Labour calls for halt to Google’s acquisition of Fitbit
By: Alex Hern Alex Hern Labour has written to the competition regulator calling for Google’s reported acquisition of Fitbit to be halted, at least until a wider inquiry into anticompetitive practices in the technology sector is completed. Google made an offer to purchase the fitness tracking company on Monday for an undisclosed price, according to […]
This robot can move with ease across a host of environments
By: Interesting Engineering October 29, 2019 Watch Full Video
WhatsApp sues surveillance firm NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones VentureBeat
By: Reuters October 29, 2019 WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists, and senior government officials. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San […]
A robot cooks burgers at startup restaurant Creator
By: TechCrunch October 29, 2019 Creator is a new burger-making robot startup. We visit its first restaurant in San Francisco to taste Creator’s burger from the future. Watch Full Video
Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone
By: Ian Tucker October 26, 2019 Samantha Hoffman is an analyst of Chinese security issues at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (Aspi). She recently published a paper entitled Engineering Global Consent: The Chinese Communist Party’s Data-Driven Power Expansion. Internet pioneers heralded a time when information would be set free, giving people everywhere unfiltered access to […]
Google Claims To Achieve Quantum Supremacy — IBM Pushes Back Facebook Twitter Flipboard
By: Paolo Zialcita October 23, 2019 Google says it has built a computer that is capable of solving problems that classical computers practically cannot. According to a report published in the scientific journal Nature, Google’s processor, Sycamore, performed a truly random-number generation in 200 seconds. That same task would take about 10,000 years for a […]
Robots aren’t taking warehouse employees’ jobs, they’re making their work harder
By: Shirin Ghaffary October 22, 2019 In the past few years, some have wildly speculated about how automation will eliminate wide swathes of the US job market, leaving masses of unemployed, frustrated workers. It’s an issue that’s raised enough concern that 2020 Democratic presidential candidates spent a good amount of time arguing about it in […]
The race to build a flying electric taxi
By: BBC October 22, 2019 For any commuter the prospect of being whisked to and from work in a fraction of the time it usually takes is pretty irresistible. No traffic jams, no train delays and no cold platforms – what’s not to love? This is the promise of more than a hundred companies developing […]
A Soccer Team In Denmark Is Using Facial Recognition To Stop Unruly Fans
By: National Public Radio October 21, 2019 On a cold, sunny October day on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, a group of men dressed in black gathers outside Brondby Stadium to shoot off a couple of rockets, raise their fists and shout about how the home team will soon beat — and beat up — […]