Technology
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Oren @Oren - over 4 years ago
Protect Yourself With Malwarebytes, The Most Advanced Anti-Malware Software
Protect Yourself With Malwarebytes, The Most Advanced Anti-Malware SoftwareBack in the day it was pretty easy to protect yourself against malware. As long as you didn’t visit suspicious websites or open those forwarded emails from your aunt, you were probably okay. And ev...continued
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Hulda @Hulda - almost 5 years ago
Virtual reality faces—animating precise, lifelike avatars for VR in real-time
Virtual reality faces—animating precise, lifelike avatars for VR in real-timeComputer scientists are focused on adding enhanced functionality to make the "reality" in virtual reality (VR) environments highly believable. A key aspect of VR is to enable remote social intera...continued
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Rex @Rex - over 4 years ago
Senate Has Spoken: Smart Crowdsourced Security Testing Puts American Security First
Senate Has Spoken: Smart Crowdsourced Security Testing Puts American Security FirstREDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synack, the most trusted Crowdsourced Security Platform, commends the work of the United States Senate which put the security of American citizens fir...continued
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Oren @Oren - almost 5 years ago
Targeted ads offer little extra value for online publishers, study suggests – TechCrunch
How much value do online publishers derive from behaviorally targeted advertising that uses privacy-hostile tracking technologies to determine which advert to show a website user? A new piece of research suggests publishers make just 4% more vs if they were to serve a non...continued
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Rose @Rose - over 4 years ago
Orlando police once again ditch Amazon’s facial recognition software
Orlando police ditch Amazon’s facial recognition platform a second timeAmazon’s controversial Rekognition platform, its artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition software, is no longer being used by Orlando law enforcement, ending the second attempt to use the te...continued
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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - over 4 years ago
Why hospitals underreport the number of patients they infect
Why Hospitals Underreport the Number of Patients They InfectIt’s an important question for patients, certainly, but also for insurers, regulators, and policymakers interested in containing medical costs.Mohsen Bayati of Stanford Graduate School of Business has examined a ...continued
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Alexandro @Alexandro - almost 5 years ago
Xi Jinping wants Trump to lift ban on Huawei before making a trade deal
G20: Xi Jinping wants Trump to lift Huawei ban before trade dealChinese President Xi Jinping is about to make a risky gamble to try to end the years-long trade spat between his country and the United States: asking President Donald Trump to end US pressure on Chinese comm...continued
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Geovany @Geovany - 4 months ago
Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?
Farmers are no strangers to advanced technology. But artificial intelligence and machine learning have emerged in recent years to help the agriculture industry better prepare for climate change and rising food demands.
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Allene @Allene - over 4 years ago
Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint
Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint – TechCrunchThe software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact has now brought us to an interesting moment in technology. Some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous a...continued
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Arvid @Arvid - over 4 years ago
First Orion Reports Scam Callers Now Leveraging Data Breaches in New "Enterprise Spoofing" Strategy
First Orion Reports Scam Callers Now Leveraging Data Breaches in New "Enterprise Spoofing" StrategyLITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Major companies have been victimized in recent years by massive data breaches that exposed billions of customers' personal id...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - over 4 years ago
These 15 Wild Scams People Fell For Will Deeply Unsettle You
These 15 Wild Scams People Fell For Will Deeply Unsettle YouThis person thought her brother was getting arrested. "I was on vacation so I kept my phone off. My sister was house-sitting for me when scammers called my home and told her I was going to be arrested or served f...continued
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Marjory @Marjory - over 4 years ago
Tech Moves: Outreach adds ex-Microsoft talent; Leafly hires a chief product officer; and more
Tech Moves: Outreach adds ex-Microsoft talent; Leafly hires a chief product officer; and more – GeekWire— What do you do with a billion-dollar valuation? Seattle’s newest Unicorn, sales automation startup Outreach, is celebrating by staffing up its executive ranks with fo...continued
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Roger @Roger - almost 5 years ago
