From Forbes: An alarming Bluetooth Security Notice has been issued after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability that security researchers have warned is "a serious threat to the security and privacy of all Bluetooth users." The flaw enables an "attacking device" to interfere with the connection...
From Forbes: Back in November of last year, Google open-sourced a technique for natural language processing pre-training that it called Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, or BERT. Despite a number of large companies racing towards conversational AI using similar methods...
From The Verge: Just like every other tech company that got caught with its hand in the cookie jar this year — hey there, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — we recently learned that Microsoft had been quietly letting human contractors listen to your Skype translations and Cortana voice recordings...
From Forbes: Following Apple’s June recall for selected 15-inch MacBook Pro computers, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has now effectively banned those laptops from traveling on commercial flights. The restriction covers both carry-on and hold luggage. So if you haven’t returned one of the...
From Tom's Hardware: Silicon Lottery not only sells binned processors, but it's also a great source of information for binning statistics. The company has recently added the stats for AMD's Ryzen 3000-series processors to its database.
The AVX2 frequency is the highest stable all-core speed the...
From CNET: Lyndi Cohen's Instagram photos illustrate the power of healthy living. The Australian nutritionist features meals she's prepared for the week and moves gracefully through yoga poses. She also shares side-by-side bikini shots to show how glamorous photos on the social network diverge from...
From TechCrunch: Two major U.S. carriers, AT&T and T-Mobile, announced this morning a plan to team up to protect their respective customer bases from the scourge of scam robocalls. The two companies will today begin to roll out new cross-network call authentication technology based on the STIR...
As I have mentioned in the previous Cooler Master review I wrote, the MH751, I was able to test drive a Jeep Wrangler and it felt very strange. Prior to that moment, the tallest car I had driven was probably a tie between a Nissan Rogue and a Ford Windstar. From the outset, climbing into the Wrangler was quite the ordeal. Worse yet, the difference of driving the Wrangler compared to everything else I had tried was very noticeable. While the Ford...
From The Verge: Verizon has agreed to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner Automattic Inc. for an undisclosed amount, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Verizon, which first acquired Tumblr in 2017 after it purchased Yahoo, started to explore a sale earlier this year. Automattic reportedly bought Tumblr...
From PC Mag: First revealed back in January, Project Athena is Intel's way of pushing the envelope on laptop design. Now Intel has revealed the visual identifier (badge) vendors can use for hardware verified as up to the Project Athena standard.
Intel's aim for Project Athena is to create a new...
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