GamingNews

Why Ubisoft took us back to New York in The Division 2’s Warlord expansion

Ubisoft’s new Warlords of New York expansion takes Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 back to New York. While The Division (our doomsday saviors) was busy in Washington, D.C., in the main gameplay of The Division 2, the villains were running wild in post-pandemic New York, the scene of the original The Division. So now you have to take it back. Warlords of New York has a narrative focused on a rogue…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus deliver upgraded battery life for a higher price tag

During today’s Galaxy Unpacked event, alongside bigger smartphone announcements, Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Buds Plus true wireless earbuds as a sequel to last year’s Galaxy Buds. The Galaxy Buds Plus (stylized as “Galaxy Buds+”) are actually Samsung’s fourth attempt at dethroning Apple’s AirPods, following last year’s Galaxy Buds and two models of Gear IconX. To show that…
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MobileNews

Google recaps Play Store and Android app security in 2019

Google today recapped the last year in Play Store and Android app security. In addition to highlighting major 2019 initiatives like the App Defense Alliance, there are several statistics on countering malicious applications and developers. Toward the end of 2018, the Play…
AI & RoboticsNews

The persistent humanity in AI and cybersecurity

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: AI and Security. Even as AI technology transforms some aspects of cybersecurity, the intersection of the two remains profoundly human. Although that’s perhaps counterintuitive, it is front and center in all parts of the cybersecurity triad: the bad actors who seek to do harm, the gullible soft targets, and the good actors…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI, automation, and the cybersecurity skills gap

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: AI and Security. The cybersecurity skills shortage is well documented, but the gap seems to be widening. The 2019 Cybersecurity Workforce study produced by nonprofit (ISC)² looked at the cybersecurity…
MobileNews

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip has a 180-degree hinge and begins shipping on February 14

Uncontented with one foldable phone, Samsung’s trying its hand at another — this with a flip design as opposed to the Galaxy Fold’s clamshell style. Today at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, the company announced the Galaxy Z Flip, a handset with an outward-facing display that unfurls to reveal a bendable panel within. It’s Samsung’s answer to Motorola’s reimagined…
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