Data breaches in 2021 set a new record with 5.9 billion accounts affected by digital thieves, according to a new report by a VPN provider. The biggest breach of the period was actually a combination of several cyber smash-and-grab operations during a five-year span that contained 3.2 billion unique email and password combinations from Netflix,…
Google on Tuesday introduced a brand new service geared toward beefing up the search capabilities of shops’ web sites which will make these sellers extra aggressive with Amazon. The service, Google Cloud Retail Search, hopes to handle the staggering downside of “search abandonment,” which prices retailers greater than $300 billion a yr in the US…
Anglo American’s zero-emission haul truck stands three stories tall. (Anglo American Photo) After years of development, the world’s largest zero-emission vehicle was unveiled today at a South African platinum mine, with a hydrogen-fueled hybrid powerplant designed and built by Seattle-based First Mode. Anglo American’s three-story-tall, 200-ton nuGen hybrid mining truck received a grand sendoff from…
Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Microsoft on Tuesday shared an update on its work to promote racial equity in the U.S. by investing in and working with Black and African American led financial institutions, suppliers and partners. The…
SEngine CEO and chief scientific officer Carla Grandori. (SEngine Photo) Seattle startup SEngine Precision Medicine has raised $10 million to propel drug discovery and development and advance its test that tailors drugs to cancer patients. SEngine cultures patient cancer cells from a biopsy or other material and measures the response to an array of potential…
If we wait a few years to order a nuclear power plant, you can easily imagine that it could be a plant based on small, modular reactors, says section leader at DTU Bent Lauritzen. Credit: Technical University of Denmark Nuclear power has become an issue in the election campaign in Denmark. In a survey conducted…
Credit: Liuyan Chen With our increased use of smartphones and need for real-time video, future indoor networks are expected to provide seamless wireless coverage while at the same time supporting higher connection density and higher capacity with high power efficiency. As a result, traditional radio-based wireless communication, in other words WiFi, will struggle to meet…
Generic hardware architecture for robotic applications of an FPGA design. Credit: Podlubne et al. As robots become increasingly sophisticated and advanced, they will typically require a growing amount of hardware components, including robotic limbs, motors, sensors and actuators. In addition, robots have integrated computers that process data collected by their sensors and plan their future…
An order administration system (OMS) helps all of the levels in an organization’s gross sales course of — from order creation to supply. It offers a single, centralized system for managing orders from a number of gross sales channels, together with brick-and-mortar areas, web sites, cellular orders (app), kiosks and extra. This additional simplifies the…
The automotive market is moving rapidly to make and sell autonomous vehicles, but the studies I’ve seen suggest that two out of three drivers don’t want them. I’ve seen this resistance to new technology several times over the years. In cars, we had the early voice technology that replaced idiot lights, automatic seatbelts that wrapped…