Smart alarm clock ticks most boxes with distraction-free screen and room-filling sound Amazon’s latest attempt to usurp the humble bedside alarm clock is the revamped Echo Spot, equipped with a speaker and small display for a customisable Alexa clock. The new Spot straddles the line between Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays and its basic Echo …
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Faulty update from cybersecurity company ground hospitals, airports and payment systems to halt in July A CrowdStrike senior executive will apologize for causing a global software outage that ground the operations of hospitals, airports, payment systems and personal computers around the world to a halt in July. Adam Meyers, senior vice-president for counter adversary operations …
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Tigo’s former investigator claims he was unfairly dismissed for raising concerns over 2017 attack on Tundu Lissu Gunmen tried to assassinate a Tanzanian opposition politician after a telecoms company secretly passed his mobile phone data to the government, according to evidence heard in a London tribunal. The mobile phone company Tigo provided 24/7 phone call …
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Hack continued in last 10 days, documents show, as the campaign tries to spin into sign of fear Trump instills in Iran A suspected Iranian hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has continued within the last 10 days and may still be happening, according to a journalist who received illegally obtained documents from the Republican …
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The stand-up comedian ripped into the AI cloud-based company’s employees – and got praised for it online Last week, John Mulaney looked out on a crowd of corporate Salesforce employees and told them they were “imminently replaceable. “You look like a group who looked at the self-checkout counters at CVS and thought, ‘This is the …
Governor signed a law on Monday requiring state schools to create rules to restrict student cellphone use by 2026 School districts in California will have to create rules restricting student smartphone use under a new law that the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, signed on Monday. The law requires districts to pass rules by 1 …
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As research shows many have a poor online dating experience, those who have deleted the apps discuss pitfalls The rise of dating apps in the last decade has changed the way people forge relationships, with Pew research conducted in 2022 finding that 53% of US adults under 30 had used online dating. But dating apps …
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As Disney ditches the productivity platform following a data breach, the UK-based open-source tool Matrix prepares to step up with a bold claim: that it’s hack-proof. Is mainstream tech ready for it? • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Never say we don’t take you anywhere with …
Co-founder of expert group says ‘unchecked power of these entities poses grave risk’ to news environment Social media owners, politicians and governments are the biggest threats to a trustworthy online news environment, according to an expert group studying misinformation whose work is modelled on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The International Panel on …
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Platform with millions of subscribers discloses a more proactive approach to reporting infringers to authorities Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic content” and would take a more proactive approach to complying with government requests. The announcement comes weeks after his arrest in France on …
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