Remote Work Brings Increased Cyber Security Risks
BY: YASMIN RANADE HP has released its HP Wolf Security Blurred Lines & Blindspots Report, a comprehensive global study assessing organizational cyber risk in an era of remote work. Not surprisingly, changed work styles have created new vulnerabilities for companies, individuals and their data, and hackers are feeding in this new reality. This has necessitated […]
Here’s a New Gambit: Global Chess League Launches Online with High-Tech Moves
BY: LEE RICKWOOD One of the world’s oldest games is making its move for the full digital treatment, with plans for an online global chess league that integrates new technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The launch of a first-of-its-kind ‘phygital’ (physical and digital) Global Chess League capitalizes on the resurgence of interest […]
Unique Smartphone Accessories and Peripherals Worth Getting
BY: CHRISTINE PERSAUD When we think smartphone accessories, we often immediately gravitate to cases, screen protectors, extra cables, and wireless charging docks. But smartphone accessories run the gamut, from devices to help you take better pictures (or even print them!) to mic attachments for vlogging and podcasting and more. Looking for an out-of-the-box smartphone accessory […]
Nova Scotia museums turn to scanning for preserving historic painting
scientists performed detailed scans of Vermeer’s paintings, including “Girl With the Red Hat.”Credit…Kathryn Dooley/National Gallery of Art
Canadian Tech Tracks Brain Health, Cognitive Functions
VoxNeuro’s “CHAMP” technology is part of the toolkit used by assessment clinicians and health care providers to track brain health in short- and long-term contexts. VoxNeuro image.
Target list of Israeli hack-for-hire firm widens
By FRANK BAJAK BOSTON (AP) — Human rights and press freedom activists are up in arms about a new report on NSO Group, the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company. The report, by a global media consortium, expands public knowledge of the target list used in NSO’s military-grade spyware. According to the report, that now not only […]
Putin hails Russia’s air power as new fighter goes on view
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — Russian aircraft makers on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of a new fighter jet that features stealth capabilities and other advanced characteristics and will be offered to foreign buyers Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the prospective warplane displayed with much fanfare at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon, which […]
U.S. and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
Steve HollandDoina U.S. and allies accuse China of global hacking spreeSteve HollandDoina WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) – The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacking. The United States was joined by NATO, the European […]
Zoom buying Five9 in $14.7B all-stock transaction
Zoom, the videoconferencing company whose growth was supercharged by the pandemic over the past year, will buy the cloud call center company Five9 in an all-stock deal valued at about $14.7 billion. That is far greater than Zoom’s market valuation a little over two years ago when it went public for slightly more than $9 […]
IBM Whitehurst Steps Down
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