Software

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In its first big move to expand into a software company, General Motors is introducing a new software platform it created called Ultifi. The automaker will begin putting Ultifi (all-tee-fy) on some internal combustion and electric vehicles starting with the 2023 model year with the hope...

Credit: Florida Institute of Technology New cybersecurity research from Florida Tech has found that the smartphone companion applications of 16 popular smart home devices contain "critical cryptographic flaws" that could allow attackers to intercept and modify their traffic. As Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as connected locks, motion sensors,...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Google is updating critical features for the millions of drivers who depend on its technology to help them get around. The tech giant announced the upcoming changes Thursday to Google Assistant and Android Auto driving modes and a new automaker, Honda, will have Google technology installed...

A United States flag flies over a Ford auto dealership, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Waukee, Iowa. Ford says it is starting to send out over-the-internet software updates to some of its newer models as it moves to offer technology to match electric car maker Tesla. At present the updates...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain As drivers line up at gas stations on the East Coast in the aftermath of a cyberattack on a vital fuel pipeline, GasBuddy has been a go-to app for finding the nearest spot to fill up. But it appears GasBuddy might be too popular right now....

Figure 1. "Motion in mind" model for different games. The graph depicts various quantities of the model plotted against the difficult of solving uncertainty in a game (m). Representative examples of board games, gambling games, and sports are placed on the graph according to their inherent characteristics. Credit: Hiroyuki Iida...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually. Internet browser tabs are a major source of friction on the internet. People love them. People hate them. For some users, tabs bring...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The World Video Game Hall of Fame on Thursday inducted the groundbreaking Microsoft Flight Simulator, franchise-inspiring Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? award-winning StarCraft and Animal Crossing, whose popularity has surged during the pandemic. The four games were honored for their influence on popular culture...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States, Microsoft has announced the release of several learning tools designed to support both teachers and students in a hybrid in-person, online educational environment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the company, 82 percent of educators...

Apple mobile iOS. Credit: Unsplash One week after Apple carried out its largest iOS and iPad update since September 2020's version 14.0 release, the company has followed up with a new patch for two zero-day vulnerabilities that let hackers execute malicious code on fully updated devices. Additionally, the new release...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain According to Michael Twidale, professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bad usability can be an irritation for everyone but "especially awful" for the underprivileged. In "Everyone Everywhere: A Distributed and Embedded Paradigm for Usability," which was recently published in...

The research team at National Institute of Informatics developed a technique to search automatically for simulation configurations that test various behaviors of automated driving systems. This research was conducted under ERATO-MMSD project. The proposed technique iterates trials on simulations using an optimization method called evolutionary computation so that it discovers...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft Corp. may revise a program that shares coding flaws in its products with other companies after a suspected leak led to a sprawling cyber-attack against thousands of Microsoft Exchange email clients globally. The technology giant is weighing how and when to share data with at...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you follow Apple, you're aware its latest update delivers significant privacy changes. But what else can you do in iOS 14.5? On Monday, Apple launched the latest version of the operating software that powers iPhones and iPads. The biggest change requires apps to ask your...

MacOS keyboard. Credit: Unsplash.com Lauded for years as the system able to best prevent malware infection, macOS recently fell victim to an operating system vulnerability that hackers used to circumvent all of Apple's system defenses. Security researcher Cedric Owens discovered this bug in March 2021 while assessing Apple's Gatekeeper mechanism,...

This Dec. 16, 2020 file photo shows an illuminated Apple logo at a store in Munich, Germany. Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones to help sell more advertising. The new privacy feature, dubbed "App...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners' knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It's part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it's an unprecedented intrusion that's...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Soccer fans will soon have a big reason to check out Fortnite. Epic Games confirmed soccer star Neymar Jr. will make his debut Tuesday (April 27) in the battle royale video game. Neymar Jr. would be the first sports star featured within the video game.Players will...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain For its next update, the free-to-play game "Call of Duty: Warzone" is going back to the '80s. Publisher Activision unveiled the brand new map for "Warzone," called Verdansk '84, following an event culminating in a modern version of the Verdansk map getting nuked.The transition of Verdansk...

The AirDrop feature on iPhones and MacBook computers has a vulnerability that could be exploited by scammers, a team of researchers say.   Credit: APPLE INC. The AirDrop feature on iPhones and MacBook computers has a vulnerability that could give scammers access to your email and phone number, a team...