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The year 2023 offers lots of promise and a whole lot of insecurity on the digital pathways -- both for personal and business encounters Technology continues to bring innovative business solutions while it also poses seemingly unsolvable cybersecurity challenges....

The hardest part of identity and access management (IAM) technology is making it work with multi-vendor infrastructure and the growing number of applications that enterprises rely on to get business done. Primarily this is because the last-mile integration of applications and identity systems have traditionally been hard coded to allow for the exchange of information about a user, their identity, roles, and access permissions...

Do you want to run a full Linux desktop installation on your Chromebook without giving up ChromeOS? This alteration will give you access to both complete operating systems running simultaneously so you can move between them with a keyboard shortcut You may already use the "Crostini" partition to run individual Linux apps alongside ChromeOS. That me...

China's Science Ministry on Monday announced that the country's first practical quantum computer was delivered to a user, which the agency didn't identify, a year ago The 24-qubit Wuyan system based on superconducting technology was built by Origin Quantum Computing Technology, a company founded in 2017 by two of the country's leading quantum physi...

The most popular search engine on the internet may be headed for some rough sailing in the next one or two years, according to the creator of Gmail During that time frame, artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for search engine result pages, which is where Google makes most of its money, and even if the search giant deploys AI to catch up...

The customer experience (CX) is a primary driver of competitiveness for more than two-thirds of companies. The recent rise in CX is unsurprising, considering how demanding consumers are today. The proliferation of convenient services during the pandemic, such as telehealth, food delivery apps, and others, was the catalyst for consumers' shifting attitudes...

This could end badly -- or not Activist investors Elliott Management Corp., Inclusive Capital, and Starboard Value LP have all taken significant positions in Salesforce, and the scuttlebutt is that they want board seats. Salesforce is a target of those companies because they believe they can make the company more profitable and make themselves sign...

Nitrux is a very new Linux distribution that has the potential to offer a more interesting desktop experience to users looking for a fresh approach to computing -- but it is not there yet Developers describe the distro as offering an experience that is "Boldly Different." That might be the case once they have all the non-working parts fixed. Until ...

Almost every major tech company is experiencing a round of layoffs, even though most are making good profits. Many people have never seen vast layoffs like this, so the honest question is, why is this happening? Is it fashion, fatigue, or something more secular to blame? You can't rule out fashion in a monkey-see, monkey-do way Since there's reason...

I've been considering the concept of digital views for a while now. With the issues surrounding weather change, living where some of the best views exist is not only expensive but with rising sea levels and the potential for flooding, ocean views come with undesirable risks as well. I once dreamed of living where I could see and hear the surf. Now? Not so much...

Videoconferencing, podcasts, and webinars surged in popularity during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 as remote work became part of the new normal. With the pandemic now in the rearview mirror, video communications techniques have shown no sign of slowing down What's been amusing to me is that despite the pervasiveness of video communications, ...

Advancements in education technology, or EdTech, come from changes of approach in the wake of shortcomings. Innovative educational technology can adapt existing tools or create new ones to help people navigate learning obstacles King of the Curve (KOTC) is a disruptive EdTech startup with its sights set on helping to ease the looming doctor shortag...

Software developers should be thrilled with this year's potential. The introduction of modern tools, innovations, and frameworks will provide more opportunities for greater efficiency and much more fun as a programmer in 2023 Yoav Abrahami, chief architect and head of Velo at Wix Code discussed with TechNewsWorld why he sees such a rosy prospect fo...

Aptera, a developer of a futuristic-looking, solar-powered passenger car, has pulled the wraps off its first production vehicle, which it says will be rolling off the assembly line this year According to the company, the all-wheel-drive, three-wheeled, two-passenger vehicle will have a range of 400 miles, can sprint to 60 mph in four seconds, and h...

As an analyst, I am a generalist -- you almost must be unless you're Paul Greenberg, who captures and manages a hellacious amount of data about nearly every company in the space. Hat's off to my buddy Paul! I take a different approach, trying to understand and define industry needs first and evaluating how various vendors meet them. There's some fl...

The tides are turning in the consumers' direction. New shifts in the consumer market solely based on their preferences have taken hold in the retail industry, especially in e-commerce, as personalized experiences are now an integral part of the customer journey In a larger context, personalization in 2023 will be more about brands tailoring their m...

A gang of big banks, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase, are reportedly preparing to launch a digital wallet product to compete with those offered by tech heavyweights Apple, Google, and PayPal The bank wallet -- which is being developed by Early Warning Services (EWS), a bank-owned enterprise that operates the money transfe...

New technology is improving situational awareness for police officers and other first responders by minimizing response times and streamlining data sharing among agencies Advancements in high-tech for first responders might be essential in keeping police, firefighters, and EMTs on the job. Almost half (44%) of first responders surveyed said they co...

After rising and falling since 2021, new Linux malware hit record highs at year-end in 2022, growing by 117% over previous levels While Linux malware reached never-before-seen numbers in 2022, the total number of new malware developments among other major computing platforms fell....

Generative AI is a category of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms to create things like literature, graphics, music, and language models Gen-AI has been burning up the news of late and promises to change computing. ChatGPT is the current star of this category, but Google is spinning up a challenger because ChatGPT has scared the heck out ...