Tech and Science News | May 9, 2018

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3 generations of secure SD-WAN services

You simply can’t take advantage of all that SD-WAN has to offer without giving branch offices local Internet access and you can’t give them local Internet access without securing them. SD-WAN for all its strengths does not provide robust edge security. Yes, data is encrypted in transit. And, yes, some SD-WAN appliances come with basic stateful firewalling capabilities. But with attacks coming at layer-7, branches require a next-generation firewall (NGFW) and updated IPS/IDS capabilities to protect locations — not a basic firewall. For all intents and purposes, branch SD-WAN needs layer-7 security, which is why you see so many SD-WAN vendors striking partnerships with security vendors or some building security into their appliances. read more

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Hate making phone calls? Google Assistant can do it for you

Do you dread making phone calls? Perhaps they make you anxious, or you'd just like to avoid a chatty person. Well, if you have a phone equipped with the Google Assistant, placing calls might soon be a thing of the past. read more

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Oracle to Launch Internet ‘Weather Map’

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle Corp. plans to launch in June an “Internet Weather Map” aimed at helping businesses better anticipate latency issues and outages caused by storms, earthquakes, state intervention or other network disruptions, the company says. read more

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Feast Your Eyes on the Cute Electric UPS Trucks of the Future

UPS will soon have the cutest logistics truck on the road. read more

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How Waymo's AI-trained self-driving cars could feel scary even if they're safe

Waymo’s plan to launch a transportation service with self-driving cars in Phoenix, Arizona, later this year has a bit more riding on it than usual. Phoenix is just 10 miles from Tempe, Arizona, where a self-driving test car from rival Uber killed a pedestrian in March of this year. No pressure, Waymo. read more

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Microsoft Sold Less Than Half the Consoles PlayStation Did By 2018, According to EA Data

Microsoft sold about 30 million Xbox One consoles by the end of 2017, compared to the more than 73 million PlayStation sold during roughly the same period, according to numbers released by EA CFO Blake Jorgensen. read more

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