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Will Apple’s AR Glasses Be Ready for Spring 2021 Debut?

Apple may launch an augmented reality line of smart glasses in the spring of 2021, according to Jon Prosser, host of the video blog Front Page Tech The new peepers will be called "Apple Glass" and sell for US$499, with prescription lenses costing more, Prosser claimed....

Apple Gingerly Sets More Stores to Reopen

Apple on Sunday said it has reopened nearly 100 of its retail outlets around the world The company will be opening an additional 25 stores in the United States and 12 more in Canada this week, according to a Bloomberg report....

Microsoft, Intel Combine Deep Learning and Pixels to Nix Malware

Microsoft and Intel researchers have found a way to combine artificial intelligence and image analysis to create a highly effective means to combat malicious software infections The researchers call their approach "STAMINA" -- static malware-as-image network analysis -- and say it's proven to be highly effective in detecting malware with a low rate...

Oculus Quest Production Stymied by Pandemic

The next generation of Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets is in the works, but pandemic-related product development and supply chain problems may delay market arrival Oculus, which is a division of Facebook, has multiple potential Quest successors on the drawing board, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Smaller, lighter versions with a faster image ref...

UK Rejects Apple-Google Contact Tracing Approach

The United Kingdom's plans to launch a smartphone application to track potential COVID-19 infections won't include Apple and Google The country's National Health Service has designed its own mobile software to do contact tracing of people exposed to the coronavirus, the BBC reported Monday.

Ad Makers Use Deepfakes to ‘Refresh’ Old Content

With measures to stem the spread of COVID-19 putting a chokehold on their filming capabilities, advertising agencies are enhancing old content with new tech, including deepfakes Deepfakes typically blend one person's likeness, or parts thereof, with the image of another person. For example, a recent commercial for State Farm insurance blended the m...

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch to Get BP Monitoring Feature

Cuffless blood pressure measuring is coming to the Android world. Samsung on Tuesday announced that South Korean authorities have approved its Health Monitor app for use on the Galaxy Watch Active2. The app will be available in the third quarter of this year High blood pressure has been associated with increased risk of brain, kidney and heart prob...

Facebook Gaming Powers Ahead With Live Streaming

Facebook on Monday launched a free standalone app for creating and watching live video game play on Android devices Some 700 million users already engage in gaming on the platform, but with its dedicated app Facebook is locking horns with the leaders in the market -- Amazon, Google and Microsoft....

Zoom Boosts Security With Pick-Your-Route Feature

Zoom's paying customers will be able to choose the region they want to use for their virtual meetings, the company announced Monday Starting Saturday, paying customers can opt in or out of a specific data center region, although they won't be able to change their default region, which for most customers is the United States....

Contact Tracing Phone Apps: Health vs. Privacy

Google, Apple and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week made headlines with announcements of contact tracing mobile apps in the wings. Their purpose is to identify contacts of people who test positive for COVID-19 so appropriate actions can be taken to stem its spread. However, a Cambridge University professor threw some cold water o...

Report: E-Commerce Account Takeovers, Shipping Fraud on the Rise

E-commerce account takeovers increased 347 percent, and shipping fraud jumped 391 percent from 2018 to 2019, a fraud and identity solutions company reported Tuesday Fraudsters are gaining access to accounts using credential stuffing, romance scams, social engineering, phishing, or hacking, noted TransUnion, formerly Iovation, in its "Global E-Comme...

Ask Siri if You Have the Coronavirus

Apple users wondering if they've caught COVID-19 can now ask digital assistant Siri for advice The company on Saturday rolled out a self-screening feature that allows users to ask, "Hey Siri, do I have the coronavirus?" Siri then takes them through a questionnaire prepared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Public Health Service to de...

Crowdsourcing App Takes Aim at COVID-19

Researchers into the COVID-19 virus have a new source of distributed computing power: crowdsourcing Usually crowdsourcing involves information or opinion gathering, but in this case it involves computing power....

New Website Aims to Help People Access COVID-19 Testing

Project Baseline, a new website to facilitate screening and testing of people potentially infected with the COVID-19 virus, became available on Sunday. Verily, a company owned by Google parent Alphabet, launched the site Access requires a Google login, and assistance currently is limited to residents in two counties in the San Francisco Bay Area....

VPN, Ad Blocker Provider Caught With Hand in the Data Jar

A number of VPN and ad-blocking apps owned by Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform, have been collecting data from millions of people using the programs on their Android and iOS devices, BuzzFeed reported Monday The software involved includes Free and Unlimited VPN, Luna VPN, Mobile Data, Adblock Focus for Android devices, and Adblock Focus ...

Twitter Tiptoes Into Battle to Curb Social Media Misinformation

Twitter on Sunday applied its "manipulative media" label to a deceptively edited video showing presidential hopeful Joe Biden saying, "re-elect Donald Trump." It was the first time the service enforced rules adopted last month to control synthetic and manipulated media....

Shop Safe Act Targets E-Commerce Counterfeiters

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday introduced legislation that aims to protect online shoppers from purchasing counterfeit goods Titled "Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-Commerce," the proposed Shop Safe Act would do the following:...

Study: YouTube Achieves Some Success at Hobbling Conspiracy Theories

YouTube's efforts to reduce the spread of conspiracy theories on the platform appear to be bearing fruit "Our analysis corroborates that YouTube acted upon its policy and significantly reduced the overall volume of recommended conspiratorial content," three researchers wrote in a study the University of California, Berkeley, released Monday....

Firefox Scrambles DNS to Boost Consumer Privacy

Firefox users in the United States are getting an extra measure of privacy protection starting this week, the Mozilla Foundation announced Tuesday Firefox Desktop Product Development Vice President Selena Deckelmann heralded the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default in Mozilla's browser....

Microsoft Releases ‘Mind Blowing’ Xbox Specs

Microsoft whetted demand for its Xbox Series X product line on Monday with the revelation of some impressive specs for its next-generation gaming console Xbox Head Phil Spencer spilled the following details:...

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