Synaptic Web News

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 27 May 2018

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If you've been in a large crowded place with a fair amount of security, you've probably seen bomb-sniffing dogs at work. (You may have even petted the puppers.) Dogs have long been used for detecting contraband and...

Read more: Puppy Brain Scans Could Help Pick the Best Dog Bomb Sniffers

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 26 May 2018

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Spinning up that AWS or Azure instance at the snap of a finger may be a beautiful thing to behold, but sometimes the application, testbed or whatever it may be gets abandoned and forgotten -- but still...

Read more: Cloud computing sticker shock is now a monthly occurrence at many companies

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 26 May 2018

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Because customer experience^[1] is genuinely important, it has become one of the great buzzwords of our time. Along with stalwart mediaspeak terms like digital transformation and artificial intelligence, customer experience occupies a hallowed place...

Read more: CMO playbook: How Pinterest uses data to create great customer experiences

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 26 May 2018

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At the beginning of the year, revelations about a new type of processor vulnerability had far-reaching implications for devices all over the world, and this week researchers disclosed yet another of these so-called "speculative execution" flaws...

Read more: T-Mobile Web Portal Exposed 74 Million Accounts, and and More Security News This Week

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 26 May 2018

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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look Tesla (finally) starting to comply with the GPL, Tencent's new open source AI, an open...

Read more: Open source news roundup for May 26, 2018

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 25 May 2018

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A home office has the potential to cut out an expensive time-consuming commute, provide a more relaxed working environment, and allow more control over the working conditions that suit you. Your workstation is no longer restricted to...

Read more: 7 must-have devices for your smart home office

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 25 May 2018

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Michael Caputo’s favorite novel is Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita^[1], the story of the Devil’s visit to Moscow in the 1930s and all the oddball characters who surround him. When the future Trump...

Read more: Former Trump Campaign Aide: My Russia Ties Are Not Nefarious!

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 25 May 2018

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Build 409c is December 1990 build of MS-DOS 5.00. (Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) In this 50-year retrospective, we're looking at technologies that had an impact on the world, paved the way for...

Read more: Technology that changed us: The 1980s, from MS-DOS to the first GPS satellite

Written by: J D

Category: News

Published: 25 May 2018

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(Image: file photo) Apple's^[1] latest transparency report is out.

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New figures in the company's second biannual transparency report^[2] for 2017 show that Apple received 29,718 demands to access 309,362 devices

Read more: Apple reveals latest government data demand figures