Twenty one of Europe’s capital cities are to participate in a new initiative to accelerate development and delivery of “high impact” digital services. The two-year scheme, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will see cities receive technical help, access to city leaders, and training from “innovation experts” about how to use digital technologies to help with improvement of…
Warner Chapelle, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has finally ended its dispute with music streaming giant Spotify after almost a year in India. This development will now allow the streaming service to host artists such as Led Zeppelin, Beyonce, and more. Last year, just as Spotify was preparing to launch its music service in…
After Adobe today releases its first Patch Tuesday updates for 2020, Microsoft has now also published its January security advisories warning billions of users of new vulnerabilities in its various products. What’s so special about the latest Patch Tuesday is that one of the updates fixes a serious flaw in the core cryptographic component of…
Data is vitally important for businesses today, supporting decisions ranging from optimizing production in real time to predicting (and avoiding) equipment failure. Many companies gather and analyze this data through IoT deployments that consist of sensors and gateway devices—the sensors take in data and send it to the onsite gateway device, which then processes and…
Go big or go home… Gamma radiation carries the greatest amount of energy of any frequency of electromagnetic radiation. It is produced by the most powerful events in the Cosmos, including the cores of stars, and the innermost rims of galaxies, as matter plummets toward inevitable doom. Certainly, massive events like these in the early universe…
Refusal to unlock the phones of a Florida shooter could set up another legal battle between Apple and the Feds over data privacy in the case of criminal investigations.
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Update (14-01-2020 11:10 am IST): BuzzFeed News reporter Pranav Dixit noted in a tweet that Microsoft has published a watered-down statement detailing Nadella’s stance on India’s CAA legislation, after the outlet published its piece with the CEO’s quote to editor-in-chief Ben Smith. This highlights the reluctance of companies to take a stance on political issues concerning…
Google has removed 17,000 Joker-infested apps from the Play store to date.
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Siemens and Arm have struck a deal around computing and sensor design for connected and autonomous vehicles, to help the automotive industry develop more complex platforms for in-car and between-car connectivity. The work to redefine vehicles within intelligent and interconnected transport systems starts with on-board compute power, buried in integrated circuits and software within electronics…
Apple is all about balance, constantly striving to find that sweet spot among performance, build, simplicity, noise, and price. But sometimes you just want raw power, and it seems Apple is listening. 9to5Mac spotted code in the macOS Catalina 10.15.3 beta that heavily suggests Apple is considering a ‘Pro Mode’ that would delimit fan speeds…
