Month: August 2024
The best USB-C hub for 2024
To squeeze the most productivity possible out of a laptop, or even a high-end tablet, you might need to plug in more stuff than your machine natively allows. A USB-C hub connects to a single port on your device, and through that you can attach a monitor, keyboard, mouse and…
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Nascar Pit Crews Are Using AI for the Perfect Pit Stop
In a sport where speed is everything, Richard Childress Racing has embraced artificial intelligence to time its refueling down to the millisecond. Source
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Apple’s latest video is so inspiring it might make you miss the Olympics a little bit less
The Olympics wrapped up in spectacular fashion on Sunday, and while we have the Paralympics to look forward to, it does make you wonder if there’s a world where all the Olympics happen at the same time and where all differently-abled athletes compete against one another. Apple’s new short film,…
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Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11
Microsoft is making BitLocker device encryption a default feature in its next major update to Windows 11. If you clean install the 24H2 version that’s rolling out in the coming months, device encryption will be enabled by default when you first sign in or set up a device with a…
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The Morning After: The biggest reveals from Google’s Pixel 2024 event
Google’s big Pixel event was packed with phones, and the company has redesigned them all. No more Cyclops camera band, now it’s an Among Us camera oval. That’s across all the Pixels (barring the new Pixel 9 Pro Fold). There are new flattened sides and softer corners, making these phones…
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Microsoft’s AI healthcare bots might have some worrying security flaws
Microsoft’s AI-powered bots for the healthcare industry have been found to be vulnerable in a way that allowed threat actors to move across the target IT infrastructure, and even steal sensitive information. Cybersecurity researchers Tenable, who discovered the flaws and reported them to Microsoft, outlined how the flaws in Azure…
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