Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

Garmin on Monday confirmed that many of its online services have been disrupted by a cyberattack on its systems that occurred on July 23, 2020 Services disrupted by the attack, which encrypted data on the systems, included website functions, customer support, customer facing applications, and company communications, the company noted in a statemen...

Consumer interest in cloud gaming could boost annual subscription revenues to nearly US$3 billion, a consumer research firm reported Tuesday According to Parks Associates, 30 percent of U.S. broadband households say they're interested in services that can deliver a Netflix experience for gaming. There is renewed interest, the research firm's report...

Windows 10X began as a streamlined operating system for the Surface Neo, a premium mobile device with two screens that opened like a book. Now Microsoft seems poised to use the OS to power laptop competitors to Google's highly successful Chromebook portables According to Zac Bowden, writing for Windows Central, a significant feature has been remove...

Although many people haven't wrapped their minds around 5G mobile technology yet, Samsung has already started talking about 6G In a report released Tuesday, the South Korean electronics giant reveals its 6G vision of the future, including technical and societal megatrends, new services, requirements, candidate technologies, and an expected timeline...

Advertising for software and hardware designed to stalk and spy on people will soon be banned on Google Promotion of products or services that are marketed or targeted with the express purpose of tracking or monitoring another person or their activities without their authorization will be prohibited on the platform starting Aug. 11, the company, wh...

Nintendo is retreating from the booming mobile games market, Bloomberg reported Sunday The maker of the Switch and Switch Lite game systems has become disenchanted with the mobile market, Bloomberg noted, as sales of three out of four of its mobile offerings lost money from February to May of this year....

Apple's 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference will probably be known for two things: it was the first time the forum was staged virtually, and it's when Apple announced it would start making Macs based on its own processor designs "Today is a truly historic day for the Mac," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the virtual keynote presentation....

Amazon is rolling out a system that combines artificial intelligence and augmented reality to help workers maintain social distancing in the workplace, the company revealed Tuesday in its Covid-19 blog The new system has been deployed at a handful of Amazon buildings, but the company plans to deploy hundreds of the units in the coming weeks, the gi...

The next generation of Intel mobile processors will include malware protection built into the chip, the company announced Monday The protection, provided by Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET), will first be available in the company's "Tiger Lake" mobile processors, Vice President of Intel's Client Computing Group Tom Garrison reveal...

Apple will announce a new processor for its Mac computer line at its virtual World Wide Developers Conference later this month, Bloomberg reported Tuesday Fulfilling a years-long rumor, the company will begin using an ARM chip based on Apple's A14 processor, which will be featured in the next iPhone....

A browser that has received plaudits for privacy protection has been exposed for redirecting Web searches to make money Brave, a browser with some 15 million monthly users, has been redirecting searches for cryptocurrency companies to links that produce revenue for the browser's owners through advertising affiliate programs....

Some 50 editors working for MSN, Microsoft's news operation, have learned their contracts won't be renewed and their jobs will be performed by artificial intelligence software, according to multiple news reports The contractors hired through staffing agencies Aquent, IFG and MAQ Consulting were notified May 27 that their services would not be neede...

A new virtual reality headset designed for mobility will serve as an entry point into a new virtual world, its maker announced Tuesday The US$599 Mova headset from XRSpace, founded by former HTC chief Peter Chou, will support 5G and be the exclusive on-ramp to Manova, a social reality platform that aims to defy the boundaries of space and time to b...

Apple may launch an augmented reality line of smart glasses in the spring of 2021, according to Jon Prosser, host of the video blog Front Page Tech The new peepers will be called "Apple Glass" and sell for US$499, with prescription lenses costing more, Prosser claimed....

Apple on Sunday said it has reopened nearly 100 of its retail outlets around the world The company will be opening an additional 25 stores in the United States and 12 more in Canada this week, according to a Bloomberg report....

Microsoft and Intel researchers have found a way to combine artificial intelligence and image analysis to create a highly effective means to combat malicious software infections The researchers call their approach "STAMINA" -- static malware-as-image network analysis -- and say it's proven to be highly effective in detecting malware with a low rate...

The next generation of Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets is in the works, but pandemic-related product development and supply chain problems may delay market arrival Oculus, which is a division of Facebook, has multiple potential Quest successors on the drawing board, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Smaller, lighter versions with a faster image ref...

The United Kingdom's plans to launch a smartphone application to track potential COVID-19 infections won't include Apple and Google The country's National Health Service has designed its own mobile software to do contact tracing of people exposed to the coronavirus, the BBC reported Monday.

With measures to stem the spread of COVID-19 putting a chokehold on their filming capabilities, advertising agencies are enhancing old content with new tech, including deepfakes Deepfakes typically blend one person's likeness, or parts thereof, with the image of another person. For example, a recent commercial for State Farm insurance blended the m...

Cuffless blood pressure measuring is coming to the Android world. Samsung on Tuesday announced that South Korean authorities have approved its Health Monitor app for use on the Galaxy Watch Active2. The app will be available in the third quarter of this year High blood pressure has been associated with increased risk of brain, kidney and heart prob...