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• FBI says DoppelPaymer ransomware gang is harassing victims who refuse to pay

  16-12-2020 23:29 via zdnet.com
  
  FBI says ransomware group has been calling victims, threatening to send individuals to their homes if they don't pay the ransom.
  
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• Innovation 101: How to secure innovators’ engagement during a pandemic

  16-12-2020 23:11 via zdnet.com
  
  Innovation workers require connecting with teammates to collaborate on creative ideas, to both give and get immediate feedback, to feel team spirit, and to celebrate joint achievements. Here are some tips to help innovators approach pre-pandemic engagement levels.
  
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• VMware: Remote work advances environmental, diversity, inclusion goals

  16-12-2020 23:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Virtual and augmented reality may be critical to advancing the new normal of work and collaboration.
  
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• Eftpos gears up to pilot QR code payments system in 2021

  16-12-2020 23:00 via zdnet.com
  
  QR code is one of five technology focus areas for the debit card payments company over the next two years.
  
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• Most businesses are tracking customers yet don’t tell them

  16-12-2020 22:17 via zdnet.com
  
  Apple is cracking down on apps that track users without their permission, but a new survey shows this type of consumer data privacy abuse is also happening within the enterprise tech space.
  
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• Product Review: Apple's M1 MacBook Pro 13"

  16-12-2020 22:15 via zdnet.com
  
  An enterprise buyer's review of the Apple M1 MacBookPro 13"
  
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• Apple's 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro: An enterprise buyer's review

  16-12-2020 22:15 via zdnet.com
  
  The new M1 Macs are a future-proof investment and deserve serious consideration by early adopters and Apple shops looking to modernize their computing.
  
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• Cloud providers compute a greener future

  16-12-2020 21:43 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's joining of The Climate Pledge aligns the two biggest cloud computing providers at a time when cloud demand has skyrocketed and will only continue to grow.
  
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• COVID data tracking: Best dashboards and other tools parsing cases, hospitalizations, and more

  16-12-2020 20:47 via zdnet.com
  
  These live dashboards​ pull data from sources like the World Health Organization to show all confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus, along with recoveries and deaths.
  
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• Best office chair 2020

  16-12-2020 19:18 via zdnet.com
  
  The best office chairs for under $200, as well as the top office chairs for back pain, posture, gaming, and so on.
  
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• IoT solutions power safe, speedy and cold COVID-19 vaccine delivery

  16-12-2020 17:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Advances in Internet of Things technologies make it possible to monitor temperatures of vaccine shipments in transit and can greatly improve public confidence that vaccines are safe and effective.
  
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• Partial Gmail outage resolved: Users reported a variety of problems Tuesday

  16-12-2020 17:17 via zdnet.com
  
  UPDATE: Reports were pouring in of a variety of Gmail problems. The issues have been fixed.
  
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• Quantum computing: Strings of ultracold atoms reveal the surprising behavior of quantum particles

  16-12-2020 17:03 via zdnet.com
  
  Atoms brought down to freezing temperatures and exposed to a magnetic field showed interesting patterns of behavior, according to MIT scientists.
  
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• Singapore law firm offers 'integrated' cybersecurity, legal assistance

  16-12-2020 16:49 via zdnet.com
  
  Rajah & Tann's IT business unit has formed a joint venture with cybersecurity vendor Resolvo Systems to offer integrated legal and security services that they say will be necessary as businesses increasingly rely on digital data amidst growing cyber threats.
  
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• Survey says: Almost half of Americans claim they own cryptocurrency

  16-12-2020 16:37 via zdnet.com
  
  Is cryptocurrency some weird underground scheme? Or is it entirely mainstream? A new survey offers bracing results.
  
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• Best Android phone for you (December 2020)

  16-12-2020 15:57 via zdnet.com
  
  Smartphones running the Android operating system dominate the global market with a variety of companies supporting Google's mobile platform. There are fantastic options available now and most offer 5G.
  
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• Zoom to open Singapore research facility, expand data centre capacity

  16-12-2020 15:49 via zdnet.com
  
  Video conferencing company plans for "hundreds" of engineering roles to support its R&D development centre in the country, where it also is doubling its data centre capacity.
  
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• Four months with Fitbit Health Coaching: Guidance, encouragement, and accountability

  16-12-2020 15:47 via zdnet.com
  
  When Fitbit launched the Sense health watch earlier this year it also offered the 1-on-1 Health Coaching service as an add-on to Fitbit Premium. I've been working with a coach for a few months and wanted to share my experiences.
  
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• The SolarWinds and US government breach is not a marketing opportunity

  16-12-2020 15:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Forrester offers some advice to vendors that compete with SolarWinds on providing important infrastructure, monitoring, and security products.
  
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• Lightning-Fast Python for 100x Faster Performance from Saturn Cloud, now available on Snowflake

  16-12-2020 15:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs. Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses
  
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• Lenovo releases Tab P11 Pro Android tablet with OLED display starting at $500

  16-12-2020 15:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G octa-core processor and 11.5-inch 2,560x1,600 screen, the Tab P11 Pro will compete with Samsung's Galaxy Tab models in the midrange tablet space.
  
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• Intel claims fastest data centre storage title with Optane-charged P5800X

  16-12-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The Optane P5800X can do 1.5 million IOPS of random 4k reads and writes, and up to 1.8 million in mixed workloads, the chip giant claims.
  
