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Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed a new residential building in New York City. Named The Smile after its distinctive curving street-facing side, which looks a bit like a smile from a bird’s eye view, the building contains a mixture of luxury hous… Continue reading Residential building brings a BIG Smile to New York
AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller […] Continue reading AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones
Zoom on Monday unveiled a trio of security tools the video conferencing company and its users can deploy to defend against unwelcome intruders who “Zoombomb” meetings. The announcement is the latest in a blitz that began this spring, when Zoom’s daily usage skyrocket at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, and the company admitted it was caught off guard by the resulting security woes — among them, uninvited users posting offensive materials. Last week, Zoom reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over its encryption claims. The company has since begun rolling out end-to-end encryption for all users. Multiple state attorneys general also had pressed Zoom to do more about Zoombombing. The company reached an agreement with New York in May to increase security. “Suspend Participant Activities,” one of the three tools Zoom detailed in a blog post, allows Zoom hosts to pause meeting functions to report disruptive attendees. Afterward, the host can resume video, audio, screen sharing and other […]
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Hospitals in New York and Oregon were targeted on Tuesday by threat actors who crippled systems and forced ambulances with sick patients to be rerouted, in some cases. Continue reading More Hospitals Hit by Growing Wave of Ransomware Attacks
While designing the One Vanderbilt skyscraper, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) drew inspiration from NYC’s golden era of construction and iconic towers like the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building. However, it also follows a modern approach … Continue reading Supertall skyscraper combines classic looks and modern sustainability
Comparing data from two vastly different pandemics, with more than a century separating them, is perhaps an impossible task. But, a new analysis published in the journal JAMA Network Open, is suggesting a novel metric for comparing the 1918 Spanish Flu… Continue reading NYC study concludes COVID-19 is as deadly as the 1918 Spanish Flu
If you searched on Google for details of your nearest train station in parts of New York state, you might be in for a rude surprise.
Continue reading Google blames algorithm for adding porn titles to train station search results
Watchdog group said company has violated the Illinois BIPA and ‘will end privacy as we know it’ without intervention. Continue reading ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale
Officials revealed that malicious actors had succeeded in infiltrating the computer network serving New York’s state government. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), officials revealed on April 13 that New York’s Office of Informatio… Continue reading Bad Actors Infiltrated New York’s State Government Computer Network
British firm Heatherwick Studio recently completed one high-profile project near New York City’s Hudson River with its Vessel, and is now well on the way to realizing another that’s on it. Named Little Island, it will create a new landscaped park above… Continue reading Heatherwick Studio’s park on stilts rises on NYC’s Hudson River