A quarter of UK adults feel unsafe using online sharing services
By: UKTN May 9, 2019 AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider Jumio has released new findings from its Global Trust and Safety Survey. It found that a quarter of UK adults feel “somewhat unsafe” or “not at all safe” when using online sharing services. Online sharing services include the likes of Uber and Airbnb. However, […]
This robot helps patients with their physical therapy.
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‘Google’s power is extraordinary’: businesses turn to the courts over bad reviews
By: Josh Taylor July 9, 2019 Mark Fletcher says he never paid much attention to Google reviews left by customers for his Victorian-based software business Tower Systems – until five months ago. He was told he had lost a sale due to a negative review from a person called Ashley T. The comment, made a […]
The Secret History of the Future: A Familiar Tune
By: Economist Radio July 3, 2019 The 19th-century invention of the phonograph left composers worried they might not be paid for recordings. The 20th-century proliferation of digital sampling outmoded old copyright laws. Can these previous tech disruptions of the music business teach us how to handle a 21st-century onslaught of computers that can compose their […]
Surveillance apps are being secretly installed on phones of visitors to China, report says
By: David Reid July 03 2019 Police in China are secretly installing spy apps on phones of visitors to the country that can extract emails, texts and address contacts, according to a cross-media investigation. Evidence gathered by the New York Times, The Guardian in England and Suddeutsche Zeiting in Germany has claimed that travelers are […]
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review
By: John Naughton June 30, 2019 Kai Strittmatter is a German journalist who writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung and is currently based in Copenhagen. From 1997 until recently, he had been a foreign correspondent in Beijing. Prior to those postings, he had studied sinology and journalism in Munich, Xi’an and Taipei. So he knows China rather […]
Things are changing so fast’: the benefits and dangers of robots in the UK workplace
By: Richard Partington June 30, 2019 “We are under the threat of closure all the time,” says Andrew Peters without a hint of fear in his voice. As though repeating himself for the hundredth time, the managing director of Siemens’ Congleton factory in Cheshire explains his workers are battling for survival. Competition in this historic […]
Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe
By: Dan Robitzski June 28, 2019 Deep Connection Google announced Friday that the company plans on building its third international, under-sea internet cable. The company is calling the cable “Equiano” and told Reuters that it expects the cable to be at least partially operational by some time in 2021, when a link between Portugal and […]
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
By: Technologyreview Jun 24, 2019 Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance. It’s that last point that has intrigued US Special Forces. Other long-range biometric techniques include gait analysis, which identifies someone […]