For the most part, Netflix is a set-it-and-forget-it service. Once you choose a plan and set up your account, all you really have to do is start streaming shows and movies. The algorithm will begin to adjust to your taste, and before long, your home page will be filled with content just for you. But…
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When Apple takes the stage at WWDC 2024 in a few days, it’ll show the world how it’s catching up to rivals. Most reports say that iOS 18 will not deliver breakthrough innovations compared to what’s available from the likes of ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and others.However, the same reports have been saying for months something…
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File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so, but with adaptations to the use case, performance and cost constraints of cloud storage. In this article, we look at the fundamentals…
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In the latest reminder that you should always be extra careful about what you download, cloud security company Zscaler revealed this week that its researchers identified and analyzed more than 90 malicious Android apps on the Google Play store in recent months. So far, the Android malware apps have been installed over 5.5 million times.As…
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A phishing campaign targeting, of all things, people who might be interested in buying a second-hand piano, may have netted the scam operation behind it over $900,000, according to researchers at email security specialist Proofpoint. The email campaign seems to have started in January 2024, and is ongoing. It forms the precursor to an advance…
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One of Norway’s largest financial services companies has divested from IBM over the role its biometric database technologies play in maintaining illegal Israeli settlements, in a move that could set a precedent for other European investors. Storebrand said the global tech giant was providing biometric databases to the Israeli government that were being “used to…
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After decades where artificial intelligence (AI) was largely confined to research projects, niche applications or even science fiction, it’s now a mainstream business tool. Driven by applications such as Google’s Bard (now Gemini), Mistral and ChatGPT especially, generative AI (GenAI) is already impacting the workplace. Industry analyst Gartner, for example, predicts 95% of workers will…
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Google “upgraded” the Google Search experience at I/O 2024, bringing AI Overviews to the top of search results. This seemed like a good idea, at least from Google’s perspective, since there’s no hotter trend in tech right now than AI. Google wants users to let Google do the googling for them and speed up the…
Google should cancel AI Overviews in Search and end this nightmare Read More »
YouTube’s war on adblockers has been well-documented over the last several months, but it’s taken a frustrating new twist for users still attempting to block ads on the popular video platform. According to reports from Reddit (via 9to5Google), YouTube’s latest tactic appears to be forcing videos to skip to the end right away when a…
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About a week ago, I joked inside BGR’s Slack that the Slack AI that Salesforce is training with the help of chats should let me come up with generative emojis on the fly to react to conversations. After all, emojis are an integral part of communication. We use them across chat platforms regularly, no matter…
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