Month: October 2020
Vizio’s first 4K OLED TVs are on sale starting at $1,200
At CES in January Vizio revealed it would finally add a couple of OLED options to its TV lineup, and now they’re going on sale. With their incredible contrast and ability to produce details while watching dark scenes, OLED TVs have remained at the to… Source
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The FAA is opening the door a crack for self-flying drones like Skydio to reach their potential
You can’t fly a drone at night. You can’t fly a drone over people. You need to be able to see it with your naked eye at all times — or have a dedicated observer who can. These rules exist to keep dumb drones (and reckless pilots) from crashing into…
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Your wireless router could be hacked if you have this vulnerability null
A team of researchers from Synopsys’ Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) in Oulu, Finland have discovered a partial authentication bypass vulnerability in multiple wireless router chipsets from Mediatek, Qualcomm (Atheros), Zyxel and Realtek. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18989, CVE-2019-18990 and CVE-2019-18991, affects Mediatek’s MT7620N chipset, Qualcomm’s AR9132, AR9283 and AR9285 chipsets…
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Did a hard disk drive failure paralyze Tokyo’s stock market for a day? null
The shutdown of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) for a whole day last week took the financial world by surprise, not so much because it hit the world’s third biggest equity market by size ($6 trillion) but because of how long it lasted. A team of journalists at Bloomberg identified…
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Google and Samsonite have launched a smart backpack Konnect-i Backpack
Google and Samsonite have launched a new smart backpack to help users stay connected while out and about without having to constantly check their smartphones. The Konnect-i backpack, which starts at $200 for the Slim version and $220 for the Standard edition, is the latest product in Google’s Jacquard lineup…
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The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time
Ten years after Oracle first sued Google over the code in the Android platform, the two tech giants are finally facing off in the Supreme Court. Since then, there have been three trials and two appeals. Billions of dollars are at stake; many millions have been likely spent on a…
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