Month: December 2021
Amazon Alexa can now respond to running water and bleeping appliances
Amazon has expanded sound detection for routines, as well as made Alexa’s prescription refill skill available to Amazon Pharmacy customers. The company described the changes in its Alexa monthly roundup for November, which also includes mentions the US rollout of Conversation Mode, and that the wall-mountable Echo Show 15 will…
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“This Is Blackface”: Inside The Virtual Reality Company Trying To Scale Diversity Training
Erik Carter for BuzzFeed News A tech company that provides human resources training to some of the world’s largest corporations has been using white actors to portray people of color in virtual reality simulations about diversity, equity, and inclusion. The simulations, created by corporate education company Mursion, are hypothetical scenarios…
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Nvidia confirms new RTX 2060 Super 12GB in new driver release
Nvidia confirmed this week that its RTX 2060 Super 12GB is on the way, though the chip maker was pretty low key about it. On page four of the release notes for its Windows driver version 497.09 that Nvidia just posted, listed under the “New Features and Other Changes” subhead…
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FluBot banking malware is spreading like wildfire over SMS
Authorities in Finland are warning that the FluBot Android malware is once again being distributed by SMS to users in the country. Finland’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-FI) recently put out an alert that scam messages are being sent out with the hope that unsuspecting users will click on a…
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Black Friday saw a huge jump in malware attacks
As expected, cybersecurity researchers have reported a massive increase in malware attacks over the Black Friday weekend, with the number of websites attacked 50 times a day registering a jump of over 300%. Crunching the numbers collected by Capture Labs, analysts at VPN provider Surfshark noticed that the attacks on…
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OnePlus 10 will come with new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Less than 24 hours after the reveal of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 we’ve already had five confirmed manufacturers that will be including the new chipset in flagship phones over the next few months. The latest name to join that list is OnePlus, and it’s set to feature in a…
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