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Two-in-one: Wide-angle monitoring meets high-resolution capture in new camera platform
If you're a fan of spy movies, you've probably come across scenes where the intelligence agents try to identify or detect a perpetrator using some sophisticated image enhancement technology on surveillance camera images. ...
May 14, 2021
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Overcoming tab overload: Researchers develop tool to better manage browser tabs
If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually.
May 07, 2021
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Animal Crossing among 4 inductees to Video Game Hall of Fame
The World Video Game Hall of Fame on Thursday inducted the groundbreaking Microsoft Flight Simulator, franchise-inspiring Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? award-winning StarCraft and Animal Crossing, whose popularity ...
May 06, 2021
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Microsoft introduces new tools for hybrid learning
In honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States, Microsoft has announced the release of several learning tools designed to support both teachers and students in a hybrid in-person, online educational environment ...
May 05, 2021 report
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Apple reveals two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that allow attackers to access fully patched devices
One week after Apple carried out its largest iOS and iPad update since September 2020's version 14.0 release, the company has followed up with a new patch for two zero-day vulnerabilities that let hackers execute malicious ...
May 04, 2021 report
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Researchers promote usability for everyone, everywhere
According to Michael Twidale, professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bad usability can be an irritation for everyone but "especially awful" for the underprivileged. ...
May 03, 2021
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Technique to automatically discover simulation configurations for behaviors hard to test
A research team led by Fuyuki Ishikawa at the National Institute of Informatics (NII, Japan) has developed a technique to search automatically for simulation configurations that test various behaviors of automated driving ...
May 03, 2021
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Microsoft fixes Windows automatic apps rearrangement issue
Historically, many users of Microsoft Windows desktop devices have encountered the frustrating issue of letting their device go to sleep and then returning later to find some or all of their apps rearranged. Now, Microsoft ...
Apr 30, 2021 report
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Microsoft weighs revamping flaw disclosures after suspected leak
Microsoft Corp. may revise a program that shares coding flaws in its products with other companies after a suspected leak led to a sprawling cyber-attack against thousands of Microsoft Exchange email clients globally.
Apr 28, 2021
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Hackers use a bug to evade macOS defenses
Lauded for years as the system able to best prevent malware infection, macOS recently fell victim to an operating system vulnerability that hackers used to circumvent all of Apple's system defenses.
Apr 27, 2021 report
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Change Siri's voice, Apple Maps upgrades: What's new in iOS 14.5 update
If you follow Apple, you're aware its latest update delivers significant privacy changes. But what else can you do in iOS 14.5?
Apr 27, 2021
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Apple's iPhone privacy clampdown arrives after 7-month delay
Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones in order to target more advertising at users.
Apr 26, 2021
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Researchers say changing simple iPhone setting fixes long-standing privacy bug
The AirDrop feature on iPhones and MacBook computers has a vulnerability that could give scammers access to your email and phone number, a team of researchers say.
Apr 26, 2021
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