Month: January 2020
Google Cloud can now store all your secrets
Google Cloud has announced a new tool designed to help users securely store their API keys, passwords, certificates and other data called Secret Manager. Secret Manager provides the company’s customers with a single tool to manage their data as well as a centralized source of truth. In a blog post…
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Read the report that concluded Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone
This week, The Guardian posted a huge story reporting that Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone in May 2018 after he received a message from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A report published by the security forensics firm FTI Consulting concluded with “medium to high confidence” that was…
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Switzerland’s drone delivery program to resume after crashes
A Switzerland drone delivery service run by the Swiss Post is set to resume on January 27th, following a suspension of the program in August 2019 after two drone crashes, including one where the drone’s parachute failed to deploy. In that time, Swiss Post and Matternet — the US company…
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Google launches collaborative game to reveal when I/O 2020 is happening
Every year, Google launches a game or puzzle that people can play to eventually learn the dates for the company’s annual I/O conference, and this year’s game is now live (via 9to5Google). It’s a space-themed game where users have to work collaboratively to restore an intergalactic satellite network. When you…
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Cortex Labs helps data scientists deploy machine learning models in the cloud
It’s one thing to develop a working machine learning model, it’s another to put it to work in an application. Cortex Labs is an early stage startup with some open source tooling designed to help data scientists take that last step. The company’s founders were students at Berkeley when they…
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As autonomy stalls, lidar companies learn to adapt
Lidar sensors are likely to be essential to autonomous vehicles, but if there are none of the latter, how can you make money with the former? Among the industry executives I spoke with, the outlook is optimistic as they unhitch their wagons from the sputtering star of self-driving cars. As…
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