Software Business Driving US Jobs, GDP Growth
The software industry fueled jobs and GDP growth in the United States in 2020, according to a report by Software.org: the BSA Foundation. The software industry supported more than 15.8…
Outdated Windows Users Flout Computing Safety
A recent study by Kaspersky revealed that nearly one quarter of PCs still run Microsoft Windows 7, which stopped receiving mainstream support in January 2020. Using an end-of-life operating system…
Autonomous Cars + IoT, and Life or Death Decisions
An ecosystem is being created where cars and robots are autonomous and connected so they will be able to connect to other devices, sensors, and data repositories available to them.…
Will FAA Rules Be a Drag on Drone Deliveries?
Companies scrambling to compete with the advancing delivery capabilities offered by Amazon and UPS are looking to drone delivery options. Will this be the future of delivery? TechNewsWorld engaged aviation…
Microsoft, Intel Team Up to Clamp Down on Cryptominers
As cryptocurrency values continue to rise, cryptojacking becomes more attractive to cybercriminals. Now, a powerful hardware-based threat detection technology is being integrated into a Microsoft enterprise security product to help…
Cybercops Scrub Botnet Software From Millions of Computers
The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday. The uninstall command was part of an update sent to the infected computers by law enforcement…
Open Source Joins Efforts to Create Gene Therapies for Rare Diseases
Some 400 million patients worldwide are affected by more than 7,000 rare diseases; yet treatments for rare genetic diseases remain an underserved area. The father of a boy born with…
AirTags vs. Tile and Apple’s Antitrust Future
U.S. senators heading antitrust issues have flagged Apple’s new AirTag effort as potentially anticompetitive after Tile CEO CJ Prober started complaining because Apple could put his company out of business.…
Slick New iMac, Muscular iPad Pro Headline Apple Event
Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both are based on Apple’s M1 chip.…
DuckDuckGo Unwraps Google FLoC Blocker
DuckDuckGo has announced an add-on to the Chrome browser that blocks Google’s new scheme to provide marketers with information for targeting advertising at Internet users. The scheme called FLoC —…
