Tensor RT is used by hundreds of companies for things like search engines, ad recommendations, and chatbots. Siddharth Sharma, head of the product marketing team for Nvidia’s AI software, told reporters on Monday that it has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times and is in use by companies like American Express, Verizon, LG, Ford, SK Telecom, KLA, Naver, GE Healthcare and USPS. “TensorRT 8 is twice as powerful as 7, twice as accurate as TensorRT 7, and it supports sparsity which can dramatically reduce the amount of compute and memory needed for running applications,” Sharma said....

However, revenue from chips used for crypto mining plunged, the company said. The report sent Nvidia shares up almost 4% in late trading. During the evening’s conference call with analysts, CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang said that his company has been able to secure supplies of its chips from its contract manufacturer, but that the global supply chain situation is a “wake-up call.” “We have a secured guaranteed supply, very large amounts of it, quite a spectacular amount of it, from the world’s leading foundry, and substrate and packaging and testing companies that are an integral usual part of our supple chain,” said Huang....

Nvidia on Thursday showcased how the Massachusetts-based startup Soft Robotics is deploying its technology – including on-site GPUs and the Isaac Sim robotics simulation toolkit – to make it easier to deploy robots designed to handle foods like chicken wings. Also: Nvidia’s robot simulator now includes human characters too Food processing and packaging plants may seem like an obvious place to deploy robots. Foods like chicken wings are quickly moved across conveyor belts as they’re uniformly cooked and prepared for consumption....

The result? A $699 handset that still goes toe-to-toe in some areas with the best phones we’ve tested but misses out on flagship fundamentals we’d expect, like wireless charging and an official IP68 rating for water and dust resistance. It’s the classic give-and-take play by OnePlus, like it or not. By comparison, last year’s OnePlus 10 Pro, which we found didn’t cut as many corners, is looking even more enticing with its now-discounted price tag....

OnePlus just announced the OnePlus Buds Pro with adaptive noise cancellation and premium design. These new true wireless earbuds will be available on September 1 for $149.99. Stay tuned here for a review of the earbuds sometime in August. The major feature of the new wireless earbuds is the ANC that is designed to provide an immersive experience for the listener. Each earbud has three mics that are designed to filter out up to 40dB of environmental noise....

Now, for the first time I’ve seen it anywhere, Stephen discusses sport as a platform. The business benefit of thinking of sport as a platform is rather massive, so read on. If you want talk to Stephen after you’ve read this – and you will – you can reach him here at LinkedIn or at @sb1sport on both Twitter and Instagram. Stephen, the ball is in your court… As a university student I had the good fortune to study sports history from a prominent professor who taught me that “‘sport is a microcosm of society....

Software companies either start with grass-roots developers and smaller enterprises and then move up or start big and make platforms more accessible over time. Palantir is going the latter route, but success moving downstream has been a harder road. Palantir has been working to make its platform more accessible and turnkey to businesses. In its latest quarter, Palantir had 149 customers with most being large organizations. In the first quarter, Palantir said it closed 15 deals of $5 million or more in total contract value, including 6 deals worth $10 million or more....

The majority, topping 92%, believe cybersecurity was a priority for their business leaders today amidst the ongoing global pandemic, according to a survey by Palo Alto Networks. Conducted in November 2021, the online study polled 500 respondents across five Asean markets, comprising 100 each from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The IT decision makers and business leaders were from five verticals: financial services, government, retail, telecommunications, and fintech....

The ’test and trace app’ – named electronic Health Alert Card or eHAC – was created in 2021 by the Indonesian Ministry of Health. The vpnMentor team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said it did not have the proper data privacy protocols and exposed the sensitive data of more than one million people through an open server. The app was built to hold the test results of those traveling into the country to make sure they were not carrying COVID-19 and is a mandatory requirement for anyone flying into Indonesia from another country....

Prejudice does not make for good science, however, and in a pandemic good science is what we need. Now, a year and a half later, in People Count: Contact Tracing Apps and Public Health, Tufts University professor Susan Landau has set out to make a sober assessment. You have to feel for her here, because writing a book about such a fast-moving topic is pretty much like trying to nail flan to the ceiling....

