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Tesla Motors and SpaceX boss Elon Musk says Neuralink will explore software on implantable devices for the human brain. Image: James Leynse Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has created another out-there venture called Neuralink, which will develop tech to enhance human brain capacity. Details of Musk’s new medical research company were reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Musk plans to reveal more details in […]

Elon Musk is a man who wants to do a myriad of things: he wants autonomous electric cars cruising down streets in the near future, he wants to send people to Mars and our Moon, and he wants to build a substitute to trains that travels blazingly fast. Now, he has another item in his to-do list: to link up your human brain with artificial intelligence. How? With the […]

T-Mobile is now offering complimentary AppleCare+ perks for customers who sign up for its Premium Device Protection plan or those who upgrade to JUMP! For those unfamiliar with the service, AppleCare+ is Apple’s extended warranty service for iPhone and iPad, offering a number of benefits to in case something goes wrong with the device. T-Mobile’s new offer notes that it’s including complimentary AppleCare service with JUMP! or its […]

Apple and Facebook are gearing up to challenge start-up Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens in the race to create a pair of augmented reality glasses that could one day replace the smartphone as consumers’ primary computing device. Apple is stepping up its efforts in AR eyewear, according to people with knowledge of its efforts, while Facebook is also researching the technology that can make what chief executive […]

A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple’s iPhone 6 violated a patent owned by local manufacturer Shenzhen Baili, the South China Morning Post has reported. The Beijing Intellectual Property Office ruled last May that the tech giant violated design patents of the local device with its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and as a result was ordered to cease selling the smartphone in Beijing. […]

The Australian government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) company is linking up rural residents to satellite services even where towns have existing fixed-line communications infrastructure, according to the Northern Territory government, which has also criticised the installation delays, service dropouts, and usage caps on the service. “The Australian government’s current position is that areas outside the major cities and towns, including all remote communities in the Northern Territory, […]

It should come as no surprise that there are numerous activities related to Trust, Identity, and Privacy on the agenda for IETF 98. Below I will highlight a few of the many activities and provide pointers to a number of additional ones. There is something for everyone interested in these areas in Chicago in the coming week! The fun starts before the meeting even begins with the […]

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Samsung will seek this week to draw a line under the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone safety scandal with the launch of the South Korean technology company’s latest handset, the Galaxy S8. Released last August, the Note 7 was hastily withdrawn after a series of incidents in which the phones caught fire. Samsung expects the debacle, which dealt a severe blow to its reputation, to have cost the […]

General Electric is planning to launch products based on what it calls a Digital Ghost, a combination of its digital twin efforts and industrial control technologies, to thwart cyberattacks. This effort, which is likely to be commercialized in the next year, aims to us physics to thwart attacks. Industrial machines would be able to sense anomalies that would trigger an autoimmune response to attacks. GE’s plans could […]

I am blessed to write about smartphones here on ZDNet and tend to overspend on the high end flagships because of how much time I spend using phones every day. However, after 10 days with my T-Mobile SIM in the new Moto G5 Plus, it will be very difficult to justify spending more than $300 on a smartphone again. The Moto G4 Plus, check out my review […]

(Image: file photo) Microsoft has quietly removed a feature on its document sharing site Docs.com that allowed anyone to search through millions of files for sensitive and personal information. Users had complained over the weekend on Twitter that anyone could use the site’s search box to trawl through publicly-accessible documents and files stored on the site, which were clearly meant to remain private. Among the files reviewed […]

Elon Musk has finally shut down rumors that his own company, SpaceX, will greatly benefit from President Donald Trump’s latest bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA. This is despite the unbelievable fact that the President just made human exploration to Mars a federal law. Elon Musk Not Happy Responding to a tweet by Kara Swisher, the cofounder of independent tech news website Recode, which implied that […]

It’s a little weird to think of India and China as buddies. There has been at least a half-century of rank hostility between the two most populous nations in the world, ostensibly kicking off when India gave the Dalai Lama refuge, post the Chinese invasion of Tibet. A short but debilitating border war in 1962; claimed occupation of territories by both sides; China’s alliance with Pakistan and […]

New computational software is hundreds of times faster than conventional tools, opening up new opportunities to understand how individual neurons and networks of neurons function. (via WSJ)

Researchers have successfully used facial recognition software to diagnose DiGeorge Syndrome, a rare, genetic disease in Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. This is the newest addition to the Atlas of Human Malformations in Diverse Populations launched last year. (via WSJ)

The Moto G5 Plus has yet to make its way to the United States, but will finally arrive later this month. The handset made its debut back in February at the Mobile World Congress 2017 and it already launched in some markets, with the United States slated for a spring release. The Moto G5 Plus makes an enticing proposition, packing good specifications and the latest software – […]

The slowness of OneDrive that some Linux users experienced has been traced back to a failure in a browser component designed to speed up background processing. Image: Microsoft Microsoft has resolved a bug that made OneDrive and OneDrive for Business slow on Linux machines but not on any other platform, including iOS, Chrome OS, macOS, and Windows. A Microsoft OneDrive spokesman called Edgar has now confirmed that […]

Stevenson will oversee the infrastructure side of the group, including the Lenovo’s core datacenter products and solutions portfolio. (Image: Intel) Lenovo has hired former Intel CIO Kim Stevenson to serve as the SVP and general manager of its struggling datacenter group. As part of its third quarter earnings report last month, Lenovo revealed sales from its datacenter group were down 20 percent from a year ago to […]

In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, file photo, a customer sets up his new iPhone 7 Plus, right, as he switches from the iPhone 6 at the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue during the release of the Apple iPhone 7 and the latest Apple Watches, in Chicago. New documents from WikiLeaks, posted Thursday, March 23, 2017, point to an apparent CIA program to hack Apple’s iPhones and […]

The police raided the apartment of the teenager’s family on Thursday morning and arrested him as the prime suspect behind a monthslong wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, sowing panic and prompting evacuations. The Israeli police said he had also made threats against commercial airlines, including at least one Delta Air Lines flight in 2015, forcing an emergency […]

Researchers present a system for testing new traffic management protocols that requires no alteration to network hardware but still works at realistic speeds — 20 times as fast as networks of software-controlled routers. (via WSJ)

Do you need software-defined storage (SDS) for your enterprise virtualization, analytics, and enterprise sync and share workloads? If so, then Red Hat has the program for you: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2. Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 looks to be one hard-working storage ant. Red Hat likes to say its open-source Gluster SDS Scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is for the modern enterprise workload. It’s not wrong. You […]

Most website visits these days entail a database query — to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses. But online database queries can reveal a surprising amount of […]

Intel has put its artificial intelligence efforts under one group led by Naveen Rao, former CEO of Nervana, which was acquired by the chip giant. special feature How to Implement AI and Machine Learning The next wave of IT innovation will be powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. We look at the ways companies can take advantage of it and how to get started. The company […]

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