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Submission + - How Ultrahuman Smart Ring Tracks Your Metabolic Health (savehealthnow.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ultrahuman smart ring is the world's first with a built-in heart rate sensor, that actually tracks your heart rate, steps taken, and calories burned.

Ultrahuman senses your movements to track everything from the number of steps you take to how many push-ups you do. With just this data alone it can tell how much time you spend at work or how active you are on any given day.

Ultrahuman is the only fitness tracker that can track different active workouts, and this is the most unique aspect of Ultrahuman. It tracks your steps, calories, heart rate, and more to give you a better understanding of what your health clock looks like without any opinion from the doctor.

Submission + - MSG Defends Using Facial Recognition To Kick Lawyer Out of Rockettes Show (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: When Kelly Conlon joined her daughter’s Girl Scout troop for a fun outing to see the Rockettes perform their Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, she had no idea she would end up booted from the show once she entered the building. Security stopped Conlon, NBC New York reported, because she is a New Jersey lawyer. It seems that Madison Square Garden Entertainment has begun using facial recognition technology to identify any visitor to any of its venues—including Radio City Music Hall—who is involved with any law firm that is actively involved in litigation against MSG Entertainment.

Conlon has never practiced law in New York nor personally been involved in litigation against MSG Entertainment. Instead, she is guilty by association, as an associate for Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, which has spent years tangled up in litigation against a restaurant that NBC reported is “now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment.” According to Conlon, she became aware of this supposed conflict of interest when security guards approached her in the Radio City Music Hall lobby just as she passed through the metal detector. Over the speakers, Conlon heard a warning about a woman in a gray scarf, then security confirmed the warning was about her, telling her, “Our recognition picked you up.”

Despite Conlon assuring security that “I’m not an attorney that works on any cases against MSG," she was escorted out. Ars could not immediately reach MSG for comment, but in a statement, MSG said the same thing would’ve happened to any attorney involved in her firm, claiming that her firm had been “notified twice” of MSG’s policy. "MSG instituted a straightforward policy that precludes attorneys pursuing active litigation against the Company from attending events at our venues until that litigation has been resolved,” the statement provided to NBC said. “While we understand this policy is disappointing to some, we cannot ignore the fact that litigation creates an inherently adverse environment.”
Wireless Networking

Delta To Make Its In-Flight Wi-Fi Free (theverge.com) 52

Posted by BeauHD from the coming-to-a-flight-near-you dept.
Delta Air Lines is reportedly planning to make in-flight Wi-Fi free on a "significant portion" of its planes starting early next year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The Verge reports: The company has reportedly been running tests where anyone who's a member of its free-to-join SkyMiles rewards program gets free access to the internet while in the air, but it seems as if that perk may become much more widely available soon. Delta is expected to roll out the free Wi-Fi to an increasing number of planes in its fleet throughout 2023, according to the Journal.

Submission + - Why Does the Beekeeping Boom Concern Beekeepers? (dteklivebeeremoval.com)

Submitted by dteklivebees
dteklivebees writes: Beekeeping has undoubtedly taken off as far as popularity. More people than ever have expressed interest in the hobby, but experts are concerned that misguided novice beekeepers may need to consider all the aspects of this environmental effort.

Submission + - 7 Days Egypt Luxury vacation Package with the Red Sea (egyptunitedtours.com)

Submitted by egyptunitedtours1
egyptunitedtours1 writes: 7 Days Egypt Luxury vacation Package with the Red Sea to the top attractions in Luxor. Karnak Temples and Valley of Kings tours. Enjoy 7 Days Egypt Luxury vacation Package with the Red Sea to Hurghada and Luxor starts by visiting The West Bank of Luxor; You go first to the Valley of the Kings, Queen Hatshepsut Temple at Dair El- Bahari, Colossi of Memnon then; you will visit the East Bank of Luxor which includes Luxor and Karnak temples and the Avenue of Sphinxes. then transfer to enjoy and relax on the red sea.

Submission + - Audi Is Converting All Factories To Produce EVs As It Phases Out Gas Cars (electrek.co)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Audi is preparing to convert its entire network of global production factories to manufacture electric vehicles as it gears up to compete in the auto industry’s future. ;...] Audi announced last year that its last combustion car would roll off the line in 2033 (if they are still around then), launching only electric vehicles from 2026. To better compete in the new EV era and ease the transition, Audi will convert all exiting existing production factories to build electric vehicles by 2029. Audi board member for production and logistics Gerd Walker said, “Step by step, we are bringing all our sites into the future” as the automaker prepares to go all in on electric vehicles.

In a press release Tuesday, Audi presented the “plan for the production of the future,” including converting its network of global factories to produce purely electric vehicles. Walker added: "The path Audi is taking conserves resources and accelerates our transformation to a provider of sustainable premium mobility. Rather than building new facilities like some competitors, Audi will work to incorporate the flexibility these new state-of-the-art plants provide into its existing operations."

A primary focal point of Audi’s production plan is to cut annual factory costs in half by 2033, aligning with when it plans to phase out combustion models. To do so, the company will continue to digitalize and streamline its manufacturing processes with solutions like Edge Cloud 4 Production. According to Audi, less expensive industrial PCs will result in lower IT costs with software updates and OS changes. To have the ability to respond to fluctuating consumer demand, Walker says: "We want to structure both product and production so we get the optimum benefit for our customers." He adds an example of building the new Audi Q6 e-tron on the same line as the A4 and A5 as it phases out its gas models.
Security

Two Men Accused of Hacking Into JFK Airport Cab Dispatch System (bloomberg.com) 21

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
An anonymous reader shares a report: With a flat fee of $70 for trips into Manhattan and a guaranteed stream of passengers, a ride to and from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of the more lucrative journeys for the city's cab drivers. But federal prosecutors say two 48-year-old Queens men found another way to profit from the crowd of taxis waiting long hours for passengers at the airport, conspiring with Russians to hack the dispatch system and allow drivers to cut ahead in line for a $10 payment.

