The founder of security-focused messenger Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, revealed today that he found and exploited vulnerabilities in software from Cellebrite, a company that specializes in digital forensics tools that have been used by authorities around the world to extract data from phones. In a blog post, Marlinspike claimed that he found one of the companyâs devices in a package that fell out of a truck â thatâs some luck, huh?... Read more âș
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NASA has had plenty of reason to remotely celebrate its achievements on Mars lately. After it successfully flew the Ingenuity autonomous helicopter there earlier this week, the space agency reports that a device aboard its Perseverance rover managed to convert air from the red planet into breathable oxygen. HOLY. SHIT. Thatâs a major accomplishment because it hints that we could someday scale this up to produce enough oxygen for astronauts... Read more âș
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As we all continue to adjust to the increased number of video calls in our lives, Google Meet is introducing a bunch of new features to improve your meetings â and offer better competition to Zoom. The company is tweaking Google Meetâs interface with changes âlargely inspired by customer and user feedback.â These changes are rolling out to desktop and laptop users over the next month. For one, all controls... Read more âș
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Microsoftâs romance with Linux over the last few years has reached new heights: developers will now be able to run Linux apps with an honest-to-goodness GUI directly in Windows 10. Developers previously had access to a Linux kernel and a terminal app with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), but the emphasis was on command-line tools. They could even run GUI apps in Windows 10 with some workarounds, but this... Read more âș
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Talking to yourself has a bad reputation, but it doesnât always mean youâre going mad. Studies show that thinking out loud can help you manage your emotions and complete tricky tasks â and it isnât only humans who are doing it. A group of Italian researchers recently programmed Pepper the robot to âthinkâ out loud so that users can understand what influences its decisions. They suspected that this would improve... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The Australian state of Victoria is investing AUS$33.7 million (US$25.9 million) in âdistracted driverâ technology which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect... Read more âș
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The iconic Opel Manta A is transforming into an all-electric, emission free ElektroMOD. Opel introduced its new EV with a teaser video on April 20, 2021, and itâs exciting! Typically Iâm not really a huge fan of Opel, its cars are a bit conservative for my taste. I have to admit, though, that with this blend of tradition and innovation, well, Iâm sold. The traditional proportions of Opelâs new EV... Read more âș
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The European Commission plans to ban the use of AI for social credit scoring, exploitation of the vulnerable, and subliminal manipulation, as part of new proposals for regulating artificial intelligence in the EU. Police use of real-time biometric identification systems â such as facial recognition â will also be âprohibited in principle,â albeit with a rather vague list of exemptions. Judges can approve their use for finding victims of specific... Read more âș
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TLDR: Sellful brings together all the features for running an online business, including sales, marketing, customer relationship, and more. Managing a business online was a whole lot different not too long ago. You had programs for your bookkeeping, manufacturing, marketing, customer relations, and more. Sure, you had to drop a decent chunk of change to get all of those separate apps to handle everything, but everything got handled â even... Read more âș
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Electric cars have the potential to help in our fight against climate disaster. For example, if all cars in the UK were electric, the countryâs emissions would drop by 12%. But electric cars might also be able to address another issue thatâs affecting people around the world. Traffic-related fatalities are the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages â ahead of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis â and the... Read more âș
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Marchâs EV sales figures for Europe are starting to come in, and would you believe it, the Tesla Model 3 is back on top. The Tesla Model 3 was the number one selling EV in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, according to figures shared by EV-Sales blog. [Read: 3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers] Germany In Germany, 3,699 Tesla Model 3s were sold in... Read more âș
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Samsung is introducing a new feature through its SmartThings app thatâll help you use your old Galaxy phone as a child monitor or light sensor. The SmartThings app will have a new function called SmartThings Labs that can use phone sensors such as mics and sound sensors to turn it into a smart device. Using AI, the app can identify sounds such as a baby crying, dog barking, cat meowing,... Read more âș
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The US seems to be coming round to electric vehicles in a big way. The sales of EVs experienced record growth the first quarter of 2021, up 81% over the same period last year. According to an analysis of the US auto market by Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue Book, the combined sales of electric vehicles (EVs, HEVs/PHEVs) surpassed 300,000, thatâs an increase of 132,000 over the same period in... Read more âș
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Instagram is finally adding another much-needed layer of protection from harassment to your inbox: from now on, itâll âautomatically filter DM requests containing offensive words, phrases, and emojis, so you never have to see them.â The idea is that this should prevent strangers sending you hateful messages; pings from people you donât know are already filtered into a separate inbox, so this takes things one step further. Instagram will now... Read more âș
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Last nightâs Apple event rocked my teensy-tiny reptile brain. But amongst all the badass updates and new hardware, one thing stood above the rest: the new Apple TV remote. Also known as the Siri remote, the old version of this device is one of the most harrowing things Iâve contended with. Iâve gone into detail about this before, but itâs scarred me so much I think itâs worth repeating. First... Read more âș
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Itâs virtually impossible to get a true understanding of a new carâs dimensions and stance until we see it alongside models we already know. A few weeks ago, Hyundaiâs electric spinoff brand Ioniq unveiled its first model, simply called the 5. Everyone seemed to agree that it is a good looking car, but something didnât add up. Ioniq insists the 5 is a crossover, but in the pictures it looked... Read more âș
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Apple finally unveiled its much-awaited item-trackers AirTag. The $29 device helps you find your key through its U1 chip using Ultra-Wideband technology and Bluetooth. Hereâs how it works, and how it maintains your privacy while being capable of being located by other peopleâs phones. The U1 chip uses a 6-8.5GHz frequency band to transmit signals at a short-range to help you locate items using the Find My app on your... Read more âș
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The new Digital 2021 April Global Statshot Report â published in partnership between Hootsuite and We Are Social â reveals that more than 6 in 10 people on Earth now use the internet. Internet users have grown by more than 330 million over the past year, reaching a total of more than 4.7 billion at the start of April 2021. Thatâs not the only big story in this quarterâs report... Read more âș
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Microsoftâs recent shopping spree reached a new climax this week with the announcement of the $19.7-billion acquisition of Nuance, a company that provides speech recognition and conversational AI services. Nuance is best known for its deep learning voice transcription service, which is very popular in the healthcare sector. The two companies had already been working closely before the acquisition. Nuance had built several of its products on top of Microsoftâs... Read more âș
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Apple introduced updated iPad Pros last night at its âSpring Loadedâ event. These devices are now powered by the companyâs own ARM-based M1 chip, millimeter-wave 5G support, and a Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 port. However, my favorite feature is called Center Stage â powered by the new ultra wide-angle front camera. Hereâs what it does: when youâre video calling someone and move slightly to the side, the camera will pan towards... Read more âș
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