Day: February 12, 2019

It’s Valentine’s Day, and tech has taken over our relationships – CNET

Dating hasn’t just been turned upside down by technology, it’s being dominated by it. …read more Source:: CNet


‘You’ve Won $72 Million and a Mercedes Benz’: Phone Scammer Gets 6 Years in Prison After He Made the Mistake of Calling William Webster, Ex-FBI and CIA Director

Reader McGruber writes: The Washington Post has an amusing story about phone scammer Keniel A. Thomas, who made the mistake of calling William H. Webster. Thomas told 90-year-old Webster that he had won $72 million and a new Mercedes Benz in the Mega Millions lottery, but that he needed to send $50,000 in taxes and…


Cybersecurity and the Human Element: We’re All Fallible

We examine the issue of fallibility from six sides: end users, security leaders, security analysts, IT security administrators, programmers, and attackers. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Protecting the LGBTQ Mobile Workforce

With the rapid growth of business travelers, especially millennial business travelers, companies often find it difficult to manage travel safety, health and security of their employees. This rapid growth also brings changes to the diverse composition of a mobile workforce and the risks associated with it. As the modern workforce continues to grow, there is…


In China, Some Teachers Are Using AI To Grade Homework

A Beijing-based online education start-up has developed an artificial intelligence-powered maths app that can check children’s arithmetic problems through the simple snap of a photo. Based on the image and its internal database, the app automatically checks whether the answers are right or wrong. From a report: Known as Xiaoyuan Kousuan, the free app launched…


Ever used VFEmail? No? Well, chances are you never will: Hackers wipe servers, backups

The ‘VF’ now stands for ‘virtually f*cked’ Secure email service VFEmail became neither of those things after a hacker managed to wipe nearly every server on the site earlier this week.… …read more Source:: Register


Pokemon Go is working on more AR photo options – CNET

Soon, you’ll catch the perfect Charmander shot. …read more Source:: CNet


BMW iNext EV heads to Sweden to see how it handles cold and snow – Roadshow

It’s slated to enter production in 2021. …read more Source:: CNet


EF50: the Tube that Changed Everything

From today’s perspective, vacuum tubes are pretty low tech. But for a while they were the pinnacle of high tech, and heavy research followed the promise shown by early vacuum tubes in transmission and computing. Indeed, as time progressed, tubes became very sophisticated and difficult to manufacture. After all, they were as ubiquitous as ICs…


Galaxy S10 full specs may have been revealed in final, devastating leak – CNET

A week before the official debut, every last detail about Samsung’s flagship may now have been exposed. …read more Source:: CNet