November 7, 2024

Hardware

Sinister SteelFox Malware Uses A Sly Trick To Take Over Your Windows PC

Security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered malware, dubbed SteelFox, which has been spreading “via forums posts, torrent trackers and blogs” since February of last year. It’s a potent piece of malicious software that attackers can use to extract a whole host of data from a victim’s computer, and can even enable the mining of cryptocurrency. SteelFox spreads by masquerading as a cracking application, which is used to unlock access to software that normally needs to

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Hardware

Kia’s Latest EV Concept Is A Modular Van Built For Offroad Glamping Adventures

Kia is back at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas with a couple of EV concepts—one is a modular campervan for go-green adventurers, while the other is an toughened version of the EV9 SUV. If the North Korean automaker has anything to say about it, at least one of these cars may make their way to a showroom near you as soon as late 2025. Kia EV9 ADVNTR concept At the

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Hardware

Join Us For An Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S Deep Dive Discussion With Intel!

Want to know more about Intel’s newest chip architecture for the desktop, Arrow Lake? Then be sure to join us tomorrow, 11/8/24, at 2:00 PM ET for a LIVE discussion with Intel’s VP and GM, Client AI & Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock. We’re going to geek out with Hallock on a deep dive discussion of Intel’s Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake desktop processors and platforms. This is your chance to gain some interesting insight from

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Hardware

ASUS unveils TUF Gaming A2 SSD enclosure: up to 20Gbps speeds over USB-C for all devices

TL;DR: ASUS has launched the TUF Gaming A2 SSD enclosure, supporting up to 4TB SSDs with 20Gbps data transfer via USB-C 3.2 Gen 2×2. It features a rugged design with high-grade silicon rubber for shock absorption, meets MIL-STD-810H standards, and has IP67 water and dust resistance. ASUS has just launched its new TUF Gaming A2 SSD enclosure, which can take 4TB SSDs and handle up to 20Gbps of bandwidth through USB-C. Check it out: VIEW

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AR/VR

Potential Impacts of a Trump Presidency on the Web3 Gaming Industry

The Trump election victory has caused a stir across many industries, and Web3 is no exception. With a history of policy changes and evolving views on digital assets, a Trump presidency could have a big impact on Web3 gaming, which is the epicenter of innovation, community building and digital ownership. Trump’s Web3 views Donald Trump’s views on Web3 have changed. Back in 2021, he initially called Bitcoin a “scam” and worried about it disrupting the

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AI

Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) in Computer Vision

An explanation and implementation of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) (feature extraction algorithm ) for object detection and recognition tasks Mohamad Hamza · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 2 days ago — Introduction Histogram of Oriented Gradients was first introduced by Navneet Dalal and Bill Trigs in their CVPR paper [“Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection”] There are many different algorithms for feature extraction, depending on the type

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