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Facebook, Twitter, and Google have made moves to prevent their platforms from being weaponized by purveyors of misinformation about the crisis in Ukraine Meta, Facebook's parent company, has announced a new special operations center staffed by experts, including native Russian and Ukrainian speakers, to monitor the social network 24/7 to respond to...

Involvement in cryptocurrency has gone from being an activity relegated to tech savants and Silicon Valley intellectuals to an interest of the general public This growing level of interest has ushered in a call for increased security on cryptocurrency platforms....

One bad consumer experience can cause a customer to stop using a product, which is why the customer journey revolution is taking center stage at smart businesses While customer experience analytics can rescue businesses struggling to effectively manage their customer journeys, real-time insights are needed to help brands correct their CX difficulti...

Earlier this month Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gave a lengthy presentation on his plans for the company. It was a comprehensive talk addressing issues that ranged from competitive performance to finding a solution for the massive processor shortage that is crippling U.S. manufacturing The latter was driven home recently when I looked to replace one of ...

With Russian military forces invading Ukraine, Atlas VPN is offering journalists in that war zone heightened online security using its virtual private network (VPN) free of charge The company on Thursday announced its support to journalists and media personnel in Ukraine. Media representatives in Ukraine needing a premium VPN subscription should e...

Government agencies have discovered a deadlier new home and office network device killer malware that replaces weaker VPNFilter code U.S. and U.K. governments published a joint report Wednesday detailing a new malware strain developed by Russia's military cyber unit deployed in the wild since 2019 and used to remotely compromise network devices, pr...

With incessant reporting on the supply chain challenges that retailers faced leading up to the holidays, it was really anyone's guess as to whether the November/December shopping peak would be a boon or bust Now that holiday season 2021 is one for the history books, we can safely say consumers didn't let the gloomy outlook impact their search for t...

Apple's Safari browser may want to heed this bit of wisdom from Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you." That something is Microsoft Edge According to the latest numbers from browser market watcher Statcounter, Edge, with a 9.54 percent global desktop market share, is breathing down the neck of Safari, which owns 9.84 perc...

The power of open-source software and the flexibility of Linux computing consume a significant share of news space each month Increasing numbers of technical jobs continue to go unfilled due to a lack of Linux skills. Many of those vacant jobs no doubt make it more difficult to stem the tide of cyberattacks by digital criminals who do not lack the ...

In Neal Stephenson's popular 1992 sci-fi novel "Snow Crash," the author introduced the term metaverse to portray a futuristic world where people interacted in virtual 3D worlds using avatars. While his avatar-laced society is a familiar playing field for virtual game fans, few others but forward-looking marketers envisioned much usefulness in the realities of e-commerce...

When you consider a sphere, it's well understood in math and physics that surface area increases by the square of the radius while the volume increases by the cube. In other words, what's inside expands faster than what you see on the surface by a considerable amount That's a useful metaphor for what many businesses are bumping up against as they d...

When it comes to self-driving cars, those that make them and those that drive them seem to be living on different planets. The industry seems to think consumers want horizontal elevators that take them where they want to go, while consumers do not want to give up driving nor do they currently trust a computer to motor them around Jaguar is a compan...

Russian state-sponsored cybercriminals lurked for the last two years in numerous U.S Cleared Defense Contractors' (CDC) networks stealing sensitive, unclassified information along with proprietary and export-controlled technology The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Securit...

The 15.6" Desklab portable IPS 4K touchscreen monitor is a solid choice to consider if you are looking for a high-performance second display that you can easily take with you This is not a brand-new product. Rather, it is the latest iteration of monitor configurations based on an innovative concept released about two years ago....

Despite the best efforts by law enforcement, data leaks related to ransomware climbed 82 percent in 2021 over the previous year, according to the 2022 CrowdStrike Global Threat report released Tuesday In 2021, the report identified 2,686 attacks, compared to 1,474 in the previous year....

Social commerce made a big splash during the pandemic, and market watchers expect it to grow exponentially over the next few years. As businesses prepare their strategies to move forward in 2022, they should consider the impact of key social commerce trends The traditional commerce model involves finding details about a product online or through ad...

While their downstate rivals the Los Angeles Rams were busy winning Super Bowl LVI, the San Francisco 49ers were being clipped in a ransomware attack News of the attack was reported by the Associated Press after cybercriminals posted documents to the dark web that they claimed were stolen from the NFL franchise....

I grew up with stories like Robert A. Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit—Will Travel" and the idea that we will someday get on a space liner to view the stars. But these stories were written long before we understood the time it would take to make these trips possible, the adverse impact of space travel on humans, and the unbelievable costs that would be incurred...

Since Facebook discussed the metaverse at Facebook Connect in October and officially rebranded the company to Meta, the metaverse has been the hot topic of the tech industry and one of the most overhyped and misunderstood concepts The metaverse is supposed to be a virtual 3D universe where you can do just about anything you could in the physical wo...

Last time we examined a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that looked into the Great Retirement Clearly, from that report, I can see that there are two major job exits underway: the first, accelerated retirement among the 65 to 74 age cohort; and the other, the Great Resignation, in which people are leaving jobs in search of somethi...