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What is the IoT? Everything you need to know about the Internet of Things right now The Internet of Things explained: What the IoT is, and where it’s going next. Read now Abode: A place of residence. Also, the name of a new smart home security system.Adobe: A building material and type of home built with that material. Also, the name of a maker of mission-critical creative applications like Photoshop....

Google included the new face gesture controls as part of the Android 12 Beta 4, which was released last week. It’s the fourth and final beta of Android 12, after which we’ll see a release candidate and finally a mainstream release at some point later this year. The Android Accessibility API allows developers to build features into their apps that support greater accessibility. Some of it is handled through the Android Accessibility Suite app....

The tech, installed in over 80% of venues that offer gambling, including pubs, clubs, and casinos, has been delivered by Vix Vizion, in partnership with Cradlepoint. From 3 December 2020, significant gambling reforms came into effect in South Australia. New requirements were introduced relating to the use of facial recognition technology, touted as assisting licensees to identify barred persons entering a gaming area. “Facial recognition technology will further support and assist licensed venues meet their responsibilities of identifying barred patrons by alerting gaming venue staff when a barred patron is detected entering the gaming room,” South Australian Consumer and Business Services (CBS) explains....

The new Cat S62 does not have a thermal imaging camera, but many of the same features and specifications match the S62 Pro. Some of us work in areas known as hazardous zones so it was great to see the S62 certified for use in Class 1, Division 2, Group A-D, and T4 hazardous locations, which is something I haven’t seen with other phones. Also: Cat S62 Pro review: Integrated thermal camera shines in this rugged mid-range smartphone The Cat S62 will be released exclusively from T-Mobile for $498, as part of its Connecting Heroes initiative....

On top of the potential for data and video leakage, the company admitted that the vulnerability allows attackers not just to spoof a device but hijack a device’s certificate. CISA gave the vulnerability a score of 9.1 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability severity scale. ThroughTek software components are used broadly by security camera and smart device vendors. Their tools are incorporated into millions of connected devices ranging from IP cameras to baby and pet monitoring cameras as well as robotic and battery devices....

The collaboration portfolio and cloud communication services offered by Cisco’s Webex will now be available to AT&T enterprise clients, and both companies said in a statement that they expected to offer nearly one million users access to the UCMC platform “through sales of Webex Calling with AT&T – Enterprise over the next five years.” Javed Khan, senior vice president and general manager at Cisco Collaboration, said the UCMC platform will “enhance reliability and performance for all Webex Calling with AT&T – Enterprise users....

At its Future of Work online event, Cisco launched an entirely new Webex in an effort to regain market position as the world’s top video conferencing vendor, which it had held since acquiring the company in 2007. Over the years, Webex faced many competitors, but it managed to stay No. 1. But when Zoom took off in 2020 under co-founder, CEO and former Webex product manager Eric Yuan, many industry watchers believed Webex’s best days were behind it....

CSIRO executive director of digital, national facilities and collections David Williams explained the plan is to operate its share of the satellite as a national facility by giving Australian researchers in industries such as agriculture and natural disaster management the chance to direct the satellite to capture images that support their research. “Although Australia is one of the largest users of Earth observation data, until now we have not had direct control over the tasking of an Earth observation satellite, so the opening of our NovaSAR-1 facility represents a step change for Australian research and an important step forward for our space industry,” he said....

In the report, digital maturity was defined as an organization’s ability to leverage data to inform decision-making, reach new audiences, personalize communications, and forecast fundraising income. The survey addressed three main topics: Digital Experience: challenges and opportunities associated with organizations’ use of technology.Managing Through Change: organization strategies and challenges related to the global pandemic.Planning for the Future: concerns and optimism about organizations’ ability to achieve their missions in the months ahead....

When comparing VPNs, there are several different factors you need to consider. Obviously, you want one with powerful security, and HotSpot Shield has you covered. You get military-grade encryption, as well as a kill switch. So if you get disconnected from a HotSpot Shield server, you automatically get disconnected from the internet, which ensures not one single bit of your data is put at risk. HotSpot Shield also offers the ultimate privacy protection....

