Opportunistic Publishers Price Gouge Remote Learning Students On eBooks During Pandemic

Hot Headlines in Technology for today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Opportunistic Publishers Price Gouge Remote Learning Students On eBooks During Pandemic]( By Nathan Ord on Jan 30, 2021 01:30 pm [Opportunistic Publishers Price Gouge Remote Learning Students On eBooks During Pandemic]( Academic textbooks must be one of the biggest shams out there, as math and science do not change enough to warrant a new edition of a book multiple times under ten-year spans. With the advent of eBooks, creating new editions of books became even easier as they did not require printing. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, publishers are increasing [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Study Finds Alarming Dark Patterns Of Deception In Crawl Of Thousands Of Shopping Sites]( By Ben Funk on Jan 30, 2021 12:31 pm [Study Finds Alarming Dark Patterns Of Deception In Crawl Of Thousands Of Shopping Sites]( "Cross my heart and hope to die," is not a mantra for many online shops, according to a study released by Princeton University. In 2019, the school conducted an automated crawl of more than 11,000 online shops and found that around one in six used some form of deceptive practice to hawk their goods. While some of those online shops have changed [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GeForce Now Comes To Chrome Browser And macOS To Democratize Cloud Gaming For All]( By Ben Funk on Jan 30, 2021 11:10 am [GeForce Now Comes To Chrome Browser And macOS To Democratize Cloud Gaming For All]( When GeForce NOW launched, NVIDIA's cutting-edge gaming service supported streaming games that were rendered in cloud data centers to devices running a dedicated app. Over the course of 2020, the company opened up its cloud gaming service to browsers, starting with Chrome on ChromeOS. Adding GeForce NOW support to Safari on iOS devices also [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake-S CPU Extends Single-Threaded Domination In New Benchmark]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 30, 2021 11:05 am [Intel Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake-S CPU Extends Single-Threaded Domination In New Benchmark]( It looks as though Intel's 14-nanometer node will go out on a high note, if the latest leaked benchmarks are any indication. Over at PassMark Software's CPU Mark database, Intel's upcoming Core i9-11900K now sits at the top of single-threaded performance chart, climbing above the Core i7-11700K (second place) and AMD's latest generation Ryzen [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Minecraft Sustainability City Map Helps Gamers Become Better Stewards Of Mother Earth]( By Brandon Hill on Jan 29, 2021 05:16 pm [Minecraft Sustainability City Map Helps Gamers Become Better Stewards Of Mother Earth]( In effort to plot a course for its own 10-year timeline towards becoming a carbon negative company, Microsoft is trying to instill some early seeds of conservation into a new generation. That's why Mojang Studios is giving educators a way to teach their students about sustainability in perhaps the best way possible to get through to young [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Developers Are Already Caught Lying To Users With Apple's App Privacy Labels]( By Nathan Ord on Jan 29, 2021 05:08 pm [Developers Are Already Caught Lying To Users With Apple's App Privacy Labels]( When Apple introduced privacy labels, it seemed to be a solid way to provide transparency for users to know what data is collected on their devices. This system relies on honesty from the app developers, but some developers crossed their fingers behind their back when they agreed to the privacy labels it seems. New research has shown that [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( Recent Articles: [Trickbot Botnet Shows Signs Of Life After Microsoft Seemingly Killed It Last Year]( [Apple's iPhone 13 Rumored To Add In-Display Touch ID In Addition To Face ID]( [Google Defends Robinhood App From Angry GME Mob, Censors 100,000 Negative Reviews]( [Creative SBS E2900 2.1 Speakers Review: Big Sound, Small Price]( [AMD EPYC 7643 Zen 3 Milan 48-Core CPU Benchmarked With Massive Multi-Core Performance]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [YouTube]( [Pinterest]( Copyright © 2021 Hot Hardware, Inc., All rights reserved. You're receiving this because you opted in to our list at HotHardware.com or are an industry partner. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.