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Why the Justice Department Is Taking a Closer Look at Connected Devices

The U.S. Justice Department has formed a threat analysis team to study potential national security challenges posed by self-driving cars, medical devices, and other Internet-connected tools, a senior official said. The new group’s goal is to secure the so-called “Internet of things” from exploitation by “terrorist threats” and by others who might try to hack …

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RCC Buys VARCentric With IoT 'at an All-Time High'

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**Editor’s Note: Please click here for a recap of the biggest channel-impacting mergers in May-June 2016.** Richardson Communications and Consulting (RCC) has acquired VARCentric, a telecommunications consulting services provider. Rachel McNeese, RCC’s president and founder, and a member of the Channel Partners Advisory Board, tells us the acquisition is part of her effort to expand and create …

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Maximising the potential of the Industrial Internet – through the right networks

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(c)iStock.com/DrAfter123 Computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) often use extremely large files, which make remote working and collaboration difficult to achieve. Most businesses are able to work remotely with laptops, smartphones and tablet PCs, but the processing power required to create, store and share CAD files over a wide area network is often prohibitive. …

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Dell May Cut Up to 3000 Jobs Now That EMC Deal Is Done

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According to a report, Dell officials want to save as much as $1.7 billion in costs in the first 18 months following the close of the acquisition. Dell Technologies officials reportedly will cut as many as 3,000 jobs in the wake of the closing of the company’s $60 billion-plus acquisition of EMC this week.Citing unnamed …

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Google's DeepMind AI fakes some of the most realistic human voices yet

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Tweet Share Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence has produced what could be some of the most realistic-sounding machine speech yet. WaveNet, as the system is called, generates voices by sampling real human speech and directly modeling audio waveforms based on it, as well as its previously generated audio. In Google’s tests, both English and Mandarin Chinese …

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The Internet of Things – Legal Issues from a Hong Kong Law Perspective

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The Internet of Things (IoT) broadly refers to physical objects embedded with sensors and actuators that are connected to the Internet. Some examples include wearables such as fitness devices that can track users’ activities; smart home products such as surveillance systems and lights that can be controlled remotely; smart cities with intelligent traffic management that …

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Use Cases: The importance of IoT in upstream oil and gas

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What is upstream oil and gas? The upstream oil and gas sector, focused on exploration and production (E&P), includes searching for potential underground or underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, drilling exploratory wells and subsequently drilling and operating the wells that recover and bring crude oil and/or raw natural gas to the surface. [embedded content] Upstream oil and …

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Luabot Malware Turning Linux Based IoT Devices into DDoS Botnet

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Researchers have discovered a malware called Luabot being used to Launch DDoS Attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IT security researchers at MalwareMustDie have discovered a malware that is capable of infecting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices and web servers to launch DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Dubbed Linux/Luabot by researchers; the malware is coded …

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What's for Lunch? MealViewer Modernizes the School Cafeteria

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With information-rich digital signage tools, MealViewer is making sure schoolchildren stay in the lunch line long enough to grab a nutritious meal, especially in underprivileged areas where that might be the most they eat all day. But MealViewer isn’t another well-funded Silicon Valley or New York unicorn. It’s a bootstrapped homegrown start-up out of Augusta, …

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Amazon's Alexa To Speak Without Voice Commands

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Alexa, Amazon’s digital assistant, will no longer need voice commands to speak to you. Amazon is reportedly gearing up to have its digital assistant offer up information before you can request it, according to a report from The Information. For example, Alexa will be able to tell you via your Echo when your Uber ride …

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