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Although we’ve come to take the power of our phones for granted, it’s still pretty mind-boggling when you think about what they can accomplish. You can book bargain vacations, perfectly match paint colors, and train for new careers. With the iScanner app, you can even turn your iPhone into a competent remote office. iScanner’s AI lets you use your iPhone for everyday business, personal or educational tasks. For example, you can scan and compile pages into a single document and sign, edit, and fax them....

The very idea itself is controversial. The best that can be said of such idealistic documents is that they limit the most extreme abuses to which people may subject one another, including enslavement and economic exploitation. That’s an important achievement because the impending arrival of virtual worlds threatens to compromise human autonomy in the most basic sense. In a Metaverse, as conceived by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you cannot even scratch your virtual nose without the permission of a program controlled completely by the company....

Also: The case for keeping your old iPhone I wasn’t planning on buying a new iPhone this year; I was still sporting my iPhone XS Max until my toddler dropped it in the kitchen sink about a month ago. Once that phone died, I decided to go for the new iPhone 14 Pro Max model, and I’m hoping it lasts me as long as my previous one did. So when I got the results from the latest drop tests on the iPhone 14, I was quite interested as a new owner....

The Ransomware Harms and the Victim Experience project by the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) and the University of Kent looks to explore and draw attention to the psychological harms and other affects that ransomware can have on its victims and wider society. “We’ve seen lots of mentions of ransomware, but what we haven’t seen is a focus on the victims and the impact,” said Jason Nurse, professor in cybersecurity at the University of Kent and associate fellow at RUSI, speaking at an event in London to launch the project....

That development matters because many security services will implicitly trust anything signed by Microsoft, During this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft acknowledged reports by SentinelOne, Google-owned Mandiant, and Sophos about threat actors using a driver certified by Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Developer Program to deploy various malware. The malicious but properly Microsoft-signed driver was used in an attempt to terminate endpoint-detection agents and antivirus on affected systems from multiple vendors. The vendors reported the malicious driver to Microsoft on October 19, according to the tech giant....

Many gamers started relying on the sound output of their motherboards, ignoring the warnings of the interference or hiss such unshielded sound circuits could produce. Others traded in their internal Sound Blaster cards for external hardware. This new class of “external sound cards” were what most audiophiles would today call a DAC/amp combo. One of the first big external sound card successes was Sennheiser’s original GSX 1000. This sleek little unit leveraged the company’s audio expertise and premium quality to create a great-sounding, compact way to elevate your game audio....

LGES and Honda will invest a total of $4.4 billion to establish this joint venture. The plant will produce pouch-type batteries that will be supplied exclusively to Honda facilities in North America. “Aligned with our longstanding commitment to build products close to the customer, Honda is committed to the local procurement of EV batteries which is a critical component of EVs,” Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said in a statement. SEE: Honda plans to launch 30 EVs by 2030, including two sports cars The location for the plant is yet to be determined but construction will begin in early 2023, which will allow for the mass production of advanced lithium-ion battery cells by the end of 2025....

The unit is an “Apple Computer A” prototype — a circuit board rather than a fully assembled Apple-1 PC — but with suitable provenance and legend that should see it sold for at least $500,000 at Boston-based RR Auction. This prototype is the one that Steve Jobs in 1976 demoed to Paul Terrell, the owner of the Byte Shop in Mountain View, who convinced Jobs to sell his product as an assembled computer rather than as a circuitboard....

Now, I don’t like only having a single copy of important data. It makes me feel uncomfortable. While SD and microSD cards are incredibly robust, things can go wrong. And on top of that, they are easily lost. Or, you might pop it into a camera or drone and hit Format, before you remember you’ve not taken the data off of it. Also: Looking for a cheap digital camera? These are all priced under $450 The problem is, unless you have access to a computer, backing up storage cards when out and about can be tricky....

