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Walmart Inc. WMT 2.43% said on Thursday it has developed the capability to switch seamlessly between cloud providers and its own servers, saving millions of dollars and offering a road map to other organizations that want to reduce their dependence on giant technology companies.The retailer said it has used its own servers and software to deploy one of the largest so-called hybrid clouds in existence. The company’s hybrid system draws on third-party platforms from…

Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft is removing some features from its AI service in order to make sure its facial recognition technology meets ethical AI guidelines. Microsoft plans to curtail certain facial-recognition capabilities for new users starting this week and for existing users within a year. Starting today, June 21, new customers will need to apply for access to use facial recognition operations in the Azure Face application programming interface, Computer Vision and Video Indexer, according to a new blog post,…

The BRATA Android banking trojan is getting more powerful by the day. Short for Brazilian Remote Access Tool, Android, BRATA has been around since 2019, graduating from spyware to a banking trojan. It can steal money from your bank account and wipe out the entire phone to get rid of the evidence. The threat actors behind this nasty program have now updated it with new capabilities.Security researchers at Cleafy have discovered a new variant of BRATA with additional classes that can execute specific functions on an…

iOS 16 was announced earlier this week, and it certainly has much more to offer than what was previewed at the WWDC 2022. Two reports have suggested that Apple's upcoming OS for iPhone will have multiple new APIs, including one that enables walkie-talkie capabilities for third-party apps. The feature, its workings, and how developers can implement it on their apps, was reportedly demonstrated in a session at WWDC 2022. iOS 16 will also have another feature that will allow users to transfer eSIM connections between iPhones…

, Amazon Wavelength, Oracle Cloud@Customer, IBM Cloud Satellite and HPE GreenLake.  These hybrid offerings are especially important for customers with highly-sensitive workloads that shouldn't leave dedicated facilities, customers that have to meet data residency requirements, or companies that want ultra-low latency. On-premise offerings, however, are only as good as the services they provide. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted now promises to offer services Vertex AI features like the Translation API, Speech-to-Text and…

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have announced that they will be implementing new capabilities of the common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium on their devices as well as platforms. The standard was created in order to make the Web more secure by allowing consumers to log in to websites without any password. The FIDO, or Fast Identity Online, Alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the problem of people using hackable passwords to sign-in to various platforms.As…

Yuta Dobashi, a graduate of UBC’s master in biomedical engineering program, and faculty advisor Dr. John Madden, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the faculty of applied science at UBC. Credit: Kai Jacobson/UBC Faculty of Applied ScienceIonic skins have demonstrated considerable advantages in the effort to create smart skin that matches the sensing capabilities of real skin. They are comprised of biocompatible, flexible hydrogels that employ ions to transport an electrical charge. Unlike smart skins…

Samsung Exynos 1280 SoC is now official. The chipset, which powers multiple Samsung smartphones such as Galaxy A53 and Galaxy M33, is marketed as a mobile platform that provides 5G connectivity as well as on-device AI to mid-range handsets. Additionally, the South Korean company says that the SoC offers efficient computing and great graphics performance. It gets a total of eight cores: two Arm Cortex-A78 cores, and six Cortex-A55 cores. The processor supports maximum camera sensor resolution of up to 108-megapixel, and…