Demand for LoRaWAN smart water networks rises in COVID-19 crisis, says Senet

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies like LoRaWAN are proving their worth as connectivity technologies for smart water preservation and management during periods of change and crisis, including in the current COVID-19 crisis. Smart connectivity networks are enabling improved management of water and other utilities during lockdown, as residential demand rises. This is the view of…

Xiaomi Mi 10 5G review

Introduction Back in February, Xiaomi unveiled the Mi 10 family of devices. One that seems to be still expanding, with increasingly-interesting value offers, like the Mi 10 Youth 5G, no less. We already did a deep dive on the top-dog Mi 10 Pro 5G, which you can check out here. A true 2020 flagship, which…

Democrats are using AI to counter Trump’s coronavirus disinformation

An anti-Trump political organization is using AI originally designed to tackle Islamic State propaganda to counter coronavirus disinformation spread by the president. The system has been repurposed to spot comments from Trump that are about to go viral. It will then identify the most popular counter-narratives, and invite a network of more than 3.4 million influencers “to share these highly visual and emotional…

New Malware Jumps Air-Gapped Devices by Turning Power-Supplies into Speakers

Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply units that come with modern computing devices. Dubbed ‘POWER-SUPPLaY,’ the latest research builds…