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The Cybersecurity Risks of Bluetooth

SecureWorld News

Bluetooth has been around since 1994 as a wireless connectivity specification, but the first mobile phones did not appear with basic Bluetooth services until 2001. An employee rents a car and pairs their phone to the entertainment system to make calls or listen to music while they drive. This is a well-known risk.

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Apple announces digital car keys for wirelessly unlocking your car with an iPhone

The Verge

Apple announced at WWDC this week that you’ll be able to add a digital car key to your iPhone or Apple Watch to wirelessly unlock and start your car. If you want to share your car key, you’ll be able to do so via the Messages app. Image: Apple. Coming to the 2021 BMW 5 Series. specification, which was finalized in May.

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Fiat made a ‘Hey Google’ car

The Verge

Three new special edition Fiat 500s — the Fiat 500, 500X crossover, and 500L MPV — have been branded with Google livery that extends from using the tech giant’s corporate colors in the cars’ seat upholstery to placing “Hey Google” badges above their front wheel arches. And the head rests have Hey Google tags. Image: Fiat.

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How technology is enabling Melbourne Airport’s growth

CIO Business Intelligence

Melbourne Airport has been connecting Victoria to the world for 50 years, and December 2023 was the airport’s busiest month since the Covid-19 pandemic, with a total of over three million passengers. The team and I pulled together a technology strategy focused on enabling the corporate strategy.” Key to this is construction of a third runway.

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Audi reveals its Porsche-powered E-Tron GT

The Verge

For all of that money, buyers will get the most performance that Audi has squeezed out of an electric car to date. Not bad for a car that weighs about 5,100 pounds. That was the plan from the jump when the GT was first revealed as a concept car at the 2018 LA Auto Show and even made an appearance in Avengers: Endgame.

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Amazon’s Alexa lets you control a Lamborghini’s air conditioning with just your voice

The Verge

Amazon is taking a bigger step into cars today by integrating Alexa into Lamborghini’s Huracán EVO , and not just to ask questions or remotely control your home — it’s giving the assistant the ability to control settings inside the car, hands-free. It’s not like Alexa will be driving your car, but give it time.

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BMW’s Digital Key Plus will let iPhones unlock the iX from a pocket or bag

The Verge

BMW has announced an upgraded version of its mobile car key technology dubbed Digital Key Plus. It promises to allow iPhone owners to unlock select BMW cars without having to take out their phones. Apple built support for digital car keys into iOS with version 13.6 Image: BMW. last year , following its announcement at WWDC 2020.

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