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Proactive and predictive tools for transformation

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Those well-established conventional IT systems, however, can no longer be taken for granted. Companies are accelerating their digital transformation efforts, automating, optimizing, and reinventing their business processes. The pace of change continues to accelerate: Deloitte reports, for example, that 58% of organizations have stepped up their modernization plans due to the covid-19 pandemic. Many ERP …

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Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM

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In December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in what it said was a privacy-preserving way. Apple then said that its anti-CSAM efforts would instead center around its “Communication Safety” features for children, initially announced in August 2021. And …

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SEC’s ‘Scathing’ Charges Against Binance Deal a Big Blow to US Crypto

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It’s no secret that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange—which has no head office or formal address but processes $12 billion worth of cryptocurrency transactions per day. But the charge sheet filed today by the SEC in the District of Columbia contains a list of 13 …

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Apple Vision Pro Mixed Reality Headset: Specs, Price, Release Date

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Shipments of VR headsets declined more than 20 percent in 2022, according to research from the International Data Corporation. IDC chalked this up to the limited number of vendors in the market, a challenging macroeconomic environment, and a lack of mass market adoption from consumers.” According to The Wall Street Journalciting Pitchbook, venture capital investments …

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Hacks Against Ukraine’s Emergency Response Services Rise During Bombings

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internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has offered the free web security service Project Galileo for nearly a decade, giving human rights and public interest organizations around the world access to defenses against DDoS attacks and other common online hacking techniques. More than 2,271 websites in 111 countries now use the service, including 81 Ukrainian organizations, the …

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A Secret Key to Saving Species Is Blowing in the Wind

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Every living thing spreads an invisible signature across its landscape, whether it’s a badger ambling through the grass, an oak growing in the forest, or an eagle soaring overhead. Fur, feathers, skin cells, spores, pollen—all of it is loaded with genetic information that floats away into a data-rich atmospheric soup. Scientists call this information environmental …

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The Best Gag in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Was 56 Years in the Making

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Everyone knows the Spider-Man meme. In it, a cartoon Spider-Man points at an identical Spider-Man who, in turn, points right back. It’s from a 1967 episode of the Spiderman animated series, but it became so popular online in the early ’10s that it’s since been referenced in several big-screen spider-properties, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse …

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Apple WWDC 2023 Liveblog: Watch Apple Announce a VR Headset, iOS 17, and New Macs

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Today’s the day, folks. Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference begins in a few hours with a keynote address at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific. This is the event that Apple typically uses to preview the software enhancements coming later this year to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and its other products. Although WWDC …

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Apple WWDC 2023: What to Expect for Software and Hardware

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apple is secretive. The company is known for staying great tight-lipped around upcoming product launches. But we can always rely on the annual Worldwide Developers Conference—which is centered around new software capabilities across Apple’s entire product line—for insight on what to anticipate for its yearly hardware event in the fall. This year’s WWDC starts with …

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If Pinocchio Doesn’t Freak You Out, Microsoft’s Sydney Shouldn’t Either

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In November 2018, an elementary school administrator named Akihiko Kondo married Miku Hatsune, a fictional pop singer. The couple’s relationship had been aided by a hologram machine that allowed Kondo to interact with Hatsune. When Kondo proposed, Hatsune responded with a request: “Please treat me well.” The couple had an unofficial wedding ceremony in Tokyo, …

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In ‘Tears of the Kingdom,’ the Depths Are Where the Action Is

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Where Breath of the Wild‘s comparatively limited set of player interactions meant its world contained plenty of empty spaces—great opportunities to contemplate the movement of the breeze through tall grass while riding a horse from one town to another or empathetically shiver as Link scrambles up to the craggy peaks of a snow-capped mountain range—Tears …

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