Apple will soon stop using intellectual property from Imagination Technologies Group for graphics processing units for its iPhone and other devices, as it is working on a separate, independent graphics design for its products, the chip technology company said Monday. But the U.K. company is not giving up without a fight as it doubts Apple…
DetailsConversational user interfaces like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana have caught the attention of developers, with businesses now looking to incorporate the technology into customer-facing apps, consultant firm ThoughtWorks said in assessing recent technology trends. ThoughtWorks’ recently released Technology Radar report noted that conversational UI and natural language processing is a key emerging…
DetailsThis December, Microsoft will shut down its CodePlex open source project hosting site, deferring instead to code-sharing site GitHub. The site will go read-only in October. CodePlex was launched in 2006 when Microsoft was trying to make a name for itself in open source. But the company acknowledges that GitHub has superseded it, and the…
DetailsRecently inboxes have been hit by the so-called “airline phishing attack.” It is a new take on an old phishing email. It uses multiple techniques to capture sensitive data and deploy an advanced persistent threat (APT). Barracuda Networks has seen this attack with several of its customers, especially in industries that deal with frequent shipping…
DetailsThe win in Ecuador’s presidential elections of leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno will likely have provided relief to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who had been threatened with eviction from the country’s embassy in London by the opposition candidate. The election in the South American country had aroused interest in part because the conservative opposition candidate,…
DetailsWikiLeaks may have dealt another blow to the CIA’s hacking operations by releasing files that allegedly show how the agency was masking its malware attacks. On Friday, the site dumped the source code to the Marble Framework, a set of anti-forensic tools that WikiLeaks claims the CIA used last year. The files do appear to…
DetailsMicrosoft will sell Samsung’s newest Android-powered phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+, in its brick-and-mortar stores next month. [ Related: Samsung Introduces Galaxy S8 and S8+, featuring Infinity displays ] The phones can be pre-ordered now at Microsoft’s retail outlets — but not online — and will also be available for purchase in the stores…
DetailsAt this weekend’s Final Four college basketball tournament, sophisticated technology is in place to help public safety officials monitor crowds, vehicles, social networks and unauthorized drones from a command center at an undisclosed location in downtown Phoenix. An array of thousands of cameras and other sensors are already in place across public venues and roadways…
DetailsSix months ago, Google offered to pay US$200,000 to any researcher who could remotely hack into an Android device by knowing only the victim’s phone number and email address. No one stepped up to the challenge. While that might sound like good news and a testament to the mobile operating system’s strong security, that’s likely…
DetailsMost of the Android world was focused on new hardware, instead of software, this week. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ that got all the attention, with that gorgeous screen, tiny bezels, and somewhat useful software. But it’s updates you’ve come for, and we have some to deliver. And there’s more information about why Android Wear 2.0…
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