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Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0
18 years ago, Google shut down Google Answers, a service that allowed anyone to ask a question to freelancers, known as Google Answers Researchers (GAR), for a fee. Launched in April 2002, it competed against the free-to-use Yahoo! Answers. The answers fed directly into Google’s own index (they’d appear in…
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2024 will see more cyberthreats emerge – here is what SMEs need to know
Against a backdrop of international turmoil, high inflation rates and a fast-changing political landscape, the past year has seen cybercriminals take advantage of vulnerabilities on an unprecedented scale. As we head into a geopolitically and economically uncertain 2024, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are facing an increased risk of becoming…
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PCIe speeds on a fingernail-sized SSD: Micron’s latest UFS 4.0 storage promises to make AI run faster on your smartphone — but you can only get it up to 1TB capacity
Micron has taken the wraps off its UFS 4.0 mobile storage solution. The new SSD, delivered in the world’s smallest UFS package at just 9×13 millimeters, is built on Micron’s advanced 232-layer 3D NAND technology and offers up to 1TB capacity. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2024, the UFS 4.0…
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Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don’t need to learn
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again announced the death of coding, but this time in front of a potentially far more influential audience. Speaking at the Word Government Summit in Dubai, Huang argued that because the rapid advancements made by AI, learning to code should no longer be a…
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Would you use a phone with no apps? One of the world’s largest mobile networks believes you will — but I am not totally convinced
I have a lot of apps on my phone. How many is ‘a lot’? A quick tot up reveals the number to be an absolutely ridiculous 288. I only use a fraction of those of course, and I should probably have a clear out, but it’s fair to say, I…
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The world’s most iconic police force has been hit by a cyberattack that took its website offline
The iconic Canadian national police force, also known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), suffered a recent data breach which temporarily knocked its website offline – but its operations, as well as citizens, should not be affected by the incident, it said. CBC says the RCMP sent a breach…
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