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• Johnson & Johnson CISO: Healthcare orgs are seeing nation-state attacks every single minute of every single day

  04-12-2020 21:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Johnson & Johnson is one of six COVID-19 research companies that have been recently targeted by North Korean state-sponsored hackers.
  
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• Intel Labs searches for chip giant’s next act in quantum, neuromorphic advances

  04-12-2020 21:23 via zdnet.com
  
  Intel’s one-day virtual peak into its laboratories discussed advances in chip photonics, neuromorphic computing, quantum computing, machine programming, federated data, and homomorphic encryption. It’s all meant to find grand challenges that take advantage of the chip maker’s classical expertise in turning things out at scale.
  
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• Getting there: Structured data, semantics, robotics, and the future of AI

  04-12-2020 20:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Leveraging structure in data is key to making progress in AI, says AI prodigy Gary Marcus. A forward-looking view on Software 2.0, AI chips, robotics, and the future of AI
  
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• Singapore issues four digital bank licences, holds back on one

  04-12-2020 19:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Alibaba's Ant Group and joint bidders Grab and Singtel are amongst bidders that have snagged licences to offer digital banking services in the country -- targeted to commence early-2022 -- though, the four issued is one short of the initial target of five.
  
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• Chrome's new 'cache partitioning' system impacts Google Fonts performance

  04-12-2020 18:53 via zdnet.com
  
  Going forward, website owners are advised to download and host their own custom fonts.
  
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• Cameo: Celebrity video app boss says age of A-lister is over

  04-12-2020 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The founder of a site where fans pay for celebrity messages says stars now attract niche followings.
  
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• DocuSign CEO: WalMart and other customers keep finding new use cases for digital transformation

  04-12-2020 18:22 via zdnet.com
  
  What had been COVID-19-induced panic buying in digital signatures is turning into a steady state of change, says Dan Springer.
  
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• Tech Tent: Who wants a digital vaccine passport?

  04-12-2020 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rory Cellan-Jones explores the practical and ethical issues around digital vaccination records.
  
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• Quantum supremacy 'milestone' achieved by light-emitting quantum computer

  04-12-2020 17:12 via zdnet.com
  
  A research team in China has achieved quantum supremacy using a photonic quantum computer.
  
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• Zuora: What’s happening with digital transformation plays really well into our wheelhouse

  04-12-2020 17:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Companies’ desire to consume products on a subscription basis, a per-usage basis, or any number of different ways, is the way of the future, says CFO McElhatton.
  
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• NSA warns of Russian state-sponsored hackers exploiting VMWare vulnerability

  04-12-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Russian hackers are using a VMWare bug to plant web shells inside hacked networks and pivot to Microsoft ADFS servers from where they steal sensitive data.
  
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• US turns up heat on China's biggest chip-maker

  04-12-2020 16:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US adds China's biggest computer chip-maker SMIC to a list of "Chinese military companies".
  
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• Timnit Gebru: Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

  04-12-2020 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Timnit Gebru, a critic of some of the firm's policies, says she was dismissed over an internal email.
  
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• MIT demonstrates 3D printer capable of selectively applying gloss

  04-12-2020 15:36 via zdnet.com
  
  While 3D printers, especially resin 3D printers, are capable of producing objects in incredible detail, one area where they've struggled is producing shiny objects. Some new breakthrough research from MIT shows how that might be changing.
  
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• The future of food is about a lot more than just lab-grown burgers

  04-12-2020 15:25
  
  From farm to fork, the entire food ecosystem is in need of a radical overhaul if we're to feed billions of people and tackle the climate crisis
  
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• Warner Bros to movie theaters: Drop dead

  04-12-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Opinion: Will straight-to-streaming become the 'new normal' for film releases?
  
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• Comcast just found a slightly insulting way to make customers happy

  04-12-2020 14:27 via zdnet.com
  
  At the end of such a torrid year, companies should be very careful about what they tell customers. And how. I'm not sure Comcast got it quite right.
  
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• JavaScript at 25: The programming language that makes the world go round

  04-12-2020 14:20 via zdnet.com
  
  JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.
  
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• Nutanix extends hyperconverged umbrella to cloud storage

  04-12-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The objective is enabling hybrid cloud customers to tap the public cloud for disaster recovery and storage tiering.
  
