Tue 30 July 2019: Google on Monday revealed that it is building gesture controls and face recognition into a next-generation Pixel smartphone as it looks to fuel early enthusiasm for its upcoming flagship handset. The Pixel 4 is expected to make its debut in October, along with a new iPhone as competitors strive to win […]
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Tue 30 July 2019: Mercedes cars can now park themselves WITHOUT a person behind the wheel, as Germany gives the green light in fully automated tests All assignments come from the parking garage, not from the vehicle or the driver of the car The specially designed technology can be retrofitted to other parking garages Bosch […]
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Mon 29 July 2019: It is absolutely the stuff of science fiction: a contact lens that zooms on your command. But scientists at the University of California San Diego have gone ahead and made it a reality. They’ve created a contact lens, controlled by eye movements, that can zoom in if you blink twice. How is this […]
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Mon 29 July 2019: The video-sharing platform YouTube is striving to block those who would use it to promote racism, hate speech, violence and disinformation, its number two executive has told AFP, as the Google-owned company comes under increasing scrutiny. “YouTube has now grown to a big city. More bad actors have come into place. […]
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Fri 26 July 2019: The popular application FaceApp, which offers users a peek at what they might look like in the future, raises numerous privacy concerns, according to experts. Developed by the Russian company Wireless Lab in 2017, FaceApp uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to generate highly realistic transformations of faces in photos. The app […]
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Thu 25 July 2019: South Korean electronics giant Samsung announced Thursday it will release its cutting-edge foldable smartphone in September, despite a trade dispute between Seoul and Tokyo which analysts say will affect delivery. Tokyo earlier this month restricted export to South Korea of several key materials crucial to its world-leading electronics and smartphone companies, […]
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Thu 25 July 2019: A daredevil French inventor on Thursday began his attempt to fly across the Channel standing on a jet-powered “flyboard”, an ambitious crossing he sees as following in the footsteps of the aviation pioneers. Franky Zapata, 40, a former jet-skiing champion, took off from Sangatte on the northern French coast just outside […]
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Sat 20 July 2019: FaceApp’s aging filter may have taken the internet by storm, but it can pose a number of security threats. People have been sharing selfies that with the help of the filter show how they might look like in 30 years. However, this entertaining app is no angel: When you download the […]
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Thu 18 July 2019: Oakland, California, has followed San Francisco as the second Bay Area city to vote down the use of the technology. Oakland, California, has has become third city to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology. Late Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council approved the ordinance, which requires a second and final vote that’s […]
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Thu 18 July 2019: We all know that flying taxis will soon be taking off but before they even get get up in the air, they are seeing updates More than 100 brands from Airbus, Uber and Boeing to Lilium have designed electric air taxis. There is cutthroat competition in this field which includes the […]
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