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According to a report from the New York Times, the Russian government’s cyber warfare campaign against the Ukraine coincides with a boots-on-the-ground effort by Kremlin spies. The attack was detected by Silicon Valley security company Area 1. Per the Times: It’s unclear exactly what information the hackers obtained. But, it stands to reason that the Russian government wants to find anything it possibly can to bolster the Trump administration’s claims that Democratic Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden’s son was involved in wrongdoing as part of Burisma’s board....

The laptop can stay always connect with support for gigabit LTE and multiple Wi-Fi bands. The company claims it’ll be easy to carry it everywhere as it just weighs 0.96kg. Plus, it has reported battery life of 23 hours, and it charges via USB C. The Galaxy Book S has a built-in fingerprint sensor for authentication that ties in with Windows Hello. What’s more, if you have an Android phone, you’ll be able to send files, get notifications, text, and call (feature coming later this year) from your laptop through Microsoft’s integration with Samsung....

If you’re not familiar with the original Galaxy Active, it’s a smartwatch running on Samsung’s proprietary Tizen Wearable OS – you won’t see Google’s Wear OS here. Still, Samsung has built up a fair number of apps for its smartwatches, as well as custom health features. Considering most people seem to end up using their smartwatches for fitness, music controls, and notifications, you shouldn’t be missing too much over Wear OS....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nikola Tesla used to say: Bob’s your uncle! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 15 2019, at a price of $10,311. That’s a respectable 2.72 percent increase in 24 hours, or $273. It was the highest closing price in one day. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Satoshi Nakamoto used to say: Yippee! Bitcoin price We closed the day, May 14 2020, at a price of $9,733. That’s a respectable 4.98 percent increase in 24 hours, or $462. It was the highest closing price in five days. We’re still 51 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Baudriallard used to say: Buy low, sell high! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, December 01 2019, at a price of $7,424. That’s a minor 1.94 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$147.32. It was the lowest closing price in four days. We’re still 63 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Dubbed EctoLife, the concept is the brainchild of Hashem Al-Ghaili, a Yemen-born biotechnologist and science communicator. His invention comprises 75 separate labs, each of which accommodates up to 400 adorable “growth pods,” which replicate the conditions of a mother’s womb. Al-Ghaili claims a single building can incubate 30,000 babies a year. It’s the future that your unborn child deserves. Just peruse all the amenities that the designer fetus will enjoy....

Eye movements like blinking carry change potential to signal. Shengqiang Cai, the lead researcher, told the New Scientist that the eye has an electro-oculographic potential, even if you’re sleeping: So, these scientists measured the electrical impulse and found a way to use it to change the focal length of the lens. The study claims that because of the soft materials used in the lens, relative changes in the focal length can be as large as 32 percent....

Pre-clinical testing suggests the tech can spot signs of dementia years before symptoms develop. The system is now being evaluated in clinical trials. Up front: Doctors currently diagnose dementia through multiple cognitive tests and brain scans. This process can take between four to 12 weeks, according to the Alzheimer’s Society. The AI tool was designed to provide quicker diagnoses and predictions on how the condition will develop. The system’s algorithm searches for patterns in brain scans that neurologists can’t detect....

“We’re working on Teams integrations for calling features,” said Slack CEO Stuart Butterfield during a call with RBC analyst Alex Zurkin on Thursday, according to CNBC. There’s no word on when such a feature would arrive, but Slack already integrates plenty of Microsoft services such as Outlook and OneDrive. Things have come a long way from Microsoft Teams’ launch in 2016, when Slack took out a peculiar full-page ad in the New York Times welcoming Microsoft’s competition while also giving it some friendly ‘advice....

Factors affecting our work settings and daily lives may be beyond our control at the moment, but we can shape how we adapt and improve the way we work together while keeping our teams safe and healthy. (We should know – we just had to do the same thing ourselves.) That’s why we’ve created five new templates for Workflow Builder, a visual tool that allows any Slack user to automate routine processes....

Just when we thought the planet was finally going to take us off the naughty step, we get slapped upside the head with another unfiltered look at ourselves. The uncomfortable, shameful, anxiety-ridden, angry, cannot-look-away-from systemic implication of racism and colonialism — including in the business and tech worlds. But, it’s not anything new so why does this time feel different? Are we truly at a tipping point? What I’m writing here may be uncomfortable for some but avoiding this is what has got us where we are now, right?...

“Maybe Twitter should be a nonprofit,” said the high-level Trust and Safety employee. We were standing in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters discussing the company’s current calamities, namely high levels of hate and harassment and low levels of actual profitability. Rumors were swirling about its possible impending sale. My companion clearly believed that the company was important to the future of communication and, by extension, of democracy itself. Unfortunately, its ad-based business model was in obvious conflict with serving the public interest....

North Americans spend an average of two hours a day consuming, or more accurately, devouring social media. And that’s just the time spent scrolling and reading and viewing and sharing. If you’re a brand trying to make an impact on social media, does that mean you need to be spending at least two hours a day crafting and curating content, engaging and boosting your profile? And if social media manager is just one of the hats you wear, do you really have two hours a day to devote solely to the unflinching 24/7/365 pursuit of a social presence?...

The news comes from Business Insider’s Christopher Palmeri who reported that Layden, in an interview, said: This, of course, doesn’t indicate that the company’s gone all-in on the PC platform (nor is it any kind of official announcement – take it with a grain of salt or two). But it’s probably the clearest sign yet that the company’s continuing to reconsider its begrudging support for cross-platform play in a major way....

In October, Warner Media revealed it’d acquired the exclusive US rights to stream Ghibli’s films to its upcoming service, HBO Max. Needless to say, this was quite the feather in HBO’s cap. Due to a distribution partnership with Disney, many assumed its Disney+ platform would be the most likely candidate to stream the movies if they ever became available. Instead HBO Max came out the surprise winner. So what impact is this likely to have on HBO Max, which is set to debut next spring?...

Up front: Yes. We do. A trio of researchers from the University of Georgia recently conducted a study to determine whether humans are more likely to trust an answer they believe was generated by an algorithm or crowd-sourced from humans. The results indicated that humans were more likely to trust algorithms when problems become too complex for them to trust their own answers. Background: We all know that, to some degree or another, we’re beholden to the algorithm....

The study comes from the Oxford Internet Institute, and was conducted last year on a group of 1,004 14- and 15-year-olds from around the UK. The kids and their caregivers answered questionnaires about their (the kids’) gaming habits and how the kids functioned in daily life. Dr. Andrew Przybylski, co-auther of the study and director of research at the Institute, said in a press release: In other words, the games aren’t root cause of the problem....

Two reasons for this are the low temperatures and enormous pressures exerted at such depths, which require the exploration equipment be carefully shielded inside high-strength metal or ceramic chambers to withstand them. This makes deep-sea exploration vessels bulky, expensive and unwieldy, as well as difficult to design, manufacture and transport. But a new small self-powered underwater robotic fish appears to offer an alternative. According to a recent paper, the robot was able to reach the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean – the Mariana Trench – at a depth of almost 11 km (6....

Earlier this week, rumors of its blockchain pilot surfaced online after eagle-eyed users took to Twitter to share images of what appears to be a Ripple-based app for cross-border transactions. “Send money abroad today at the cheapest rates via Ripple,” reads a screenshot of the app, titled SCB Easy. SCB social media reps have since addressed speculators on Twitter, claiming that more details about the Ripple integration “will be announce [sic] soon....