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Wi-Fi Certified 7 Now Official

The Wi-Fi Alliance released a new version of its wireless technology Monday, boasting new features designed to boost performance and improve connectivity across a variety of environments. New features in Wi-Fi Certified 7 include: 320 MHz channels in countries, like the United States, that make the 6GHz band available to Wi-Fi, which facilitates multi-gigabit device speeds and high throughput; Multi-Link …

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Meta toughens content curbs for teens on Instagram, Facebook

5 Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri testified on January 5 at a Senate hearing about how the platform impacts the mental health and safety of teens and children. Meta on Tuesday said it was tightening up content restrictions for teens on Instagram and Facebook as it faces increased scrutiny that its platforms are harmful for young people. The changes come …

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Researchers are developing AI to make the internet more accessible

Sample tasks and all domains featured in MIND2WEB. The array of diversity allows for testing an agent’s generalizability across tasks on the same website (a vs. b), similar tasks on different websites (a vs. c), and even to entirely disparate tasks, websites, and domains (d−f). Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.06070 In an effort to make the internet more accessible for …

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The 5 Best Electric Cars on the Market

Electric cars are facing challenges as we enter 2024. Audi recently pushed back its pivot to electrics to 2030. Jaguar is struggling to survive until it can make its expected transition next year. Ford and GM appear to be cutting back their electric efforts, and other carmakers are talking about shutting down their dealerships to contain their financial bleeding, much …

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Connecting rural African communities one bus at a time

1 Credit: CC0 Public Domain In urban African communities, communication infrastructure has made it possible for people to share information quickly and easily. However, the same cannot be said for rural areas where there are tight resource constraints and a lack of investment opportunities. In these isolated regions where houses are kilometers apart, residents are not able to reliably communicate, …

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LinDoz Returns With Advanced AI To Upgrade MakuluLinux Lineup

LinDoz, a sidelined MakuluLinux distro that made an ideal Windows-to-Linux crossover, welcomes the new year with artificial intelligence and virtual camera powers. I spent the last few weeks working with a pre-final release version of this returned-from-the-shelf distro. The developer sent me an even more awesome final version just days before the new LinDoz was scheduled to hit the download …

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2024 Tech Industry Predications: Some May Surprise You

As we stand on the cusp of 2024, technology continues its relentless march forward, shaping how we live, work, and interact with the world around us. Indeed, 2023 was an exciting year in tech, and some of you may enjoy my podcast from a few weeks ago, where I opined during my SmartTechCheck podcast on what I believe were last …

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Apple Services Revenue at Risk Amid Legal, Regulatory Pressures

Court cases and regulators are stirring up uncertainty among Apple watchers about the prospects for its lucrative US$85 billion services business. The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Google has produced anxiety about whether Apple will continue to rake in anywhere from $15 billion to $20 billion a year for making Google’s search engine the default choice on the iPhone, iPad, …

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Better Cyber Coexistence, Productivity, Privacy

A scant three years ago, I wrote a tech trends article for TechNewsWorld with a headline that posed an insightful question in anticipation of the new year. I asked, “Is this the year cyberattacks force privacy laws to grow some teeth?” As it turned out, it wasn’t. Fast forwarding to the start of 2024, the same question goes begging for …

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Google agrees to settle $5 bn lawsuit over ‘incognito’ mode

1 A lawsuit against Google claims the company’s practices infringed on users’ privacy by ‘intentionally’ deceiving them. Google has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations it tracked the data of users who thought they were browsing the internet privately. The object of the lawsuit was the “incognito” mode on Google’s …

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