protectionsystem to better protect users from persistent tracking by social media sites....

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 to Go on Sale in South Korea from August 23 Samsung will be launching the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ at its Galaxy Unpacked event in New York on August 7, and now, according to a report from Yonhap News Agency, the company will begin selling the Galaxy Note 10 from August 23 in South Korea — its home market. The report cites sources from the local carriers in South Korea, and also claims that the company will only offer the 5G variants of its Note 10 and Note 10+ smartphones in the country considering the fact that South Korea’s 5G adoption rate will result in 3-4 million active 5G connections in the country by the end of this year....