Digital technology is ubiquitous. We have been increasingly reliant on smartphones, tablets and computers over the past 20 years, and this trend has been accelerating due to the pandemic. Conventional wisdom tells us that over-reliance on technology may take away from our ability to remember, pay attention and exercise self control. Indeed, these are important […] … learn more→

You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can’t access any of those, either. Neither can anyone else. Panic-buying ensues. People empty ATMs of cash. This kind of catastrophic pan-internet meltdown […] … learn more→

Due to increased demand for cleaner, more renewable energy, there continues to be a large amount of investment going into new technologies for the purpose of generating it. The 5 pieces of technology that are projected to have the greatest impact on the industry as a whole in the not too distant future are listed […] … learn more→

With the proliferation of female robots like Sophia, chatbots like Amelia , and the popularity of female virtual assistants like Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon) and Cortana (Microsoft), artificial intelligence seems to have a gender issue. This gender imbalance in AI is a strong trend that has drawn strong criticism in the media. Even UNESCO warns of the dangers of this […] … learn more→

Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial intelligence (AI) system scans your face, scoring you for nervousness, empathy and dependability. It may sound like science fiction, but these systems are increasingly used, often without people’s knowledge or consent. Emotion recognition technology (ERT) is in fact a burgeoning multi-billion-dollar industry that aims to use AI to detect […] … learn more→

In the present world, organizations are increasingly adopting cloud containerization. Cloud containers are an effective solution for reliably executing cloud applications across environments. For instance, cloud containers can be used to execute an application smoothly from a physical machine to a virtual machine that is present in the public or private cloud platform. Reports suggest […] … learn more→

Cyber criminals are very persistent and the daily numbers of cyber attacks show no sign of decreasing. The latest reported attack on an Australian university has disrupted the start of the semester at RMIT. The suspected phishing attack – luring the recipient of an email or other communication into inadvertently giving the attacker access to the IT system […] … learn more→

  Israeli company StoreDot recently announced it can now mass produce electric vehicle batteries that can be fully charged in just five minutes. “The bottleneck to extra-fast charging is no longer the battery,” claimed the firm’s chief executive. But is this fast-charging battery really a gamechanger? And if so: exactly how? Electric vehicle charging speeds […] … learn more→

Website scraping, or content scraping, is essentially a practice of (automatically) extracting or scraping content on a web page. Scraping is typically performed by a program/software sending a series of automated requests to the web page. This program is often called a web scraping bot or content scraping bot due to how it operates.  It’s […] … learn more→

About a year ago, a small American company in the medical field, Geisenger , published surprising results on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate the short-term risk of death of patients with certain heart conditions, based on their electrocardiogram . To do this, they trained a neural network with almost two million electrocardiograms of almost […] … learn more→