Month: February 2020
Microsoft is looking past the Xbox before the internet is really ready for cloud gaming
Big news from Microsoft today, as it has put its most visionary product person, Panos Panay, in charge of Windows in addition to hardware. Technically Panay isn’t in charge of all of Windows, but the client experience you see on your computers. Very technically, understanding how the matrix of the…
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Facebook is latest to demand Clearview stop using its images for controversial facial recognition
Facebook has “demanded” that Clearview AI stop using data scraped from its social networks for its controversial facial recognition database, CBSNews reports. “Scraping people’s information violates our policies,” a spokesperson for the company said, “Which is why we’ve demanded that Clearview stop accessing or using information from Facebook or Instagram.”…
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Remote workers prime targets for cyber attacks
According to a study by OneLogin about the future of work, more than half of CIOs expect a rise in employees working remotely, while 97% say that soon their workforce will be widely dispersed across geographies and time zones. Businesses are being forced to adapt to the rising demand for…
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Coronavirus ‘could disrupt entire mobile industry’
Qualcomm has told investors that the ongoing coronavirus crisis could have a negative impact on the mobile industry, affecting the supply chain and demand. There have so far been more than 28,000 confirmed cases of the virus in China, resulting in 563 deaths. With China being both a major manufacturing…
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Hero 8 drives GoPro to second most profitable quarter ever
Sales of the GoPro Hero 8 series helped the company post Q4 revenue of $528 million, up 40 percent compared to the same holiday quarter last year. It was the third best quarter in terms of revenue ever posted by the company, which founder and CEO Nick Woodman took public…
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Microsoft bets on the man behind Surface to fix Windows 10 debacle
It seems like Microsoft is looking to bring some of the success its Surface devices have enjoyed to Windows 10, with the news that it is making Panos Panay the head of the new Devices + Windows group, which will combine his work on overseeing Microsoft’s Surface devices with Windows…
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