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2022-02-08 07:49:51 Protecting your business in the age of ransomware

Ransomware is hitting close to home for organizations of all sizes and sectors. With attacks making headlines daily, it’s no surprise that 62% of surveyed IT decision-makers are concerned about coping with malware and ransomware, according to the Dell Technologies 2021 Global Data Protection Index (GDPI). It’s not only the rising drumbeat of the bad…

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2022-02-07 16:33:55 Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers

Something has changed for the tech giants. Even as they continue to hold tremendous influence in our daily lives, a growing accountability movement has begun to check their power. Led in large part by tech workers themselves, a movement seeking reform of how these companies do business, treat their employees, and conduct themselves as global…

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2022-02-05 15:17:42 This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA

A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage. No obvious suspects or motives. Just a bit of hair on the sleeve of the victim’s jacket. DNA from the cells of one strand is copied and compared against a database. No match comes back, and the case goes cold. …

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2022-02-05 15:17:33 Meet the NSA spies shaping the future

For someone with a deeply scientific job, Gil Herrera has a nearly mystical mandate: Look into the future and then shape it, at the level of strange quantum physics and inextricable math theorems, to the advantage of the United States. Herrera is the newly minted leader of the National Security Agency’s Research Directorate. The directorate,…

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2022-02-05 15:17:27 Turning AI into your customer experience ally

It’s one thing to know whether an individual customer is intrigued by a new mattress or considering a replacement for their sofa’s throw pillows; it’s another to know to how to move these people to go ahead and make a purchase. When deployed strategically, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a marketer’s trusted customer experience ally—transforming…

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2022-02-05 14:20:09 Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: Torch Relay Includes Two Robots Passing The Smokeless Flame Underwater in China's Yongding River

The first-ever torch relay underwater conducted between two robots was exhibited during the handover ceremony Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics 2022.

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2022-02-05 14:19:57 Dead Man Went Back to Life: What's Behind the Mystery of the Spanish Prisoner's Sudden Death?

A 29-year-old man in a Spanish prison was declared dead three times by different doctors but suddenly awoken hours before his autopsy. What could have caused the misdiagnosis?

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2022-02-05 14:19:48 Cerebral Cortex Found Responsible for Speech to Ensure People Say The Right Words

A new study recently focused on the half-dozen sub-regions of the surface layer of the brain, also called the cerebral cortex, as they are known to regulate how people are moving their mouth, lips, and tongue to form words and to play a role in processing what they hear they, themselves are saying.

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2022-02-03 17:17:46 Messages on WhatsApp were left open to potential attackers for years, as detailed in recent leaks about Boldend – a US cyber-warfare startup (more here).

Since the creation of WhatsApp, there's hardly been a moment in which it was secure: every few months researchers uncover a new security issue in the app. I wrote about this in detail 2 years ago (read here if you missed it). Nothing has changed since then.

It would be hard to believe that the technical team of WhatsApp is so consistently incompetent. Telegram, a far more sophisticated app, has never had security issues of such severity. Open / Comment

2022-02-01 11:40:55 https://telegram.org/blog/video-stickers-better-reactions Open / Comment