Month: January 2020
Delta is limiting flights between the US and China due to coronavirus outbreak
Delta announced today that it will be temporarily reducing flights between the US and China due to “significantly reduced customer demand” that has resulted from concerns about the coronavirus. This marks the third US airline to drastically change its operations in response to the outbreak, after United and American announced…
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A proposed House bill is threatening to rework NASA’s plans to return humans to the Moon
A proposed piece of legislation from the House threatens to change NASA’s efforts to return humans to the Moon, worrying NASA officials and space advocates. The bill — a new authorization act for NASA — could significantly rework the space agency’s lunar plans by changing what kinds of vehicles and…
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FTC says audio cloning is getting better
Rapid progress in voice cloning technology is making it harder to tell real voices from synthetic ones. But while audio deepfakes — which can trick people into giving up sensitive information — are a growing problem, there are some good and legitimate uses for the technology as well, a group…
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30 million payment cards listed on fraud marketplace
Hackers have put the payment card details of more than 30m Americans and over one million foreigners up for sale on the Internet’s largest carding fraud forum, Joker’s Stash. The latest “card dump” was listed under the name BIGBADABOOM-III on Joker’s Stash but security experts at Gemini Advisory have traced…
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Facebook’s messaging apps are more important than ever as revenue growth stalls
Facebook’s global expansion continues unabated, as the company now reports that at least 2.26 billion people use at least one of the company’s family of mobile apps or its website at least once a day, while 2.89 billion do so at least once a month. Those numbers are up 11…
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Tesla shares jump on profitable quarter, Model Y production
Tesla continued its profitability streak in the fourth quarter, earning $105 million, results that beat expectations and sent shares higher in after market trading Wednesday. according to earnings reported after the market closed Wednesday. Tesla also announced Wednesday that production of the Model Y started this month, ahead of schedule.…
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