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If law enforcement officers can use technology to track people, then people ought to be able to return the favor, according to a robotics hacker who created a service enabling people to monitor police activity using Bluetooth Alan Meekins, aka Nullagent, explained at the Def Con conference this summer how a major equipment provider to law enforceme...

Sink or swim is what today's e-commerce game is all about, according to AI-powered e-commerce search platform GroupBy. The firm plans to offer marketers and retailers a lifeline to stay afloat GroupBy on Thursday will conduct an online panel presentation to bridge the gap between consumers and merchants....

HP Imagine is a new conference focusing on the company’s innovation. Last week, there was an impressive amount of innovation showcased in stellar fashion by HP Chief Corporate Affairs and Communications Officer Stella Low and her team. It stands as one of the best-executed presentations I’ve ever attended Innovation is a difficult topic because...

A growing concern among merchants is their ability to meet new payment card industry (PCI) security standards as early as next March. Failure to complete the upgrade within one year could cost them penalties from $5,000 to $100,000 or more The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) develops the Payment Card Industry Data Securit...

Medical students, health care workers, and even physicians are increasingly using mobile apps in greater numbers to sharpen their medical knowledge. One such medical science learning app challenges users to compete for cash prizes by earning high scores in gamified approaches to motivate their medical skills development This developing trend in EdT...

Looney Tunables is no laughing matter. This Linux vulnerability poses significant risks to numerous Linux distributions On Tuesday, the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) disclosed a potentially damaging threat to Linux systems running in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader. That code library, commonly known as glibc, is prevalent in most Linux syste...

Artificial intelligence is coming to more than 100 drive-thru lanes at White Castle, the fast food hamburger chain that invented the "slider" in 1921 The company announced Tuesday that the project will tap into the proprietary voice AI technology of SoundHound and digital signage from Samsung Electronics America to deliver a state-of-the-art custom...

E-commerce musical instrument supplier Sweetwater will not be singing a new tune under its newly-appointed CEO, Mike Clem. Instead, the company will be cranking up the volume to stay true to what it does best -- meeting its customers' needs The music technology and instrument retailer's chief growth officer stepped into his new role on Sept. 29. Cl...

Younger workers can pose a greater risk to an organization's cybersecurity than older workers, according to a study released Tuesday by IT security company Ivanti Based on a Q4-2022 survey of 6,500 executive leaders, infosec professionals, and office workers worldwide, the study concluded that millennials and Gen Z workers are more likely to have u...

Microsoft recently announced that Copilot, the company’s implementation of generative AI, will be coming soon to Windows and Office 365. While Microsoft is already using generative AI in its Bing search engine, its introduction to Microsoft's core productivity tools promises to redefine how we interact with technology at work and home Although th...

Navigating the expansion of e-commerce storefronts often involves considering expensive technology alternatives. However, merchants frequently overlook more cost-effective and efficient options already present in their tech stack Krepling, an e-commerce platform, is one such solution designed for mid-market merchants who want greater control over t...

I have been a gearhead forever. I am not talking about a certain affection for the short-block V8 either, though I suspect it all comes from the same root cause. The tech space is a whole gearhead ecosystem, just made for people like you and me Last week, I was all over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) like a junkyard dog. I don’t pretend to und...

Nice North America specializes in home automation solutions and is well-known for its novel approach to making homes more intelligent and convenient The company’s self-imposed mission focuses on creating useful products with eye-catching designs that allow people to enter and leave their homes or workplaces freely and in the most comfortable way ...

The AnkerWork B600 Video Bar is a powerful all-in-one conferencing device that is probably more suited for a business conference room than a work-from-home office. AnkerWork tries to thread the needle in stitching together features that either user category finds attractive I’m in the latter worker group and found this advanced conferencing tool ...

Spotify is opening up foreign language markets to its podcasters through artificial intelligence The company on Monday announced a pilot program called Voice Translation for podcasts that not only translates a podcast from one language to another but will retain the podcaster's voice as it does it....

Intel’s Innovation conference was last week. Unlike Intel Vision, which lacked the “Vision” part (I really miss Intel’s old CTO Justin Rattner, who made it look like Intel was building magic), there was a lot of innovation at this event Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger -- who I still believe has the best chance of making Intel a leader again -- did ...

Oracle announced three significant artificial intelligence (AI) overtures with a heightened focus on CRM and service this week at Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas On Tuesday, Oracle released details of its addition of AI in critical spots like Intelligent Sales Orchestration, Guided Campaigns, and AI-Powered Account Linking. The new offerings will he...

Generative AI produces outputs with increasing similarity to human-generated content -- and with exponentially greater efficiency This technology is still in development, but its potential uses are vast. Gen AI is skilled at integrating natural language into various work processes. Businesses can use these features to their advantage, accelerating ...

A satellite network provider on Tuesday announced it has successfully used its space hardware to complete a voice and data call from an unmodified smartphone The 5G call, the first of its kind, was made from Maui, Hawaii, to a Vodafone engineer in Madrid, Spain, using AT&T spectrum and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite....

Even at this early point in the AI era, we may be seeing a divergence. On one side, we can easily see vendors bending over backward to deliver ethical AI apps and services, and on the other, a real conundrum. I am not an expert on anything, including AI, but I analyze things and report on what I see The significant early determinant for the AI indu...