Report: payment card details of 3M+ Dickey's Barbecue Pit customers, stolen in a POS breach between July 2019 and Aug. 2020, were posted on a fraud marketplace — Dickey's Barbecue Pit, the largest barbecue restaurant chain in the US, suffered a POS breach between July 2019 and August 2020.
Sony just announced a $5,000 3D display, but odds are it’s probably not for you. Primarily known for its consumer goods, the company is targeting creative professionals with the Spatial Reality Display — more specifically, those working in fields like computer graphics and visual effects for films. Basically it’s a way for artists to view their 3D creations without having to wear a VR headset.
The company’s not the first to offer up this kind of technology for a fairly niche audience. The Looking Glass display is probably the best-known offering in the space up to this point. But unlike that massive 8K screen, Sony’s product is actually designed for a single user — specifically as a screen for their desktop PC. Also, it kind of looks like an Amazon Echo Show.
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The big differentiator between the product and existing devices is the inclusion of a sensor that determines the user’s viewing position, including vertical and horizontal access, along with distance, and tailors the image to that specific angle, adjusting within the millisecond.
Sony says it’s a “highly-realistic, virtual environment.” It showed off an earlier version of the technology at CES this year, using a rendering of the Ecto-1 from the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel, and planned to give the press a demo of the final version of the screen, but we all had to settle for conference calls instead, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For that reason, I can’t really speak to the efficacy of the 3D imaging as of this writing.
The company consulted with its Sony Pictures wing, which used the technology for the development of CG effects for the aforementioned Ghostbusters film. Volkswagen has also been involved since the project’s early stages, looking toward the technology’s potential use in the ideation and design processes.
For everyone else, the display goes up for sale through Sony next month.
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FOSSA, which helps companies manage open source code use at scale, has raised $23.2M Series B led by Bain, Canvas, and Costanoa, bringing total raised to $35M — If your organization develops software, you're probably using a lot of open-source code — whether you know it or not.
Enlarge / Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. (credit: Kyle Grillot | Getty Images)
Google-owned YouTube has become the latest social media platform to crack down on the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon ahead of November’s US election, but stopped short of a full ban on the rapidly spreading movement.
In a blog post on Thursday, the video platform said that it would “prohibit content that targets an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence,” citing QAnon and related conspiracy theory Pizzagate.
The social media group also said that it had removed “tens of thousands” of videos and “hundreds of channels” related to QAnon, whose members believe US president Donald Trump is under threat from a Satanic “deep state” cabal of Democrats and Hollywood celebrities involved in child trafficking.
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The FAA has published its updated rules for commercial space launches and reentries, streamlining and modernizing the large and complicated set of regulations. With rockets launching in greater numbers and variety, and from more providers, it makes sense to get a bit of the red tape out of the way.
The rules provide for licensing of rocket launch operators and approval of individual launches and reentry plans, among other things. As you can imagine, such rules must be complex in the first place, more so when they’ve been assembled piecemeal for years to accommodate a quickly moving industry.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao called the revisions a “historic, comprehensive update.” They consolidate four sets of regulations and unify licensing and safety rules under a single umbrella, while allowing flexibility for different types of operators or operations.
According to a press release from the FAA, the new rules allow:
In speaking with leaders in the commercial space industry, a common theme is the burden of regulation. Any reform that simplifies and unifies will likely be welcomed by the community.
The actual regulations are hundreds of pages long, so it’s still hardly a simple task to get a license and start launching rockets. But at least it isn’t several sets of 500-page documents that you have to accommodate simultaneously.
The new rules have been submitted for entry in the Federal Register, and will take effect 90 days after that happens. In addition, the FAA will be putting out Advisory Circulars for public comment — additions and elaborations on the rules that the agency says there may be as many as two dozen of in the next year. You can keep up with those here.
Google says Duplex has completed 1M+ bookings, from restaurant reservations to movie tickets, since launch and is piloting shopping and food ordering tasks — Google today offered an update on the status of Duplex, its A.I. technology that uses natural conversations to get things done …
Xiaomi Mi 10T series is set to launch later today in India. The Mi 10T series was confirmed to launch in India on October 15 after a series of high-profile launches by companies like Apple and OnePlus earlier this week. The Mi 10T follows the Mi 9T series from 2019 and there are three phones in the lineup, the Mi 10T, Mi 10T Lite and Mi 10T Pro.
Xiaomi has scheduled the Mi 10T launch event starting 12 PM on October 15 in India. The Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro are packed with flagship hardware and high-refresh-rate displays. The company accidentally revealed the pricing of the Mi 10T Pro on its website and it's likely that the phone is priced at Rs 44,999 at launch.
How to watch Xiaomi Mi 10T series launch event online?Xiaomi has scheduled the Mi 10T series launch event from 12 PM IST on October 15 in India. The launch event will be live-streamed online and you can watch it by tuning into the YouTube live stream.
We have embedded the live stream link below for your convenience and you can enable the reminder to alert you for when the Mi10T series launch event kicks off.
What to expect from the Mi 10T launch on October 15?
Xiaomi Mi 10T series made its global debut in September so everything about the phones is known, except the Indian prices. Xiaomi Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro feature a 6.67-inch Full HD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution display with a punch-hole cutout for the selfie camera up front. The screen supports 144Hz high refresh rate and is HDR10+ certified as well. The display is also topped by a layer of Gorilla Glass 5 as is the back panel. The phone is made using an aluminium frame and measures 9.3 millimetres in thickness. The Mi 10T weighs 216 grams while the Mi 10T Pro weighs 218 grams.
The Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor with an octa-core CPU and Adreno 650 GPU. This is paired with upto 8GB RAM and upto 256GB storage options to choose from. The phones run on MIUI 12 based on Android 10, out-of-the-box.
Both the Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro come with a triple camera setup but the primary camera on the Mi 10T uses a 64MP sensor while the Mi 10T Pro uses a 108MP primary camera. There is a 13MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 123-degree field-of-view and a 5MP depth sensor on the Mi 10T and 10T Pro. The rear cameras are capable of recording 8K UHD videos at 30FPS and 4K UHD at upto 60FPS. On the front, there is a 20MP selfie camera housed within the punch-hole cutout.
The Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro have a side-mounted fingerprint reader and the phones come equipped with a 5,000mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging out-of-the-box. Xiaomi claims that the phone can go from 0-100% in 59 minutes.
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