FBI: Fraudsters Use Deepfakes And Stolen Personal Data To Get Remote IT Jobs

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July 1, 2022

According to FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the number of complaints about the use of deepfake technology in online interviews when hiring remote employees, as well as attempts to steal personal information, has increased significantly in recent times.

A deepfake is a method of changing the appearance or voice of a person using artificial intelligence technologies. In this case, you can get an impressive result in real-time, indistinguishable from the original.

More companies are reporting people applying for jobs using videos, images or recordings that are edited to look and sound like someone else, according to the FBI.

Specifically, they are companies seeking talent in areas such as “information technology and computer programming, database, and software related job functions,” according to the administration. Some of these positions also control a large amount of private data, such as customer information, patents, financial data, etc.

The FBI emphasizes that the use of deepfakes can greatly facilitate industrial espionage or data theft by attackers. FBI officials asked victims — including companies that received these types of deepfakes — to report any information that would help identify scammers.

Immortalis-G715: ARM Unveils Its First Mobile GPU With Hardware-Based Ray Tracing

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Sabarinath

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June 30, 2022

ARM has announced the Immortalis-G715 flagship mobile GPU. This is the first ARM graphics to support hardware-based accelerated ray tracing.

The technology allows you to create realistic lighting, as well as handle reflections and shadows, also making them as realistic as possible in comparison with other existing methods of rendering graphics.

Immortalis is a GPU built on top of Mali, a well-known Android GPU used by MediaTek and Samsung, which features 10 – 16 cores and promises a 15% performance boost compared to previous Mali graphics.

Immortalis-G715 will be up to 300% more efficient in processing ray tracing than the previous flagship GPU, the Mali G710. The overall performance of the novelty will increase relative to the Mali G710 by 15%.

There are no tests or comparisons for the new ARM Immortalis-G715 GPU. The first devices with the new chip are expected to appear in 2023.

Along with Immortalis-G715, ARM also introduced two new Mali GPUs with many improvements — Mali-G715 as well as Mali-G615. They support Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and other technologies and offer 15% better performance and improved energy efficiency than previous models.

Samsung Display Acquires German OLED Startup Cynora

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Avinash A

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June 30, 2022

Samsung Display Acquires OLED Startup Cynora

Samsung Display has bought the German startup Cynora for around 300 million US dollars.

According to Bloomberg, the takeover has not yet been publicly announced — although author Mark Gurman is apparently certain that his sources are right that Samsung Display is said to have paid around $300 million for Cynora GmbH and thus acquired their technology for OLED displays but employees of the company were fired.

Cynora has specialized in the development of flexible displays for foldable smartphones and has also been developing next-generation color rendering technology. The company said its approach could improve the energy efficiency of the displays as well as enhance the contrast between colors.

Cynora developed a new type of organic emitting materials for OLED displays based on TADF (Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence) technology at Triwo-Technopark. The aim of this technology was to bring the first high-efficiency blue emitting material to the market to enable a reduction in power consumption in OLED devices and higher display resolution. While the red and green pixels emit enough luminosity, the blue particles were underdeveloped, according to Cynora in 2019.

Samsung was previously an investor in Cynora, and the company was also backed by LG Electronics Inc. and other display manufacturers.

According to some investors, the startup simply ran out of funds and had to take desperate measures in order to return some of the money to the companies that provided financial support to it. Samsung, therefore only acquires the technology of the company, which has more than 700 patents on its flag.

Google Is Shutting Down Hangouts Messenger This November

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Adwaith

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June 29, 2022

At the beginning of this year, the Google Hangouts messenger became unavailable to users of the Workspace collaboration service. Instead, they were asked to use the modern messenger Google Chat. Now it has become known that all users of the Hangouts mobile application will have to do the same since it will stop working in November of this year.

Users of the Hangouts mobile app will begin receiving notifications asking them to download Google Chat “soon,” according to the announcement. Users of the web version of Hangouts will face notifications about the imminent transfer of their data to Google Chat from July.

upgrade from Hangouts to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app

Google assures that all chats and their content in November will be transferred to Google Chat automatically. Google also offers users to use the Google Takeout program to organize an independent “move” — download a copy of the messenger data.

