The pilot will be jointly operated by NSW Health and NSW Police and entails a seven-day home-based quarantine program for around 175 people. It will be run across a four-week period and commence sometime this month. The app will use geolocation and face recognition technology to monitor whether a person is complying with the state’s quarantine rules. It will also provide people with a testing schedule and symptom checker....

UPDATE: OpenSSL dodges a security bullet So we should all be concerned that Mark Cox, a Red Hat Distinguished Software Engineer and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s VP of Security, this week tweeted, “OpenSSL 3.0.7 update to fix Critical CVE out next Tuesday 1300-1700UTC.” How bad is “Critical”? According to OpenSSL, an issue of critical severity affects common configurations and is also likely exploitable. It’s likely to be abused to disclose server memory contents, and potentially reveal user details, and could be easily exploited remotely to compromise server private keys or execute code execute remotely....

Avoiding this sort of technological tunnel vision is one reason I regularly switch between Android and iOS for my primary mobile device. Earlier in 2021, I realized I had been using an iPhone for nearly two years (with a fairly recent iPhone 12 upgrade) and was overdue for a check-in with the latest Android device. Google’s introduction of two new Pixel phones in mid-October was the perfect excuse to switch back....

There are also two larger and more expansive options in the range: the $299.95 Poly Sync 40 for flexible-working spaces and huddle rooms, and the $599.95 Poly Sync 60, which is designed for conference rooms. According to Poly’s website, the Sync 10 is ideal for “remote enterprise professionals with a dedicated home office”, while the Sync 20 is better suited to “Flexible enterprise professionals who split time between corporate office, home office, and travel”....

This shift to virtual has meant that speakers have had to adapt to the new conditions. Whether you’re a business executive speaking to a regional sales meeting, or an industry leader addressing an association conference, or a professional keynote speaker delivering a talk for a major corporation, the game has changed. Alfred Poor is helping these people adjust to those changes. I’ve known him for more than a decade. Long-time ZDNet readers may remember when I sat down with Alfred back in 2012 to discuss HDTV buying strategies....

The new products will play a big part in what the company calls the “uncarpeted enterprise”, places such as manufacturing facilities that have been relatively less connected. “Over the last nine to twelve months, we have seen really tangible demand in manufacturing, warehouses, oil fields – places where the concept of digitization is nowhere near what we are used to,” said Celona co-founder and CEO Rajeev Shah in an interview with ZDNET via Zoom....

AI-powered tools can be valuable for brands that want to reach customers with personalized marketing campaigns across multiple channels. Effectively reaching customers becomes even more daunting at large scales. Also: Adobe rolls out new Acrobat Sign integrations for faster workflows Here’s a rundown of some of the new ways to leverage AI within the Experience Cloud: Identifying prospective customers: Organizations using Adobe’s Customer Data Platform (CDP) can now use Predictive Lead and Account Scoring to compare prospective buyers to actual buyers and determine when to engage with them....

To be clear, my professional education is in software. My friends used to joke that if it (regardless of what “it” was) required the use of a physical tool, I should stay as far away as possible. But ever since I started exploring 3D printing, I’ve been learning my way around tools and the workshop. My skills have been improving, and I’ve been taking you folks along for the ride so we can learn together....

There is a powerful feedback loop going on. In the center of that loop sits software technology that converts neural net programs to run on novel hardware. And at the center of that sits a recent open-source project gaining momentum. Apache TVM is a compiler that operates differently from other compilers. Instead of turning a program into typical chip instructions for a CPU or GPU, it studies the “graph” of compute operations in a neural net and figures out how best to map those operations to hardware based on dependencies between the operations....

LEARN MORE: Google Cloud vs. AWS: Two vastly different profit picturesTop cloud providers in 2021: How the leaders stack up Bezos, who is planning a transition to Executive Chairman of the company in Q3 2021, shouldn’t have anything to hide. AWS is a major contributor to the American economy in several significant respects (one notable exception being federal taxes), partly due to its being bonded to a company with colossal revenue from e-commerce....

