Month: November 2021

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin against the US government over NASA’s decision to award a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,559 crore) lunar lander contract to rival billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Judge Richard Hertling of the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington granted the government’s
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Telecom giants AT&T and Verizon agreed to push back deployment of a new 5G frequency band to allow time to address air safety concerns, US regulators said Thursday. The two companies will “voluntarily pause” the commercial rollout “to further assess any impact on aviation safety technologies,” the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Communications Commission
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Enterprise deployment of AI and machine learning (ML) for cash flow forecasting is expected to increase 450% over the next two years, according to the recently released 2021 Cash Forecasting & Visibility Survey from GTreasury and Strategic Treasurer. The survey of nearly 250 enterprises across industries highlights a growing appetite for AI/ML modernization among finance
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This article was written by Peter Gerdenitsch, Group CISO at Raiffeisen Bank International, and is based on a presentation given during Imvision’s Executive Education Program, a series of events focused on how enterprises are taking charge of the API security lifecycle. Launching the “Security in Agile” program Headquartered in Vienna, Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) operates
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen welcomed Facebook’s announcement that it would scrap facial recognition, but urged close government oversight of the move to ensure the social network lived up to its pledge. Facebook made the announcement on Tuesday, partly in response to growing scrutiny from regulators and legislators over user safety and abuses on its platforms.
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In this article ABNB Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images Airbnb reported strong third-quarter profit growth and a beat on revenue estimates Thursday, as the company continues its recovery from Covid-19 and travel returns as vaccinations efforts ramp up worldwide. Shares briefly rose more than 3% in after-hours trading. Here’s how Airbnb did compared
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Forza Horizon 5 opts for that old adage: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. England-based game developer Playground Games, which has made every entry of the ever-improving Forza Horizon racing franchise since its inception more than nine years ago, doesn’t mess with the formula that it delivered upon and honed over time on its
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in the Linux Kernel’s Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) module that could potentially be leveraged both locally as well as remotely to execute arbitrary code within the kernel and take control of vulnerable machines. The heap overflow vulnerability “can be exploited locally or remotely within a network to
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The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added four companies, including Israel-based spyware companies NSO Group and Candiru, to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities.” The agency said the two companies were added to the list based on evidence that “these entities developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used these tools
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KuCoin, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has decided to explore the budding Metaverse technology as a first from that sector. The platform has “merged” reality with virtual reality (VR) to introduce its new “metaverse office” in a stunning virtual reality-based building called “Bloktopia”. This office is located on the 21st storey of a virtual skyscraper. In this
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Mountain View-based enterprise customer data platform (CDP) Treasure Data has just received a $234 million funding in what the company calls the largest-ever single round for a CDP. With CDPs playing a critical role in the success of enterprise growth, marketing innovation, product development, and more, Treasure Data says its platform allows marketing, service, and
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Clubhouse has added support for 13 new languages to its Android app, including five Indian languages. Starting November 3, the app will support French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Tamil, and Telugu. The support for new languages will be currently be limited to Android users. Clubhouse said that it
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Boston Dynamics and IBM have joined forces to deploy the popular — but controversial — robot dogs at the US National Grid sites for autonomous inspection. The Boston Dynamics robot, named Spot, will be integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) and other required features developed by IBM Research. The new robot will be initially deployed at the electric and gas utility sites in
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