Google Hangouts came out in 2013. It was not very popular and was criticized. Now the messenger has joined with other Google dead services in so-called Google Graveyard.

What is a dedicated development team?

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Nethra Gupta

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June 29, 2022

First, it is important to understand that hiring a dedicated development team is a compromise that will not always be the best way to develop software products. The best option is to find programmers for your own development team. If you can’t find programmers or if creating your own team is too expensive a business approach, hiring a dedicated development team can be a good way out.

A dedicated development team is one of the business approaches to developing programs and web applications. This type of outsourcing is closely related to the Time & Material collaboration model. In this article, we will look at this type of outsourcing by The App solutions.

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1 What is a dedicated team model?
2 How does it work?
3 Benefits of a dedicated team
4 Is it suitable for your business?

What is a dedicated team model?

Everything can be understood even by the name of this model of cooperation with developers. It is a remote team from another company handling your project. In contrast to the extended team model, the dedicated team is a separately formed working group with its own management and structures.

In this model, a dedicated software developer works exclusively on a specific project full-time with direct accountability to the client. The outsourcing company provides recruiting services, administrative support, and resources to implement the project. In fact, the outsourcing company, in this case, plays mostly an auxiliary role in the organization of the work.

The client in this model has more control than in other models. In conventional configurations, clients can interact with the team, track daily activities and overall project progress through regular management or directly, or a combination of both. This helps both parties be on the same page and adapt to circumstances.

From this comes the key value of this approach: focus. The team is dedicated to one project, which increases the speed and quality of results. You don’t have to worry about the team being stretched thin or too overworked-they’ve set a goal and are steadily moving toward it.

How does it work?

To make it clear to you what we are talking about, it is easier to look closely at the steps described below:

The customer must have an idea of exactly what they want. Must determine the number of employees required for his project and what technical skills they should have.
The contractor hires or organizes a dedicated team to meet the requirements of the project. The team together with the customer agrees on the workload and requirements of the project for a specified amount of time.
Specialists begin work during their normal working hours.
The customer has full management control over the project and the team, while the team focuses on delivering the best possible results.

Benefits of a dedicated team

The dedicated team model has a lot of undeniable advantages, such as:

Economic feasibility
Focus and adaptability
Full control
Fast software product development cycle
Close cooperation
Continuous integration

Is it suitable for your business?

So, now you know the pros and cons of the dedicated team model for software outsourcing. What will be the best solution for you is up to you to decide, there is no universal answer. Good business analysts can help you decide when they have studied your idea and evaluated the requirements.

OpenAI Neural Network Learned To Play Minecraft From Videos

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Bhasker Das

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June 27, 2022

OpenAI Neural Network Learned To Play Minecraft

OpenAI researchers demonstrated a neural network that has learned to play Minecraft using only walkthrough videos.

To train the neural network, engineers downloaded a huge database of videos for it, in which random people play Minecraft, and then slightly improved its algorithms.

In the first stage, the neural networks showed 2,000 hours of marked-up video with Minecraft gameplay. Here, the researchers demonstrated which buttons users pressed during the game. This allowed the system to learn to guess which buttons were pressed. In the second stage, the neural network has already viewed 70 thousand hours of unlabeled video (without data on the buttons being pressed). All entries were taken from open sources.

The researchers showed on video how the neural network swims, hunts, extracts resources and creates objects from them. Moreover, the algorithms even mastered the technique of jumping on a pole, hunting for cows and taught how to create a diamond pickaxe.

The experts noted that the method of training the neural network using videos turned out to be very effective and made it possible to achieve results much faster than using other solutions.

How Edge Computing Will Transform 4 Major Industries

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Jenna Jose

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June 27, 2022

Edge computing is the new breed of architecture that leverages internet-connected sensors and devices with an aim to collect, share, store data, and perform computing tasks on the edge of the Internet.

It enables companies to analyze data closer to where it is generated rather than transferring all this information back to a centralized data center or cloud storage. What is the benefit? By analyzing most of the data at the edge, companies can drastically bring down network traffic while making better and faster decisions.

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1 What Is Edge Computing?

What Is Edge Computing?

Edge computing is a subset of distributed computing that moves some of the functions of a computing system closer to the sources of data, processing, and storage. It allows new applications to be developed that need information from multiple devices or systems, such as sensors and devices connected via the Internet of Things (IoT).

