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No one is immune to cognitive biases, but how can IT decision-makers ensure that logical flaws don’t weaken data security? Learn how to overcome these security flaws that exist in our heads.
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In recent years, the risks associated with passing through an airport have changed dramatically. This demands a complete rethink about mobile security best practices for international travel.
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Security training programs should go beyond the basics and address why phishing attacks, social engineering schemes and other insider threats impact employees personally.
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The experts say Apple’s self-driving car project is canceled, delayed or converted into a software play. They’ll also tell you that cars are a weird business for Apple to be in.
The experts have it all wrong.
Apple is going pedal-to-the-metal on building a car and for good reason. Here’s why.
Steve Jobs wanted Apple to make an “iCar.”
The late Apple founder and CEO wanted more than that, according to J. Crew CEO and chairman Mickey Drexler, who served on the Apple board from 1999 to 2015. Jobs wanted Apple to reinvent the automobile industry.
The idea of an Apple car was considered crazy talk — until word leaked about a secret Apple initiative called “Project Titan,” which reportedly involved more than 1,000 engineers.
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“The phone is already dead.”That’s what Microsoft visionary and HoloLens honcho Alex Kipman said this week.The “phone call is making a comeback.”That’s what one tech publication said this week, based in part on wishful thinking by MIT egghead and Re… Continue reading Why your next business phone will be an Amazon Echo
Look! A new Amazon Echo!
The Amazon Echo Look is like the original Echo, plus a camera.
The $200 device delivers the Alexa virtual assistant. But the camera is optimized for helping you choose clothing to look your best when you get dressed.
The Echo Look is a camera for your bedroom. As such, it’s being widely slammed as a massive invasion of privacy.
But this view is wrong and based on a provably false assumption.
I’ll tell you exactly how the Echo Look actually improves privacy. But first, let’s take a closer look at the Look.
The Echo Look is shaped like a oversized pill — a cylinder with rounded ends that appears to be about half the size of the original Echo. It sits on a stand or mounts to a wall.
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Google Home knows who’s talking.
When each recognized user speaks Home’s wake words — which are “Hey, Google” and “OK, Google” — Home now switches to that person’s account to give personalized information.
This is a huge deal, a technological marvel and a major leap forward in human-machine interaction.
It’s also a cautionary tale about the downside of overzealous concern about privacy.
Google Home is a virtual assistant appliance similar to the Amazon Echo that runs a version of the Google Assistant. Assistant is also available in Google’s Allo messaging app.
Google Home now supports up to six users for a single device.
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Digital privacy invasion is more than a theoretical or actual threat to our freedoms. It’s also a huge distraction.
Take MIT genius Steven Smith. He’s recently taken time away from his specialties of radar, sonar, and signal processing at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory to automate the pollution of his family’s web traffic with thousands of arbitrary searches and sites.
His code essentially lies about internet activity to whomever is listening.
The software is an artful liar. According to a piece in The Atlantic, Smith’s algorithm uses web activity-spoofing software called PhantomJS to conduct searches in a way and on a timeline that mimics normal human online behavior.
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Cash registers are dumb. Why do we still have them?Invented in 1879 to keep saloon employees from stealing, the cash register combines the functions of a calculator to add up the purchases and a lockbox to keep cash safe.It assumes that retail emplo… Continue reading Why smart stores don’t check out
You may never buy another laptop.
Ten years ago, laptop sales overtook desktop PC sales to become the dominant hardware platform for computing. Now smartphones are about to do to laptops what laptops did to desktops.
But wait, you may ask. What’s wrong with laptops?
For the past decade, Apple has led and dominated the laptop market with design and innovation. The company has been moving toward better quality, so-called “Retina” screens. Apple’s keyboard designs and unibody aluminum construction have been heavily imitated. The company used to dazzle the industry by sweating the small stuff, like the MagSafe power connector and lights that shine through aluminum.
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