Our knowledge of exoplanets has expanded exponentially over the last 20 years, thanks to sophisticated search techniques and telescopes like Kepler. One of the problems with our data, however, has been that it’s much easier to find large gas giants or huge rocky worlds than it is to find […] .
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A New Algorithm Can Spot Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist
Today A New Algorithm Can Spot Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist Add diagnosing dangerous lung diseases to the growing list of things artificial intelligence can do better than humans. A new Arxiv paper by researchers from Stanford explains how CheXNet, the convolutional neural network they developed, achieved the feat. […] .
Another Shady App Found Pre-Installed on OnePlus Phones that Collects System Logs
The OnePlus Saga Continues… Just a day after the revelation of the hidden Android rooting backdoor pre-installed on most OnePlus smartphones, a security researcher just found another secret app that records tons of information about your phone. Dubbed OnePlusLogKit , the second pre-installed has been discovered by the same […] .
The cloud is changing IT. But not really…
Thinkstock The cloud has been the swiss army knife of IT departments for over a decade. The cloud is secure, extensible and cost-aligned. Managing the cloud is easy, you just move the slider over for more or uncheck the box to delete it. The cloud changed how IT works […] .
IT productivity through project failure
Thinkstock All too often when projects fail, people are reassigned, project managers and key team members fall from favor, and the company quickly moves forward toward other new and important business initiatives. This phenomenon, at least the “quickly moving forward” part, also often happens to a lesser degree when […] .
Meet the Tesla Semitruck, Elon Musk’s Most Electrifying Gamble Yet
Tesla Elon Musk has always dreamed big, and tonight he showed off his biggest reverie yet: the fully electric Tesla Semi. Powered by a massive battery, it’s capable of hauling 80,000 pounds. It’ll even drive itself —on the highway, at least. The big rig, which Musk unveiled at Tesla’s […] .
One-third of internet pounded by DoS attacks
“A third of the internet is under attack.” This blunt and sobering statement comes from a team of researchers who recently explored the threat landscape populated by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks worldwide. What they report finding is nothing short of, to use their own words, “ an eye-opening statistic ” […] .
Fitbit has a new partnership to help wearers manage diabetes with the Ionic smartwatch
Fitbit’s latest partnership will help people with diabetes use the new Ionic smartwatch to monitor glucose levels. Fitbit is looking to expand its health monitoring capabilities beyond just fitness tracking, so the company is teaming up with a major medical device maker to help people manage diabetes directly on […] .
IoT Garbage Can Sorts Your Trash Automatically And Gathers Data
This trash bin is smart enough to separate garbage from recyclables and inform maintenance staff when it’s time to come collect it Collecting and taking out the trash has never been this easy. Bin-e , the world’s first intelligent waste bin, will automatically sort any trash that goes inside […] .
The Next Frontier In Fabric Tech Is Reinventing Fashion With Function
Meet LOOMIA, the team of young creatives bent on getting smart textiles right and introducing fashion to the power of the blockchain With objects all around us getting smarter, and more covetable for it, it makes sense that fashion should follow suit. Enter LOOMIA , the New York startup […] .
Three Dropbox Competitors for Secure Storage
It’s a service that’s intuitive, fast, and equipped with an excellent set of features built around usability, syncing, and sharing. Dropbox competitors seem to lag behind this giant in quite a few ways. We really like Dropbox , but if you want the best security around, it’s time to […] .
Exclusive: Upcoming Windows 10 Version May Have Built-in EMET to Boost Security
It seems Microsoft is planning to build its EMET anti-exploit tool into the kernel of Windows 10 Fall Creator’s Update (also known as RedStone 3), which is expected to release in September/October 2017. So you may not have to separately download and install EMET in the upcoming version of […] .
A Guide to Planning Instagram Stories for Events
Each new event marks an exciting opportunity – and responsibility – for any brand or business. Whether you’re planning a conference for your customer base, or opening a new flagship store, social media marketing managers now must focus on connecting the experience with their audience – both those in […] .
A guide to leaking anonymously
“But what about the printer dots?!” So you’ve decided to become a leaker. Be it government corruption, corporate malfeasance, evidence of Russian hacking, or just some garden-variety, messed up shit someone wants to stay under wraps—a secret caught your eye, and you’ve decided it needs to be exposed. But […] .
How Can We Optimize AI for the Greatest Good, Instead of Profit?
How can we ensure that artificial intelligence provides the greatest benefit to all of humanity? By that, we don’t necessarily mean to ask how we create AIs with a sense of justice. That’s important, of course—but a lot of time is already spent weighing the ethical quandaries of artificial […] .
Latest NSA Leak Reveals Exactly the Kind of Cyberattack Experts Had Warned About
The details of an apparent Russian state-sponsored cyberattack on local election officials and a vendor of U.S. voting software are shocking—but they shouldn’t be surprising. In fact, experts had been warning for months before the 2016 election about exactly the type of attack that was revealed Monday in leaked […] .
French researchers find way to unlock WannaCry without ransom
French researchers said on Friday they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by WannaCry, racing against a deadline as the ransomware threatens to start locking up victims’ computers first infected a week ago […] .
WikiLeaks Reveals ‘Athena’ CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak , detailing a spyware framework – which “provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers” – allegedly being used by the CIA that works against every version of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to […] .
Hackers Are Trying to Reignite WannaCry With Non-Stop Botnet Attacks
Over the past year, two digital disasters have rocked the internet. The botnet known as Mirai knocked a swath of major sites off the web last September, including Spotify, Reddit, and the New York Times . And over the past week, the WannaCry ransomware outbreak crippled systems […] .
Another Ransomware Nightmare Could Be Brewing in Ukraine
Just as the reverberations from last week’s WannaCry ransomware outbreak have started to slow, a new threat has already cropped up. A virulent ransomware strain called XData has gained momentum in Ukraine, so far leading to about three times as many infections as WannaCry did in the […] .