A team from the University of Harrisburg, PA, has developed automated computer facial recognition software that they claim can predict with 80 percent accuracy and “no racial bias” whether a person is likely going to be a criminal, purely by looking at a picture of them. “By automating the identification of potential threats without bias, […]
NASA’s Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab…
Later this summer, physicists at the Argonne and Fermi national laboratories will exchange quantum information across 30 miles of optical fiber running beneath the suburbs of Chicago. One lab will generate a pair of entangled photons—particles that have identical states and are linked in such a way that what happens to one happens to the […]
Big and Small Tech Innovation Makes #PandemicLife Tolerable…
From suggested self-quarantines to the sudden shutting down of businesses (and countless workers being laid off) the past month has brought unprecedented hardships for millions of Americans. Inevitable comparisons have been drawn between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which infected 500 million people and resulted in an astounding 50 million deaths. […]
Bipartisan Sens. Demand DOJ Include ‘Search’ In Google Antitrust Investigation…
Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (R) are instructing the Justice Department to include Google’s search engine in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the tech giant Tuesday. “How Google operates its search engine warrants close scrutiny,” the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. “At more than […]
‘The Intelligence Coup of the Century’: For Decades, the CIA Read the Encrypted Communications of Allies and Adversaries…
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant […]
U.S. Warms up Its Own Old Spy Stories to Bash Putative Chinese Espionage…
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition Is Threatening Democracy…
On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and signed by organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Color of Change, Fight for the […]
Your Smart Vehicle is Recording Your Every Move…
Recent reports indicate that data gathered by automakers and tech companies could be the next front in the battle over digital privacy. In early January, companies at the CES 2020 displayed their plans for making use of the surprising amounts of data gathered by newer model vehicles. Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and Blackberry were among the […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords to Hackers…
A new report from security researchers alleges that Amazon Ring doorbells have exposed users’ home Wi-Fi passwords to hackers. TechCrunch reports that security researchers at Bitdefender have claimed that Amazon Ring doorbells were sending users Wi-Fi passwords in cleartext as the doorbell joins the home network. This would allow hackers to intercept the Wi-Fi password […]
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