Month: November 2024

Apple has patented a new smartwatch technology that could enable the company to bring a much-awaited health feature to the Apple Watch — blood pressure monitoring. According to a document published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the company could use a novel method inspired by traditional blood pressure monitors to perform measurements.
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Tencent has announced a new open-world action-adventure title that seemingly blends Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series on PlayStation with Pocketpair’s controversial survival game Palworld. Light of Motiram, developed by Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, looks eerily similar to Horizon games, down to tameable mechanical animals — called “Mechanimals”. Like Horizon, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic
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Amazon has announced its first-ever Black Friday Sale in India which went live at midnight November 28. During the sale period, customers can avail of exciting discounts on a wide range of items such as smartphones, TVs, home appliances, gaming consoles, fashion and beauty products, and more. Further, the e-commerce platform has partnered with several
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Nov 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananCorporate Espionage / National Security A 59-year-old U.S. citizen who immigrated from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to act as a spy for the country and sharing sensitive information about his employer with China’s principal civilian intelligence agency. Ping Li, 59,
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Apple has been granted a patent for security camera technology that is designed to help identify people based on their face and physical characteristics. Published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the patent document describes a security camera system that can rely on facial recognition as well as a “bodyprint” to correctly identify
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Steam kicked off its Autumn Sale Wednesday, bringing deep discounts on PC games across genres. The sale sees price cuts on major new titles released this year like Metaphor: ReFantazio, Silent Hill 2, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and more. Other popular titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Helldivers 2 and Star Wars Jedi:
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Anthropic introduced a new feature in Claude on Tuesday that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to generate responses in users’ preferred writing style. Dubbed Custom Style, the new feature is aimed at the chatbot’s responses more in tune with how the user generally writes and prefers to read. With this personalisation feature, users
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Nov 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Vulnerability Nearly two dozen security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Advantech EKI industrial-grade wireless access point devices, some of which could be weaponized to bypass authentication and execute code with elevated privileges. “These vulnerabilities pose significant risks, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges, thereby fully compromising the
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