This little-known facial-recognition accuracy test has big influence
The closely watched NIST results released last November concluded that the entire industry has improved not just incrementally, but “massively.” […]
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The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More
Over the coming five years applications and machines will become less artificial and more intelligent. They will rely less on […]
Almost half of companies still can’t detect IoT device breaches
Research released today, reveals that only around half (48%) of businesses can detect if any of their IoT devices suffers […]
AI Diagnoses Genetic Syndromes Just From Patients’ Pictures
An algorithm is able to identify genetic syndromes in patients more accurately than doctors can — just by looking at […]
Feds forcing mass fingerprint unlocks is an “abuse of power,” judge rules
According to a new ruling issued last week by a federal magistrate in Oakland, California, the government can’t get a […]
The Internet Is A Privacy Disaster. But We Still Don’t Know How To Talk About It.
We know our data has been left vulnerable, or sold, or misused. But do we really understand what that means […]
BYOD and GDPR: Managing the compliance conundrum
Today’s employees want the freedom to work from any location and any device at any time of day. These individuals […]
Survey: Americans Warming to Use of Facial Recognition Tech
A growing number of Americans are OK with the facial recognition technology, especially if it increases public safety, according to […]
NSA will open source a tool for malware disassembly and reverse engineering
Dubbed GHIDRA, the tool will allow folks au fait with cyber security to pick apart binaries for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, […]
Artificial Intelligence Can Now Explain Its Own Decision-Making
IBM’s new open-source AI Fairness 360 toolkit may allow researchers and enterprise AI architects to increase the transparency of “black […]
WhatsApp working on thumbprint authentication for chats
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a fingerprint authentication feature to protect its users’ chats from being seen by others. […]
Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how.
Our lives, online and off, depend upon decentralising power on the internet, says the Guardian columnist John Harris. As the […]