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While using FaceApp to age your photos may be fun, you could be giving up your privacy by doing so. Some privacy and security experts have expressed concerns that users granting the St. Petersburg, Russia-based FaceApp access to photos on their smartphones is a grand giveaway of privacy and personal information. For more, check out…

Microsoft’s new OneDrive Personal Vault is designed to bring added security to your most important files. Additionally, OneDrive is getting additional storage options. Personal Vault is a protected area in OneDrive that you can only access with a strong authentication method or a second step of identity verification, such as your fingerprint, face, PIN, or…

Intel’s Pohoiki Beach, a 64-Chip Neuromorphic System processes data like a biological brain by simulating a whole network of neurons. Intel announced that an 8 million-neuron neuromorphic system comprising 64 Loihi research chips — codenamed Pohoiki Beach — is now available to the broader research community. With Pohoiki Beach, researchers can experiment with Intel’s brain-inspired…

Believe it or not, add-in sound cards are still around. Creative Technology launched their most advanced PCI-e sound cards ever – the Sound Blaster AE-9 and Sound Blaster AE-7. Sound Blaster AE-9 is Creative’s flagship PCI-e sound card, and it more than delivers on its promise to gratify the needs of pro-gamers and pro-audio users….

FORM is sorta like Google Glass, but for swimming. On Tuesday, the Vancouver-based startup FORM unveiled a pair of premium swim goggles that have AR integrated into the lens and an onboard computer that uses artificial intelligence to track metrics. For more, check out this USA Today story.

Getting settled into my new digs. Might take a little longer to get things up and running.

Underneath the salty waters of the North Atlantic ocean, geologists have discovered a giant aquifer of freshwater, hidden from view just off the US coast. For more, check out this Science Alert story.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I am in the process of changing jobs so things will be a little hit or miss until it settles down.

The Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. is considering a requirement that next-generation 5G cellular tech be made outside of China. The shift could force telecom giants like Nokia and Ericsson to move production outside of China in order to continue providing equipment to the U.S., the world’s largest market for telecom equipment and services,…

Flying car startups are aiming to begin test flights as early as next year. As Uber forges ahead with plans for a flying taxi service in 2023, other startups are unveiling futuristic air mobility vehicles, suggesting that a “Jetsons”-like transportation system may be closer than you think. For more, check out this USA Today story.