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Google Slides Home Safe Into MLB Deal After AWS Strikes Out

Major League Baseball is switching to Google Cloud to power its advanced analytics and business operations after working with AWS since 2014.

March 5, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Major League Baseball is ditching Amazon Web Services in favor of Google Cloud for the league’s business processes and support for automated services. Google’s cloud offerings will serve the league’s data and analytics needs, including Statcast, MLB’s automated tool or analyzing player movements and abilities. The multi-year deal also includes the use of Google Ad […]

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Xenoma is Making Seamless Wearable Tech… Stitched into the Seams Themselves

Xenoma e-skin really puts the "wear" in "wearables" -- it usese sensors stiched into clothing to monitor health and biometric data.

December 27, 2019 Adam Forziati Leave a Comment

Wearable tech can monitor many aspects of their wearers’ health and being. These are helpful, but are only good if the wearer remembers to wear them. Going a few days without wearing your heart rate-reading watch might lead to inaccurate or inconsistent data over time. But Xenoma, the Japanese wearables manufacturer, aims to tackle that […]

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Smart Home Standards

Big Tech Is Developing Standards For Smart Homes

Google, Amazon, Apple and The Zigbee Alliance form working group to develop smart home device connectivity standards to increase compatibility.

December 20, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Big Tech is joining together to solve some of the industry’s challenges when it comes to smart homes. Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance on Thursday announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard — centered around security — to increase compatibility among […]

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Ransomware, ransomware attacks

Ransomware Attackers Now Publishing Stolen Data

As security software advances to help enterprises navigate a ransomware attack, cybercriminals are starting to dox compromised businesses.

December 19, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

As if holding your data hostage for large sums of money wasn’t bad enough, cybercriminals are now starting to publish data stolen from those victims who don’t pay up after ransomware attacks. According to internet security journalist Brian Krebs, several well-known hacker groups have signaled that they plan to start publishing the kidnapped data on […]

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Yubico Launches New Version Of Authenticator App

Security key company says the new version of its authentication app now works seamlessly across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.

December 9, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Authentication security key manufacturer Yubico has launched the latest version of its iOS mobile application which now extends support for near field communication to deliver tap-and-go flexibility and authentication over a Lighting connection. The company said the new app – v. 1.1 – now works with all major desktop and mobile platforms, including full support […]

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Boston Facial Recognition

Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Faces an Uphill Battle

Facial recognition technology is largely unregulated, but some major cities are taking action and calling for regulation or a moratorium.

December 5, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Along with a variety of sensors and connected devices, one of the key features of proverbial smart cities would be facial recognition software, particularly in law enforcement applicants. Police could potentially use the technology to stop crimes before they happen, find missing people and keep the public safe. However, there are also some legitimate concerns […]

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Facebook Launches Photo Transfer Tool for Google

Facebook's new photo transfer feature is part of a larger pact between Big Tech firms to allow for more data portability.

December 2, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Facebook has launched a new tool that allows users to transfer their photos posted on the social media platform to Google Photos. The move is part of a larger agreement between the two tech giants and Apple, Microsoft and Twitter that lets users of one service easily transfer their data to competing platforms. That initiative […]

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