7 Great Deals to Get You Through the Workweek

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Channel Description If you’re anything like me, you’re looking for every way to stay focused until Friday. Noise-canceling headphones (and other gadgets) just might help. Read the original article here

The End of Infinite Data Storage Can Set You Free

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Channel Description The belief that we could save endlessly online turned us all into information hoarders. What society needs instead is better systems for preserving public knowledge. Read the original article here

How to Back Up Your Digital Life

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Channel Description Backups are boring, but they’ll save your bacon. Here’s how to make sure your data lives on, even when your PC doesn’t. Read the original article here

Cruise’s Oliver Cameron and Motional’s Laura Major discuss taking AV tech from the lab to the road at TC Sessions: Mobility

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Startup and Technology News Realizing the vision of deploying commercial fleets of safe, fully autonomous robotaxis continues to be a steep, winding road. Google’s self-driving project — launched in 2009 and renamed Waymo in 2016 — triggered a flood of AV tech development. Yet, until recently, the vast majority of autonomous vehicles have been in … Read more

ESPN’s app gets SharePlay support for co-viewing live sports over FaceTime

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Startup and Technology News A few months after making the feature available to Disney+ users, Disney is now rolling out Apple’s SharePlay co-viewing experience for FaceTime to its ESPN app’s users. The feature will allow U.S. users who are either ESPN+ streaming service subscribers or logging in with their TV Everywhere credentials to co-view live … Read more

SentinelOne scoops up Attivo Networks for $617M

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Startup and Technology News Security companies typically start by focusing on one particular problem, but the biggest ones like Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and Symantec have shifted to a horizontal approach typically gaining functionality over time through acquisition. SentinelOne, which went public last June appears to be taking a similar tack, and yesterday the company … Read more

Has China’s signaled regulatory reprieve come too late?

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Has China’s signaled regulatory reprieve come too late?

Startup and Technology News Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese companies, and especially technology concerns, are ripping higher this morning. Driving the day’s trading were comments from Chinese government official Liu He concerning both foreign-listed Chinese shares and the pace of reform in the country’s economy. Yesterday, The Exchange noted that a selloff of Chinese equities had … Read more

Kaspersky users warned of Russian hacking threats

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Germany’s information security authorities has warned that antivirus tools from Russian firm Kaspersky could be used to spy on users throughout the world. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) recently issued a warning saying the Kaspersky antivirus software could be abused to launch cyberattacks, or for eavesdropping and espionage, amid the Russian invasion … Read more

Vodafone and Ericsson create first-ever UK 5G network slice

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Vodafone and Ericsson have completed the first trial of an on-demand 5G network slice in the UK, paving the way for automated virtual networks that can be created within 30 seconds. Network slicing is seen as one of the main use cases for standalone 5G (SA 5G) networks and will effectively allow operators to section … Read more