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Diana Coker
Senior Assistant Editor at Technowize. Diana Coker writes about Drones, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Gadgets and Gaming. When she is not writing, she prefers exploring cities and new cultures. | Diana tweets over at @cokersays
A List of All Companies Secretly Listening In On Your Conversations
Facebook is back in the news facing fresh scrutiny over its handling of user data. Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The company confirmed that it has been transcribing users’ audio and said it was no longer doing so. Since 2015, Messenger has offered to transcribe audio clips, although this feature is turned off by default. Facebook claims that the users who opted in to the feature had their audio clips reviewed by third-...

A List of All Companies Secretly Listening In On Your Conversations

13 mins ago
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Bionic Eyes: Beginning Of a New Era for Patients with Sight Loss
Eye health is something taken for granted by so many of us. We rarely consider how different our lives would be if our vision was impaired. But visual impairment is a bitter reality for more than 3.4 million Americans. All is about to change, thanks to researchers from visual prosthetics company Second Sight Medical Products. The Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, build by Second Sight, sends electrical signals to the wearer’s brain via an implant, allowing them to see again. The bionic eyes consist of: 1.) a small camera mount...

Bionic Eyes: Beginning Of a New Era for Patients with Sight Loss

1 day ago
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Why do we fall prey to phishing emails according to Google
Around 1.5 billion people use Gmail every month and majority of this group trust Google to protect them from threats and hacks. Google’s existing machine learning models block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching people’s inboxes. But being on top of today’s highly-skilled cyber attackers, more sophisticated efforts were required.  This year in February Google revealed how it is staying ahead of refined threats. TensorFlow, an open-source machine learning framework developed by Google blocks an extra 10...

Why do we fall prey to phishing emails according to Google

2 days ago
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Crashed Moon Lander May Have Spilled ‘Water Bears’ on the Moon’s Surface
Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the moon during a failed landing attempt on April 11. On the lunar lander was a cellular “library” that includes plant and animal cells and human DNA. It was created by the U.S.-based Arch Mission Foundation, which strives to create “backups” of Earth. According to founder Nova Spivack, the collection of material included enough DNA to regenerate life on Earth. It seems the cargo may still fulfill its intended purpose. Among the technology lost in the crash were a few thousand tiny tardigrad...

Crashed Moon Lander May Have Spilled ‘Water Bears’ on the Moon’s...

6 days ago
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French Army Will Employ Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Future Threats
According to a report published by France’s Defense Innovation Agency (DIA), a team of visionaries “Red Team” will be hired to “propose scenarios of disruption” military strategists might not think of. Bruno Tertrais, deputy director of France’s Foundation for Strategic Research, said the role of the Red Team would be to anticipate more threatening scenarios than those explored in the popular Netflix series Black Mirror. “The US government considered that it had been the victim of a lack of imagination,” he said. “It is certainly n...

French Army Will Employ Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Future Threats

3 weeks ago
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin: Moving Heavy Industries To Space
“I have a business meeting with NASA executives in Mars next month but I wish the agency would move the venue to its center in Florence, Moon so I could celebrate this coming Christmas here on Earth with my family” This statement is either idiomatic, at least for the sake of trusting it has a meaning, or hypothetical at the moment. Yes, because a generation would take it for the real meaning someday. Just to remind us, John Flowers never saw Alexa, Siri, or Google Home in his entire lifetime. Some time ago in Washington, D.C., a man ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin: Moving Heavy Industries To Space

4 weeks ago
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Scientist mom inspires “superhuman” race by turning son into a cyborg
“AI is a human right,” theoretical neuroscientist Vivienne Ming said in 2018. Her professional career is focused on exploring ways to improve human potential with artificial intelligence. Ming is not just a firm believer that tech will become a more integral part of our existence but proving it by turning her autistic son into a cyborg. Ming wanted to help her son after he was diagnosed with autism. Ming built a face- and expression-recognition system for Google Glass that will in real-time interpret people’s facial expressions. Mos...

Scientist mom inspires “superhuman” race by turning son into a cyborg

4 weeks ago
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Sexualized Female Game Characters Don’t Make Gamers Sexists, New Study Says
The latest gaming consoles and titles often dominate talk among teenagers and adults at public gatherings aside from topping the wish lists of many. This technology-induced culture has provoked many researchers into investigating how games influence people’s behavior. Some studies indicate that sexualized female game characters could cause body dissatisfaction among female gamers alongside aggression towards women, with many other reports related to social skills and mental health. Do sexualized female game characters actually turn ga...

Sexualized Female Game Characters Don’t Make Gamers Sexists, New Study...

1 month ago
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Google Home is sending your private recordings to Google workers
According to the VRT NWS report, 153 of the 1,000 audio files it listened to “were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command 'OK Google' was clearly not given.”

Google Home is sending your private recordings to Google workers

1 month ago
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According to the VRT NWS report, 153 of the 1,000 audio files it listened to “were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command 'OK Google' was clearly not given.”[...]
World’s smallest MRI Machine could usher in the quantum computing era
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) became an instrument to examine the human’s organs and internal structures in 1971, nearly three decades after it was discovered independently by Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell. Since then, health professionals have relied on MRI scans to examine various body conditions, including the brain and spinal cord. Thanks to American physician Raymond Damadian for identifying the differences in the nuclear magnetic relaxation times of tumors and tissues. But the technology is not done stunning us. A newly deve...

World’s smallest MRI Machine could usher in the quantum computing era

1 month ago
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