By the week's end, Halliburton unveiled that it was a recent victim of a cyberattack that led to taking down some of its systems offline, leading last week's top news stories in this new Tech Times Weekly Wrap. It is followed by the rumors behind Chick-fil-A's plans to launch a new streaming platform focusing on family-friendly content, with significant investments already made by the fast-food chain.
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Lastly, there is also DeepLens' massive development of an AI-powered optical lens design that looks to change mobile phone cameras.
Halliburton Cyberattack Some Systems Offline for Investigation
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The renowned oilfield services, also regarded as the second-largest in the world, Halliburton, recently unveiled that the company was a victim of an unknown cyberattack. After discovering that they had been breached by the still-unknown threat actors, the company shut down some of its systems that they believed were illegally accessed by the criminals.
Towards the end of last week, Halliburton also went forth with shutting down some of its systems as it launched an investigation to get to the bottom of it.
Halliburton and the United States Department of Energy confirmed that despite shutting down some of its systems, its energy services continue and are not affected.
Chick-fil-A Streaming Platform Rumors: Investments Made
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Chick-fil-A is rumored to have a new venture, and it is not with AI and robots that add tech to its restaurant chain, but for a new streaming platform which the company plans to launch soon. This will focus on family-friendly content in the form of game shows, centering mostly on original content which the chicken restaurant is now investing in.
It was reported by Deadline that people familiar with Chick-fil-A's new venture confirmed this, with the company already in talks to acquire and license content to use for its platform.
Moreover, Chick-fil-A is ready to invest as much as $400,000 for a half-hour show and its unscripted content, already purchasing 10 episodes of an unknown show from Sugar23. Other production companies are also reportedly in talks with the chicken restaurant.
DeepLens: AI-Powered Optical Lens Design for Cameras
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Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) introduced their recent development known as 'DeepLens,' a new type of hardware that is set to change the mobile phone landscape. This latest development leverages the power of artificial intelligence that would improve much of what smartphone lenses have to offer.
According to Interesting Engineering, DeepLens pioneered a groundbreaking technique that KAUST researchers dubbed as "curriculum learning."
It will reduce the development time and costs of mobile phone cameras, all while enhancing the image quality whichtakes into account key imaging system parameters like aperture, resolution, and field-of-view (FOV).
