Tag: Tech

Bill Gates Picks Wyoming Town to Set Up Experimental Nuclear Reactor

TerraPower, a nuclear power venture founded by Bill Gates, announced Tuesday that it has picked a coal-mining town in Wyoming as the site for building a $4 billion demonstration nuclear plant with partial funding from the U.S. government. TerraPower, along with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, has picked Kemmerer, a remote western Wyoming town for building…


Australia Joins the Quantum Race

As China and the U.S. spearhead the research and development of their own quantum systems, Australia has announced a $111 million plan to secure the development, commercialisation and adoption of the tech across defence, national security, and many other industries. Australia’s quantum leap includes a $70 million Quantum Commercialisation Hub that will facilitate research with…


6 Tips to Secure Mobile Devices in Your Organization

Mobile technology can be an excellent tool for productivity and convenience, but it also poses security threats. So be aware and watchful. Smartphones are all around us, and people use them for work every day. Mobile technology can be an excellent tool for productivity and convenience, but it also poses security threats. CheckPoint’s Mobile Security…


FBI Stonewalling Congress on Kaseya Ransomware Investigation

Lawmakers have received scant information from the FBI about a recent ransomware investigation, with top bureau officials offering few answers about decisions that cost U.S. businesses millions of dollars and produced questionable results. During a Nov. 16 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on ransomware, the FBI was questioned about its handling of the July ransomware…


Get 12 Months of Nationwide Cellular Coverage for Just $85

Andrea Piacquadio via Pexels When it comes to your mobile phone, all that customers want is reliable service without having to pay a huge sum and surprise charges on their monthly bill. That may seem impossible with your current service provider, but that’s exactly what you’ll get with a 12-month, prepaid Economy Plan with Tello….


US Satellite TV Firm Dish Ties up With Cisco to Sell 5G to Businesses

STOCKHOLM—U.S. satellite TV provider Dish, which is racing to build a 5G network in the United States, has linked up with Cisco to sell cloud-powered 5G services to businesses, the companies said on Tuesday. Dish has said building a new network, rather than re-engineering an existing 3G or 4G network, helped keep its costs low…


Global Investors Ending 2021 ‘Risk-On’: BofA

MILAN—Investors are heading towards the end of the year in a “risk-on” mood, having reduced cash allocations and lifted their overweight position on U.S. stocks to the highest since August 2013, BofA Securities’ monthly fund manager survey showed. Inflation remains the biggest tail risk for markets but a majority of 61 percent believes it is…


Google Pledges $1 Billion Into Australian Tech Development

Google will invest AU$1 billion (US$734.2 million) over the next five years into the local Australian technological development industry. The initiative, announced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, will see investment directed into three main areas, including digital infrastructure, namely cloud computing, the tech giant’s first research hub in Australia, and technology partnerships, including working with…


IBM, Amazon Partner to Extend Reach of Data Tools for Oil Companies

International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services said on Monday they would work together to extend the reach of a set of tools that oil companies use to manage disparate types of data. Amazon in 2018 worked with Royal Dutch Shell to create a technology to turn data from more than a…


US to Partner With Israel to Combat Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday it will partner with Israel to combat ransomware, with the two countries launching a joint task force to address cybersecurity. The task force will develop a memorandum of understanding supporting information sharing related to the financial sector, including cybersecurity regulations and threat intelligence, the Treasury Department said. The…