Sony announced a partnership with Yamaha for the joint development on the SC-1 Sociable Cart, a vehicle the company says “delivers a new mobility experience”. Sony and Yamaha plan to launch services using this model in Japan, before April 2020. Sony says the SC-1 is designed to transform a mere meansContinue Reading
Bucking the trend of big tech companies to use AI to replace humans at any possible job, Netflix is testing human curation for some users. Speaking to TechCrunch, Netflix said the Collections are selected by its creative teams. The test is limited to Netflix users on the iOS app andContinue Reading
Portuguese Artificial Intelligence company Unbabel is set to open a new research lab in Pittsburgh, PA. The lab will be led by U.S. researcher Alon Lavie. The new office location in Pennsylvania aims to leverage the relationship between Unbabel and Carnegie Mellon University, where Lavie is a researcher at theContinue Reading
Thursday, Google announced it had conducted a study, concluding that blocking cookies “materially reduces” revenue for publishers. In the report, Google analyzed a sampling of traffic on the 500 largest Google Ad publishers over the last three months. In summary; according to Google, the Google conducted study, of Google’s adContinue Reading
Officials from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and Federal Trade Commission are reportedly resistant to a proposal that would task them with regulating the editorial policies of social media companies’. The officials, reportedly responding to a drafted executive order have raised First Amendment concerns with discouraging web companies from removing or censoringContinue Reading
Last week 22 local governments in Texas were hit with a crippling coordinated ransomware attack. Now many municipalities are still struggling to restore services, highlighting how vulnerable government bodies are to cyber-attacks. Currently, the Texas Department of Information Resources, the Texas Military Department, and the Texas A&M University System’s CyberresponseContinue Reading
On Thursday Google engineers released their vision for the company to bring privacy standards that are more in line with consumer expectations. The new approach, dubbed Privacy Sandbox, hopes to ensure that ads remain relevant for users who are willing to share their data with websites and advertisers. “Over theContinue Reading
Microsoft is finding itself in hot water again after contractors for the company claim they listened to voice recordings of Xbox One users in their homes. According to an article published by Motherboard Wednesday, several contractors say they have listened to audio recordings from the XBox One. The practice goes back to whenContinue Reading
Players of Fortnite, the world’s most popular computer game, have been targeted by ransomware. Cybersecurity firm Cyren has discovered that the free game hack called”Syrk” pretending to allow players to aim more accurately when playing the game, is actually ransomware. Syrk seems to be built off an open-source form of ransomware knownContinue Reading
The dark web a part of the internet accessible via special software, like tore, where people often buy and sell illicit products and services. A report from threat intelligence company IntSights Inc. details the rise of a “dark web” forum specializing in selling digital identities the market offers stolen “digital fingerprints” ofContinue Reading