Month: February 2020
Birds of Prey is DC’s first good action movie
Birds of Prey is a breakup movie. This is obvious from minute one when Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie, reprising her role from Suicide Squad) explains via an animated prologue her history as a psychiatrist who fell for Batman’s most notorious villain, Joker. (Twisted!) It breezes through the complicated series of…
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7-Eleven is the next retailer to test cashierless stores
7-Eleven is the latest retailer to test the “cashierless” store concept, following Amazon’s big push into the market with its Amazon Go convenience stores that use technology, instead of people, to monitor stock levels, track purchases, and process payments. This week, 7-Eleven announced it’s piloting its own take on the…
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Pax Labs names a new CEO
Five and a half months after Bharat Vasan was removed as CEO, Pax Labs has finally announced a replacement. Michael Murphy will step into the leadership role, as both the CEO and president of the popular cannabis vaporizer company. Murphy is a finance guy, with experience as the CFO of…
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Banks being targeted with major malware campaign
Following a brief break over the holidays, the Emotet malware has returned and is now being used by cybercriminals to target banks and financial institutions in the US and UK according to new research from Menlo Security. While Emotet started out as a banking trojan and later evolved into a…
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Qualcomm’s alleged anti-competitive behavior is facing EU scrutiny once again
The European Commission is once again investigating Qualcomm over what it believes could be anti-competitive practices, Qualcomm revealed in its latest earnings report. This time, the commission is concerned with how Qualcomm is selling its radio frequency front-end (RFFE) chips, which form part of the link between a phone’s antenna…
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The European Commission is once again investigating Qualcomm over what it believes could be anti-competitive practices, Qualcomm revealed in its latest earnings report. This time, the commission is concerned with how Qualcomm is selling its radio frequency front-end (RFFE) chips, which form part of the link between a phone’s antenna…
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