Popular HandBrake video conversion app gets support for AV1 and VP9 encoding

Originally developed as a solution for saving movie DVDs to PCs, HandBrake has become a universal tool for converting all kinds of videos downloaded from smartphones, camcorders and all kinds of digital cameras. Evolving from the commonplace DVD, HandBrake is …

European stocks close at 2022 on bearish sentiment fueled by macroeconomic factors

European stocks are expected to close 2022 on bearish sentiment as global markets prepare to close trading later today. Fueled by the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, record inflation, and monetary policy tightening, the eurozone economy is expected to …

India joins the EU in mandating USB-C connector on mobile devices by law

The measure applies from 2025, but effectively cements the EU’s move to force mobile device manufacturers to use a single format for the charging jack, making USB-C a universal standard. With less purchasing power than in Europe, even India hasn’t …

Catalonia calls for antigen test for travelers from China, even if they are vaccinated

Catalonia will call for a rapid antigen test (TAR) to all travelers from China, even if they have the full vaccination schedule. The Ministry of Health announced this Friday that it will request a negative covid test or full vaccination …

Terra Classic up nearly 40% in less than a week

The price of Terra Classic (LUNC), the token of the controversial Terra project, has risen by almost 40% in less than a week, from USD 0.00013 to USD 0.00018. In doing so, it regained the price it had nearly a …

Sam Bankman-Fried transferred $684,000 to a new crypto-currency exchange while under arrest!

After being released, Sam Bankman-Fried sent all of his remaining crypto to a new Ethereum address he created a few hours earlier. In less than three hours, over 100 deposits were made to numerous addresses with some connection to SBF’s …

Tesla Model Y is the best-selling car in Europe

Tesla Model Y, the brand’s compact SUV, managed to outsell all other European cars, electric or traditional, in November. It seems that after a disappointing October, in which Tesla didn’t sell very well due to shipping delays in China, November …

Food alert extended for nuts in dark and milk chocolate from Spain

Dark chocolate. / Marc Marti Barcelona December 30, 2022. 14:50 The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) has extended this Wednesday, December 28, the health alert it issued last December 7 on different sugar-free dark chocolates from Spain …

Ethereum killer Solana lost 96% of its value in 2022 and is no longer a top 20 crypto-currency

The year 2022 has been one of the most terrible years for investors in the crypto-currency market and Solana, the Ethereum killer, is particularly going through a very difficult phase. On Thursday, December 29, the price of Solana (SOL) dropped …

Apple may not launch OLED tablets until 2024

Apple has so far only managed to adopt OLED displays on two of the product categories it makes: watches and phones. Other display devices still use LCDs, including iPad tablets. This could change from 2024, when the first iPad Pro …

BTC, ETH, ADA, BNB ranked among the most watched crypto assets in 2022

While coin market cap aggregation sites allow customers to add their favorite coins to a watch list, between coingecko.com and coinmarketcap.com, bitcoin is the most watched top 10 crypto currency coin in 2022 as it is on approximately 4,848,865 watch …

this is the covid variant that has put the world on alert

The evolution of the Omicron BF.7 from covid continues to wreak havoc in China and has the international community on tenterhooks. The wave of contagions has forced countries such as Spain e Italy to order negative tests or the pattern …