Scientists help artificial intelligence outsmart hackers
By: Matthew Hutson May 14, 2019 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—A hacked message in a streamed song makes Alexa send money to a foreign entity. A self-driving car crashes after a prankster strategically places stickers on a stop sign so the car misinterprets it as a speed limit sign. Fortunately these haven’t happened yet, but hacks like […]
Nvidia’s AI tech set to analyze medical scans for UK’s public health system
By: Matt Kennedy May 13, 2019 Artificial Intelligence promises to revolutionize many fields, but few as important as healthcare. With the potential to analyze medical imaging faster and more accurately than human beings, the race is on to develop AI that can perform the most time-consuming aspect of radiological interpretation for practitioners. To that end, […]
“Biobots” Will Serve Alongside South Korean Soldiers by 2024
By: Kristin Houser may 13, 2019 Recruiting Robots Military robots inspired by birds, snakes, and insects will soon support South Korea’s human soldiers. On Sunday, South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA), the agency tasked with acquiring the nation’s military weapons, published a document announcing plans to incorporate “biomimetics” equipment into military operations by 2024 […]
Use of facial recognition tech ‘dangerously irresponsible’
By: By Geoff White May 13, 2019 Black and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces, say campaigners. At least three chances to assess how well the systems deal with ethnicity were missed over the past five years, […]
Microalgae could be the future of sustainable farming
By: Asaf Tzachor May 13, 2019 You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the staple crop takes up an area five times the size of the UK, and 85% of that area is used for animal feed. Thanks to projected rapid […]
Would trolls, fake news and privacy invasions go away with a new Facebook?
By: Jefferson Graham May 13, 2019 Mark Zuckerberg’s former college roommate and co-founder of Facebook posted a fascinating proposal this week: break up the social network and watch the problems start to disappear. But would they? Take Instagram and WhatsApp away from Facebook, Inc. and say goodbye to Russian trolls, fake news, privacy invasions and […]
Amazon Now Has Machines to Automatically Box Up Orders
By: Victor Tangermann May 13, 2019 According to a Reuters exclusive, Amazon is rolling out specially-made machines that are capable of boxing up orders — a job currently held by thousands of human workers. The CartonWrap robots build cardboard boxes around orders as they come down an assembly line, according Reuters’ sources. Each one processes […]
A hacking ring stole millions by hijacking SIM cards, feds say
By: Colin Lecher May 12, 2019 Nine people have been charged in an alleged conspiracy to hijack SIM cards and steal cryptocurrency from unwitting victims, prosecutors said this week. The scheme, according to court documents, netted more than $2.4 million. In an unsealed indictment, prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of […]
The Significant Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain
By: Ramendra Kishore May 12, 2019 Artificial intelligence was first thought of in the 1950s, but it was only since the 90s that any real progress was made. Today, AI has filtered through the market chain and is now available as a consumer product in the form of virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa. Despite […]