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• Firefox 84 arrives: Apple silicon M1 Mac native support brings big speed boost, says Mozilla

  16-12-2020 14:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Mozilla claims huge performance improvements in Firefox 84 for Apple's new silicon-based Macs.
  
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• FICO launches cryptocurrency trade risk solution for banks

  16-12-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The software will bring crypto risk assessment to KYC processes.
  
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• Apple now shows you all the ways iOS apps track you

  16-12-2020 13:54 via zdnet.com
  
  And for some apps, it's quite scary.
  
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• iOS 14.3: Some bugs slipped through the cracks

  16-12-2020 13:18 via zdnet.com
  
  It's good, but according to some it's not perfect.
  
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• AR Outlook: Why 2020 was prelude to hot 2021 AR sector

  16-12-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Predictions and reflections on an AR landscape transformed by COVID and finally coming into its own.
  
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• Amazon: New CloudShell gives you command-line access to AWS from a browser

  16-12-2020 12:59 via zdnet.com
  
  AWS unveils its answer to Google's and Microsoft's browser command-line interfaces for accessing cloud resources.
  
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• Google quietly buys company that turns your old Windows 7 PC into Chrome OS machine

  16-12-2020 12:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Google buys Neverware, a startup with Chrome OS variant that squeezes extra life out of old Windows PCs and Macs.
  
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• Qualcomm boosts mid-tier smartphone capabilities with Snapdragon 678

  16-12-2020 12:12 via zdnet.com
  
  The new chip is an upgrade from the Snapdragon 675 processor family.
  
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• IBM acquires digital payments provider Expertus Technologies

  16-12-2020 11:01 via zdnet.com
  
  IBM’s latest acquisition gives the company access to a consultancy pool of payment modernization specialists.
  
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• ADP adds more AI tools to its DataCloud for HR data, comparisons

  16-12-2020 11:00 via zdnet.com
  
  ADP DataCloud leverages anonymized and aggregated data from more than 740,000 companies for headcount, compensation and retention benchmarks.
  
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• Coronavirus creates boom in digital fitness

  16-12-2020 09:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fitness apps saw a spike in sign-ups from users exercising during the pandemic.
  
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• Singapore adds face verification, multi-user SMS to SingPass 2FA

  16-12-2020 08:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Users can now scan their face to log into SingPass, used to access e-government services, as well as choose to send their SMS one-time password to another SingPass user's mobile number.
  
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• MacKenzie Scott gives away $4.2bn in four months

  16-12-2020 07:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been focusing on women, people of colour and food banks.
  
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• Wonder Woman 1984 is cheesy, fun and utterly doomed

  16-12-2020 07:00
  
  The vibrant, nostalgic superhero sequel lands in UK cinemas today – the ones that are still open, at least
  
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• How Singapore beat Covid-19

  16-12-2020 07:00
  
  The island city-state developed the first Covid-19 contact tracing app. And it didn’t stop there
  
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• New Goontact spyware discovered targeting Android and iOS users

  16-12-2020 06:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Most Goontact-laced apps are targeting Asian users in Chinese speaking countries, Korea, and Japan.
  
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• Facebook to move all UK users onto US agreements

  16-12-2020 05:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The move could allow the social media giant to avoid strict EU privacy laws being introduced.
  
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• SolarWinds said no other products were compromised in recent hack

  16-12-2020 04:04 via zdnet.com
  
  SolarWinds has released today updates that "replaces the compromised component" in its Orion platform.
  
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• Triple Zero emergency callers can now provide more precise location coordinates

  16-12-2020 03:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Through technology already used on smartphones when looking up directions or using a ride share service.
  
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• Xinja Bank hands back Australian banking licence as it withdraws banking products

  16-12-2020 03:19 via zdnet.com
  
  The neobank cites plans to focus on other areas, such as its US share trading product Dabble.
  
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• Twitter ending Periscope in March

  16-12-2020 02:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Announcement arrives alongside Twitter extending to Arm-powered AWS instances and TikTok revising its community guidelines.
  
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• Sony AI launches new project dedicated to gastronomy research

  16-12-2020 02:28 via zdnet.com
  
  It plans to deliver an AI-powered recipe creation app and an in-kitchen assistant robot.
  
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• Microsoft to quarantine SolarWinds apps linked to recent hack starting tomorrow

  16-12-2020 01:17 via zdnet.com
  
  After only showing detection alerts, Microsoft moves to block trojanized SolarWinds apps from running, opening the door for some IT issues for some of its customers.
  
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• EU proposes stricter content and competition rules for big tech with breakups on the table

  16-12-2020 01:15 via zdnet.com
  
  Along with hefty fines and potential divesture of certain businesses for those that fail to comply.
  
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• Facebook dragged to court by ACCC over deceptive VPN conduct allegations

  16-12-2020 01:14 via zdnet.com
  
  Consumer watchdog has alleged Facebook engaged in 'false, misleading, or deceptive conduct' over its Onavo VPN.
  
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• SolarWinds: Why the Sunburst hack is so serious

  16-12-2020 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The hack of thousands of high-profile organisations, including the US government, could have major consequences.
  
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• Uniti picks up Telstra Velocity for AU$140 million

  16-12-2020 00:39 via zdnet.com
  
  Fibre network passes 68,000 premises with around 50,000 active customers.
  
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