Tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, the most of whose owners are unaware that their data has been compromised, have had data taken by the little-known phone surveillance program Xnspy. Xnspy is one of many “stalkerware” apps that are marketed for spying on a spouse or domestic partner’s …
Read More »Twitter begins rolling out its Community Notes feature globally
Community Notes are now accessible worldwide, according to a tweet from Twitter over the weekend. The social media giant uses a mechanism called Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, to crowdsource fact-checking. Users can use the tool to contextualize tweets, and it uses an open-source methodology to disprove false information. …
Read More »Coupa is acquired by Thoma Bravo for $8B amid activist demands to wait for a greater price
We paid attention when it was reported last week that activist investors were urging Coupa Software to not sell for less than $95 a share. Investors rarely write to a company requesting a delay in a sale, as is the custom. Usually, the reverse is true. However, the business declared …
Read More »A New AI Tool Captures Your Image in the Past Hundreds Of Years
It’s fun to imagine what Henry VIII or Tutankhamun would look like today if you could drag them into the present, but what about the reverse? What would it appear like if you traveled back in time and confronted them there? In partnership with AI image generation experts Astria, online …
Read More »Neuralink Shows Off A Monkey Typing Using Its Brain, But Neuroscientists Are Unimpressed
The company Neuralink recently unveiled a new video in which a monkey is seen typing entirely with its brain, which it claims will advance efforts to implant the chip into people the following year. It’s not the first time we’ve seen something similar, but Neuralink claims the demonstration demonstrates “telepathic …
Read More »The Megalopolis Era: How Cities Around the World Are Converging
The eight billionth person in the world was symbolically born on November 15, 2022, to a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag at Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, the Philippines. 60 percent of those 8 billion people reside in towns or cities. Cities will house 85% of the estimated …
Read More »After a record-breaking 908 days in orbit, Boeing’s X-37B spacecraft lands
The semi-secret X-37B spacecraft set a record for staying in orbit for the longest period of time for a vehicle of this kind in July of this year. Now that it has returned, sonic booms were heard all over Florida as it touched down. The X-37B resembles a battered Space …
Read More »BrailleSense Polaris is the first Virtual Braille Tablet for the blind
HIMS Inc. announced the release of the first virtual Braille tablet for the blind. The announcement comes from Austin, Texas, through a press release. This isn’t the company’s first attempt to help people who can’t see. The BrailleSense Polaris tablet is the latest in the popular BrailleSense Notetaker family. The tablet features state-of-the-art hardware …
Read More »SLIDE Launches New Windows Tablet and Notebook Lineup
SLIDE just announced the launch of a new lineup of 2-in-1 tablets, convertible and traditional notebooks. The smart devices developer also launched a number of smartwatches, computing devices, flip and feature phones, and projectors. All of the above will become available in the first quarter of this year. While the …
Read More »ALGIZ 8X is the New Tough Computer from Handheld
The Handheld Group is a leading manufacturer of rugged mobile computers and tablets. The latest addition to the company’s lineup of devices is the ALGIZ 8X tablet computer. The device is suitable for those who work in the field and require a durable computer to complete their tasks. It has an …
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