Dryad Networks is deploying IoT technology to help prevent the devastation caused by wildfires. This year alone, we’ve had the ongoing wildfire in California that has now set the unwanted record of most acres burned in a single year, the wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and another of Australia’s bushfires—to name just a few.…
Swiss Re and Hitachi are offering to insure industrial companies against business disruption from bad or back-firing algorithms in critical AI-controlled processes and operations. It is the first time enterprises have been offered insurance against AI. The arrangement is between the commercial insurance division of Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re), Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and…
Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and textual analysis, image processing and all kinds of diagnosis and recognition systems. In many cases, AI can surpass the best human performance levels at specific tasks. We are witnessing the emergence of a…
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a rare kind of potentially dangerous malware that targets a machine’s booting process to drop persistent malware. The campaign involved the use of a compromised UEFI (or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) containing a malicious implant, making it the second known public case where a UEFI rootkit has been used in the…
A study conducted by Asavie into the challenges presented by COVID-19 to businesses has found that cyberattacks are the leading concern. While an increase in home working has opened up new opportunities and productivity benefits, it’s also added new security challenges. Hackers are taking advantage of security gaps. 30 percent of the businesses in the…
The Magic Bullet Mini is a 7-piece assembly that doesn’t really have variants. There’s also the 11-piece and 17-piece Magic Bullet Personal Blender, which look almost identical, but come with more cups, lids, and the 17-piece model also comes with a whipping blade assembly. We tested the more bare-bones model, and you can see our unit’s label here. We can’t…
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Prime Day is approaching quickly and Amazon is already discounting a few fan-favorite gadgets. You can get the new iPad Pro 12.9 for just $949 right now, down $50 from its retail price of $999. This is one of the best…
Last year Fossil introduced its Gen 5 smartwatch with Android Wear, Snapdragon 3100 chipset and a $295 asking price. Today the maker is introducing its Gen 5E smartwatches which come in a smaller 42mm casing alongside the 44mm option from last year. The premise is that the Gen 5E is a more affordable alternative to…
Two of the most famous characters from Lewis Carol’s Through the Looking Glass are the twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. When Alice encounters them, they ridiculously mirror each other’s actions and words. Each brother frequently says “contrariwise” as if he’s about to disagree with his counterpart, only to inadvertently say the same thing. Unfortunately, far too…
Team Showcase, a sister plugin, is also vulnerable to the XSS and PHP object-injection bugs — together they have 66,000 installs.
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