The e-commerce giant has long said its ultimate aim is to build warehouse robots that work “alongside” humans rather than replacing them. Unlike other warehouse robots, Proteus can actually safely work “alongside” humans. With advanced safety, perception, and navigation technologies, Proteus can autonomously move around people while doing its work, so it doesn’t have to be limited to restricted areas. 

Attempting to fly around America recently – on more than one local airline – has been akin to volunteering to eat only Cheetos in a windowless room for 10 consecutive days. The champion, perhaps, has been Spirit Airlines, which seems to have undergone a painful implosion. In the same explosive discussion, however, is American Airlines. It’s canceled hundreds of flights. It’s claimed the weather has been severe in its inclemency....

Incorporated in 1976, SAS remains under the leadership of its co-founders, Jim Goodnight and John Sall. The Cary, NC-based company has customers in 145 countries and more than 12 000 employees. It produces a range of software products spanning analytics, machine learning-based products, data management and more. In 2020, SAS generated approximately $3 billion in revenue and achieved its 45th consecutive year of profitability, the company noted Thursday. SAS achieved 8....

Well, I was sitting on my own watching Apple’s latest event, so who else was I going to talk to? And I’m always easily impressed. In this case, Angela Kyazike, Apple’s iPad engineering program manager, showed off the latest and clearly most wonderful iPad Air. She sold it with a script that contained all the aplomb of the small print you always click “agree” under. She said the new Air is “up to two times faster than the best selling Windows laptop in its price range....

After hoping yesterday that after the release of iOS 15.3 as a security-focused update, we’d hopefully see some new features come in iOS 15.4 and the respectable updates for the rest of Apple’s hardware, my wishes have come true. Specifically, Apple has given developers the first public taste of Universal Control. The feature was first announced last June at WWDC 2021 and promised to give you complete control over your Mac and iPad using a single keyboard and mouse....

The rumour mill had long predicted that WWDC would unveil a major redesign for the MacBook Air – Apple’s most affordable laptop and, according to Apple SVP John Ternus, “the world’s best-selling laptop”. The MacBook Air, after all, was one of Apple’s landmark products, a slimline ultraportable laptop that effectively created the ‘ultrabook’ category years before Intel’s marketing department came up with that name. So successful was the design of the MacBook Air that – bar a few refinements along the way – it had remained largely unchanged ever since its launch in 2008....

If you’re interested in Macs, you’ve probably heard one or more of these terms. But unless you’ve been closely following Apple’s technical progress, it might not be clear what they all mean and why they matter to your future buying decisions. With Apple expected to make a new set of Mac announcements tomorrow, I want to answer a relatively common reader question: What does it all mean? Understanding the CPU A computer – whether Mac, PC, Linux machine, Raspberry Pi, or even the embedded brain in your microwave – consists of a set of components....

Let’s take a peak at the news we’re almost certain to get, as well as some we’d consider within the realm of possibility. Apple WWDC 2021: How to watch and what to expect What we know Apple always announces its new OS versions at WWDC. While this serves to give developers three or four months to update their products for new OS features and changes, it’s also a good way for Apple to build anticipation prior to the big iPhone launches that come in the fall....

On February 14, AtlasVPN launched a new promotion, “Privacy is a big deal,” which, as you might suspect, includes discounts on VPN subscription plans. Of particular note is an 83% discount applied to two-year VPN subscriptions, which brings the cost down to only $1.82 per month. If that’s not enough to sweeten the pot, the company is also throwing in three months of access for free. The deal requires that you pay for the plan in one go, which equates to $49....

The finding was made as part of the Office of the Auditor-General’s (OAG) probe into staff exit controls in place at three state government agencies. The audit [PDF] assessed if the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage (DPLH), the Department of Finance, and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) effectively and efficiently managed the exit of staff to minimise security, asset, and financial risks. The audit covered the period 1 July 2019 to 31 December 2020 with a sample of 30 staff from DLGSC, 27 from DPLH, and 26 from Finance, including consultants and third-party contractors, that left during that period....