Nearly two-thirds of consumers are worried about home IoT devices listening in on their conversations, according to a Gartner survey released Monday. Those jitters aren’t too surprising after recent news items about TV announcers inadvertently activating viewers’ Amazon Echos, or about data from digital assistants being used as evidence in criminal trials. But privacy concerns…
Russia now has its very first 3D-printed house. The ‘construction’ process only took about 24 hours and came in around $10,000. The structure is only 38 square meters (about 400 square feet) and includes a kitchen, living room and bathroom. On its website, Apis Cor claims that this is the first house to be printed…
President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, released Monday, ensures that H-1B visa workers from banned countries won’t have problems as long as they stay in the U.S. But if they take a trip abroad, they could have trouble returning. The changes unveiled today are technical, and immigration attorneys will be waiting for the U.S. State…
Facebook executives have been weighing whether or not to introduce a dislike button, or something similar to it, for years. Now it seems the social network is taking a big step in possibly giving users something similar to the dislike button they’ve been asking for. A spokesperson for Facebook’s Messenger app confirmed to Computerworld today…
Consumer Reports, a major source for gadget and appliance reviews in the U.S., plans to start rating products on data security and privacy. On Monday, the non-profit publication unveiled a set of new testing standards it hopes will push the tech industry to create safer products. “The goal is to help consumers understand which digital…
We loved the latest HP Spectre x360 13 when we reviewed it in December. Compared to the first iteration, it’s lighter, a little bit narrower (in a good way), and thinner. And right now at Best Buy, it’s also a little bit cheaper. The newest HP Spectre x360 is currently on sale for $1,049. That’s…
Kaspersky Labs announced new research this morning that shows some links between the massive Shamoon attack that took down 35,000 computers in Saudi Arabia to a new attack against a target in Europe. The Shamoon attack, which occurred in 2012, was followed by a series of related against against Gulf States earlier this year. The…
At the Big Data Paris event in Paris, France, today, MapR Technologies and French enterprise-class cloud provider Outscale announced that they have joined forces to provide a big data platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering built on the MapR Converged Data Platform. Outscale will provide the new premium cloud service in Europe, North America and Asia and says…
Amazon’s Alexa added a new productivity skill to its tool set after we inadvertently discovered in mid-February. The smart assistant—embedded in the Echo line of smart speakers, as well as many other devices—now works with Office 365 business accounts, officially. That means anyone using Office 365 for work can now get their calendar updates from their smart…
In the roughly two years since Aruba Networks was acquired by HPE, it’s become the larger company’s de facto wireless arm, more or less taking over HPE’s existing networking division and changing almost not at all after the merger. Network World sat down with Senior Vice President and General Manager Keerti Melkote and CTO Partha…