Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

More than four out of five consumers agree that high-value content -- detailed descriptions, multiple images and videos, and customer reviews -- is more important to them when they're making a purchasing decision than brand recognition, according to the 2025 Omnichannel Shopping Benchmarks report by product experience management solutions provider Syndigo...

As the Trump Administration mulls slapping tariffs on foreign robotics, it's being warned that such a move could disrupt efforts to revive manufacturing in the United States The U.S. Commerce Department has begun collecting comments in an investigation authorized by section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows the agency to impose t...

AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and Brave's Leo, can offer conveniences not found in conventional browsers, but they also pose potentially higher risks "The ability to quickly gather and summarize available information without having to invest hours of clicking and reading is incredibly valuable," observed Andy Bennett, CISO of Apollo Informat...

Corporate real estate firms are enthusiastically embracing artificial intelligence, but few are achieving the goals they expected from the technology, according to the results of a survey of more than 1,000 real estate leaders across 16 global markets The number of companies running corporate real estate (CRE) AI pilots has exploded from 5% to 92% ...

A call to disrupt the People's Republic of China's economic espionage campaign against the United States was sounded in a new report by a Washington, D.C., technology think tank "China’s campaign of economic espionage against the United States spans cyber intrusions, insider theft, and technology transfer disguised as collaboration," declared the...

Enterprises are overestimating the reliability of their cloud providers and need to rethink their cloud strategy, according to Sam Barker, vice president of telecoms market research at Juniper Research He maintained in a company blog that enterprises over-rely on a single provider for their cloud services, although that may change in the wake of th...

Shoppers will be looking for year-end deals like they always do as the holidays approach, but more of them will be using artificial intelligence to do it, according to a report released Monday by the global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI have become practical shopping aids...

Criminals are monetizing stolen identities at higher rates and stealing larger sums, while more victims report severe emotional distress, including self-harm Those are the findings of the 2025 Consumer Impact Report, prepared by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit organization founded to provide identity theft victim assistance a...

One of the main obstacles to bringing a commercial quantum computer to market is reducing qubit error rates, the analog of bit error rates in the digital world. IBM has reportedly made an advancement in the space by running its advanced error-correction algorithm on off-the-shelf AMD hardware In a paper submitted Friday to arXiv, IBM researchers re...

The electric vehicle market is headed toward a "recalibration" in 2026, according to the tech analysis site TechSpot "The global electric vehicle market is facing an unexpected reckoning," wrote Skye Jacobs for TechSpot. "Once hailed as the future of transportation, battery-powered cars are now rapidly losing value, eroding the finances of private ...

New research by NewsGuard has revealed that the latest version of OpenAI's video creation tool Sora 2 can be prompted to advance false or misleading information 80% of the time NewsGuard, which rates the credibility of news and information websites, maintained that its findings demonstrate the ease with which bad actors can weaponize the powerful n...

Ad spending growth trends were mixed across the largest U.S. digital ad platforms in Q3, while pricing growth was weak, according to a report released today by an independent performance marketing firm While all but Facebook saw stronger volume growth in the quarter, only Instagram, with a 21% year-over-year increase, and YouTube, with a 12% jump, ...

Identity-related system breaches are on the rise, and organizational help desks are emerging as a popular target for threat actors, according to a new report by RSA The report, based on a global survey of 2,100 cybersecurity, identity, access management, and IT professionals, found that more than two-thirds of the organizations participating in the...

Security leaders facing workforce shortages are turning to artificial intelligence to close the skills gaps in their organizations, according to survey results released today by a global cybersecurity company Some 97% of 1,850 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers across 29 countries reported using or planning to use a cybersecurity solution that le...

Some 41% of schools in the United States and the United Kingdom have experienced AI-related cyber incidents, ranging from phishing campaigns to harmful student-generated content, according to a recently released study from a systems identity and access management firm Among the 41% of schools experiencing an AI-related cyber incident, 11% reported ...

Cybersecurity researchers revealed Tuesday how artificial intelligence can be used to clone a person's voice in real time to mount voice phishing attacks on unsuspecting organizations Researchers from the NCC Group noted in a company blog that they launched attacks using real-time voice cloning against real organizations and successfully recovered ...

New parental controls for one of the most popular generative AI chatbots on the web were rolled out Monday by OpenAI The company announced that controls for ChatGPT will be available to all users of the chatbot, allowing parents to link their account with their teen’s account and customize settings for a safe, age-appropriate experience....

The takedown of a massive outlaw telecom network in the New York City metro area by the U.S. Secret Service has raised concerns about the security of the nation's mobile infrastructure The Secret Service announced Tuesday that it had dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct m...

A new rule by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at contractors doing business with the agency could spawn more whistleblowers in the military-industrial complex The rule, set to take effect Nov. 10, governs the agency’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program, which verifies that defense cont...

A technology leap comparable to the jump from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits has been achieved with the delivery of the first full-stack quantum computer built using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process Quantum Motion (QM), maker of the computer, announced Monday that the hardware, which uses mass-manufacturable 300mm silicon CMOS ...