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The Paper Passport Is Dying
In a matter of years, no matter where you live or travel, your face will likely be your new passport. For centuries, people have used [more…]
I tried using smart home devices to help fix my irregular routine – and it changed my life
Ever since the pandemic, when so many people were cooped up, out of work or otherwise left to their own devices, I’ve heard one word [more…]
New Microsoft patent could reveal the company’s answer to DualSense haptic feedback
A new patent filed by Microsoft details enhanced haptic feedback motors They can produce more intense haptics feedback Or be tuned to simulate vibrations that [more…]
Nearly all companies expect a major outage in 2025
Leaders and execs are preparing for “when” the next major IT disruption will occur 83% of businesses were caught off guard by CrowdStrike 2024 outage [more…]
There’s Still Time to Get Ahead of the Next Global Pandemic
Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the US [more…]
This widely-used instant loan app leaks nearly 30 million files of user data
FatakPay, an Indian loan company, was found storing sensitive data in an unprotected S3 bucket The data included people’s names, addresses, IDs, and more The [more…]
Building a gaming PC is too expensive, and GPUs really aren’t helping
Gatekeeping is something that’s brought up a lot, isn’t it? It’s frowned upon, obviously enough, as obnoxious, off-putting, and generally unnecessary – whether we’re talking [more…]
Quordle today – my hints and answers for Friday, December 27 (game #1068)
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, [more…]
Japan Airlines cyberattack disrupts flights, but systems now seem to be back to normal
Japan Airlines experienced a major network disruption An investigation uncovered cyberattack by an unknown threat actor The attack lasted a few hours and caused delays [more…]
NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Friday, December 27 (game #565)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read [more…]
Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently
Hertz has contacted multiple electric vehicle renters recently with interesting low-cost offers for cars like Teslas, offering them the option to buy their rental EVs [more…]
ChatGPT and Sora went down for the second time this month
ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API were down on Thursday for more than four hours. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 [more…]
o3 Model Wraps 12 Days of Announcements
The next step for OpenAI’s reasoning models is o3, a model previewed on Dec. 20. o3 and its smaller cousin, o3-mini, outperformed o1 in coding, [more…]
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Friday, December 27 (game #299)
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, [more…]
Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL games pulled in more than 64 million viewers
Netflix says it had a big audience for its live NFL games on Christmas Day, with Nielsen ratings designating them “the most-streamed NFL games in [more…]
AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add [more…]
7 Ways to Stop VoIP DDoS Attacks from Crashing Your Phones
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack vector attempts to overwhelm a VoIP server with phony user requests. Because this massive volume of traffic is more than [more…]
What Is an LOA and When Will My Number Get Ported?
A Letter of Authorization (LOA) is a document that you must send to your telecom provider when you want to switch to a new business [more…]
Nvidia in 2024: year in review
Nvidia experienced a memorable 2024 in some ways, and certainly CEO Jensen Huang won’t forget the year in which his company finally outdid Apple as [more…]
Watch this robotic ‘Superman Suit’ rotate around a gymnastics bar
Scientists at the Suzumori Endo Robotics lab in Tokyo have developed the Superman Suit: a suit powered by hydraulic artificial muscles that allows it to [more…]