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In a blog post on Friday, the company announced that its Everyday Robots Project — an unit under Google’s experimental X laboratories dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved out several of its robot prototypes from the lab to some of Google’s Bay Area campuses to do useful cleaning duties. These robots are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around Google facilities in the U.S., including as wiping tables, sorting trash, gripping cups, and even opening meeting room doors to check if the room needs to be tidied or if it’s missing chairs....

Huseman said the shipping giant would not permanently agree to “never accept financial contributions from policing agencies; never allow immigration enforcement agencies to request Ring recordings, and never participate in police sting operations.” Ring has previously stated that it does not share customers’ camera recordings with law enforcement agencies without consent, a warrant, or due to “an exigent or emergency” circumstance. However, it said that Ring can hand over footage in ’emergencies’ without the owner’s consent....

As a result, Apple has asked its Taiwanese suppliers to strictly comply with Chinese customs regulations while transporting goods from Taiwan to China to avoid them from being fined or rejected. The Cupertino tech giant told suppliers that China “has started strictly enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as being made either in “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, according to a report from Nikkei Asia citing sources familiar with the matter....

The Taiwanese tech giant recently found themselves in hot waters as they admitted issues with their ROG series motherboard. Their ROG Maximus Hero Z690 motherboard is wreaking havoc for many of the users. Issues at hand include no POST, damaged motherboard components, and memory detection errors (QCODE 53). They have admitted the mistake and have agreed to replace the affected series of the model. What’s causing the issue? YouTuber Actual Hardcore Overclocking did his analysis and found one common problem across all the affected motherboards – two shorted and burned out MOSFETs, basically a capacitor that is responsible for switching on/off electrical components....

Apple released its open-sourced lossless audio compressions dubbed ALAC back in 2011 and has been updating the same with constant security fixes and more. However, some of the vendors have stuck to not upgrading this codec, and unfortunately, that includes Qualcomm and MediaTek. For context, these are two of the largest chipset makers and with a heavy share of units out in the market. The ALAC coded flaw on Android As per the details available at the moment, the vulnerability found in ALAC format involves an attacker releasing an executable code on the target device....

The year 2020 has been one of the most difficult times for businesses as the pandemic disrupted customer behaviors and dramatically diminished purchasing power. Standing out has become a must for businesses to survive the tighter competition with more businesses going online because of public activity restrictions. It might sound logical to think that customers are desperate to buy the things they need from online stores because brick and mortar ones have been forced to close temporarily....

The move comes after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that he wanted to ‘turn down the temperature’ of political conversations on the social networking site because ‘people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services.’ He had added that Facebook will no longer recommend politics-themed groups to users and was working on ways to reduce the amount of political content served up in users’ news feeds by its automated systems....

Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “Cryptoqueen”, who is believed to be in her 40s, was the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency called OneCoin launched in 2014. In order to execute the large-scale fraud scheme, Ignatova allegedly made false statements and representations to individuals in order to solicit investments in OneCoin. In order to purchase OneCoin packages, she apparently instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts, causing them to send wire transfers representing these investments....

“We are thrilled to launch our first 5G foldable flagship, the Honor Magic V, which demonstrates our expertise and innovation in system design and our commitment to always delivering a best-in-class user experience,” George Zhao, CEO of Honor Device Co, Ltd said in the announcement. “Honor has strong ambitions to become the top performing smartphone brand in the premium foldable market and we are confident our first flagship foldable will be very competitive compared with existing models....

Gupta, who spent nearly a decade at Intel as its Product Marketing Engineer, left the company on January 17, 2020, and joined Microsoft four days later as a Principal of Strategic Planning in Microsoft’s Cloud and Artificial Intelligence department. According to the lawsuit filed by Intel, Gupta took the company’s highly confidential, proprietary and trade secret information in violation of his contractual obligations and federal and state law; leveraged that information in negotiations against Intel while at his new employer; and lied to Intel in the course of the firm’s attempts to locate, recover, and protect its confidential information and trade secrets....

