Category: Technology

Amazon reportedly scrapped an internal recruiting tool that used artificial intelligence to sort through applications after the company’s machine-learning specialists realized the engine favoured male candidates over female ones. Machine learning is a core technique used in the field of artificial intelligence..

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants insects to spread genetically modified viruses to save crops. According to the DARPA website, The Insect Allies program is “pursuing scalable, readily deployable, and generalizable countermeasures” against potential natural…

After months of speculation about a search service specifically for China, Google has confirmed that this service – Project Dragonfly – has been developed, alarming the public and its employees about the extensive intrusion into data privacy and censorship it would cause. Google China is a subsidiary of Google..

Bitcoin’s trading frenzy and rising prices have attracted a great deal of attention and lured an increasing number of investors. However, widespread adoption will require true convenience and impactful innovation, both of which Bitcoin has not quite accomplished. Cryptocurrency is a digital asset (in other words a form of…

Facebook has yet to fully enact the stringent data protection regulations for its EU users. The EU Commission has threatened them with sanctions if they do not comply by the end of the year. Users of Facebook used to share their data with the company as well as any third-party developers of apps..

The EU Competition Commission has initiated an investigation into Amazon’s marketplace and the potential misuse of sales data from third party merchants in order to promote and price its own products better than its competitors. Amazon is both a merchant that sells products and a platform..

Google will partner with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, the largest auto alliance in the world by vehicle sales, to put Android-based infotainment systems into millions of cars. The alliance’s next-generation infotainment system and dashboard displays will use Android and will be launched in 2021..

Russian defense firm Kalashnikov has unveiled a retro-looking electric car it says will give Elon Musk’s Tesla a run for its money. Concern Kalashnikov is the largest Russian manufacturing company that produces assault and sniper rifles, guided artillery projectiles and a wide range of precision weapons. The major…

A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple’s secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after the technology giant called in the FBI. Apple had earlier confirmed that almost all of its devices are affected by Intel and Arm chip ‘design flaws’ that could expose billions of people’s personal data..

A team of security researchers at IBM corp have warned that, AI programs are now capable of evading the best defenses of computer software. This poses a major threat to computer security. The intellectual roots of AI and the concept of intelligent machines were first found in Greek mythology Intelligent artefacts appear..