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SpaceX is expected to have it first manned launch in May of 2020. This is exciting news as we will be one step closer from being out from under the nose of the Russians in getting astronauts to the ISS. This will be a monumental achievement. It's not yet known if they will be going to the ISS on the
The saga of the JEDI contract continues! In October of 2019, The Department of Defense chose Microsoft over Amazon for its “Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure” project. The contract could be worth as much as $10 billion over a decade. In November of 2019, The Washington Post (which is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon), posted an article stating
The U.S. Department of Justice said that four members of the People's Liberation Army, an arm of the Chinese military, have been charged with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency, and stealing personal information of tens of millions of Americans, according to the Associated Press. This is specifically regarding the data breach that Equifax experienced on
Mike O'Connor bought the domain name corp.com in 1994. He is now interested in selling it, but has concerns that someone working with organized cybercriminals, or state-funded hacking groups, will buy it. If that happens, it could be devastating to corporations failed to update the name of their active directory path. Krebs on Security has a detailed blog about exactly
Vodafone is going to strip Huawei systems out of the core of its European network, according to Financial Times. Doing so will cost €200m as the European telecoms sector moves to adapt to new limits on the use Huawei's equipment. Financial Times reported that Vodofone Chief executive Nick Read said the process would take five years because of the complexity
TechCrunch reported that Facebook has acquired Scape Technologies. The company was founded in 2016 and is located in Shoreditch, London. Scape Technologies is building a cloud-based Vision Engine that allows camera devices to understand their environment, using computer vision. Rather than relying on 3D maps built and stored locally, Scape's Vision Engine builds and references 3D maps in the cloud,
TechCrunch reported that Instagram confirmed that it has internally prototyped an Instagram Partner Program that would let creators earn money by showing advertisements along with their videos. The goals seems to be to entice creators to put their videos on IGTV in the hopes of being able to earn money. It sounds like Instagram is hoping the potential for earning
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided not to reconsider an October ruling that upheld the repeal of net neutrality rules. The court declined without comment. Personally, I think the court's lack of explanation as to why they chose to ignore the request from 15 states and several advocacy groups – is cowardly. According to
One million dollars and SpaceX will launch 440 kilograms into space. This is down 1 million dollars and now can be all scheduled online and of course, they take American Express. Lot's of great news stories today that you will want to tune into the show for. I also talk about my schedule over the next couple of weeks. Lots
In a press release posted today, Huawei announced that it filed patent infringement lawsuits against Verizon in the District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Huawei is seeking compensation for Verizon's use of patented technology that is protected by 12 of Huawei's US patents. “Verizon's products and services have benefited from patented technology that Huawei developed over
Google announced on their Chromium Blog that they have been working on a common complaint among Chrome users: annoying, intrusive ads. In 2018, they started removing the ads from websites that continually show intrusive ads that violate industry standards. Google also updated their own advertising to ensure they are not selling or serving the kind of ads that users find
I find it absolutely fascinating that the Iowa caucuses, which run on paper, had problems due to the failure of the app the Iowa Democratic Party selected. CNBC described the situation as representing “one of the most stunning failures of information security ever". The Iowa caucuses have always been as low-tech as one could possibly get. People physically stand in
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