AT&T, one of the largest and oldest telecoms and mobile network operators in the United States, has lost control of the phone records of virtually all of its customers relating to a six-month period in 2022, amid a still-expanding series of breaches affecting customers of cloud data specialist Snowflake. In a filing with the Securities…
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I arrived in Paris, France, for Samsung’s big Unpacked event a few days ago, fully prepared to use public transit to navigate the city to the various places I needed to be. This wasn’t my first time in Paris. I know where all the important stuff is and how easy it is to get around…
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After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will possibly collaborate with Arm, but what remains to be seen what happens to the unique architecture of Graphcore’s intelligence…
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June 7, 2024 was the 70th anniversary of the death of Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, whose wisdom still resonates in fields ranging from mathematics to biology. But I want to argue that in the age of ChatGPT, one aspect of his legacy—the famous Turing Test, also known as the ‘imitation game’,…
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I’ve been a fan of the Apple Vision Pro even before Apple unveiled it at WWDC 2023 last year. The rumors painted an exciting picture of what the mixed-reality headset could offer. Once Apple laid out its spatial computing it was clear that I wanted a taste of that.I saw how computing might change in…
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If you’re an AT&T customer, you should know hackers were able to breach the carrier’s server and steal six months’ worth of personal data for nearly all AT&T wireless subscribers. The data includes call and text message records for six months, but not the actual contents of calls or messages. AT&T landline users also had…
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With Apple Vision Pro now available in more places, customers in over ten regions can finally get their hands on Apple’s first entry into a fresh product category in almost a decade. While I have mentioned 10 reasons not to buy this spatial computer, there are also plenty of good reasons to get on board,…
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Sharing Wi-Fi passwords has got to be one of the most annoying experiences out there, yet it’s something that we all have to deal with. Anywhere we go, we ask about the “free Wi-Fi” that we’re entitled to from family and friends. The same goes for restaurants and hotels. It’s expected of them, and most…
1Password has a brilliant new way to share Wi-Fi passwords Read More »
After introducing its AI shopping assistant Rufus in the Amazon Shopping app earlier this year, Amazon is now rolling the feature out to all customers in the US. As the company explained in February, Rufus has been trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As, and information from across the web. It uses all…
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Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…
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