Saudi Arabia attracts $67m investment into its startup ecosystem in 2019
Saudi Arabia has seen an upward trend in the number of deals and total funding over the last five years, with 2019 being a record year.In 2019, Saudi Arabia’s startup...
London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd
Enlarge / Security cameras sit on a pole near the Houses of Parliament in the Westminster district of London, UK, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The Metropolitan Police will be...
Travelex hackers shut down German car parts company Gedia in massive ‘cyber attack’
The criminal group responsible for the cyber attack that has disrupted high-street banks and the foreign currency exchange chain Travelex for more than three weeks has launched what has been...
The best Verizon phones available in January 2020
The best Verizon phones range from top-of-the-line Android and iPhone options to high-value picks that balance capability with affordability. Whether you want the best of the best or the best...
The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office
Enlarge / Stepping outside the Ars Orbiting HQ for a brief moment to take a space selfie.Aurich Lawson / Getty We're running a new series on Ars over the next...
Digital transformation shaking confidence in SD-WAN
A Cato Networks IT survey has found that while software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is set for strong growth in 2020 as buyers migrate from multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) to...
ZombieLoad just won’t die, with Intel forced to push out a third patch
Intel has issued another – third – patch to fix a couple of new variations on the ZombieLoad security flaw which poses a threat to the chip giant’s processors.ZombieLoad is...
DirecTV races to decommission broken Boeing satellite before it explodes
Enlarge / Illustration—not the actual Boeing satellite used by DirecTV.Getty Images | 3DSculptor DirecTV is scrambling to move a broken Boeing satellite out of its standard orbit in order to...
HPE joins Swiss-backed bid to ‘decarbonise’ datacentres across the world
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is lending its support to a datacentre decarbonisation initiative, aimed at encouraging server farm operators worldwide to reduce their energy consumption. The initiative is being led by...
UK Government confirms Huawei 5G role
The UK government has confirmed that Huawei will continue to be allowed to play a role in Britain’s 5G rollout.However the Chinese manufacturer’s equipment will be banned from the sensitive...