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A global technical outage has grounded airlines, knocked news channels off the air, taken banks offline and disrupted communications with 911 operators. On Friday, workers around the world woke up to find their computers unable to boot. The reason for the outage is a single software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The faulty update caused some Windows computers to display …

When Kelly Haston emerged from NASA’s year-long Mars simulation project, she was greeted by flashing cameras, beaming colleagues and loud applause. It was a far cry from the previous 378 days, during which she had seen no one but her three crewmates. They all shared a quiet 1,800-square-foot (157-square-meter) quarters at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, designed to simulate …

A security breach that compromised the data of the vast majority of AT&T’s mobile customers involved calls to Canada, the telecom giant confirmed to Global News. AT&T reported Friday that the data of nearly all of AT&T’s mobile customers was compromised in the breach. This includes more than 100 million individual customers in the US and 2.5 million business accounts. …

Canadian security officials are warning of a Russian propaganda campaign that used the social media site X to spread disinformation online. According to the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity, individuals affiliated with RT, formerly known as Russia Today, are operating a social media bot farm on behalf of the Russian government. Officials say fake social media users are being created to …

A team of students from McMaster University in Hamilton will soon head to Iceland, where they will set up camp near a series of underground lava tubes that they plan to map with a drone. The drone uses hardware and software designed by the students, who hope that their technology can be used in space exploration in the future, to …

The Biden administration will ban cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab from selling products in the United States over concerns that the company is closely linked to Russia and poses a security risk. Sanctions are also imposed on 12 senior leaders at the company. “Russia has demonstrated that it has the capacity and intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect …

The Society for Underwater Expertise’s Gwyn Griffiths Award for Underwater Robotics has been gained by Rustom (Rusty) Jehangir, founder and CEO of Blue Robotics, an ocean know-how firm primarily based in Torrance, California. Neil Bose, chair of SUT’s Underwater Robotics Panel, and vp (analysis), Memorial College, Newfoundland and Labrador’s College, says: “The usual of entries for the SUT’s Gwyn Griffiths …

Hanno Basse Digital applied sciences pioneer Hanno Basse has been named Chief Know-how Officer on the award-winning visible results studio Digital Area. Basse will oversee the studio’s continued development because it scales up its international operations whereas serving to to develop new applied sciences and methods that guarantee the very best degree of high quality throughout all mediums. Basse joins …

08 October 2022 Buyer engagement platform Braze has teamed up with Ascential-owned analysis firm WARC, to publish a brand new report aimed toward shining a light-weight on how expertise is at the moment getting used to drive artistic and industrial success.  Titled ‘The Invisible Enabler: Unlocking the Artistic Potential of Expertise’, the research analyses profitable artistic campaigns from the likes of …

Amazon (AMZN) has set the usual for supply and success. Earlier than the web chief declared that free, two-day delivery could be the minimal, there was no actual set coverage for supply. Principally, if corporations even had an internet site, they charged clients for delivery and gadgets arrived every time they arrived. That has, in fact, modified and Amazon has …