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• Windows 10: Now you can use Cortana to find files on a PC

  04-12-2020 13:42 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is also trying to figure out how to keep Windows Insiders on the latest version of its frequent preview releases.
  
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• Here's how to install an iOS public beta on your iPhone

  04-12-2020 13:26 via zdnet.com
  
  It's pretty simple, and you can roll back whenever you want.
  
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• Still having iPhone problems? Help is on the way

  04-12-2020 13:07 via zdnet.com
  
  iOS 14.2 still has a lot of bugs, but hopefully we'll see many getting fixed before the year is out.
  
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• What the Covid-19 vaccines mean for returning to work

  04-12-2020 13:00
  
  Coming up today: How a coronavirus vaccine will affect the return to work, what we learned from F1’s biggest crash in recent history, and how will Santa deal with lockdown?
  
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• Police simulator uses real weapons, tense scenarios

  04-12-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Developers pushing new technology-based techniques to reprogram police responses.
  
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• A 3D-printed mini-rover, plus other technology news

  04-12-2020 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Omar Mehtab looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories.
  
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• Don't waste your money on these gadgets

  04-12-2020 11:51 via zdnet.com
  
  There's a lot of terrible tech out there that you should avoid.
  
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• Scammers stole millions last Christmas. These six tips could keep you safe online this time around

  04-12-2020 11:46 via zdnet.com
  
  NCSC issues advice for online shoppers as cyber criminals gear up to take advantage of the busiest time of year for retail purchases.
  
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• Dune and Matrix 4 streaming plan prompts urgent talks from AMC cinemas

  04-12-2020 11:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Odeon owner AMC is alarmed by Warner Bros' plan to stream films in US as soon as they hit cinemas.
  
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• Programming languages: Python rules as Java declines

  04-12-2020 11:24 via zdnet.com
  
  Python continues to shake Java from its spot as one of the top programming languages.
  
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• Ripple CTO says community could demand billions in XRP to burn

  04-12-2020 10:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Such a move would be the decision of the majority.
  
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• Airbnb tackles New Year’s Eve pandemic parties with booking restrictions

  04-12-2020 09:20 via zdnet.com
  
  The company’s changes have been made in order to “protect public health.”
  
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• Ransomware attack cripples Vancouver public transportation agency

  04-12-2020 08:39 via zdnet.com
  
  TransLink customers left unable to use the agency's public ticketing kiosks and cards for two days.
  
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• Intelligence review recommends new electronic surveillance Act for Australia

  04-12-2020 07:46 via zdnet.com
  
  It would repeal the existing parts of three Acts to form a new one that covers the use of computer access and surveillance devices powers.
  
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• The pandemic has triggered a British online gambling crisis

  04-12-2020 07:00
  
  Stuck at home during the pandemic, problem gamblers have been hounded by betting ads
  
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• NBN overprovisioning makes lowest two speed tiers faster than advertised

  04-12-2020 03:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Chances are if you are on a 12Mbps or 25Mbps fixed-line NBN plan, even during busy hours, you'll be getting over 100% of the advertised speed.
  
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• 400 global public officials call on Amazon to pay its dues

  04-12-2020 01:32 via zdnet.com
  
  The letter to Jeff Bezos urges the richest man on Earth to 'act decisively to change your policies and priorities to do right by your workers, their communities, and our planet'.
  
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• Edward Snowden asks Trump to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

  04-12-2020 01:31 via zdnet.com
  
  Snowden claims the pardon would save Assange's life.
  
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• Trump signs another executive order on governmental AI development

  04-12-2020 01:30 via zdnet.com
  
  This time, the order is focused on promoting the use of trustworthy artificial intelligence by the government.
  
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• Why Covid may mean more facial recognition tech

  04-12-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facial recognition software is getting better at dealing with masks, making the tech more versatile.
  
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• Volunteering my phone to research Covid-19 while I sleep

  04-12-2020 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  100,000 people are donating their smartphone power to scientists to help research into Covid-19.
  
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• Cyber-warning for festive shoppers

  04-12-2020 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Online shoppers are being warned of the risks of cyber-fraud during the festive season.
  
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• Basslink hit with AU$38.5 million in damages via 2015 outage arbitration

  04-12-2020 00:41 via zdnet.com
  
  Arbitrator finds the December 2015 outage was not due to a force majeure event.
  
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