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Monthly Archives: September 2022
Respawn Entertainment head and Battlefield franchise boss Vince Zampella has spoken about the reception – and failure – of the series’ most recent entry, Battlefield 2042, suggesting it “strayed too far from” its roots. Battlefield 2042 was dogged by technical issues and controversial design decisions when it launched last year, quickly attracting overwhelmingly negative reviews…
Want to jump straight to the answer? The best office phone system for most people is Nextiva or Ooma Office. Outdated phone systems can ruin your business. Calls go missing, forwarded calls end up in the abyss, and important calls get dropped for no reason. Just a few small things can snowball into something disastrous….
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Like many other hacks, Uber’s major security breach started with a text message. Citing details provided by the alleged hacker, The New York Times reported that a fake text message tricked an Uber employee into revealing their password details, triggering a sequence of events that led to…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Cybersecurity alarm bells have been ringing loudly in the healthcare industry this month. The FBI warned healthcare facilities that medical devices (like patient monitors or infusion pumps) often run on outdated software that could be vulnerable to hacks. OakBend Medical Center in Texas was hit with a…
This week in Other Barks & Bites: IPWatchdog LIVE sees 250 top industry insiders partake in panel sessions and other events at the Renaissance Richardson Dallas hotel; GM announces a nearly $500 million investment into electric vehicle upgrades at a factory in Marion, IN; the European General Court affirms an EU Commission ruling finding that…
Imagine you’re in a car parked outside a dilapidated cabin deep in the woods. It’s around midnight, there’s no moon and no nearby streetlights, so it’s as dark as a night can get. Some friends are with you, one of whom says in a hoarse whisper, “There’s someone sitting on a log behind us.” You all can see the person on such a dark night because the figure is softly glowing. An…
Surgical instruments from the American Civil War. American Red Cross/National Archives Last week, a study emerged on the oldest-known healed surgical amputation, found on a young adult in an art-covered cave in Borneo. In that research, the authors argued that because it’s so rare for humans to survive amputations without further treatment, the young adult…
Video of a sidewalk delivery robot crossing yellow caution tape and rolling through a crime scene in Los Angeles went viral this week, amassing more than 650,000 views on Twitter and sparking debate about whether the technology is ready for prime time. It turns out the robot’s error, at least in the case, was caused…
Last month, Varo Bank celebrated the two-year anniversary of obtaining its national bank charter. The move made Varo the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. consumer bank. The startup launched its banking services aimed at younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online in 2017. It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and…