AI and ethics, the power of algorithms depends on humans
Two sides of the same coin: artificial intelligence and ethics. The times when experts in the field posed the question of control over advanced AI systems as fundamental are not…
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram back after outage
Mark Zuckerberg lost almost 6 billion dollars in a few hours due to the outage A global internet shock was caused on Monday (04.10.21) when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp collapsed…
Bitcoins are the official currency in El Salvador, but the future lies with the Central Bank’s digital currencies
El Salvador is the first country to adopt Bitcoin as its national currency, placing the cryptocurrency alongside the dollar. Although scheduled after the announcement made at the beginning of the…
Fading traditions: the digitisation of news
The telegraph, the radio, and subsequently televised news, all left their mark. Newspapers have faced competition from every emergent technology, but the printed word lived out a comfortable 20th century…
Hacker takes $610 million in major cryptocurrency theft
The hacker returned the stolen money and was offered a position at Poly Network A hacker named Mr. White Hat was behind the biggest cryptocurrency theft in history, stealing 610…
Apple to scan iPhones for images of child abuse
The new feature lands later this year and has already provoked controversy with security and privacy experts to warn for potential threats Apple plans to run a new system on…
Facebook invests in the new ‘prayer post’ feature
Like, love, care, and prayer: The popular social media platform take advantage of spirituality communities Facebook has found a new way to capitalize on faith groups, and their data, by…
BaseSAFE: Finding Vulnerabilities in Smartphone Basebands
What is a Baseband? Each modern smartphone contains a wide variety of different processors. Not only are there multiple processors for the mobile operating system (e.g. Android, iOS), but a…
How your smart home can turn dumb without warning
Automating your home and being able to turn on the lights, start vacuuming, or make coffee with a simple voice command can certainly make you feel like you’re living in…
AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning – Explained
Introduction “Deep Learning” applications are nowadays the cutting edge branch of “machine learning”, the broader scientific branch of “artificial intelligence” that deals with how a computer system can learn. Companies…