Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don’t occur every day. But when those “eureka” moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely good. Once a year, Nokia Bell Labs makes that forum a reality, where robust proposals…
The COVID-19 pandemic has bred disruption and uncertainty throughout the global business community. To comply with social distancing requirements, companies have unexpectedly (and rapidly) pivoted their teams to remote work.
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How Ingenuity Saved the Apollo 13 Crew Against all odds and without ever having simulated such a situation, the team had to rely on ingenuity. After the explosion, they had to move to the landing module, using it as a lifeboat. For the next days, they had to face a series of unfortunate events such as…
Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified (find the list here) by researchers from MyCrypto and PhishFort. “Essentially, the extensions…
At TNW, we support several pillars of the tech industry: from media (this website, hi!) to flagship events, consulting, and cowork spaces. Today we’re excited to announce that our spaces, formerly known as TQ, will merge into the TNW brand. More than a name change, this rebrand is one way we’re expanding our support of the…
As hospitals around the world are struggling to respond to the coronavirus crisis, cybercriminals—with no conscience and empathy—are continuously targeting healthcare organizations, research facilities, and other governmental organizations with ransomware and malicious information stealers. The new research, published by Palo Alto Networks and shared with The Hacker News, confirmed that “the threat actors who profit…
The Unicode Consortium announced last week that it was pushing the release of Unicode 14 back by six months. Now instead of a new batch of emoji coming out in 2021, we won’t see the new ones until 2022. The reason is — you guessed it — COVID-19. Specifically, the Consortium is delaying the release…
It’s April 2020 Patch Tuesday, and during these challenging times of coronavirus pandemic, this month’s patch management process would not go easy for many organizations where most of the resources are working remotely. Microsoft today released the latest batch of software security updates for all supported versions of its Windows operating systems and other products…
It looks like Google‘s working on some major upgrades to its autonomous machine learning development language ‘AutoML.’ According to a pre-print research paper authored by several of the big G’s AI researchers, ‘AutoML Zero’ is coming, and it’s bringing evolutionary algorithms with it. AutoML is a tool from Google that automates the process of developing…
It’s April 2020 Patch Tuesday, and during these challenging times of coronavirus pandemic, this month’s patch management process would not go easy for many organizations where most of the resources are working remotely. Microsoft today released the latest batch of software security updates for all supported versions of its Windows operating systems and other products…