The two men, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, were arrested Tuesday and charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions for hacking into the system from November 2019 to November 2020. Prosecutors said the pair worked with Russian nationals to access the system through various methods, including bribing someone to insert a flash drive into computers that allowed them to enter the system via Wifi and stealing tablets connected to the dispatch operation. They then used their access to move certain taxis to the front of the line for $10 each, allowing drivers to bypass a holding lot that frequently required hours-long waits before they were dispatched to a terminal, and waived the fee for drivers who recruited others, according to prosecutors.
Cloud

AWS Wins 5-year, $700M+ Contract for Cloud Services To US Navy (theregister.com) 25

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Amazon Web Services has secured a five-year contract with the US Navy for cloud services, just weeks after scoring its share of a major US Department of Defense deal for cloud computing. From a report: The cloud division of online marketplace Amazon has been awarded a contract worth $723.9 million by the Department of the Navy as a single-award fixed-price enterprise software license blanket purchase agreement. The details were disclosed in a contract notice posted on the Department of Defense website. According to the notice, the agreement is for AWS to provide the Department of the Navy with access to its commercial cloud environment, Professional Services, and AWS training and certification courses. The Department of the Navy indicated that the purchase agreement will not obligate funds at the time of award, but instead these will be committed as task orders are issued using a variety of Navy funding types, including operation and maintenance and working capital funds.
Android

Android is Adding Support for Updatable Root Certificates Amid TrustCor Scare (esper.io) 19

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
Esper: The world's biggest tech companies have lost confidence in one of the Internet's behind-the-scenes gatekeepers. Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google are dropping TrustCor Systems as a root certificate authority in their products. Starting in Chrome version 111 for desktops, the browser will no longer trust certificates issued by TrustCor Systems. The same change is coming to Android, but unlike Chrome for desktops, Android's root certificate store can't be updated independently of the OS, meaning it'll take some time for the certificate changes to roll out. Thankfully, that may no longer be the case in Android 14, as Google is preparing to implement updatable root certificates in the next release.
The Courts

Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple and Amazon Colluded To Raise iPhone, iPad Prices (hbsslaw.com) 32

Posted by msmash from the tussle-continues dept.
A new antitrust class-action lawsuit accuses Apple and Amazon of colluding to raise the price of iPhones and iPads, according to Hagens Berman, the law firm representing consumers against two of the world's largest companies in today's filing. From a report: The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington accuses Apple and Amazon of seeking to eliminate third-party Apple resellers on Amazon Marketplace in a scheme to stifle competition, and maintain premium pricing for Apple products. The class action alleges an "unlawful horizontal agreement between Apple and Amazon to eliminate or at least severely reduce the competitive threat posed by third-party merchants," which attorneys say violates federal antitrust laws and has cost consumers.

The lawsuit says the parties' illegal agreement brought the number of third-party sellers of Apple products on Amazon Marketplace from roughly 600 to just seven sellers -- a loss of 98%, and by doing so, Amazon, which was formerly a marginal seller of Apple products, became the dominant seller of Apple products on Amazon Marketplace. The consumer-rights law firm behind the filing has bested Apple in multiple antitrust lawsuits, including a $400 million settlement related to price-fixing of e-books and a $100 million settlement on behalf of iOS developers harmed by App Store policies. Hagens Berman has also brought multiple pending antitrust cases against both defendants.
Businesses

Stripe Cutting Headcount by 14% as It Readies for 'Leaner Times' (bloomberg.com) 36

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
Stripe, one of the world's most valuable startups, will cut more than 1,000 jobs as it seeks to rein in costs ahead of any economic downturn. From a report: The payments company will cut its workforce by 14% this week, returning headcount to the almost 7,000 total from February, co-founders Patrick and John Collison said in an email to staff seen by Bloomberg News. The two vowed to trim expenses more broadly as they prepare for "leaner times."

"We were much too optimistic about the internet economy's near-term growth in 2022 and 2023 and underestimated both the likelihood and impact of a broader slowdown," the Collison brothers said in the email. "We grew operating costs too quickly. Buoyed by the success we're seeing in some of our new product areas, we allowed coordination costs to grow and operational inefficiencies to seep in." Stripe and its publicly traded rivals have seen valuations drop as the growth in online spending slowed in the aftermath of the pandemic, just as supply-chain disruptions and once-in-a-generation inflation also hurt activity. The company in July told staffers that an internal valuation for the company dropped to about $74 billion, compared to the $95 billion it received in its most recent fundraising.

Submission + - FBI Asks Court For 66 Years To Release Seth Rich Laptop Information (theepochtimes.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer when he was killed on a street in Washington in mid-2016. No person has ever been arrested in connection to the murder.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, an Obama appointee, ruled in September that the bureau must hand over information from the computer to Brian Huddleston, a Texas man who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the info.

The FBI's assertion that the privacy interest Rich's family members hold outweighed the public interest was rejected by Mazzant, who noted the bureau cited no relevant case law supporting the argument.

But the ruling was erroneous, U.S. lawyers said in a new filing.

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