Month: June 2022
Amazon’s Proteus robot is fully autonomous and ready to move your Prime Day purchases
Audio player loading… Amazon’s new warehouse robot looks like a Roomba, but lifts like an Olympian. The company’s first fully-autonomous robot arrives a decade after Amazon bought robot coordination and fulfillment company Kiva (opens in new tab) and made its first nearly billion-dollar bet on robotic automation. Amazon now employs…
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Adobe Acrobat may be quietly sabotaging your antivirus
Audio player loading… It seems that Adobe Acrobat is blocking most antivirus software (opens in new tab) from scanning PDF files at launch, putting users at risk. The issue was first identified by cybersecurity researchers from Minerva Labs. As reported by BleepingComputer, Minerva spotted Adobe Acrobat scanning for DLL files…
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Google makes it easier to find and support LGBTQ+ owned businesses
Google has introduced a label that will allow a business to make it clear that it’s LGBTQ+ owned. That should help users to find and support queer businesses in their community via Search and Maps. Merchants in the US with a verified Google business profile can add the LGBTQ+ owned…
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Geoff Keighley isn’t worried about E3 making a comeback
Geoff Keighley isn’t sure what E3 is anymore. Even before COVID forced the cancellation of the in-person version of the giant video game commercial masquerading as an industry trade show three years running now, the event was already a pale, big-three-publisher-less imitation of its former self. E3 is coming back.…
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This could be a super-easy way to spot spam emails
Audio player loading… Spam and phishing emails (opens in new tab) can be dangerous, as they often lead to more devastating cyberattacks. However researchers from Atlas VPN have found some common denominators for threat actors distributing spam and phishing emails, which targets could use to spot these emails early on…
Read MoreSlack adds video and multi-person screen sharing to huddles
Slack is bringing more features to huddles, which debuted as an ad hoc voice call option last June. While huddles will start as audio-only chats by default, you’ll be able to switch on video as well. Video huddles can be opened in a separate window and you’ll have the option…
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