Through its partnership with Flexa, Regal said it’s enabling instant payments using dozens of digital currencies, such as: Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dogecoin Digital dollars and stablecoins including USD Coin, Dai and Gemini dollarDigital tokens including LINK, ATOM and Basic Attention Token Regal said that Flexa is working to help it enable better payments for as many different assets and across as many different protocols (including the Lightning Network) as possible....

Computers aren’t a new market for Samsung, as the Korean company has released several Galaxy Book laptops during the past couple of years. In fact, I recently reviewed the Galaxy Book Odyssey, a laptop that I found offers equal parts work and play. But an updated Odyssey isn’t what Samsung unveiled from Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona. Samsung announced the Galaxy Book2 Pro 360, Galaxy Book2 Pro, Galaxy Book2 360, and Galaxy Book2 Business....

In May of this year, my maternal grandfather, Sidney Esikoff, passed away. He was 91 years old. He would have been 92 at the end of this month. I wanted at the time to write about him, and the influence he had on my life. But I was too devastated and emotionally drained to deal with it. Yes, Sid had a long and happy life, but he was very much our family leader, and it was a tough thing to even think about, let alone convey in an article....

NEC boasted it would be the world’s first 24 fibre-pair subsea cable, and would be capable of carrying 500Tbps. It is the first transatlantic cable for Facebook, which said it was capable of delivering 200 times more capacity than the cables laid in the 2000s. Last year, the social media giant announced it was part of expanding the 2Africa cable system to include the Pearl branch that would add landing stations on the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf at Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, India, and Saudi Arabia....

Sony AI believes that in the near future, AI can help. Sony AI is pursuing a digital canvas that allows rich conversations between AI systems and chefs, helping them go even further with their creations and develop new and unique recipes. Their research in the area of gastronomy aims to one day change the way chefs create food combinations, pairings, and platings and assist chefs in their process of developing new, original recipes that are also healthy and support sustainability for the environment....

Chrome’s Password Breach Check Feature Google’s password check feature was originally only available to users as an extension to desktop versions of Chrome. However, this feature has now been fully integrated into the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome 79. This latest version of Chrome was released late last week. The feature compares credentials entered by users signing into websites to more than 4 billion credentials Google knows are unsafe. Then if a match is found, the user is warned and advised to change their login credentials....

This week, at least two journalists said they received emails from someone posing as “Twitter Services,” urging them to provide some personal information to confirm their identity and retain their verified status. While this phishing email lacks the sophistication of others we’ve covered recently, the attack is noteworthy because the threat actor acted quickly to capitalize on speculations about the blue tick on Twitter. On Sunday, multiple news outlets claimed Musk plans to increase the cost of Twitter Blue to $19....

Microsoft officials said a couple of weeks ago that they planned to release several new features in February to Windows 11 users – well ahead of the Windows 11 22H2 feature update expected around October this year. Officials said mainstream Windows 11 users (not Insider testers) will get a public preview of Android apps on Windows 11, taskbar improvements with call mute and unmute, easier window sharing, and the weather icon on the taskbar....

As we move into post-pandemic and universally strive towards the next normal, Salesforce is sharing best practices in a playbook to help take incremental steps to reopen. We’ve learned from nonprofit leaders, that technology solutions and strategy are helping to knit together conversation across teams, from compliance to client services, talent development, donors and volunteers, to business and legal operations. New York Blood Center New York Blood Center (NYBCe), located in the epicenter of the pandemic, share their response to reopening, as well as reflections and advice for delivering on a mission today....

The model, in this case, is a neural network program based on the “Transformer” approach that has become widely popular in deep learning. Megatron-Turing is able to produce realistic-seeming text and also perform on various language tests such as sentence completion. The news was somewhat perplexing in that Microsoft had already announced a program a year ago that seemed to be bigger and more powerful. While Megatron-Turing NLG 530B uses 530 billion neural “weights,” or parameters, to compose its language model, what’s known as “1T” has one trillion parameters....

