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UK police plan national roll-out of facial-recognition phone app

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UK police chiefs have announced plans to equip officers with a mobile-based facial-recognition tool that will enable them to cross reference photos of suspects against a database of millions of custody images from their phones. Known as operator initiated facial recognition (OIFR), the tool uses software supplier NEC’s NeoFace facial-recognition algorithm, and is currently being…

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Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 Gb Die

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The path to high-capacity RDIMMs for servers has primarily been through 3D stacking (3DS) of DRAM dies using Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs). However, this has presented significant challenges in packaging (driving up the cost), and has also not been efficient in terms of energy consumption. The demand for large memory capacity RDIMMs is being primarily driven…

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How to add email verification to your WhatsApp account

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We learned a few months ago that Meta was looking to upgrade WhatsApp security by adding support for email verification to the app.This feature allows users to easily and safely verify their WhatsApp accounts. As a reminder, you create a WhatsApp account with a phone number. There’s no other login for WhatsApp, and you’ll receive…

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New videos full of Apple Vision Pro details were discovered in visionOS beta 6

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We are still a few months away from the Apple Vision Pro release. In the meantime, Apple is improving its upcoming visionOS system so users can have the best experience possible when this spatial computer is available in early 2024 in the US.With visionOS beta 6, X user M1Astra was able to discover two onboarding…

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DORA raises the stakes for cloud use in financial services

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The European Union’s (EU’s) Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA is a key milestone for the future of the cloud in financial services. It acknowledges the vital role cloud technology plays in the delivery of modern banking services. At the same time, DORA highlights the catastrophic risk a service outage could have on not just…

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Google Maps gets better transit directions and 2 more new features ahead of the holidays

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It’s Black Friday and Thanksgiving season, so Google has a few Google Maps tips and tricks you can use to navigate the upcoming weeks as smoothly as possible. One of the most exciting new Google Maps features concerns transit navigation, as the updated feature will make it easier to use public transportation to get around.Google…

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Crucial X10 Pro Portable SSD Review: 20 Gbps Performance in a Budget Offering

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The increasing popularity of portable SSDs has prompted almost all tier-one NAND flash manufacturers to jump into the market. Over the last decade, both Samsung and SanDisk / Western Digital have been presenting consumers with a range of PSSD offerings targeting different sub-segments. On the other hand, the flash-based storage lineup from Crucial (Micron’s consumer-facing…

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Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report

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As organisational use of communications tools to share relevant data with third-party suppliers and partners spike, a lack of attention paid to security is cranking up risk levels, according to a global study of 781 IT, cyber and risk and compliance pros, 29% of which are drawn from EMEA geographies, which was conducted for Kiteworks,…

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Valve’s Steam Deck OLED: Bigger Display, New SoC, Faster Memory, More Storage, Same Performance

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In a quite unexpected turn of events, Valve has introduced a revamped version of its Steam Deck console that got a larger OLED display, a more efficient system-on-chip, a higher-performance memory subsystem, a 1 TB storage option, faster Wi-Fi 6E, and higher-capacity battery. While performance target of the portable gaming device remained the same, the…

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NVIDIA at SC23: H200 Accelerator with HBM3e and Jupiter Supercomputer for 2024

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With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory. Back in August we saw NVIDIA’s plans to release an HBM3E-equipped version of the Grace Hopper GH200 superchip, and now for the SC23 tradeshow, NVIDIA is announcing…

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