Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind' Amazon-owned smart home appliance maker Ring has won the world record for biggest game of "ding dong ditch" after a software glitch broadcast erroneous doorbell chimes to co…
Lees meerYep, plugs. The things that pick up electrickery from the wall Smart plugs could set your house on fire and let hackers gaze upon your private data, according to consumer champion company Which?…
Lees meerInternal docs tell a different story to public pronouncements Amazon has apparently been misleading the public over the number of injuries that happen in its warehouses, with the e-commerce giant actually suffering nearly double the typical injury r…
Lees meerIncredible tale that starts with smart home software being axed and ends with senior lawmaker denying taking a super-bung Special report Ohio Register reader Steve Ringley loves his electricity company’s smartphone app: it shows his usage in real t…
Lees meerBut no faster, so do you need it? VMworld VMware says it is integrating Nvidia's GPU Cloud (NGC) into its vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation platform to tap into the growing demand for AI chops in the enterprise.…
Lees meerHydroflex has ambled through Warwickshire at up to 50mph Hot on the heels of commercial aviation, Britain's rail industry has hailed planned trials of a hydrogen-powered train as "welcome news".…
Lees meerScumbag found guilty for his role in large-scale cyber-fraud ring A Bulgarian man has been convicted of laundering through his cryptocurrency exchange at least £4m ($5m) his fellow crooks had cheated out of hundreds of people online.…
Lees meerRead mine off my forehead, Jeffrey Amazon is testing out a system that can identify shoppers from their handprints so that they can be later charged for stuff.…
Lees meer5U box can reach up to six quadrillion INT8 calculations per second, it is claimed Video Groq, an AI chip startup founded by ex-Googlers, today said it is now shipping its hardware to customers.…
Lees meer‘Zephyr’ is designed to either beam down data or spy for weeks, but lasted about 90 minutes A drone that Airbus once flew for 25 days without landing and suggests as either an airborne communications platform, or a stratospheric spy, broke up after …
Lees meerRight, we own cloud, shipping, what's next? The home Analysis You may not want one, but the idea of your own miniature security drone taking off when it senses someone trying to break into your house and doing a tour inside your property, relaying …
Lees meerKuCoin says it will cover losses as over $130m of tokens enter crypto limbo A cryptocurrency exchange called KuCoin says it has been cracked, with over $100m of assets misappropriated.…
Lees meerPlus: CIA launches new research lab for AI experts, and more In brief The Los Angeles Police Department has run facial recognition algorithms a whopping 29,817 times over a decade in an attempt to identify suspected criminals captured in CCTV foota…
Lees meerRobot named Curly bends it like Beckham in 'chess on ice' smackdown Video Machines have been able to beat human players at chess for years and now they have trounced their creators at "chess on ice," as curling practitioners sometimes refer to thei…
Lees meerStarts trying to make fetch happen... build your own models to parse corporate content Ignite Microsoft's SharePoint Syntex is a new feature of SharePoint online that promises to extract metadata from documents automatically, making it easier to fi…
Lees meerAustralian government survey's post-plague adoption prediction finds only tiny future increase in usage Remote work may not be the new normal after all, according to Australia’s Bureau of Statistics.…
Lees meerIf you find yourself wrestling with big docs on small screens, the Photoshop's iOS, Android apps may be able to help Adobe has introduced Liquid Mode into its PDF reader for Android and iOS, the intent being to make reading PDF documents on mobile a…
Lees meerElon Musk wants his money back, Volvo, Ford, Mercedes also pile in Tesla has sued the US government, seeking to not only end what it described as President Trump's "unlawful" tariffs on Chinese-made components but also a refund on all duties paid – …
Lees meerSeeks first-mover advantage and says US dollar ripe to be dethroned China’s central bank has laid out a digital currency world domination plan.…
Lees meer'The scope of commercial and creative potential is profound' Ignite Microsoft has bagged exclusive rights to use OpenAI's GPT-3 technology, allowing the Windows giant to embed the powerful text-generating machine-learning model into its own product…
Lees meer'People analytics' tool touted to count people in rooms, measure how close they are Ignite Microsoft's Spatial Analysis, announced at its Ignite virtual event today, uses artificial intelligence to count the number of people in a room and monitor s…
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