Moreover, the global edge computing market size is expected to reach USD 87.3 billion by 2026. That’s a huge figure, isn’t it? This is because edge computing will be a transformative force for many large and small industries in the coming years.

Manufacturing

With edge computing, manufacturers can drive up efficiency, bring down costs and improve their supply chains. These three factors play an important role in determining the success of any manufacturing company. For example, manufacturers can develop more products in less time with increased efficiency.

This would mean they can strategies new methods to improve the quality of their products. This also means that they will have to spend less money on electricity bills because they need fewer machines and less power usage from servers.

Edge computing empowers manufacturers to enhance their supply chain as it enables them to understand how much inventory is needed at any given time so that there is no delay in production or delivery due to excess stock piling up at warehouses all over the world.

Energy and Utilities

Edge computing will decrease energy waste and enhance the quality of service.

For utilities, there is a need to cater to numerous consumers for their services, from industrial users to domestic households. They may have different demands, needs, and applications that need customized solutions. Edge computing can help meet these different requirements by offering analytics-based solutions at the edge where they are needed most.

With real-time information on usage patterns and consumption levels, companies can make informed decisions on how best to optimize their network infrastructures, such as power substations or generators, to reduce energy waste while also improving the quality of service provided by using predictive maintenance algorithms.

Healthcare

By leveraging edge computing, healthcare companies can enhance their efficiency and effectiveness. The massive adoption of IoT is generating a huge amount of data from devices such as smartphones, wearables, and medical devices.

Edge computing will empower the healthcare industry to store the data at a central location where it can be effectively analyzed by doctors and other health professionals to improve patient care. This will allow patients to receive faster treatment while also ensuring that they do not have too much data stored on their own devices so as not to pose any security risks.

Moreover, edge computing can prove vital in enhancing customer services for healthcare companies. With the growing preference among consumers to use IoT devices like smartwatches and Fitbits for fitness tracking purposes, these customers also expect similar levels of convenience when communicating with health providers as well. To ensure this, edge computing helps health professionals to create a frictionless environment.

Transportation and Logistics

Using edge computing, the transportation and logistics industry can effectively track and manage the movement of goods. Edge computing helps logistics companies to make informed decisions, bring down costs, and drive-up efficiency. Also, Edge computing will help the transportation industry obtain real-time data to plan out what they need to do next.

Edge computing systems can leverage this data to predict where traffic jams may occur or where there might be congestion problems based on current conditions. This enables transportation companies to prepare for these issues ahead of time, which helps them keep your shipments moving smoothly through even the most difficult routes.

Conclusion

Edge computing matters in the digital age, where everything is determined by data and speed. Edge computing technology is already being adopted by many manufacturing companies to monitor production lines or enable predictive maintenance on equipment as it happens. This allows companies to reduce downtime, increase efficiency, and cut costs.

The same goes for utilities and transportation logistics: real-time monitoring improves efficiency while reducing operating expenses. Healthcare providers can use edge computing technology for remote patient monitoring, which enables them to improve care without having patients come into their offices or hospitals every day for checkups or tests; this saves both time and money for everyone involved.

Netflix To Launch Cheaper Ad-Supported Subscription

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Avinash A

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June 26, 2022

Netflix confirmed that it will have a cheaper subscription with ads. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, this could mean the arrival of a new subscription that is cheaper than the current one, with the only difference being the implementation of advertising while watching content.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos discussed at the Cannes Lions festival the reasons for launching an advertising-based pricing plan.

According to him, the company admits that due to the increase in subscription prices for residents of the United States and Canada, the streaming service lost a huge percentage of subscribers. In order to return customers and attract new ones, a cheaper tariff plan is introduced with “breaks” for advertising.

Netflix wants to make clear is that the current plans will not be affected by the introduction of ads . The idea of the service is to introduce a completely new subscription that is placed as the entry option.

Sarandos said they are already in contact with potential partners such as Google and Comcast. The date, the countries and the prices of the possible new subscription have not been revealed. Also, at the moment, it is not known how many ads there will be or at what times they will appear, but hopefully, they will not end up being as frustrating as in other services that already include them.