Altran White Paper: Digital Twins – Creating Digital Operations Today to Deliver Business Value Tomorrow

Companies in almost every industry are looking to digital twin technologies to drive meaningful business outcomes across the entire product development life cycle, from ideation and production to manufacturing, support and maintenance. Digital twins integrate geometry, real-time telemetry, engineering analysis, sensors, connectivity, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software analytics in a unified spatial model to create a living digital simulation that…

Experian South Africa Suffers Data Breach Affecting Millions; Attacker Identified

The South African arm of one of the world’s largest credit check companies Experian yesterday announced a data breach incident that exposed personal information of millions of its customers. While Experian itself didn’t mention the number of affect customers, in a report, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre—an anti-fraud and banking non-profit organization who…

Samsung HW-Q800T Review – RTINGS.com

The Samsung HW-Q800T is a better overall soundbar than the LG SN8YG. Overall, the Samsung has a better-balanced, more neutral sound profile compared to the slightly boomy-sounding LG, which makes it better-suited for music and movies. The Samsung also comes with a graphic equalizer, making it easy to customize the sound to your liking. However,…

Bluetooth-based COVID-19 notification systems to be extended to wearables

A new Bluetooth specification is being developed so wearable devices can participate in existing smartphone-based coronavirus (COVID-19) notification systems, being deployed with Bluetooth technology. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has said it is working to standardise extension of the Bluetooth-based Exposure Notification System (ENS), deployed to track and trace potential COVID-19 infections to include…