For instance, how do you ensure that an employee is doing what they are being paid to do during the hours they’re contracted to work? If your employee took on a new full-time job without telling you, how would you know that they were claiming two pay checks at the end of each month? While the idea of working two full-time jobs is many employees’ idea of hell, the reality is that it does happen, and appears to have become more prevalent – or at least, easier to get away with – since remote working became the standard for many....

The botnet – which Cloudflare calls Mantis and which is named after the small, razor-legged prawn – generated a short but record-breaking DDoS attack in June that peaked at 26 million HTTPS requests per second (rps). The Mantis botnet has hijacked virtual machines and servers hosted by cloud companies rather than relying on low-bandwidth Internet of Things (IoT) devices. SEE: Google: Half of zero-day exploits linked to poor software fixes Cloudflare argues Mantis is the next evolution of the Meris botnet, which relied on IoT devices like compromised MikroTik routers to attack popular websites....

Over the weekend, security researchers discovered a malicious Word document that was uploaded to Google-owned VirusTotal on 25 May from an IP address in Belarus. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont found that the malicious document – or ‘maldoc’ – was allowed to execute code via the legitimate Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (msdt.exe) even when macros are disabled. The malicious Word document calls up MSDT in Windows via the ‘ms-msdt’ URL protocol....

A recent conversation with Peters regarding the on-going and concurrent crisis layers that are deeply hurting our country and the globe – health, economic, racial, climate, and lack of leadership – revealed that Peters has incredibly well-informed opinions and recommendation, all based on extensive research and data, and yet he reminds us that more work needs to be done to execute better decisions and actions that can produce better and more equitable outcomes....

The research firm put together this list by identifying key insights from more than 2,000 technologies and applied frameworks that it profiles each year. Gartner grouped emerging technology trends around three themes: expansion of immersive experiences, acceleration of AI Automation and optimization of technologist delivery. Technology that evolves and expands immersive experiences is important because the future of digital experiences lies in immersive technology, the analyst said. It identified the metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), super apps and Web3, decentralized identity, digital humans and digital twin of the customer and internal talent marketplaces as the technologies to watch in this category....

This bundle has courses for all levels of experience, from beginning to advanced. Start with “Introduction to Python Training”, then follow it up with “The Python Mega Course: Build 10 Real-World Applications” and “Advanced Python Training”. You’ll be ready to apply for new jobs after the first course and then take the others to keep moving up. Data science is huge, and that’s not going to change any time soon....

Transport for NSW customer strategy and technology deputy secretary Joost de Kock said the plan would lay the foundation for future robotaxi services. “We’re excited to be working with Motional to start laying the foundation for a driverless future in NSW. Today’s studies may very well shape how our communities move around in years to come,” he said. Speaking at the virtual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2021 on Tuesday, De Cock outlined that adopting connect autonomous vehicles would “improve the safety and efficiency of our road network and ultimately save lives”....

Twitter machine learning engineer Kyra Yee and user researcher Irene Font Peradejordi noted that the bias bounty challenge that took place in August was partially spurred by complaints from Twitter users in October 2020 about an image cropping feature that was found to have cut out Black faces in favor of white faces. Users even illustrated the problem using photos of former US President Barack Obama, showing that his face, and any others with darker skin, were cropped out of images that instead focused on white faces in the same photo....

For the past couple of weeks, I have been carrying an early prototype of the Unihertz Titan Pocket, a significantly smaller version of the Titan that still has a physical QWERTY keyboard and rugged design. It’s available on Kickstarter for another couple of weeks for $221 or $399 for two of them, with plans to ship the phone in September 2021. Also: Unihertz Jelly 2.0 review: Tiny Android 10 smartphone packs a punch The Titan Pocket is the sixth phone launched on Kickstarter by Unihertz and I’ve had the opportunity to test out the last five....

(A screenshot from a United Airlines video.) I know you don’t want the job, but it’s only for a day, and I think you could do it well. So what are your first priorities? Try and cancel fewer flights, perhaps? Hire and train a few more pilots? Please, passengers, with a few unexpected touches? You’ll surely want to motivate your hard-working employees to keep doing their jobs in often extremely trying conditions....