A company which enables its clients to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular face has won an appeal against the UK’s privacy watchdog. Last year, Clearview AI was fined more than £7.5m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for unlawfully storing facial images. Jack Mulcaire, …
Face Search Company Clearview AI Overturns UK Privacy Fine Read More »
Space agencies have performed a dazzling aerial feat at both Venus and Mars: they’ve dipped an incoming spacecraft into the planets’ atmospheres to slow it down without wasting precious rocket fuel. But will this audacious aerocapture technique also work in the outer solar system? Athul Pradeepkumar Girija, who recently earned a PhD from Purdue University …
Aerocapture: Using a Planet’s Atmosphere to Slow Down a Spacecraft Read More »
About 600 self-driving cars made by a unit of General Motors are being investigated by regulators after reports of injuries to pedestrians. Self-driving cars made by Cruise may have been “encroaching on pedestrians”, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA said it had received two reports involving pedestrian injuries. Cruise says …
Cruise Self-Driving Cars Investigated after Two Accidents Read More »
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is “too important not to get right”, a top Google executive has told the BBC. It has the potential for “huge breakthroughs” across industries, said Matt Brittin, president of Google for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. There has been a long-running global debate about the risks and rewards of AI. …
WhatsApp is set to end support for a few Android and iOS smartphones starting October 24. As per the official website of the Meta-owned platform, WhatsApp will stop supporting Android smartphones running Android OS 5.0 or below. This is something that the platform keeps doing from time to time as it keeps updating the features …
WhatsApp to Stop Working on these Android, iOS Phones from Next Week Read More »
Stanley Zhong, an 18-year-old high school graduate from Palo Alto, California, has been hired by Google as a full-time software engineer. This comes after he faced rejection from 16 colleges, including prestigious Ivy League and state schools. Stanley, a graduate of Gunn High School located in the heart of Silicon Valley, had an impressive academic …
SAN ANTONIO — At times, today’s annular eclipse has been billed as an opening act for the headlining act of next April’s total eclipse. But the first annular to grace the U.S. in 12 years proved to be a spectacle with charms of its own. In the U.S., cloud cover was more prevalent on the …
‘Ring of Fire’ Annular Eclipse wows Sun-gazers across the Americas Read More »
The UK’s financial watchdog has fined Equifax £11 million for its role in one of the largest cyber attacks, which affected more than 13 million British consumers in 2017. The credit rating giant failed to keep its customers safe during an “entirely preventable” cybersecurity breach, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. The hack happened after …
Equifax Fined £11 million by Financial Watchdog over 2017 Cyber Attack Read More »
Psyche’s goal is to perform 21 months of science, visiting the strange, metallic asteroid that bears the same name. Asteroid 16 Psyche orbits the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. This metal-rich object in particular has sparked interest because it may be the missing link in scientists’ understanding of the formation of our solar system’s …
NASA Launches Psyche on Mission to Study Unusual Asteroid Read More »
Ancient semi-fossilized tree rings may hold the clues to the largest solar flare event ever known, which occurred some 14,000 years ago, according to researchers. The researchers investigated “subfossils,” which are particle fossilized biological material, from a forest in the Southern French Alps. They sliced the tree samples into hundreds of single tree-rings and analyzed …
Prehistoric Trees Tint an Immense Solar Storm hit Earth 14,300 years ago Read More »
