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A new study looking into job automation estimates that millions of human workers around the world might lose their jobs to robots in the future. According to a new PwC report, many jobs worldwide risk automation from artificial intelligence and robotics by the early 2030s. However, the report notes that in many cases the jobs won’t disappear altogether, but rather change and adapt. US Jobs Most At Risk […]

Last year, Donald Trump won the election for president by bemoaning the disappearance of the American factory and pledging to bring back manufacturing from other countries. Now in power, he might have to start worrying about the decline of another traditional pillar of the US economy — the American shopping mall. Fears that the rise of online shopping will lead to substantial dislocation in the retail sector […]

According to Wikileaks documents the CIA can inject a undetectable bug deep into the essential firmware of an Apple Mac computer that will not be erased even when the computer is reformatted The Central Intelligence Agency is able to permanently infect an Apple Mac computer so that even reinstalling the operating system will not erase the bug, according to documents published Thursday by WikiLeaks. In its second […]

This Wednesday, March 22, 2017, photo shows the Google Maps app on a smartphone, in New York. Google is enabling users of its digital mapping service to allow their movements to be tracked by friends and family in the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing. The location-monitoring feature will begin rolling out Wednesday in an update […]

Korea Electric Power Corp has ruled out buying Toshiba’s controlling stake in Westinghouse, but confirmed it is interested in joining the NuGen consortium that is planning to build a new UK nuclear plant. The decision by the South Korean state-run utility is a blow to Toshiba’s efforts to find a buyer for its troubled US nuclear subsidiary as the Japanese conglomerate grapples with the worst financial crisis […]

Apple is under pressure to extract more revenue from services, a bright spot that includes the apps business. Source link

Malwarebytes A US man has lost an appeal over his refusal to decrypt hard drives in a case law enforcement says involves child pornography. The unnamed man has been held by US police for over 18 months without criminal charges. The suspect’s lawyer has argued that he should not have to hand over his passwords due to the Fifth Amendment, which protects US citizens from incriminating themselves. […]

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An oft-frustrating thing with renting movies on iTunes is that users are locked to finishing a film on the device they watched it on initially. So when they rent a specific film using an iPhone, that same film can’t be watched on other iDevices. Until now, at least. iTunes Movie Rentals Just Got Better Cross-Platform Support Apple has now introduced a “rent once, watch anywhere” feature with […]

Apple Inc. has been granted another patent, which may usher in a change in future devices. The company has obtained rights for a mobile device with the ability to change dimensions of its screen, which may well lead to Apple capturing the market with a dynamic product. Incidentally, as reported earlier, Apple also acquired a patent for facial recognition integration for its phone locking mechanism. The Shape […]

This photo provided by Apple shows the family of iPads, from left, the iPad mini 4, the new iPad, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and the 12.9-inch one, along with the Apple Pencil. On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, Apple cut prices on two iPad models and introduced red iPhones, but the company held back on updating its higher-end iPad Pro tablets. (Apple via AP) Apple is cutting prices […]

Sandia National Laboratories’ Roger Suppona, left, and John Naegle, center, and Lewis Rhodes Labs CEO David Follett examine their Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope. This small processor can replace racks of conventional cybersecurity systems. Credit: Randy Montoya Cybersecurity is critical—for national security, corporations and private individuals. Sophisticated cybersecurity systems excel at finding “bad apples” in computer networks, but they lack the computing power to identify the threats directly. […]

All the three major U.S. indexes opened higher on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite hitting yet another record high, lifted by Apple. Apple (AAPL.O) rose 0.66 percent to an all-time high of $142.40 after the company unveiled a new version of its iPad tablet. The stock was the biggest boost to all the three major indexes. The gains were broad, with all the 11 major S&P sectors […]

The bug is one of three unpatched flaws that affect the Nest Cam and Dropcam Pro’s firmware version 5.2.1. Image: Tyler Lizenby/CNET A researcher has flagged a bug in Google’s Nest Cam and Dropcam Pro security cameras that allows an attacker within Bluetooth range to stop either device from recording. Bluetooth range, of course, is exactly where a burglar would be when planning to ransack a home, […]

