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Museums shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic are facing an existential crisis, seeing their revenue disappear as otherwise supportive patrons are forced to stay at home. Today, Verizon announced two initiatives to reimagine museum exhibits for the “new norm.” The first offers augmented reality versions of artifacts currently found in Smithsonian museums, while the second focuses …

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Thousands of SonicWall VPN devices have a serious vulnerability triggering DoS attacks. While the patch is out, users must ensure updating their devices at their earliest convenience. SonicWall VPN DoS Vulnerability A critical severity bug existed in the SonicOS. The vulnerability first caught the attention of Craig Young from Tripwire who has elaborated on the …

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Safe In Our World has launched a charity game bundle with the goal of providing free mental health resources for gamers and game industry professionals. The London-based charity is selling its Safe In Our World 1st Anniversary Charity Game Bundle for $5. Players will get seven games, each with a relatable message about mental health. …

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Amazon’s Alexa is getting better at recognizing who’s speaking and what they’re speaking about, understanding words through on-device techniques, and leveraging models trained without needing human review. That’s according to automatic speech recognition head Shehzad Mevawalla, who spoke with VentureBeat ahead of a keynote address at this year’s Interspeech conference. Alexa is now running “full-capability” …

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