Day: January 1, 2020

iOS bugs and annoyances Apple desperately needs to fix in 2020

iOS has grown into a buggy hellstew, and I’ve lost faith in Apple’s ability to fix it. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Election Infrastructure Remains Vulnerable to Attacks

In 10 months, U.S. citizens will elect a new president. As the race heats up and election day nears, a key component of the U.S. election infrastructure remains vulnerable to cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine


Considerations for Your Security Career in 2020

As we enter the new year, conversations within the security community often inevitably deal with issues and programs that will be of greatest concern to leadership in the coming months. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine


Flip Phones Are Making a Comeback

If you’re the kind of person who hates this new generation of smartphone users and longs for a nostalgic past, you’re not far from the new target demographic for many commercial phone manufacturers. Major phone companies like Motorola and Huawei have been developing foldable versions of conventional smartphone designs, intended to be more versatile while…


Ubisoft Uses AI To Teach a Car To Drive Itself in a Racing Game

An anonymous reader shares a report: Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics to drug discovery. But while firms including OpenAI and Alphabet’s DeepMind have investigated its efficacy in video games like Dota 2, Quake III Arena, and…


2020 Genesis GV80 officially drops on New Year’s Eve – Roadshow

The GV80 will go on sale in 2020. …read more Source:: CNet


How the On-Demand Economy Reshaped Cities

Since 2010, a slew of on-demand companies and technologies have managed to use consumer data to transform the commercial significance of urban living. From a report: Historically, one of the great economic benefits of urban life is having access to jobs, schooling, goods, and services without needing to travel very far. But digital platforms that…


IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not To Compete With TurboTax

Finding free online tax filing should be easier this year for millions of Americans. From a report: The IRS announced significant changes Monday to its deal with the tax prep software industry. Now companies are barred from hiding their free products from search engines such as Google, and a years-old prohibition on the IRS creating…


CES 2020: Avita readies new colorful Admiror, Pura laptop lines

The Hong Kong brand adds two more families to its design-conscious portfolio of notebooks. …read more Source:: ZDNet


WWI movie 1917 got its one-shot approach because of James Bond, Sam Mendes says – CNET

Director Sam Mendes, cinematographer Roger Deakins, actors Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay and screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns talk about re-creating the harrowing trenches of war. …read more Source:: CNet