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Friday June 28, 2019. 08:33 AM
See Google, there are other ways to run browser content blockers smartly Software engineers working on the Brave browser have rewritten the browser's ad blocking engine in Rust and seen massive speed increases as a result.…
Saves time, only a little accuracy lost, unexpectedly understands dark matter Neural networks can build 3D simulations of the universe in milliseconds, compared to days or weeks when using traditional supercomputing methods, according to new research.…
Join us at Minds Mastering Machines: We have a score of tickets to give away Event If you’re a charity or a non-profit doing something amazing and think you could do even more with a crash-course in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or advanced analytics, we want...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: The contrails left by airplanes last only hours. But they are now so widespread that their warming effect is greater than that of all the carbon dioxide emitted by airplanes that has accumulated in the atmosphere since...
According to a report in Politico, the Trump administration held a National Security Council meeting on Wednesday that weighed the challenges and benefits of encryption. 'One of Politico's sources said that the meeting was split into two camps: Decide, create and publicize...
Development paused after AI experts sounded alarm. Amazon et al take note, eh? Axon, the largest supplier of body cameras to America's cops, will not add facial-recognition technology to its gear anytime soon, it announced Thursday.…
Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users' systems with minimal interaction. ZDNet reports: Power Query is a data connection technology that can allow Excel files to discover,...
Google Maps is getting a pair of updates that will offer live traffic delays for busses in the cities where it didn't already provide real-time updates, and another that will tell you how crowded your bus, train, or subway car will be. TechCrunch reports: The latter is...
Apple’s lead designer, who retired from the company, changed the expectations not just of technology design, but the role of design in consumer products.
They managed to scrape by with the lowest possible passing grade: D- Washington DC has been hit with yet another discouraging assessment of the Uncle Sam's IT management and security practices.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after U.S. Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it...
Our 'X-ray specs' software can be misused? And everyone wants it? Oh no, who'd have thought, say creators A machine-learning-powered perv super-tool that automagically removed clothes from women in photos to make them appear naked has been torn offline by its makers.…
Apple iOS developer David Smith noticed something that really jumped out at him when he was reviewing his iPhone's device analytics. 'People really, really like the 4.7-inch iPhone,' he writes. 'When I look at the iPhone distribution for Pedometer++ the four most popular...
A crash on Pena Boulevard, a road leading to Denver International Airport, prompted Google Maps to take about 100 drivers on a detour on Sunday. 'The alternate route took drivers down a dirt road that rain had turned into a muddy mess, and cars started sliding around,'...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company: We've all tried to log into a website or submit a form only to be stuck clicking boxes of traffic lights or storefronts or bridges in a desperate attempt to finally convince the computer that we're not actually a bot....
Mission concept of Dragon's entry, descent, landing, surface operations, and flight at Titan. [credit: Johns Hopkins APL ] On Thursday, NASA announced its next medium-class mission to explore the Solar System—a lander named Dragonfly that will fly like a drone over the ...
Do my Ive's deceive me? No, Sir Jony exits Cupertino, which will be among his first clients British Essex boy made good Sir Jony Ive will step down from his role as Apple's chief designer.…
In what looks set to become one of the highest profile patent sales in years, Intel has put its IP relating to cellular wireless connectivity on the auction block. The company is seeking to divest around 8,500 assets from its massive portfolio. From a report: The news comes...
Thursday June 27, 2019. 11:59 PM
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... Are... are we the baddies? Hackers from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies have been accused of breaking into systems at Yandex, dubbed Russia's Google.…
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