The Series 7 has a larger display than its predecessors and improved charging times. According to Apple, the new watch will charge up to 33% faster than the Series 6. One benefit of the bigger screen is Apple has added a QWERTY keyboard to the watch, allowing you to type out your responses to messages or emails. Even though the official size of the Series 7 went up 1mm to 41mm and 45mm, respectively, you’ll still be able to use the same watchbands you currently have....

Billed as the “first ever, whole-of-government” approach to cryptocurrencies, Biden’s highly anticipated executive order on “responsible development of digital assets” rallies federal agencies to coordinate efforts to study what policies and tools the US could use to combat the risks of cryptocurrency while keeping the US at the forefront of technology and the global financial system. “The United States must maintain technological leadership in this rapidly growing space, supporting innovation while mitigating the risks for consumers, businesses, the broader financial system, and the climate,” the White House said....

The IOGEAR Upstream Pro Dual video capture card is able to handle two content streams simultaneously. You can control the card through your smartphone (iOS or Android), or, alternatively, a controller connected via Bluetooth. Up to two live 4K streams can be captured and mixed at 1080p, and one particular feature streamers may enjoy is a command deck that can be used to hotkey up to 18 commands. Read on: How to switch between your work PC and personal laptop in one click You can use up to two 4K cameras and grab audio from sources including HDMI inputs, RCA, or microphones....

The Rust Security Response working group (WG) has flagged a strange security vulnerability that is being tracked as CVE-2021-42574 and is urging developers to upgrade to Rust version 1.56.1. News of the obscure bug was disseminated in a mailing list today. The Rust project has also flagged the Unicode “bidirectional override” issue in a blogpost. But it’s a general bug that doesn’t affect just Rust but all code that’s written in popular languages that use Unicode....

The letter said the stolen data includes customers’ names, emails, physical addresses, dates of birth, policy numbers, and more. Medibank said the breach did not expose financial information, such as credit cards and banking details. Also, no primary identity documents, such as passports, were compromised. Medibank has instructed its customers to use strong passwords, change their passwords regularly, and be on high alert for phishing scams. The company has set up a Cyber Response Support Program where affected customers can get specialty identity protection advice and free identity monitoring services....

The NSS is a government program managing a mandatory year of public service for graduates of certain educational institutions in Ghana. Every year, thousands of students join the program from across the country to work in various public sectors, including healthcare. As a result, up to 700,000 people from across Ghana were exposed to fraud, hacking, and identity theft - not to mention the dangers posed to the institutions they were working at and the Ghanian government itself....

To make a long story short, we came up with a software which analyzes the code using heuristics as a foundation, backed by behavioral and statistical methods, which assign the appropriate threat severity to the pieces of code. To test it, we created arbitrary vulnerability exploits using the available frameworks and heavily obfuscating them before applying our scanning engine. It helped us fine-tune the algorithms further and build the proper methodology for configuring the engine, depending on the targeted technology....

Easy to Hack In South Korea, about 63% of residents live in apartment buildings. Many of these apartments come fitted with the newest IoT devices, including wall pads, smart security cameras, smart locks, connected doorbells, lights, and more. Unfortunately, many of these devices are vulnerable to attacks. Especially when users fail to reset default passwords, use weak passwords or don’t install the latest security updates. Moreover, often several households use the same network....

The scam is called a “rug pull” in cryptocurrency circles, the term referring to when a coin quickly loses its value after its creators cash out their coins, essentially pulling the rug out from underneath investors. At the time of writing, the only statement given by the crypto founders was broadcast via its Telegram group: “Someone is trying to hack our project these days. Not only the Twitter account @GoGoSquidGame but also our smart contract....

The service has managed to pool together the greatest horror movies and series of past and present on one on-demand site. From slasher films to psychological thrillers, supernatural horror to creature features, documentaries to original movies and series — they’ve rounded up a sinister collection of content. Unfortunately, this gore-heavy streaming platform is only available in the US and a few select countries at the moment and hasn’t expanded globally....