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PS5 restock update: How to buy PlayStation 5 at Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart and other major retailers - CNET
CNET - 1 Jun 2021 03:43
Which retailers will have Sony PS5s this week?
AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing
Engadget - 1 Jun 2021 14:00Kono announces 3 new films: Delight Art 100, Monolit 3 (yes, that means ISO 3) and Monolit 100
DP Review - 1 Jun 2021 19:38
In the digital age, film manufacturers must separate themselves somehow. Since its inception in 2014, German film company Kono achieves this by creating films that offer distinct looks. The company aims to create an appe...
A Driverless Truck Got a Shipment Cross-Country 10 Hours Faster Than a Human Driver
Singularity Hub - 1 Jun 2021 16:00
Self-driving cars are taking longer to come to market than many expected. In fact, it's looking like they may be outpaced by pilotless planes and driverless trucks. A truck isn't much different than a car, but self-drivi...
Super Resolution dramatically increases frame rates, but doesn't require AMD GPU
Digital Trends - 1 Jun 2021 05:00
AMD launched FidelityFX Super Resolution during its Computex 2021 keynote, promising to take on DLSS with an up to a 2.5X performance increase.
AMD's new Ryzen 3000 desktop APUs have arrived, starting at $259
Digital Trends - 1 Jun 2021 05:00
AMD announced the release of several new products, including Ryzen Pro processors aimed at business users and integrated CPU/GPU units.
China succeeds in first cargo mission to new space station
Digital Trends - 1 Jun 2021 03:45
China has confirmed that its first cargo mission has successfully docked with its new space station, paving the way for a crewed visit in June.
Long-Range Photo of Ingenuity Taken by Perseverance's SuperCam Instrument
Universe Today - 1 Jun 2021 00:54
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is a stunning achievement of engineering, design, and, well, ingenuity. The dual-rotor craft can be seen taking off and landing in this remarkable video, taken by the Mastcam-Z, an imager aboa...
Cybersecurity attack hits world's largest meat supplier JBS' IT systems in the U.S. and Australia
USA Today - 1 Jun 2021 00:42
JBS USA, the world's largest meat supplier, was the target of a cybersecurity attack. The attack comes weeks after an attack on the Colonial Pipeline.
CISO Confidence Is Rising, but Issues Remain
Dark Reading - 1 Jun 2021 16:00
New research reveals how global CISOs dealt with COVID-19 and their plans for 2022-2023.
Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime
TechCrunch - 1 Jun 2021 15:10
The cybersecurity industry has no shortage of technology to fight against network intruders, app corrupters, email hackers and other cyber criminals. Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a differ...
Far Cry comes to Zero Latency's VR arcades
Engadget - 1 Jun 2021 15:10How Mobile Ad Fraud has Evolved in the Year of the Pandemic
Threatpost - 1 Jun 2021 15:00
Mobile ad fraud has always been a challenge for network operators in all parts of the globe, but the pandemic has made users more vulnerable than ever before due to the sheer amount of time they now spend with their devi...
Apple Car airbags could save drivers from flying debris
AppleInsider - 1 Jun 2021 14:54
Passengers of the Apple Car could be safer from injury of objects flying through the windshield in a car accident, with Apple considering various ways to block inbound shrapnel and other items from hitting the vehicle's ...
Swedish Public Health Agency Says Disease Database Targeted in Cyberattacks
SecurityWeek - 1 Jun 2021 14:41
The Swedish Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) is currently investigating several attempts to hack into SmiNet, a database that stores reports of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 cases.
Malware Can Use This Trick to Bypass Ransomware Defense in Antivirus Solutions
The Hacker News - 1 Jun 2021 14:35
Researchers have disclosed significant security weaknesses in popular software applications that could be abused to deactivate their protections and take control of allow-listed applications to perform nefarious operatio...
Intel CEO doubles-down on multi-year chip shortage
AppleInsider - 1 Jun 2021 14:14
The ongoing global chip shortage will trudge on for some time to come, according to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, with the major issues unlikely to see any real solutions for several years. The semiconductor shortage, which i...
'Apple Glass' may automatically control HomeKit lighting devices
AppleInsider - 1 Jun 2021 13:48
Apple is researching how to make "Apple Glass," or other AR devices, sense and automatically adjust the ambient lighting around the wearer using HomeKit. There still aren't all that many HomeKit devices, compared to ones...
World's Largest Beef and Pork Supplier Hit by Cyber Attack
Gizmodo - 1 Jun 2021 13:30
JB Foods, the world's largest beef and pork processor, was hit by a cyber attack on Sunday that's incapacitated systems in the U.S., Canada, and Australia according to a new report from Bloomberg News.
Exoplanet surveys are leaning toward the possibility that our solar system is normal
Phys.org - 1 Jun 2021 13:25
One of the unspoken caveats of most exoplanet discovery missions is that they only operate for a few years. Such a short observing window means there are planets with longer orbital periods, usually further out from the ...
SpaceX boss Elon Musk confirms work on first ocean spaceport
Digital Trends - 1 Jun 2021 05:15
SpaceX boss Elon Musk has confirmed his company is now building its first ocean spaceport for Starship, and retweeted an image of what it could look like.
The center of the Milky Way looks like a work of art
BGR - 1 Jun 2021 04:45
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has delivered so many incredible images of objects and structures in space that it’s easy to forget that NASA has a whole lot of other space-scanning hardware working overtime to make ne...