Red Hat announces updates to the Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat has updated its DevOps Ansible Automation Platform. The added functionality includes a new way to manage automation resources and there is more certified automation content available. In addition, new analytics applications have been added.
Red Hat is providing many of its products with ... Read more
Automation Anywhere lays off 10% of staff because of coronavirus
Startup Automation Anywhere laid off hundreds of employees after the demand for its products dropped.
According to Axios, up to 10 percent of the workforce could be affected by the layoffs. The company said it was adapting to the increased demand for cloud services. This demand arose after peopl... Read more
Microsoft: Thunderbolt 3 not safe enough for Surface products
Microsoft's Surface products are being equipped with USB C connectors more often, but support for Thunderbolt 3 is still lacking. According to an employee of the tech giant due to a security risk that Thunderbolt 3 poses. A leaked video with the Windows employee also states that the inability to up... Read more
Facebook takes on Zoom with new Messenger Rooms
Facebook announced its new video conferencing tool called Messenger Rooms. With the move to videoconferencing, the company hopes to attract more users to Facebook at a time when people are using other tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams a lot.
Messenger Rooms supports video calls up to 50 par... Read more
300 million daily Zoom users, new vulnerabilities discovered
Videoconferencingapp Zoom reached more than three hundred million daily users according to CEO Eric Yuan. For Zoom this is all-time high and fifty percent more users since the beginning of this month. At the same time, yet another security breach was discovered.
Since the outbreak of the corona... Read more
Google Meet update introduces new layout and low-light mode
Google adds four new features to Meet, which, according to Google, are the most requested by users. The new features include a tile format, a high-quality video sharing option, a low-light mode and noise reduction.
With the new tiled layout, users of the web version can see sixteen callers at on... Read more
Apple plans on selling Macs in 2021 with own chips
Apple plans to release Macs with Apple's own CPUs and GPUs in 2021. The chips developed by the company are codenamed Kalamata, according to a new report from Bloomberg that cites sources close to Apple.
The sources say that Apple is working on three different SoCs for Macs. These chips will all ... Read more
Apple and Google’s contact tracing API to be released next week
The first version of Apple and Google's API to trace possible contact with people infected by the coronavirus should be available next week. This emerged from a conversation between Apple CEO Tim Cook and Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market.
Breton shared a photo of his... Read more
Samsung claims the top position in granted 5G patents
Samsung has the highest number of patents granted for 5G. This is concluded by a German study.
The South Korean tech giant has the highest number of 5G-related granted patents with 1728. These results are from a joint study carried out in January by the Technical University of Berlin and the res... Read more
Zoom rolls out version 5.0 with enhanced security for users
Chat application Zoom announces the rollout of version 5.0. The new version should improve user security and prevent a new way of trolling on the videoconference tool.
At the beginning of April, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan announced a 90-day feature freeze to solely focus on improving the security and th... Read more