The European Union is backing away from its plan to introduce a temporary ban on facial recognition technology, instead delegating decisions on the software to its member states. In a previous draft of a paper on AI, the European Commission had proposed introducing a five-year moratorium on the technology. But in a new draft seen by the Financial Times, that suggestion has…
The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice, some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the management of the actual response process, the…
Have you given any thought to the privacy and security concerns of your voice assistant or what might happen when you connect it to another smart connected device? Perhaps the bigger question should be are manufacturers doing their part and working in tandem to ensure when we use these devices the data being collected by…
The RUNMUS RGB K1 Gaming Headset are okay wired gaming headphones. They have a cheap design that isn’t very comfortable, and a dark, muffled sound profile that isn’t very versatile, especially since it can vary a lot between individuals. Their microphone has an excellent recording quality in quiet environments, though, which makes them a solid…
Smartphone get most of the news coverage, but tablets are the mobile workhorses of choice for tons of us. Smartphones are fine for streaming and gaming applications, but their small screens are a drawback. Laptops including Chromebooks are slimmer and lighter than ever, tablets are much less cumbersome to carry all day or to hold…
Realme is working on a pro version of its first 5G phone and it will feature faster local connectivity and a flagship chipset. We know this courtesy of the company’s CMO, Xu Qi Chase, who keeps posting teasers. The Realme X50 Pro 5G will support Wi-Fi 6 the latest standard for home wireless networks…
The City of Walla Walla in Washington state in the US has detected and fixed 2,000 water leaks within 12 months after deploying a new smart metering system, the city has said. The city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, and a significant wine-growing region, had seen annual water losses rise as high as…
With virtually no engine noise, electric vehicles are smooth and nearly silent. But is that a good thing? Some parents, and their children, would disagree. According to research from Nissan, more than half of all the UK-based parents surveyed resort to hopping in their car with their restless children to help them get to sleep:…
Here comes the second ‘Patch Tuesday’ of this year. Adobe today released the latest security updates for five of its widely used software that patch a total of 42 newly discovered vulnerabilities, 35 of which are critical in severity. The first four of the total five affected software, all listed below, are vulnerable to at…
In 2019, smart speaker ownership in the U.S. surpassed 76 million, according to CIRP (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners), up from 66 million at the end of 2018. How much higher will this number rise in 2020? As voice-assistant technologies continue to advance in smartphones, smart speakers, and in vehicles, more consumers and businesses are exploring…
