Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

A cocktail of increased supply, slowing demand and added capacity is bringing down the price of graphics chips. It could also signal the beginning of the end of the semiconductor shortage that's been plaguing the world since the start of the Covid pandemic The decline in graphics chip prices is a simple case of supply and demand, according to Jack ...

The content of large tech companies, like Google and Meta, will be more tightly regulated under a new European Union law that received provisional approval Saturday Among the provisions of the Digital Services Act approved in an agreement between the European Council and European Parliament are transparency measures on the algorithms used by online...

A company with a promising technology to fight plagiarism announced Tuesday that it has received US$6 million in venture capital to expand its efforts to expose cribbers Copyleaks, which has offices in Tel Aviv and Stamford, Conn., uses artificial intelligence to identify similarities and understand the meaning of textual content. In addition to fl...

Research released Monday by a cybersecurity services provider reveals how widespread the risks are to executives and the organizations they ramrod from data brokers collecting sensitive data about them The provider, BlackCloak, published in a blog the results of an analysis of 750 of its customers, most of them executives and board members at Fortu...

Increases in B2B fraud, cyber insurance complacency, and governance gaps in the work-from-anywhere model are among the top cybersecurity threats faced by businesses in 2022, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester On the B2B fraud front, the company noted that fraudsters are increasingly not just impersonating people but creating shell ...

Worldwide PC shipments declined during the first quarter of 2022, but revenues, fueled by enterprise desktop sales, increased during the period Despite the first decline in PC shipments since 2020, computer revenues increased 15% during Q1 of 2022, according to global market research company Canalys....

Nothing strikes fear into a cryptocurrency trader like being forcibly disconnected from the cloud. Technology downtime insurance provider Parametrix would like to make traders less fearful The insurer announced Tuesday that it's offering cloud downtime insurance for crypto companies. If a crypto exchange, wallet, DeFi or platform becomes inaccessib...

Delivery drones will be buzzing the Texas skies beginning Thursday, April 7 Wing, which is operated by Google’s parent company Alphabet, on Monday in a company blog written by CEO Adam Woodworth announced the launch of the first commercial drone delivery service in a major U.S. metropolitan area....

Parents looking for a richer experience for their kids when they get together with relatives on a video link may find it in a device Amazon started selling Tuesday Called Glow, the appliance combines video calling and interactive activities like gaming, drawing and reading into a single device....

Security-minded internet users looking for another layer of obscurity when traveling in cyberspace can have it with some new tech announced Monday by Atlas VPN The paid VPN service has introduced a new way to route internet traffic, called MultiHop+, that's more secure and private than conventional methods. It does that by allowing users to connect...

Automation will claim more than 11 million U.S. jobs over the next decade, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester That's the bad news. The good news is that at the same time automation will create 9.63 million new jobs, for a net job loss for the period of 1.42 million jobs....

A move by Equifax to enable buy now, pay later (BNPL) vendors to report their customers' "pay-in-four" loans to the credit rating agency could dampen consumer enthusiasm for the popular payment method "Any added friction during checkout will impact the popularity of a payment option among consumers, and this is a pretty big one," observed Donny Ouy...

During the first two years of the global pandemic, U.S. consumers spent US$1.7 trillion online, $609 billion more than the previous two years, according to an economic report released Tuesday by Adobe More spending is to come in 2022, with Adobe forecasting shoppers will spend more than $1 trillion online for the first time....

A password manager maker is trying to encourage software developers to adopt more secure secrets management with some new features added to its flagship product Launched under the name Developer Tools, 1Password declared the new features will help developers easily and securely generate, manage, and access secrets in their normal workflows....

Apple refreshed its iPhone SE and iPad Air models and introduced a new desktop at an online event Tuesday The new iPhone SE, which will sell for US$429, sports a new processor, the A15 chip, and supports 5G....

A trio of major cybersecurity companies on Monday announced that they're offering free cybersecurity services and support to vulnerable industries for four months Under the new Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, companies in particularly vulnerable industries -- such as hospitals and water and power utilities -- will have access to the full s...

Technology to reduce road deaths to zero is at hand, according to research results released Tuesday by a developer of autonomous sensing platforms The research report by Neural Propulsion Systems, of Pleasanton, Calif., found that sensors needed to eliminate roadway deaths need to process data at a peak rate of 100 terabits per second, or 10 times ...

Facebook, Twitter, and Google have made moves to prevent their platforms from being weaponized by purveyors of misinformation about the crisis in Ukraine Meta, Facebook's parent company, has announced a new special operations center staffed by experts, including native Russian and Ukrainian speakers, to monitor the social network 24/7 to respond to...

Apple's Safari browser may want to heed this bit of wisdom from Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you." That something is Microsoft Edge According to the latest numbers from browser market watcher Statcounter, Edge, with a 9.54 percent global desktop market share, is breathing down the neck of Safari, which owns 9.84 perc...

Despite the best efforts by law enforcement, data leaks related to ransomware climbed 82 percent in 2021 over the previous year, according to the 2022 CrowdStrike Global Threat report released Tuesday In 2021, the report identified 2,686 attacks, compared to 1,474 in the previous year....