In a recently updated support document, the Cupertino giant has confirmed that the iPhone XR, iPhone 11, iPhone 12 mini, and iPhone 13 mini won’t support iOS 16’s Battery Percentage feature. In other words, these models won’t display the iPhone’s battery percentage directly in the status bar but will continue to show it in the Control Center. However, Apple hasn’t provided any reason as to why these smartphones will miss out on the new feature....

With Windows 7 approaching its end of extended support in less than three years, Microsoft took to its German website to encourage Windows 7 users to upgrade to the latest OS, Windows 10, because of its set of integrated security features, Windows Store for Business, and flexible management and simplified development for enterprise IT. “Today, it does not meet the requirements of modern technology, nor the high security requirements of IT departments,” added Markus Nitschke, Head of Windows at Microsoft Germany....

To start with, Netflix Games has immediately made the newly added mobile game, Lucky Luna (Snowman) available to play. Luna is a 2D vertical scrolling platformer in which players will explore the magical journey into the depths of hidden temples and secret dungeons while unlocking the mysteries about the past of the protagonist Luna. Further, Desta: The Memories Between, is another narrative-driven, turn-based tactical rogue-like game centered around throwing a ball, which is set to launch exclusively on the Netflix Games Platform on September 27....

Here is a scenario that security researchers and experts have been warning us for a decade now. Cyber criminals somehow getting access to the nuclear power plant and nuclear fission material which can be used to build dirty bombs. Apparently, the experts were not fooling us! The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which oversees United Nations nuclear operations, says a nuclear power plant was successfully hacked three or four years ago....

The layoffs were first reported by The Information last month where the publication revealed that Oracle was considering layoffs in its global workforce in August, as a part of a $1 billion cost-cutting proposal. While the current report does not mention the number of employees affected in the U.S., the layoff at Oracle will affect employees at its offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Bloomberg, the layoff affected everyone ranging from a junior sales associate to a divisional sales director, in the U....

A malware that aims to steal the credentials of STEAM users has cropped up recently. This malware is being spread via the service’s chat feature. It asks users to click on a link which is shortened using the shortening services available on internet. When the user clicks on it, it gets directed to a file stored on Google drive. The file appears to be an image file, complete with an image icon on it....

The latest breach has resulted in the exposure of over 200 gigabytes of confidential data, which includes data of bio-metric unlock operations along with the source code for various technologies. A hacking group, Lapsus$, has taken responsibility for the breach. They also were part of the Nvidia hack, which occurred last week. The South Korean consumer electronics giant issued a media statement stating a “security breach” which exposed the internal company data with no risk to customer and employer data....

YouTuber Mark Spurrell, the owner of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, has modified his Android-based foldable smartphone to create a faux Windows phone on the outside and faux Windows 10 on the inside. While the phone still runs Android OS, the outer display is like a Windows Phone and the internal display is like a full Windows PC or Windows tablet. To make it work, Spurrell used a combination of two separate third-party Android launchers and a Bixby Routine with some tweaks to run a highly customized launcher on top of Android....

As per the report, three main reasons have been cited behind the South Korean tech giant’s move such as the decline in demand for smartphones globally due to the ever-increasing inflation, supply chain limitations, and the ongoing Russia and Ukraine war. Initially, Samsung had set a target to produce 310 million units of smartphones in 2022 but it has now decided to reduce it to 280 million units, which is around 10 percent less than the target it had set last year....

In the memo, Cook said that the company is doing “everything in our power to identify those who leaked” most of the details of Apple’s announcements to the press. He also noted that “people who leak confidential information do not belong” at Apple. The memo reveals Cook’s “frustration” at how details of confidential meetings, as well product news, are being leaked to the media. The news follows an internal company-wide meeting that took place at Apple on September 17 where the company demanded to frequently test unvaccinated employees but failed to meet a vaccine mandate, Apple vs Epic antitrust case, employee pay equity, privacy, sexism allegations, and more....