Mitsubishi Motors North America To Relocate U.S. Headquarters To Franklin, Tennessee
Mitsubishi Motors North America To Relocate U.S. Headquarters To Franklin, TennesseeSince 1988, MMNA has been rooted in California — now Cypress, and Fountain Valley prior to that. This move will begin in August, and be completed by the end of 2019. MMNA's move highligh...continued
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Torey @Torey - almost 5 years ago
About - Fallen Journalists
The mission of the Fallen Journalists Memorial (FJM) Foundation is to commemorate America’s commitment to a free press by honoring journalists who have sacrificed their lives in service to that cause.The FJM Foundation will work to enact legislation, raise funds and build...continued
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George @George - over 4 years ago
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the future
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the futureIt's never good when a giant of the technology business describes your product as "a fool's errand".But that's how Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk branded the laser scanning system Lidar, which is being touted as the bes...continued
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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - about 4 years ago
8 of the best home printers in the UK
We know that everything is digital these days, but there is still the need for a reliable printer in your home office.This might sound totally ridiculous, but some people still prefer to get their hands on a physical copy of something. Yep, not content with access to a di...continued
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Abbie @Abbie - over 4 years ago
Mastercard Helps Merchants Understand Customers After Checkout
Mastercard Helps Merchants Understand Customers After Checkout“At this point, the data, and how we work with the data, is as important as the transactions themselves,” says Mastercard’s president of operations and technology Ed McLaughlin.The tech giant is best known as a...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - almost 5 years ago
Arizona fire highlights challenges for energy storage
Arizona fire highlights challenges for energy storagePHOENIX — Arizona's largest electric company installed massive batteries near neighborhoods with a large number of solar panels, hoping to capture some of the energy from the afternoon sun to use after dark.Arizona Publ...continued
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Elody @Elody - over 4 years ago
As Privacy Regulations Tighten, There May Be An SDK-Based Solution For Ad Tech And RTB
As Privacy Regulations Tighten, There May Be An SDK-Based Solution For Ad Tech And RTB"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner's Office (IC...continued
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Gregoria @Gregoria - over 4 years ago
TiVo merges with technology licensor Xperi in $3 billion deal
TiVo merges with technology licensor Xperi in $3 billion deal – TechCrunchEarlier this year, TiVo said it was preparing to split itself into two — a product and IP business — in order to make itself more attractive to buyers. Today, the company announced those plans have ...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - about 4 years ago
Stop What You're Doing and Update Windows Right Now
NSA Tells Microsoft About Critical Windows Cryptography FlawThe National Security Agency disclosed a major vulnerability in the latest versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 to Microsoft, which released fixes for the issue on Tuesday, the MIT Technology Review rep...continued
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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 4 years ago
Remote-controlled scooters are coming, and Tortoise is (slowly) leading the charge
Remote-controlled scooters are coming, and Tortoise is (slowly) leading the chargeYou may have noticed that scooter companies typically have short names — usually around four or five letters — that are meant to invoke feelings of flying or zooming across an urban landscap...continued
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Zackery @Zackery - over 4 years ago
The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13
The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13As Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise floated in the tunnel snaking between the Lunar Module and Command Module, he heard—and felt—a loud bang. Around him, the two vehicles began to contort. Then, the metal walls of the t...continued
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Wilmer @Wilmer - about 3 years ago
The 2021 Volkswagen ID. 4 ticks all the boxes, except one
Volkswagen, once a dabbler in electric vehicles, is now betting its future on the technology. And the new Volkswagen ID.4 — a five-passenger, fully-electric crossover with a starting price of $33,995 (before federal or state incentives) — is its first global …
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Marlon @Marlon - over 1 year ago
The Future Could Be Blissful—If Humans Don’t Go Extinct First
WIRED talked with long-termist philosopher William MacAskill about human extinction, Elon Musk, and his new book, ‘What We Owe the Future.’
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