ShiftUP Consulting

04/05/2020

For all the businesses that have had to shut down their physical locations or aren't getting as much business as they'd like during this crisis, give us a call!

We'd love to give you some free advice on getting your business some more notice online and offering your products through the web.

10/28/2019

Computers in cars working to see *around* corners

We’re still not at the point where autonomous vehicles systems can best human drivers in all scenarios, but the hope is that eventually, technology being incorporated into self-driving cars will be capable of things humans can’t even fathom – like seeing around corners. There’s be…

09/03/2019

A bit primitive yet but it's a huge leap forward towards the next type of processors for computers with carbon tube transistors (instead of silicon)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/carbon-nanotube-microprocessor/

11/30/2018

If you've stayed at a W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton, Westin, Element (and more) since 2014 you might want to look at the information you gave to them as they've recently had a breach! Encrypted credit card numbers may also have been exposed

Starwood Hotels has confirmed its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers has been stolen in a data breach. The hotel and resorts giant said in a statement that the “unauthorized access” to its guest database was detected on or before September 10 — but may have dated back a…

09/28/2018

If you're wondering why you had to log into facebook again today. This is why

https://globalnews.ca/news/4496935/facebook-security-breach-users/?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014

The cookie that leaves you logged in to facebook on your computer allowed hackers to take over some people's accounts so they reset them.

Facebook on Friday says 50 million user accounts have been affected by a security breach.

03/26/2018

Google is moving forward with giving increased search ranking to websites that are mobile compatible and websites that load faster. Give us a call if you'd like some help taking your website mobile or need a speed boost!

Google announced this morning its “mobile-first” indexing of the web is now starting to roll out, after a year and a half of testing and experimentation. Back in 2016, Google first deta…

02/17/2018

Watch out for Telagu (a language in India) characters crashing your iPhone apps for a while

Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The..

07/12/2017

It's a long ways from Star Trek teleportation but it's a building block for basically instant long distance internet (and eventually "Beam me up!")

http://www.businessinsider.com/teleportation-china-earth-orbit-quantum-internet-2017-7

The work is an essential step towards establishing a global-scale quantum internet.

05/29/2017

Using artificial intelligence to detect cancer

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/using-ai-detect-cancer-not-just-cats/

Neural networks are great at recognizing faces and objects in photos. Now they're being deployed to similarly identify signs of disease and illness.

05/15/2017

Good news, no new infections from the world cyber-attack worm, but it's an easy fix for the hackers so update your copy of Windows!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/804227/nhs-hospitals-cyber-attack-latest-security-hack-virus-spread-stopped-british-blogger

THE British blogger who discovered how to slow down the global cyber attack which crippled the NHS yesterday has been dubbed an “accidental hero”.