The inability to answer calls or do other smartphone-specific activities while riding a bike, standing on a crowded train, or carrying groceries can certainly be worrying, despite humans having survived for millennia without that capability. Regardless, the denim jacket, called the Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket, has been designed to address this problem, or perhaps just introduce a different way for users to interface with their smartphones. It is the result of a long-term partnership between Levi’s and Google to integrate capacitive threads with a copper core into the manufacturing process of a denim jacket....

The sidebar might seem like a minor change, but it could make collaboration a whole lot easier with the ability to review and filter out comments to get the job done. Users can also page through common threads in a document. This should make it easier to reply to, resolve, or create new conversations when working with colleagues. The sidebar also lets users see all the conversations that are happening in a spreadsheet....

The cyberattacks – which involve criminals encrypting networks and demanding payments that can reach millions of dollars in exchange for the decryption key – were one of the key discussion points during the first face-to-face meeting of US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ransomware was on the agenda following several high-profile campaigns against US targets, which caused significant disruption. First, cyber criminals using DarkSide ransomware hacked the network of Colonial Pipeline, resulting in services being shut down – disrupting gasoline supplies for much of north eastern United States – and forcing the company to pay a ransom of almost $5 million in bitcoin....

For the most part, the Cloud Data Governance and Catalog service refactors capabilities and services that Informatica already offered under its Axon and Enterprise Data Catalog tools, and added some key new capabilities on top. For instance, Informatica has long had a business glossary that began life as a standalone tool, but is now incorporated into business metadata. As noted above, aside from refactoring from monolithic software to microservices, the highlight is that business and technical metadata are better integrated, meaning that they are accessed through the same pane of glass, and linkages where apropos are established....

The virtual September 22 will be a webcast and open to all.

But is what’s good for children good for our future right now? I’m driven to this sense of unease by a new feature that Microsoft is slipping into one of its most popular – or at least one of its most used – products: Teams. Making a sudden appearance in the company’s 365 roadmap, this new feature has a harsh title: “Microsoft Teams: Chat supervisors can delete messages.” I fear some may immediately look at this and think: “What?...

The Teams Walkie Talkie app for Android has been available in preview for over a year now and came to Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro devices late last year. The app provides push-to-talk (PTT) services for frontline workers, allowing participants to talk one at a time, taking turns talking and listening. Microsoft is pitching the Teams app as an alternative to workers carrying bulky dedicated PTT radios. Like an old-fashioned walkie-talkie, the Walkie Talkie app has a microphone button that users need to press and hold to speak, and then the user needs to release the button to listen to the other speaker....

Last week, I pondered the potential scenarios for PCs that would be unlucky enough to make the upgrade cutoff for Windows 11. I thought, for sure, that the cutoff would be 32-bit hardware, and most, if not all, 64-bit systems currently running Windows 10 would be able to run the updated OS. Well, it turns out I was incorrect. ZDNet’s Ed Bott has done considerable due diligence into which systems will be able to make the transition....

Looking at the numbers, PayPal reported a net income of $1.65 billion, or $1 per share. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.15 per share. Wall Street was looking for earnings of $1.12 per share on revenue of $6.27 billion. PayPal says it processed $311 billion in total payment volume during the quarter, a TPV growth of 40% year over year. Breaking the numbers down further, PayPal says it processed 4.7 billion payment transactions, up 27%, and had 43....

In a statement, the company confirmed that “certain customers” were affected by the breach and explained that the information includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers or state ID numbers, passport numbers, financial account and routing numbers, health insurance information, treatment information, biometric data, medical records, taxpayer identification numbers and credit card numbers and expiration dates. The Las Vegas-based company has about 600 employees, annual revenue of more than $70 million, and operates about 200 locations across Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Illinois....