Hopper: NVIDIA’s new GPU architecture GTC, which began Monday and runs through Thursday, features 900+ sessions. More than 200,000 developers, researchers, and data scientists from 50+ countries have registered for the event. At his GTC 2022 keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced a wealth of news in data center and high-performance computing, AI, design collaboration and digital twins, networking, automotive, robotics, and healthcare. Huang’s framing was that “companies are processing, refining their data, making AI software … becoming intelligence manufacturers....

MacBook Pro. iPad Pro. iPhone Pro. AirPods Pro. That “Pro” word doesn’t just add a greater level of prestige to the device in question, but it also allows Apple to add dollars to the price tag. Sure, the buyer also gets more – for example, the “Pro” iPhones have better cameras, longer battery life, advanced features such as ProMotion, and a design that uses different materials – but let’s not lose sight of the fact that the main reason for adding a “Pro” version of a device is to allow Apple a new product with some serious marketing artillery behind it....

Nandy is joining Okta after more than 15 years at Google, where he most recently oversaw critical parts of its core ad business as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to that, he held a number of other senior leadership roles and helped build Google’s measurement and analytics offerings. The new hire comes at a busy time for the cloud-based identity management firm. In the first half of this year, Okta expanded into new markets and accelerated its growth in others....

The company will give you cash money, after answering a few questions in the app, so you can be on your way to unloading your home without the tedium of weeks or months of dealing with brokers and buyers. It’s all about increasing the liquidity of homes and bringing the residential real estate market online. The market is only 1% “penetrated” as far as online sales, according to the company....

Software vulnerabilities affecting network companies are not uncommon and are usually patched quickly to avoid compromising the substantial business customer base. The successful exploitation of a vulnerability like this can potentially lead to the complete compromise of an unpatched system running the GlobalProtect Clientless VPN application. This means that a large number of enterprise customers and clients can potentially be breached or compromised by a remote attacker if they do not update to the latest patch....

As Matthew Cook, Co-Founder Product Development, of Panopticon Labs explains, the types of attacks on the gaming industry are very specific and different from general cyber-attacks. As a result, the usual security tools and techniques do not provide the required protection. In this interview, Matthew explains how gaming threats are unique and what his company has developed in order to protect against them. Please tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, and how/why you co-founded Panopticon....

Microsoft officials said there will be more Windows 11 SE devices coming later this year, including models from Fujitsu and Positivo. Windows 11 SE is a simplified version of Windows 11, customized for the K-12 education market, and is designed to help Microsoft and its partners try to better compete with Chromebooks. Windows 11 SE is not the same as Windows 10 in S Mode. However, the types of apps Windows 11 SE users can install and run natively will be limited to six categories: Content-filtering apps, test-taking apps, accessibility apps, classroom communication apps, diagnostics/management/connectivity, and supportability apps and browsers....

Philips’ will offer three different types of lights in the outdoor Hue lineup, and they will be available in both the Philips Hue white and Philips Hue white and color ambiance ranges. Philips Hue Lily Philips Hue Calla Luminaries To get you started, Philips will sell its outdoor spot Lily base unit pack for $279. The Calla bollard will retail for $129.99 as a base unit pack. The Philips Hue white range luminaries start at $29....

The DDoS attacks affected the websites of major U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), Hartsfield-Jackson International (ATL), and Chicago O’hare (OHD). While the attacks made their websites slow or temporarily unavailable, it doesn’t seem to have affected flight schedules or other activities at these airports. The incident reportedly only impacted the public-facing side of the airport websites. So far, none of the airports have reported a breach of its systems....

In delivering a speech to the Australian Repair Summit on Friday, Lindwall said a labelling scheme could help consumers better understand the life of a potential product, after being unable to find any clear evidence that manufacturers deliberately design products to fail early. “There might be merit in some labelling scheme to help consumers understand how easy it is for their product to be repaired and its durability,” he said....