Category: Technology

Except, of course, it can’t. Virtual reality has been hovering on the cusp of success for decades now, never quite able to attract the masses. In an essay written for WIRED just before Facebook became Meta, writer and academic David Karpf outlined how the culture-shaking promise of VR had repeatedly failed to materialize, despite major advances […]

In the past decade, storied brands like meal-replacement Huel and men’s grooming company Harry’s built multibillion-dollar retail businesses by using social media and digital-first advertising to sell directly to consumers online, without the need for middlemen. These brands were exemplars of a new form of retail, called direct-to-consumer (DTC).  The global pandemic only accelerated this […]

It’s difficult to reflect on the past year—or forecast the next—without a sense of wonder regarding the sheer magnitude of innovation taking place across the AI landscape. On a weekly basis, researchers across industry and academia have published work advancing the state-of-the-art in nearly every domain of AI, toppling benchmarking leaderboards and accomplishing feats beyond […]

Crazy cold temperatures, heavy snow, and strong winds are coming just in time for the holidays, all thanks to a bomb cyclone. It’s a catchy and menacing name for a type of winter storm that can create extremely dangerous conditions. Forecasters predict this one could be unprecedented in its scope, sending freezing temperatures across Canada […]

It’s been creeping up for a while now, an old breed of horror. A movie here, another there. But now, in 2022, the time has come to give it a name: elevator-pitch horror.  These films are just what they sound like: You can summarize their conceit in a single breath. Scary Airbnb house? Check (Barbarian). An […]

Sleep is an essential part of our biology. Not getting enough of it harms our decision-making skills, our reasoning, even our social interactions.  However, sleep has recently become yet another aspect of our lives that causes endless worry, rather than being enjoyable. We’ve become obsessed with getting the perfect night’s sleep. As a consequence, many […]

Dive Brief: CrowdStrike researchers discovered a new exploit method by Play ransomware actors that can bypass URL rewrite mitigations released by Microsoft in October, according to a Tuesday blog post from the incident response firm. Microsoft’s updates were designed to mitigate ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities. Crowdstrike researchers discovered the new method while investigating Play ransomware activity. The entry […]

Rackspace Technology is ready to hand over recovered emails to Hosted Exchange customers who were disrupted during the Dec. 2 ransomware attack, according to a Wednesday status update on the incident.  Rackspace, alongside a number of internal and external experts, worked with the data recovery team to secure access to historical emails.  The company worked for […]

Dive Brief: Okta on Wednesday confirmed its source code repositories were accessed and copied by an unauthorized party on GitHub earlier this month.  An investigation concluded customer data was not accessed and the Okta service remains uncompromised, the identity and access management platform said in a blog post. The threat actor accessed code related to […]

Chris Inglis, the top cybersecurity official in the White House and first person to serve as the national cyber director, plans to retire in early 2023, CNN reported on Wednesday. President Joe Biden nominated Inglis to lead the White House’s cybersecurity team in April 2021 and Inglis was confirmedJune 2021. The Office of the National […]