Day: September 16, 2020

5G: How Nokia is using drones, AR and AI to speed up deployments

The Finnish company is digitizing the deployment of 5G networks, to put an end to old-fashioned telco methods. …read more Source:: ZDNet


A Walking Robot with A Single Servo

We’ve all been there — you see somebody do something cool on YouTube and you just have to give it a go. For [lonesoulsurfer], the drop-everything-and-build happened to be a little four-legged walker robot that runs on a single servo. Though it may be simple, there really is nothing like seeing a robot you created…


Amazon Music Now Has Podcasts

Amazon Music now offers podcasts. The company issued an update today that brings more than 70,000 shows to the platform, including some major titles, like Serial and Pod Save America, as well as new exclusive deals like a show with DJ Khaled called The First One, where he’ll interview artists about their breakthrough hits and…


Developers Frustrated at Apple for Just One Day’s Notice To Submit Apps Ahead of iOS 14 Release Today

While developers have had access to beta versions of the software updates since June, many were caught off guard by Apple’s much shorter notice of the final releases. By comparison, Apple started accepting apps built for iOS 13 on September 10 last year, over one week before the software update was released on September 19….


Cerberus banking Trojan source code released for free to cyberattackers

An auction designed to net the developer of the Android malware $100,000 failed. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Stock market blizzard: Snowflake set for £33bn IPO as valuation bubble keeps on expanding

The price? ‘ridiculous for a company that is still loss-making’ – analyst Cloud data warehouse slinger Snowflake has set an IPO price valuing the company at $33bn, making it nominally worth more than US retailer Best Buy or UK supermarket chain Tesco.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Kia’s first dedicated electric car coming to US next year, plans 6 more this decade – Roadshow

Kia may have the Niro EV and Soul EV, but next year’s electric car will be built from the ground up with battery tech in mind. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple Says Epic Is ‘Saboteur, Not a Martyr’ in App Store Battle

Apple is asking a court to reject Epic Games’s latest bid to get Fortnite back on the App Store, saying the game maker is acting as “a saboteur, not a martyr” in its challenge to Apple’s payment system. From a report: In an overnight filing, Apple said “Epic started a fire, and poured gasoline on…


Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage

You can bring a horse to water but you can’t turn it into a fish Register Debate Welcome to The Register Debate in which we pitch our writers against each other on contentious topics in IT and enterprise tech, and you – the reader – decide the winning side. The format is simple: a motion…


Data breach exposes more than 320 million records and PII of 70 websites

vpnMentor’s research team recently received a report from an anonymous ethical hacker about a massive data leak exposing users of over 70 adult dating and e-commerce websites from around the world. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine