I’d forgive you for not knowing that January 28 is Data Privacy Day, but we shouldn’t be surprised in the least that Apple knew. The company hangs its hat on protecting its users’ privacy, and is all too happy to point out the myriad ways apps, websites, and other companies can hold your data and […]
Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More The first shipments of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines arrived at health systems across the U.S. this month, a significant milestone in the […]
The cutting-edge computer architecture that’s changing the AI game Learn about the next-gen architecture needed to unlock the true capabilities of AI and machine learning. Register here Tive, a startup whose platform captures real-world data to inform supply chain decisions, today raised $ 12 million in a venture equity deal. Tive says it’ll invest the […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Research about the pandemic has mostly focused on epidemiology, but health data alone can’t inform policies — decisions should ideally take into account the impacts on communities. Driven by this maxim, Microsoft researchers developed a framework to characterize the changes in people’s physiological, socioeconomic, and […]
(Reuters) — Apps to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus should not collect user location data, the European Commission said on Thursday, as Apple and Google weighed whether to work with virus apps that use location tracking. The EU executive’s recommendation came as part of a unified European approach for using technology to […]
Losing your laptop or being a victim of theft can compromise your private information, not to mention that replacing a laptop can be pretty expensive. Thankfully, there are ways of figuring out where you left your laptop. Tracking a laptop doesn’t always work since you need to have some location and tracking settings enabled, but […]
Apple and Google are hoping to harness Bluetooth, a technology typically used to connect device owners’ wireless speakers and keyboards. With the aid of the technology, public health officials soon would be able to deploy apps with the ability to sense other smartphones nearby. If a person learns they have the coronavirus, they could indicate […]
The Israeli government is looking to use a secret trove of people’s cellphone data to decide who should be quarantined based on if they crossed paths with someone who has the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19. The New York Times reports that the classified dataset that would be used is normally meant to combat terrorism. […]
Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline — Objectron — that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-driving vehicles, image retrieval, and augmented reality — for instance, it could help […]
Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in a tiny […]
Enlarge / This listing image is honestly a bit of a bait-and-switch: Optane isn’t a NAND technology at all, and is about as far away from PLC as you can get. Intel Corporation Wednesday, Intel announced it’s joining Toshiba in the PLC (Penta-Level Cell, meaning 5 bits stored per individual NAND cell) club. Intel has […]
The Planetary Society The LightSail 2 solar-powered spacecraft is officially operational — it’s now in orbit and made its first contact with Earth on Tuesday. You’ll now be able to track the ship live using an online dashboard. The LightSail 2 is the result of a $ 1 million Kickstarter campaign organized and led by […]
If there’s one lesson to learn about digital privacy, it’s that we can never grow complacent. Even if we secure our data so we are not tracked online, the ad tech industry will find ways to monitor our digital activities. And so it is with the rise of so-called fingerprinting, which security researchers are calling […]
F1 2019 has arrived a few months earlier than F1 games in years past. I think there are enough meaningful improvements to warrant a purchase. Codemasters The F1 cars can be as hard or as easy to drive as you like. I like the challenge of having to constantly tweak my engine mapping, energy recovery […]
Anyone who has ever used Amazon Prime to receive a same-day delivery will have some idea of just how efficient Jeff Bezos’ retail giant is. With hundreds of items shipping every second during busy times, employees have to operate with machine-like efficiency to keep things moving out of the door. The extent of this may […]