Category: Technology news
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Sightful’s ‘Spacetop’ is the World’s First Augmented Reality Laptop
For well over two decades, the design of laptops has remained largely unchanged, featuring an outer shell-like casing that houses a screen, keyboard, and trackpad. However, this physical configuration imposes limitations on the available screen space. So in a bid to solve the screen crisis, Sightful has come out with a new laptop, dubbed, Spacetop, which attempts to fix the…
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Windows 11 bug breaks Outlook searches (again)
Windows 11 users have in some cases found themselves suffering at the hands of a bug which interferes with Outlook search results. Read more
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Auditor re-sets sights on Australia’s digital ID scheme?
Cyber security, digital health also top of mind. Australia’s national auditor will again consider an audit of the federal government’s digital identity system after a proposed review of the $600 million-plus project failed to get up last year. Read more
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OpenSSL fixes remote code execution bug?
Affects X86_64 processors. Users of the popular open source OpenSSL version 3.0.4 cryptographic library are advised by its maintainers to upgrade their installations, to fix a high severity bug that can be exploited by attackers to run code remotely. Read more
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The global chip shortage is going from bad to worse. Here’s why you should care
In the market for a new car, smartphone or washing machine this year? A global shortage of computer chips could mean you have to wait a while and pay more. Read more
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Reset Your Ubiquiti Passwords Right Now
Nothing says fun like a company describing its own data breach as “catastrophic.” That’s a “c” word you definitely don’t want to hear if you have an account with said company or use its products, and that’s exactly what happened recently to Ubiquiti. Read more
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Tech firms, PH environmental foundation develop AI solution to save coral reefs
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Technology firms Accenture and Intel partnered with Philippine-based Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation to implement a project using artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and restore a coral reef at an island northeast of Palawan. Read more
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Microsoft’s New ‘Planetary Computer’ Project Will Use Global Environmental Data To Support Sustainability
Microsoft is embarking on a new sustainability initiative as part of its overall approach to support environmental protection measures, with a project it calls the “Planetary Computer.” This will actually be a computing endeavor that uses aggregated global environmental data collected from a number of sources as its input, and that will seek to employ…
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Triple Eight develops open-source ventilator prototype
After nearly two weeks of around-the-clock development, Triple Eight Race Engineering has revealed a low-cost ventilator prototype in an effort to help fight the global coronavirus pandemic. Read more
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James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He’s making 15,000 for the pandemic fight
Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country’s National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients. Read More