Augmented reality will soon be part of everyday life, if we are to believe Tim Cook. Cook, Apple’s CEO, is excited about the future of augmented reality and Apple together. He is psyched that the company is exerting its technological resources to research, develop, and apply AR technology on Apple products, particularly its flagship iPhone. If that happens, then AR can be Apple‘s “next big thing.” While […]

Samsung, whose booth at this year’s Mobile World Congress is shown here, is unveiling a new personal assistant ‘Bixby’ that will challenge rivals including Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa Samsung announced Monday that a voice-powered digital assistant named “Bixby” will debut with a flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone set to be unveiled by the South Korean consumer electronics giant. Bixby enters a crowded field of digital assistants powered […]

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 ripped through the AnTuTu benchmark, achieving a spectacular score no other smartphone has hit so far. Up until now, Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus had been the top performers on the AnTuTu benchmark, scoring 172,001 and 181,316, respectively. On the Android front, the OnePlus 3T ruled the game, boasting a 162,423 score. Samsung Galaxy S8 AnTuTu Benchmark It now looks like […]

When Tim Armour graduated from Middlebury College, a liberal arts institution in Vermont, he faced a conundrum. He could either accept a graduate programme slot at a West Coast investment group, or go and run a windsurf shop in Florida. Because he loved to windsurf but did not want to turn down a more sensible job, he asked the asset manager whether he could put off the […]

U.S. stocks reversed course to trade slightly higher in late morning trading on Monday, helped by a rise in technology stocks including Apple. Apple (AAPL.O) rose nearly 1 percent, hitting a new record-high of $141.34, lifting the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index to yet another intraday high. The iPhone-maker’s stock could rise another 10 percent in six months, Barron’s wrote in an article posted Saturday. The U.S. stock […]

In the 21st century, musical fusions are commonplace – but just by looking at the stage, with closed ears, one might detect something novel about this starkly juxtaposed sonic line-up. To the left, a typical jazz trio – keys, double bass, drums. To the right, a five-piece Emirati percussion troupe, performing in a Bedouin tradition rarely heard outside the Gulf. The occasion was the live debut of […]

Kodi, a free open source media player software that gives users access to a massive content library, is steadily growing in popularity. While the app is easy to use on PCs and laptops, users can also install Kodi in a variety of other devices. Here is a tutorial on how to get the software into three TV-focused hardware namely the Amazon Fire TV Stick, the Roku TV, […]

On the third day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Friday, a Windows guest on a VMware Workstation host was escaped from twice. A team from Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 began with exploiting Microsoft’s Edge browser and chained together two more vulnerabilities to escape from the VMware virtual machine, and picked up $105,000. “In a first for the Pwn2Own competition, they absolutely succeeded by […]

Cheat days have become a modern ­phenomenon. A quick scan of social media hashtags such as #cheatday and #cheatmeal, yields over a million photos of freakshakes, ­oozing cheese burgers and deep fried chicken wings. A few ­hundred more are posted each weekend in a ­declaration of freedom from the dieting drudgery ­suffered during the week.  Celebrities, who know a thing or two about ­restrictive diets, have also […]

Some jailbreaking enthusiasts have been getting impatient for an iOS 10.2.1 jailbreak from formidable hackers such as Luca Todesco, Marco Grassi, the Pangu Team, and PP Jailbreak, among others. But there hasn’t been any update from any of them since Todesco and Grassi released the Yalu102 on Jan. 26. While Todesco has already declared, however, that he’s going on hiatus after the final Yalu102 version is released — without […]

VR headsets are storage hogs. Who knew? The key to an immersive and non-sickening VR experience are graphics that are detailed and smooth. Today’s 1080p systems are OK, but far from ideal. For ideal we have to go to 4k since the displays are so close to our eyes, with none of the frame dropouts or tearing that make people sick. While 4k content requires 4x the […]

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