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After several years of seeing ridiculous robotic humanoids and mobile robot assistants (that amount to very expensive Alexas on wheels) released, this practical consumer unit is a welcome evolution of existing successful commercial platforms. In short, here’s a robot that some users might actually find useful. “There’s a significant portion of our society that’s massively underserved,” says Labrador Systems CEO Mike Dooley. “When pain or other health issues start interfering with your ability to move yourself or other things, even short distances can have a major impact on your independence, quality of life, and overall health....

Additionally, the IHG Rewards Premier Business Mastercard – for a limited time – is offering new cardholders 140,000 bonus points after spending $3,000 on qualifying purchases in the first three months with the card. It’ll have a $99 annual fee beginning in 2023, and any current IHG business cardholders will be migrated to the card. Take a look at the rewards the card offers: 10x points per dollar at IHG Hotels & Resorts all over the world, in addition to points earned by being an IHG Rewards Club member (up to 26 points depending on IHG membership tier)...

You’re thinking about what you want. You’re also thinking about how long it’ll take before you can place that first hot french fry into your begging gullet. Because you know life is short, your gullet can’t wait, and your hangriness lurks like an impending doom. Fast-food companies have thought long and hard about your predicament. They’ve geared themselves toward your instant satisfaction. It’s odd, then, that many fast-food companies don’t seem so inclined to consider their employees with the same rigorous care....

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is responsible for monitoring, managing, and reducing risk to the country’s critical infrastructure. The federal agency is also known for issuing alerts relating to high-profile data breaches and vulnerability disclosures. Last month, CISA warned organizations to shore up their defenses in light of the cyberattacks endured by Ukraine’s government, in which IT systems were disrupted, and government-owned website domains were defaced by suspected Russian cybercriminals....

New Cooperative – an Iowa-based farm service provider – was hit with a ransomware attack on September 20, and BlackMatter demanded a $5.9 million ransom. Crystal Valley, based in Minnesota, was attacked two days later. Both attacks came as harvests began to ramp up for farmers. In the advisory, CISA, the FBI and NSA said BlackMatter has targeted multiple US critical infrastructure entities since July. The advisory provides a detailed examination of BlackMatter’s tactics and outlines how the group typically attacks organizations....

The new SimSpace Weaver service lets city managers and event planners run simulations of things like traffic, public transport, or supply chain infrastructure for entire cities or countries, according to AWS. City planners, for example, could run simulations for natural disasters that might occur in order to test response systems. Event planners could similar a large sporting event to see how it would impact nearby traffic conditions. The compute problem AWS claims to solve is that spatial simulations have been generally confined to running on one piece of hardware....

Committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney and ranking member Rep. James Comer sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking him to appear before Congress to explain the FBI’s actions in the case. The FBI’s decision to keep the REvil ransomware decryption key from victims of the attack on Kaseya has caused a furor among some victims and experts who questioned the organization’s judgement. “Public reporting raises questions about the FBI’s response to this summer’s ransomware attack....

Contamination. The company has discovered that certain materials have become contaminated at two of its flash storage manufacturing plants in Japan. These were being operated as part of a joint venture with Kioxia Holdings Corp. While it is unclear as to what the contamination is, WDC is saying that this will have a dramatic impact on flash production and is predicting that there will be a shortage of at least 6....

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CrowdStrike said the acquisition will allow them to “extend Zero Trust security to data on the endpoint.” George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer of CrowdStrike, said data loss prevention has suffered from a lack of innovation and he noted that legacy tools have failed to live up to the promise of preventing breaches. “At the same time, the endpoint has become the focal point for how data is accessed, used, shared and stored,” Kurtz said....

Milo said it will use the proceeds of Series A to continue developing its products, the technology behind them, and more than to double its staff by the end of the year. Currently, Milo has a staff of 40 people in the US, Canada, Colombia and Argentina, according to CEO Josip Rupena in an interview with ZDNet. Milo has provided millions of dollars in US home loans to foreign and digital asset holders for the past three years....

