The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The company, whose spyware researchers say has been used around the world to break into the phones of human rights activists, journalists, and even […]
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Microsoft joins the metaverse legion by announcing Tuesday the development of a Microsoft Mesh Mixed Reality inside Teams by directly inserting virtual experience platform Mesh to endorse the integration of virtual spaces for consumers and business. The Big Tech titan revealed that following the overtake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world’s shift towards remote […]
Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has pulled out of China, citing an increasingly challenging operating environment. The withdrawal was largely symbolic, as many of the company’s services were already blocked by China’s digital censorship. But recent government moves to expand its control over tech companies generally, including its domestic giants, may have tipped the scales […]
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of […]
Robot food delivery is no longer the stuff of science fiction. But you may not see it in your neighborhood anytime soon. Hundreds of little robots _ knee-high and able to hold around four large pizzas _ are now navigating college campuses and even some city sidewalks in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. While […]
ByteDance is planning to disjoin its global social media sensation, TikTok, into a solitary business unite, following an executive decision to break down the company into six entities, according to Reuters. Chief executive officer (CEO), Liang Rubo, has initiated plans to refurbish the technology enterprise into various parts, following founder Zhang Yiming’s decision to retire from […]
Numerous U.S.-based Internet Service Providers (ISP) are set to obtain on October 29 reimbursements from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), welcoming a filing opportunity to “rip and replace” Huawei and ZTE telecom equipment. Bloomberg revealed a $1.9 billion program allowing ISPs to deliver cost estimates to the FCC to substitute previously installed equipment by Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE between October […]
Cryptocurrency has officially gone to the dogs. The recent trading frenzy over a digital token called Shiba Inu — commonly billed as a “meme” or joke coin — has vaulted the canine-themed cryptocurrency into the top ten most valuable digital assets by market value, hitting $40 billion and surpassing its cousin and apparent inspiration, Dogecoin. […]
Biotechnology company Novavax said Monday that Indonesia has given the world’s first emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, which uses a different technology than current shots. The vaccine doesn’t require the extremely cold storage temperatures that some other vaccines need, which could allow it to play an important role in boosting supplies in poorer […]
As he made history by becoming the first person to fly across New Zealand’s Cook Strait in an electric plane, Gary Freedman thought it only fitting that the first thing he saw when approaching the Wellington coastline was the rotating blade of a wind turbine producing renewable energy. Freedman’s 40-minute solo flight in the small […]