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The KaOS distro is an up-and-coming Linux operating system that provides one of the best integrations yet of a refreshed KDE-based computing platform....

UPS this week announced the first two revenue-generating residential deliveries of prescribed medicines to consumers. Its drone delivered the prescription medications from a CVS pharmacy in Cary, North Carolina, to a consumer's home, and to a customer in a retirement community, both on Nov. 1 ...

Streaming services -- like HBO Max from AT&T's WarnerMedia, Peacock from Comcast's NBCUniversal, Apple TV+, Disney+, and many others -- are clear examples of the change to a short-attention-span world. What does that mean for investors, workers, and consumers? Short-attention-span content seems new, with the arrival of all these competing streaming...

Google last week announced a deal to acquire wearable fitness device maker Fitbit for US$2.1 billion. The acquisition will give Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, an immediately leading position in the wearables market. Google will be poised to compete against the likes of Apple and Samsung rather than having to build upmarket share from scratch...

We've been watching the CRM-ization of healthcare for a while. A few years ago, Salesforce embarked on parallel paths. The obvious option was to build tools that enabled users to craft systems of engagement. The second started when the company also began reaching out to various industrial sectors with its technology and those of some partners The r...

University researchers have discovered a way to issue unauthorized commands to digital assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Portal and Siri via laser beams The microphones in devices like smart speakers, mobile phones and tablets convert sound into electrical signals, but what the researchers found was that the mics react to light aime...

Many businesses have been using secret scores created by data brokers to determine how much to charge consumers, whether to allow purchase returns, and what level of service to offer, among other things One such broker, Sift, gave New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill a file of more than 400 pages that "contained all the messages I'd ever...

Along with unveiling its new Edge browser logo, Microsoft on Monday announced the official launch date of its nearly finished Chromium-based Edge browser and made its Release Candidate available for download immediately The latest beta edition of the browser is stable enough for anyone to use, Microsoft said, and it will help IT admins prepare for ...

Consumers increasingly are shopping by voice rather than typing on a keyboard or even searching on a phone. People are growing ever more comfortable with voice assistants, as the tech becomes smarter and more conversational every day "Consumers appreciate the simplicity of using voice to shop," said Shilp Agarwal, CEO of Blutag.

New products for the iPad and iPhone headlined Monday's opening keynote presentation at Adobe Max, the company's annual developers conference held in Los Angeles Photoshop for the iPad (pictured above) uses Adobe's artificial intelligence engine, Sensei, to enable new selection functionality....

The tools you work with have a lot of impact on what you can accomplish, and the more sophisticated the tools the better -- especially in software. My company, Beagle Research, just completed a study into the use of a DevOps strategy with the Salesforce Lightning Platform, sponsored by DevOps solutions provider Copado. DevOps is a strategy for bui...

In the age of fast shipping and one-click ordering, a single technical glitch can be detrimental to retail sales. A server outage during the holiday season could be a critical issue Target is a prime example, considering the brand experienced multiple technical outages in 2019. The retail giant's in-store registers and online services were down for...

There recently has been a lot of rumbling about Twitter deciding not to take political ads, and Facebook deciding -- and this was stupid -- that it would run political ads even if they were untrue. I'm becoming convinced that Zuckerberg is trying to put Facebook out of business. There are some real differences between the firms. Facebook does fa...

ExTiX 19.10, released with the LXQt desktop on Oct. 23, is a customized Linux distro that leaves you wanting more but settling for less ExTix is a lightweight modular Linux operating system that is part of the Exton Linux/Live Systems family of distributions hosted by The Swedish Linux Society. The Society hosts 16 Exton distributions....

The Columbia Journalism Review last week published a paper on Google-owned YouTube's practice of taking down videos with graphically violent content, which also may be evidence of recent war crimes YouTube's policy -- similar to other social media platforms -- has been to remove content that contains hate speech, disinformation or disturbing images...

Faire on Wednesday announced it has raised US$150 million in venture capital. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund jointly led the Series D funding round. Existing investors Forerunner Ventures, YC Continuity and Khosla Ventures also were involved Faire will use the money to expand into new markets, improve the Faire marketplace, and build...

The fear of technology has been around for as long as technology itself, and like technology itself, this fear is always changing There is evidence of "technophobia" -- the technical name for this affliction -- in every age and in every part of the world. However, it is perhaps reaching a peak in modern society. Americans are more afraid of technol...

Azure Sphere will be generally available in Feb 2020, Microsoft announced at the IoT Solutions World Congress on Monday. Its scheduled arrival highlights Microsoft's readiness to fulfill its promise for better Internet of Things device security at scale, company officials said Microsoft first introduced Azure Sphere in 2018, opting to use its own v...

At least 250 Facebook employees signed a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizing the company's hands-off policy against fact-checking ads posted by politicians "We don't believe that it's an appropriate role for us to referee political debates and prevent a politician's speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scr...

Active Noise Cancellation is just one of the hot new features in the latest generation of Apple's AirPods The new AirPods Pro, which goes on sale Wednesday for US$249, combines earbud microphones with software to remove background noise and improve a user's listening experience....