A Google effort to push websites to implement encryption is expanding. Starting in October, the company will roll out new warnings to flag HTTP connections as insecure in its Chrome browser. For users, it means Chrome will display the words “not secure” in the browser’s address bar whenever they type any data into web pages that…
Unibet parent company Kindred Group is turning to machine learning to recognise patterns of problem gambling across its suite of betting and casino websites. Kindred Futures is the group’s innovation wing, tasked with bringing in entrepreneurs and experts on how to “co-create the future of gambling,” according to the organisation’s website. It recently held a…
The legal fight between Apple and Qualcomm on licensing modem technology is turning uglier every day. Apple has filed lawsuits against Qualcomm in countries like the U.S., U.K., China and Japan, accusing the chipmaker of using its dominant market position to overcharge licensing fees. The iPhone maker itself doesn’t pay licensing fees directly to Qualcomm.…
As self-driving cars become more advanced with a greater number of onboard computers, sensors, cameras and WiFi, the amount of data is expected to balloon, providing automakers, insurers and others with rich information to harvest. A single autonomous car could generate as much as 100GB of data every second, said Barclays analyst Brian Johnson, in…
VF, parent of The North Face, Timberland, Wrangler and other clothing and footwear brands, is promoting Sandra Harris to CIO effective January 1, 2018. Harris, who currently manages workforce productivity solutions as vice president of global business technology, will succeed Martin Schneider, who is retiring at year’s end after 11 years as the retailer’s CIO.…
Qualtrics has gone from the Silicon Slopes of Utah, building software for university researchers, to a platform of tools used by the world’s biggest brands to survey their customers and employees. As the story goes, Qualtrics started from the Smith family basement in Provo, Utah. Ryan Smith, cofounder and current CEO, started building research software…
Much of the talk at NetSuite’s annual conference SuiteWorld has been of new parent company Oracle’s plans for the firm’s global expansion, but the world’s largest cloud ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) vendor also unveiled a host of new products and features. Flames were thrown from vertical torches to herald the key launches of a human…
The Galaxy S8 and S8+ are already getting an update right out of the gate. Well, as long as you have the model for T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. There are a variety of minor software bumps that ought to improve the experience for these rather excellent smartphones. Each week, we round up all the major…
Homemade musical instruments don’t usually work out very well. I remember the experiment we all had to do with the rubber bands and the empty tissue boxes and finding the resulting sound, well, pretty disappointing. How’s a fifth grader supposed to rock out and impress girls for reasons he only vaguely understands with this thing?!…
Hundreds of thousands of internet gateway devices around the world, primarily residential cable modems, are vulnerable to hacking because of a serious weakness in their Simple Network Management Protocol implementation. SNMP is used for automated network device identification, monitoring and remote configuration. It is supported and enabled by default in many devices, including servers, printers, networking…