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Nets Passport Reader bridges the gap between physical ID documents and digital identification, with the help of a smartphone app. The Nets Passport Reader service bridges the gap between physical ID documents and digital identification, with the help of a simple smartphone app.

As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of people and businesses across every sector, middle market companies that have built resiliency into their business through digital transformation have more tools to endure disruption. "A crisis like the pandemic can lead some organizations to pause or de-emphasize innovation," said Malcolm Cohron, National Digital Transformation Services Leader, BDO Digital.

The intent of the MoU is to make it easier and more affordable for UK public sector agencies to leverage the full range of Google Cloud's services to increase innovation and deliver digital transformation. CCS, the UK Cabinet Office executive agency and trading fund, engaged Google Cloud in 2019 to discuss requirements for cloud services under the One Government Cloud Strategy, a joint initiative between Cabinet Office, CCS and Government Digital Service.

Cadence Design Systems announced that it has broadened its long-standing collaboration with Arm to advance the development of mobile devices based on the Arm Cortex -A78 and Cortex-X1 CPUs. To drive Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 adoption, Cadence has delivered a comprehensive, digital full flow Rapid Adoption Kit that helps customers optimize power, performance, and area and boost overall productivity.

Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, began shipping the 7.68TB model of the Data Center 500R and 450R SATA SSDs. The DC1000M 7.68TB U.2 NVMe ships in June. The SSDs provide additional storage and implement strict QoS ensuring predictable IO and low latency for data centers using both NVMe and/or SATA. DC500R VMware Ready SSD engineered for read-intensive applications such as webservers, virtual desktop infrastructure, operational databases and real-time analytics.

A broad-based campaign group has written to UK health secretary Matt Hancock calling for greater openness in the government's embrace of private-sector tech companies contracted to provide a data store and dashboards as part of the NHS response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Campaign groups including Liberty, openDemocracy and Privacy International have now written to Hancock saying that promises of openness about the role of multiple private-sector tech firms in handling the health data of millions of UK citizens have not been fulfilled.

A broad-based campaign group has written to UK health secretary Matt Hancock calling for greater openness in the government's embrace of private-sector tech companies contracted to provide a data store and dashboards as part of the NHS response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Campaign groups including Liberty, openDemocracy and Privacy International have now written to Hancock saying that promises of openness about the role of multiple private-sector tech firms in handling the health data of millions of UK citizens have not been fulfilled.

Cybersecurity needs to be central to every business strategy today. These questions move the cybersecurity expert from execution to a strategic business partner that front loads and processes more of the business context prior to making recommendations on a path to protect the business.

Adobe has fixed 16 critical flaws across its Acrobat and Reader applications and its Adobe Digital Negative Software Development Kit. Those include 24 critical- and important-severity flaws in its Acrobat and Reader application, used for creating and managing PDF files, and 12 in its Adobe DNG Software Development Kit, which provides support for reading and writing DNG files used for digital photography.

The survey talked to 4,000 consumers across the United States and the United Kingdom about consumer attitudes toward card fraud in an increasingly digital economy. 46 percent of US consumers surveyed had fallen victim to card fraud in the past, with 20 percent of consumers hit inside the last 12 months.