Sun 07 March 2021: Think facial recognition has gone too far as a node of edge-cutting science? You may be right, or left, and a new study suggests that facial recognition knows it! A recent study published in Scientific Reports revealed that facial recognition technology can accurately predict someone’s political stance from their Facebook profile photo. According […]
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Sat 06 March 2021: Nasa’s Mars rover Perseverance has taken a short drive two weeks after touching down, mission managers have said. Taking directions from mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles, the rover rolled four metres (13.1 feet) forward, turned about 150 degrees to its left and then drove backwards […]
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Sat 06 March 2021: More than 20,000 US organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp’s email software, a person familiar with the US government’s response says. According to media reports, the hack has affected more than the download from SolarWinds Corp, which witnessed a massive hack […]
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Fri 05 March 2021: Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp has introduced a voice and video calling feature on its desktop version, the company said on Thursday. The company said users will be able to use desktop screens for calls in both portrait and landscape mode, and the calls will be end-to-end encrypted. The move to facilitate calls over large screens […]
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Thu 04 March 2021: The Starship SN10 spacecraft touched down successfully after a high-altitude test flight today (March 3), a major milestone for the company and its crewed Mars ambitions. But the vehicle didn’t manage to hold itself together, exploding about eight minutes after landing. The rocket prototype flew more than six miles (10 kilometers) above […]
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Tue 02 March 2021: A new driverless electric bus has begun operating in the southern Spanish city of Málaga, in the first such project in Europe. The bus, which began running on Saturday, is equipped with sensors and cameras and links Málaga’s port to the city centre on an 8km (five-mile) loop it does six times […]
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Tue 02 March 2021: Twitter announced in a blogpost on Monday, is designed to strengthen the social network’s existing Covid-19 guidance, which has led to the removal of more than 8,400 tweets and challenged 11.5m accounts worldwide. “We believe the strike system will help to educate the public on our policies and further reduce the spread […]
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Mon 01 March 2021: A computer network closely modelled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images – and explains some perplexing optical illusions. By using decades’ worth of data from human motion perception studies, researchers have trained an artificial neural network to estimate the […]
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Sat 27 February 2021: A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. US District Judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illlinois in 2015. Nearly […]
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Fri 26 February 2021: India has announced new rules to regulate content on social media, making Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and others more accountable to legal requests for the swift removal of posts and sharing information on where the messages originated from. The rules – part of an effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to […]
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