My wedding ring has been on for more than 28 years and rarely comes off my finger, so the option to wear a ring with amazing technology inside that will capture nearly all of the typical health and wellness data I want to see is exciting. We now have a review unit of the Oura Ring Generation 3 and will be putting it through its paces over the next month as we work on our review....

The new list features considerable changes, including the emergence of Broken Access Control, which moved from fifth on the list to number 1. The organization said 94% of applications have been tested for some form of broken access control, and “the 34 CWEs mapped to Broken Access Control had more occurrences in applications than any other category.” Cryptographic Failures also moved up the list to number 2 due to its connection to sensitive data exposure and system compromise....

That figure includes refugees and asylum seekers. The war in Ukraine played a sizable role. The UN reported more than 5.2 million refugees from Ukraine are present across Europe and estimated a total of 12.3 million people have been displaced to date. When people flee violence, poverty, and oppression, technology can help ease their resettlement and the new challenges of displacement. Language barriers are among those challenges. The ability to communicate in the local language can connect people in need with legal aid, education, and healthcare and help build trust and essential community connections....

Google last week started testing passkey support in Chrome and Android via the FIDO Alliance, the group behind passwordless sign-ins that use a smartphone’s sensors for biometric authentication. Apple in June announced passkey support for iOS and macOS using Face ID and Touch ID for logging into apps and websites. Passkeys are another step forwards. Google said passkeys are much safer than passwords since they can’t be reused and don’t leak in server breaches....

Shipments by Lenovo, HP, Dell and Asus were all down for the quarter. Apple’s share of the PC market, which includes desktops, notebooks and workstations, is now 13.5%, up from 8.2% in the same quarter a year ago, leaving Apple as the only vendor with growing shipments – up 40% on the same time last year. In a nutshell, high-end PCs are selling well as consumer and education sales have slowed....

The app offers students multiple buying options for text books that Pearson said are a more “budget friendly way to access e-books and study tools.” During a press conference, Pearson representatives called the app the “first of its kind” and said it will “fundamentally change the way students access and experience college textbooks.” Pearson’s library of more than 1,500 eTexts will be available to users with monthly and pay-as-you-go options resembling other content subscriptions....

Also: The best soundbars While the Philips Fidelio FB1 soundbar produces dynamic sound, it lacks that “oomph” one might expect from an $800 soundbar. It still has all the bells and whistles an audiophile or soundbar enthusiast might want or really appreciate if they wish to fine-tune their listening experience, but for the average person, you can buy just as good of a soundbar for half, even a quarter, of the price....

One case in point: Investigative clinical trial research. It’s through clinical trials that vaccines are discovered, better health practices are adopted, lives are saved, and livelihoods are improved. Virtual clinical trials involve conducting experimental research with human volunteers on potentially life-saving treatments, but outside of physical research facilities. Now that a great many more people are working from home, perhaps that same connection could be leveraged to help people live longer while they’re at it....

I’ve combed through plenty of portable power banks during the holidays, and Anker’s has enough juice to keep my gear running for hours without needing to find a plug-in. It offers 24,000mAh power, and it can fully charge an iPhone up to 13 times, or an iPad Pro 1.3 times. While it may be a larger power bank, the design features an LED interface where I can see exactly how much charge time I have left on the bank....

This is a normal process for tech companies, so knowing ahead of time helps for two reasons: you can avoid buying products that will discontinued, and you will be aware if your own devices are headed for end-of-life. See also: Don’t waste your money on these Apple products: January 2022 edition A good way to predict what will be discontinued in 2022 is to look at what was discontinued in 2021....

Recently, I had the opportunity to spend time with Katie McNamara, Chief Strategy and Customer Officer with Super Retail Group, and hear about how her organization, with 670+ stores across Australia and New Zealand, was faring through the pandemic – a crisis for bricks and mortar non-essential retail. It’s a story of resilience against an array of disruptors beyond the pandemic.“People use the word ‘unprecedented’ a lot,” McNamara told me....

The space-based cameras were developed by the university’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), as part of a joint initiative between the two organisations called Project Falcon Neuro. The sensor cameras were designed for earth observation and to analyse atmospheric events such as sprites, which are large electrical charges caused from thunderstorms. According to ICNS lead research associate Professor Gregory Cohen, the cameras operate more like a biological eye than conventional cameras....

This sector is set to become so significant that Australia’s chief scientist Dr Cathy Foley recently told the audience of the virtual Collaborate Innovation 2021 event that it’s one industry the country needs to prioritise to remain globally competitive. “This is an area that will have a massive impact,” she said. In wanting to take advantage of this burgeoning sector, Australia’s Department of Defence has been taking steps to explore ways it can leverage quantum technology, not only for warfare but other areas too....

On the hardware side of things, as promised, I’ve swapped out the original whip antenna for a much larger 1090MHz antenna. While the antenna is technically designed for the top of a pole, I’m not planning on drilling holes in my roof, so it’s instead duct-taped to the inside of a window at the back of my home, facing roughly north. It certainly has made a big difference, almost doubling range and improving reception for local traffic, including the helicopters up and down the river....

“[We’re] using a rule-based system where we can enhance irregular patterns in the data that we’re seeing and quickly move them through a modelling process into investigation for fraud and compliance,” Scott Johnston, Revenue NSW deputy secretary and State Revenue chief commissioner, told the audience at the 2021 digital.NSW event. “A quarter of a million businesses received grants through this process. We can’t look at all of them. There’s extreme urgency to ensure that people got the money that they needed to but also to do it in the right way, and a lot of responsibility over the next six months and 12 or more will fall on us to effectively drive this this effort....

In a study, the researchers reviewed 50 published randomised controlled trials comprising more than 4,800 patients to assess the quality of evidence and outcomes for robot-assisted open surgery compared with laparoscopy, open surgery, or both. From reviewing those studies, the researchers found a majority of the findings demonstrated there were no clear advantages gained from performing robot-assisted surgeries when looking at intraoperative complications, conversion rates to open surgery, and long-term outcomes despite robot-assisted surgeries often coming with “extreme costs”....

At the start, Red Hat let CentOS be, well, CentOS. But, by 2020, Red Hat put CentOS out to pasture. CentOS Stream, its Red Hat successor, is a rolling release, development distro for RHEL, not a production one. That left a lot of unhappy CentOS users, so Kurtzer started a new RHEL clone and CentOS replacement: Rocky Linux. Now, this Linux distribution is moving to the control of the just launched Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF)....

The company, Scythe Robotics, believes the market conditions are primed to help push a robotic overhaul to a sector that hasn’t had a substantial technology upgrade in the better part of a century. Also: The best robot lawn mowers “We are on a massive trajectory for growth,” said Jack Morrison, co-founder and CEO of Scythe. “In the few short months since we announced our Series A, we have seen interest surpassing what we had imagined with a multi-year pipeline of reservation demand....

The new tools should help marketers address one of their major focal points. According to the State of Marketing survey, Salesforce published earlier this year, engaging with customers in real-time is the No. 2 priority of marketers globally. At the same time, 80% of survey respondents said engaging with customers in real-time is their top challenge. Interaction Studio now offers Templates, giving marketing teams a way to extend personalized messages to customers via ATMs, point-of-sale systems and call centers....

First, Salesforce is offering new Datorama and Tableau Connectors to help companies connect and visualize their commerce and marketing data. By connecting and analyzing this data, they can offer more personalized experiences for customers. These tools should help as browsers continue to limit or completely block the use of third-party cookies, meaning that online advertisers and analytics firms cannot use browser cookie files to track users as they visit different sites....