Google Calls It Quits on Smart-City Project, Why?

It might not have come as a surprise to hear that Google ended its highly anticipated Quayside project, in Toronto, Canada —the smart-city development—which had been plagued with widespread controversy since its very beginning some three years earlier. This was a big project Google’s subsidiary Sidewalk Labs touted, which would deliver a world of smarter,…

Critical VMware Cloud Director Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over Corporate Servers

Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed details for a new vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Director platform that could potentially allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information and control private clouds within an entire infrastructure. Tracked as CVE-2020-3956, the code injection flaw stems from an improper input handling that could be abused by an authenticated attacker…

A Look at the Sustainable City

Our civilization is in the midst of both housing and environmental crises—and it is going to impact how we manufacture and build cities of the future. The IoT (Internet of Things), AI (artificial intelligence) and other emerging technologies can help us be more sustainable in a number of different industries. According to the United Nations,…