Apple has pushed back its intended release date to 2022 for its augmented reality (AR) Headset. A year later, they anticipate a debut for their first pair of AR glasses. These delays push Apple even further behind its competitors in the world of augmented and virtual realities. Microsoft is already Read more…
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform customers now have access to microchips made by Graphcore. Graphcore, a British startup founded in 2016, has put the spotlight (and several millions of dollars in investment capital) on its newest baby: Intelligent Processing Unit microchips (IPU), specifically designed to work with AI. Unlike most AI Read more…
Ascension Health System has teamed up with tech-giant Google to store all of its data on the Google Cloud and to advance the technological future of its patients. According to a joint press release, the partnership deal (dubbed “Project Nightingale”) aims to “optimize the health and wellness of individuals and Read more…
Facebook’s future cryptocurrency took a major blow earlier this month when PayPal bailed out of its participation in the social media’s Libra project. Though it was only one of the original 28 companies involved, PayPal’s presence lent a huge amount of financial confidence to the project. “We remain supportive of Read more…
HTC unveiled its newest blockchain phone on Saturday at the “Lightning Conference” in Berlin. The smartphone, Exodus 1s, is the first to enable users to run a full bitcoin node, creating transactions and blocks on the go. “Full nodes are the most important ingredient in the resilience of the Bitcoin Read more…
Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are ongoing. As AI advances, so do the techniques and sophistication of cybercriminals. Cybersecurity defenses need to be able to keep up with the latest threats. “Given its potential uses,” says William Dixon, Head of Operations in the Center for Cybersecurity of the World Economic Read more…
Getting into your Office 365 is a veritable gold mine for attackers and they know it. The number of phishing attacks by scammers has increased by nearly 200% in a single quarter. Access to an Office 365 account allows an attacker to email malware, steal stored data, and gain access to OneDrive Read more…
Win32/StealthFalcon, named after the sophisticated Stealth Falcon state-sponsored cyber espionage hacker group, is a malware that sends collected stolen data to its remote command-and-control servers via Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). BITS is commonly used in software updates for Windows 10, messengers, and other background applications. Win32/StealthFalcon can also Read more…
The Wall Street journal has reported the first ever AI-based voice fraud. Due to ongoing investigations, the victims’ names are not being released, despite the incident occurring back in March. Voice fishing, also called Vishing, now joins fake text and deepfake video as rising crimes. The fraudsters utilized commercially available Read more…
The commerce giant Walmart has taken the first step toward a patent and filed an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain”. The application was filed in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and published on August 1. The patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) blockchain-based Read more…