The US telecoms giant AT&T announced yesterday the creation of a suite of blockchain solutions for its enterprise partners, designed to work with technology from IBM and Microsoft. According to an official press release, solutions will be available to enterprise customers to help automate and digitalise processes and better track information across multiple parties, in […]
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AT&T and Ericsson are teaming up to provide comprehensive testing for organisations to safeguard connected devices. According to AT&T, only 10% of its surveyed organisations say they are confident about their devices having sufficient security measures in place. The operator has seen an increase in vulnerability scans of IoT devices at the company in the last […]
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In fundraising news Thursday, Opendoor, the home selling startup, said that it has raised $400 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. As VentureBeat noted, the latest announcement comes on the heels of a $325 million fundraising round seen three months ago, that time as a Series E. The cumulative tally raised to date comes to more […]
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Crypto mining malware has risen by 86% in Q2, with 2.5 million new malware coin miner samples, according to a McAfee Labs report. The number of crypto mining malware attacks used by hackers has continued rising, with total samples growing by 86% in the second quarter of 2018, according to the latest threat report by […]
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Amazon’s Echo smart speakers were facing connectivity issues in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe earlier on Wednesday (Sept. 26), but are now up and running again. Reuters, citing outage tracker Downdetector.com, reported the website had logged hundreds of reports about problems with the Echo speakers that power Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant. The report noted […]
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It’s been said that you never set foot in the same river twice. Or stream, for that matter – and let’s extend that to “streaming music service.” To put it another way, everything changes, sooner rather than later. The stream of notes and talks and podcasts and all manner of audio content is about to […]
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The crypto market and blockchain sector in South Korea is thriving with the involvement of major banks and conglomerates. The crypto market and blockchain sector of South Korea, the third-largest digital asset exchange market in the world behind the United States and Japan, have some of the most robust systems and infrastructure in place to […]
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UK government spokesperson Baroness Buscombe confirmed driverless car makers will face jail if their vehicles cause harm. Buscombe was responding to a parliamentary question on the subject. She asserted that existing health and safety law “applies to artificial intelligence and machine learning software”. The response helps to settle a debate between academics and legal […]
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To supply retailers such as Whole Foods and U.S. Foods with greens, 80 Acres Farms is constructing a “fully automated indoor farm.” The project’s reported cost is in the range of $10 million to $15 million, CNBC reported. “With the … facility, we will achieve the next-generation of indoor vertical farming,” 80 Acres Farms’ CEO […]
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Gartner predicts that the average US adult will own more than six smart devices by 2020, making cross-device IDs and identity resolution — the ability to consolidate disparate sets of data into an individual profile — a critical need for marketing effectiveness. As the number of touch points in the customer journey expands, Customer Data […]
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