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    Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives

    <!–> dem10/Getty Images The Wi-Fi Alliance has given Wi-Fi 7, officially known as 802.11be, its blessing, and our homes and offices will soon see speeds of – believe it or not – almost 5.8 Gigabits per second (Gbps).   Actually, just between us, I don’t believe Intel when it states, “a typical Wi-Fi 7 laptop […] More

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    The fall of Firefox: Mozilla’s once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

    <!–> slpu9945/Getty Images When the Netscape browser suite source code was open-sourced in 1998, it was a desperate move.  Although Netscape and the Department of Justice had been successful in the courts at battling Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) illegal monopoly, it didn’t matter. Netscape, once the most popular web browser of all, was […] More

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    Singapore telcos to let subscribers block international calls in new anti-scam measure

    <!–> d3sign/Getty Images Mobile subscribers in Singapore can now instruct their carrier to block all incoming calls from international numbers, as part of the government’s efforts to curb the growing volume of online scams targeting the local population.  The option is available to customers of the country’s four mobile operators: M1, StarHub, Singtel, and Simba, […] More

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    Meta tracks your Facebook link history, but now you can opt out

    <!–> Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you’ve opened your Facebook settings lately, you may have seen a new “Link History” option. This is a library that saves all the links users click on. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is touting this new setting as a “feature” so users never lose a link again, but it […] More

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    This company says AI can help design sustainable smart home appliances

    <!–> Hitachi Smart home devices should not only enable consumers to live better and save them time and cost, the technologies should also be made to last as demand for sustainable products continues to grow.  To achieve this broad range of aims, manufacturers will need to turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers, according to […] More

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    Developers, watch your code: Official Python respository spread malicious projects

    <!–> BeeBright/Getty Images PyPI is the official Python Package Index that currently contains 500,972 projects, 5,228,535 million releases, 9,950,103 million files, and 770,841 users. PyPI helps users locate and install software developed and released by the Python community as well as serving as a repository where developers can distribute their software. Also: How to use […] More

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    Developers, watch your code: Official Python repository spread malicious projects

    <!–> BeeBright/Getty Images PyPI is the official Python Package Index that currently contains 500,972 projects, 5,228,535 million releases, 9,950,103 million files, and 770,841 users. PyPI helps users locate and install software developed and released by the Python community as well as serving as a repository where developers can distribute their software. Also: How to use […] More