Robot vacuums are relatively new, but price points continue to drop every year – making them affordable for the average household. We’ve found a robot vacuum deal ahead of Black Friday for the Eufy Clean by Anker RoboVac G32 Pro. Normally priced at $299, Walmart has discounted the product by $202, so you only pay $98. Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time Robot vacuums are great for daily hands-free cleaning....

Now you can learn Python from scratch, and even advance to intermediate level skills, for just $39 with The Complete 2022 Python Programmer Bundle. Best of all, you can do it at your own pace. If you’re a complete novice who wants just one course that will give you enough to switch careers all by itself, start with “Learn Python Programming From A-Z.” In 115 lectures spread across 11.5 hours, you will not only learn all of the ins and outs of Python but also how the industry works and how to get hired without a degree....

This is the first thing you should know about it. It’s a company that exists to make money. It’s not your friend. It’s not a superhero. It’s not a religion. As a company, it invites you to buy its products and services. If you don’t like what it has to offer, you’re free to move on. And I think that this confusion is at the heart of a lot of the criticism that Apple has received over the new child safety features that it is introducing....

In the post, published in the China’s Cyberspace Administration’s official publication, Musk continued to make the point he’s underlined since announcing the Tesla Bot project in 2021: That Tesla, because of its major investments in autonomous driving, is arguably the biggest robotics company in the world. While some of the big robotics players like ABB might take exception to the classification, it’s a fair point. Tesla deals not only in the software underpinnings of automation (AI, neural nets, differential engines), but also in the hardware (sensors, actuators)....

Amongst those who held cryptocurrencies, 78% said they owned Ethereum while 69% had Bitcoin and 40% carried Cardano, according a survey released Monday that polled 4,348 respondents in Singapore, including 2,862 who said their investment portfolio currently included cryptocurrencies. The study was conducted by cryptocurrency platform Gemini, financial platform Seedly, and cryptocurrency price-monitoring site CoinMarketCap. Respondents were aged between 18 and 65, with an average household income of SG$$51,968 ($38,467)....

What the heck is Ethernet, exactly? Ethernet is a wired network communications standard developed in the early 1970s by a computer engineer named Bob Metcalfe (who, for many years, was also a well-known computer industry columnist at InfoWorld and also was responsible for forming 3COM, which HP later bought in 2010) and his team of researchers at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Over the years, Ethernet morphed from using coaxial cable to twisted pair cable and fiberoptic cables....

In a consultation that was launched earlier this year, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) invited experts to submit their thoughts on some new proposals designed to reform the UK’s data protection regime. Among those featured was a bid to remove a legal provision that currently enables citizens to challenge a decision that was made about them by an automated decision-making technology, and to request a human review of the decision....

F5 attributed the Q1 revenue growth to a 19% increase in product revenue and a 2% increase in global services revenue growth compared to Q1 2021. F5 saw non-GAAP product revenue grow due to a 47% increase in software revenue and a 1% increase in systems revenue. F5 expects to deliver Q2 revenue in the range of $610 to $650 million. François Locoh-Donou, F5’s president and CEO, said the company saw strong demand for their application security and delivery solutions, leading to the 10% revenue growth in Q1....

Fauna is delivered as a managed cloud database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). But don’t call it a database. Fauna is appealing to developers, not DBAs or data engineers. And, to avoid scaring off developers, the company has deliberately not called itself Fauna DB. Hold that thought. The going notion of globally distributed databases is that reads and writes of data can be handled locally. This capability is often referred to as multi-master (meaning there is no single primary or master node determining database commits) or active-active (referring how distributed databases replicate updates between nodes)....

Citing a recommendation from the Trump-era Justice Department, the Commission said China Telecom America “failed to rebut” a series of concerns raised. “China Telecom Americas, a US subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned enterprise, is subject to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government and is highly likely to be forced to comply with Chinese government requests without sufficient legal procedures subject to independent judicial oversight,” the FCC said. “China Telecom Americas’ ownership and control by the Chinese government raise significant national security and law enforcement risks by providing opportunities for China Telecom Americas, its parent entities, and the Chinese government to access, store, disrupt, and/or misroute US communications, which in turn allow them to engage in espionage and other harmful activities against the United States....