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Review: TaoTronics’ $70 headphones deliver decent entry level noise-cancelling performance

Jul18
by on July 18, 2018 at 8:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets


The lower end of the audio market is extremely crowded, as a legion of anonymous Chinese brands pump out near-identical headsets by the thousands, and flog them on marketplaces like Amazon. TaoTronics isn’t one of them. It belongs to the same company that owns RavPower (who make fairly solid portable chargers), and Vava (which produces a line of commendably-decent speakers and “gaming” headphones). Although it doesn’t have the same brand value as Anker, it’s one of those rising tech companies worth paying attention to. I got the chance to review TaoTronics’ latest pair of affordable noise-cancelling headphones — the snappily-named…

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Survey: 45% of security professionals reuse the same password

Jul18
by on July 18, 2018 at 8:29 am
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There’s a saying — “practice what you preach.” If you give advice, make sure it’s something you follow personally. Turns out, some security pros aren’t doing that. A survey of 306 infosec professionals at London’s Infosecurity Conference 2008 from Lastline showed that 45 percent commit one of the biggest security cardinal sins — reusing passwords across accounts. I don’t really have to explain why this is bad. If you use the same credentials across multiple different services and just one of them is compromised, the attacker can gain access to all of them. Now, there’s a caveat here. There’s no…

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DeepMind, Skype, and Tesla founders pledge never to build killer robots

Jul18
by on July 18, 2018 at 7:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


2,400 researchers and more than 100 tech organizations from around the world called for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapons, and pledged not to manufacture them, in a letter published by Stockholm’s Future of Life Institute. We, the undersigned, call upon governments and government leaders to create a future with strong international norms, regulations and laws against lethal autonomous weapons. These currently being absent, we opt to hold ourselves to a high standard: we will neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons. We ask that technology companies and organizations, as well…

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