The effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak are being felt all around the world, and in nearly every industry, community, and facet of our lives. Hollywood has been no exception to that trend, with one upcoming movie premiere or production after another canceled, postponed, or otherwise delayed due to the dangers posed by the pandemic.…
Samsung announced an official buy-back program for the Galaxy S20 trio – you can return your old S20 up to two years after purchase and if it’s in good condition, Samsung will give you up to 50% of its original price as credit when you buy a new phone or tablet. This means you can…
Swiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 million (€9.5m / $10.4m), plus coverage for some deferred staff retention. MQTT, short for message queuing telemetry transport, is designed for constrained environments with low…
I like GIFs — perhaps to a fault. I know it’s a dying medium, but I’m still a sucker for a moving image. There’s something awfully satisfying about staring at a GIF that a JPEG can never match. The one thing I despise about GIFs, though, is how much of a hassle it is to make…
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and other kinds of malware, including multi-functional remote access tools (RATs) and cryptominers. Named “Vollgar” after the Vollar cryptocurrency it mines and its offensive “vulgar” modus operandi, researchers at Guardicore Labs said…
In my last column I wrote about how the Coronavirus is changing the way we work. I even talked to some pretty impressive people on The Peggy Smedley Show that shared some key pointers on how to take care of ourselves and our families. The post Grappling with the Future of Work appeared first on…
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The OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro are drawing near as the April 14 global announcement date is less then two weeks away. The most recent batches on info on the two handsets have actually come courtesy of none other than company CEO and co-founder Pete Lau. The latter has now shared some extra details…
Finnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company has announced. The company already has 26 operational private LTE networks in the Nordic region, including with the likes of port equipment suppliers Konecranes, Sandvik,…
It’s a brand new day with a brand new privacy issue for popular video calling app Zoom. Last night, The Intercept published a report highlighting that Zoom‘s claim of having end-to-end encryption for its meetings is not true. The video conferencing company boasts about end-to-end encryption on its website, and in a separate security-related white paper.…
