Panasonics First Connected Solution Showcase At MWC

Panasonic is stepping into the connected space in a big way by announcing their participation for the first time in Europe at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Occupying booth size of 120m2  it will feature technology for airport use, retail, car rental and various other areas the company has been working on. A late […]

Macs are not safe from Russia

A BitDefender post reported that they havefound a macOS malware that is likely part of APT28’s armoury. APT28 is a Russian cyberespionage group going by many names including Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit and STRONTIUM. They are also the same group that was blamed for hacking into the U.S. Democratic National Committee last year. Oh and […]

Battling bad background music

Soundtrack Your Brand wants you to have better music for you business. The Spotify backed business closed a $22 million funding from Nordic venture capital fund Industrifonden, alongside U.K.’s Balderton Capital. Founded in Stockholm back in 2013, Soundtrack Your Brand is described as the Spotify for B2B, bringing music streaming for businesses.  The company sees the market […]

Uber in the spot again over sexual harrassment claims

Uber is in the spotlight again and not for a good reason. Former site reliability engineer Susan J. Fowler wrote a blog post detailing the “strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying” year she had at Uber. The essay alleged many sexual harassment as well as legal misconduct against her and other female employees. She also wrote about […]

Valve teaching AI to spot cheaters

Valve is cracking down on cheaters (at least on CS:GO) with the help of AI. In a reddit post Valve confirms that they are starting work on in and progress has been promising so far. This came about when users asks on a subreddit on Counter Strike: Global Offensive why spinbots aren’t automatically detected “or at […]

MAS hackathon winners announced

Malaysia Airlines’ MABHackathon event was brought to a close with a final 25 hour hacking session over the weekend at Malaysia Airlines Training Academy (MAA) in Kelana Jaya. The hackathon challenge is a project led by the airline’s IT Division. Started in November and lasted over four months, the challenge started with the Discovery Challenge, followed […]

You tube killing 30sec forced ads

Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to watch a video and you get hit with an advertisement – and not a short one either, and the skip button won’t activate? Bad news is – there will still be ads. Good news is, by next year you won’t see the 30-second variants anymore. According […]