New Threat Report Finds Email Prime Vehicle for Malware
Malicious online actors used email as their prime vehicle for delivering malware to their victims in the last quarter of 2020. The HP-Bromium Threat Insights Report found that 88 percent of malware was delivered by email into its targets' inboxes, many times evading measures at email gateways to filter out the infected correspondence.
Investors have $20 billion to acquire businesses. Is yours one of them?
Our Technology M&A: 2021 Outlook gives owners, founders and entrepreneurs insight into why e-commerce is dominating technology acquisitions, what this means for multiples, when investors are looking to allocate capital and more.
Globally, we throw out 50 million tons of electronics waste every year, which is the equivalent of 1,000 laptops every second. This month the EU addressed this problem with a comprehensive "right to repair" law to dramatically reduce this waste. Let's explore electrical hardware sustainability issues this week, and look at a laptop that seems to anticipate these new e-waste regulations.
Microsoft Confident Exchange Hack Is State-Sponsored Operation
Microsoft has reported that multiple malicious actors were taking advantage of vulnerabilities in its Exchange software recently to attack systems at organizations that have failed to patch the flaws. The company attributed the attacks "with high confidence" to Hafnium, a group believed to be state-sponsored and operating out of China.
Skeptics of giving computers control over high-risk activities like driving cars were given some ammunition when researchers at OpenAI discovered their two-month-old machine vision system could be tricked with a pen and paper into misidentifying objects.
Commission Issues Blueprint to Boost AI Prowess in US
A road map for continued U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence has been revealed in a 756-page report released by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Two years in the making, the report made a number of recommendations, including an emphasis on the need for the United States to win the AI competition with China.
Biometric Authentication Will Revamp the Commerce Experience
As they become more prominent, consumers will enjoy shopping experiences that no longer rely on payments from a piece of plastic with a four-digit pin. Instead, consumers will use unique motion sensors in smartphone devices...
Nostalgia website MyHeritage has launched a new service that allows you to create lifelike animations of faces in still photos. The AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia is free to try and is remarkably accurate.
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Women in Tech: 20 Trailblazers Share Their Journeys
Successful women in the tech trenches share their insights and tackle subjects ranging from how to search out a strong mentor to how to be one -- from how to advance in a large company to how to start your own firm.
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In news that probably won't shock you all that much, this year's Oscars reflect a year spent mostly indoors and not in movie theaters. The Academy has announced the nominees for the 2021 Oscars, and Netflix is, again, the frontrunner, grabbing 31 nominations.
All those nominations won't guarantee wins, sure, but David Fincher's Mank dominated the shortlist. Its 10 nominations included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Gary Oldman) and Best Supporting Actress (Amanda Seyfried).
It wasn't just Netflix either. Amazon picked up nominations for Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, and Hulu's The United States vs. Billie Holiday was also recognized. Disney+, even, the newest streaming service here, picked up a nomination for Soul, while Apple TV+ quietly grabbed two nominations.
The pandemic has given these services a huge chance at awards glory. We'll have to wait until April 25th to see who wins out, but I doubt it'll match the spectacle of last weekend's Grammys.
Managing Editor Terrence O'Brien wants more sleep. Video Producer Brian Oh does, too. That made them the perfect duo for trying out Bose' second-generation Sleepbuds. If you were desperate to completely block the outside world and struggled to fall asleep every night, they might be a great investment — if they were a little bit cheaper. As Terrence puts it: "A $250 wearable white noise machine is borderline absurd." Continue reading.
A few years ago, we wrote about Amazon's attempt to gameify work in its warehouses with some social mini-games. Yes, I shuddered, too. The company is reportedly in the middle of a "major expansion" of the program, called FC Games. What initially started in one warehouse back in 2017 has now rolled out across 20 states, according to The Information.
Naturally, Amazon says that employees have told it that they enjoy "having the option to join in these workstation games." The mini-games feature leaderboards and competitions against fellow employees, both at a single warehouse or against people at other facilities around the US. "The games aren't particularly good, although some people do like it because it helps make the mind-numbing boredom of a 10-hour shift better," an Amazon worker told The Information. In summary, the games have mixed reviews. Continue reading.
8BitDo has launched the follow-up to the SN30 Pro+ Bluetooth controller that came out in 2019, and it offers additional features for the same price. The $50 8BitDo Pro 2 has two back buttons you can assign any function to, so you don't have to take your thumbs off the thumbsticks. You can program the buttons or remap them using a connected app on iOS or Android. You can even make dedicated controller profiles for certain games or platforms through the new app. The controller is available to pre-order now. Continue reading.
BMW's iDrive infotainment system is one of the best, and it's about to get a thoroughly modern upgrade with natural language processing, gesture controls and cloud-based machine learning. iDrive 8 will arrive on the upcoming BMW iX and i4, and drivers will be able to give BMW's Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) a personalized name and cue up various in-vehicle functions and information readouts using verbal or non-verbal commands. Backing up the behind-the-scenes smarts is a new 12.3-inch curved display for your gauges and monitors, plus a 14.9-inch control (read, infotainment) display. Continue reading.
In the midst of Tesla's SEC filing, Elon Musk has apparently claimed a new title, the "Technoking of Tesla," for some reason. The company's CFO, Zach Kirkhorn, has a new position that's right out of Game of Thrones: Master of Coin. There's also probably a nod there to the recent Bitcoin machinations of both Tesla and Musk himself. Last month, Tesla bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin to help "diversify and maximize" its returns. The news juiced the price of Bitcoin further, hitting an all-time high of over $44,000.
The filing notes: "Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer." Continue reading.
