Samsung Discloses Critical Vulnerabilities in their Smartphones Released After 2014
A patch to fix the vulnerability has been released by Samsung, although it remains unclear when owners of Samsung Galaxy devices will receive it, as even newly-released smartphones are vulnerable. As monthly security updates for Samsung roll out, Google’s Project Zero researchers revealed details on a vulnerability in Samsung Android smartphones released in or after 2014. The bag was initially … Continue reading
New Tech Can Translate Brainwaves Into Text With Minimal Errors
Just today I was thinking how cool it would be to reply to a text message just by thinking out the reply (I kid you not!) While this is not the aim or intended purpose of the research covered here, I imagine it may be a reality one day too. Tom Hale IFLScience: A new project has created a “brain-computer … Continue reading
The Military’s Hidden Uses of 5G Technology
At the London Summit, the 29 member countries of NATO agreed to “guarantee the security of our communications, including 5G”. Why is this fifth generation of mobile data transmission so important for NATO? While the earlier technologies were perfected to create ever more advanced smartphones, 5G is designed not only to improve their performance, but mainly to link digital systems … Continue reading
Scientists Develop the ‘Xenobots,’ First Robots Constructed Completely from LIVING CELLS
Scientists in the US claim to have created zombie robots from reanimated frog cells, giving rise to a living organism never seen or created before which can perform important tasks while healing itself. These millimeter-wide “xenobots” were designed on a supercomputer using an evolutionary algorithm to create thousands of candidate designs. The winning designs can propel themselves toward a target … Continue reading
Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony to be Completed by Artificial Intelligence
A team of musicologists and programmers will use artificial intelligence to complete German composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony by next year to mark the 250th anniversary of the famous musician’s birth. Starting from just a few notes that Beethoven had written in a notebook before his death in 1827, researchers plan to use computer software combined with artificial … Continue reading
Transhumanism May Hold Key to Eternal Life, but with Multiple Caveats & Ethical Dilemmas
Some people hope to cheat death by storing their consciousness digitally. Science isn’t quite there yet, but we’ve done enough brain and memory research to have immediate implications – and to start asking uncomfortable questions. The idea of attaining de facto immortality by translating your brain into code and storing your personality as a digital copy online has been captivating … Continue reading
Google’s ‘Nightingale’ Secretly Gathers the Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
Google has been working with one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect and analyze the personal health information of millions of citizens across 21 states, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Tech giant reportedly teamed up with St. Louis-based Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the country, last year, and the data sharing has accelerated … Continue reading
‘Short Window’ to Stop AI Taking Control of Society, ex-Google Employee Warns
Meredith Whittaker warns we are becoming lab animals in a giant tech experiment. The big news in tech this week is the announcement that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as executives of parent company Alphabet, founded in 2015 with the goal of making it “cleaner and more accountable”. Page and Brin said it was time … Continue reading
First-Ever Mass-Produced ‘Fly & Drive Car’ to Be Unveiled in Miami
The three-wheeled machine – dubbed the Pioneer Personal Air Landing Vehicle (PAL-V) – a 230hp Dutch-made two-seater car boasting 70 pre-orders, is in active production and will reportedly sell for $599,000 . The customer will, however, need both a driving and pilot license to own and operate this vehicle. “While other flying car manufacturers’ concepts require modified regulations and in … Continue reading
Navy ‘UFO-tech’ Engineer Patents Compact Fusion Reactor
A US Navy scientist behind numerous exotic technology patents has now patented a compact fusion reactor. The US Navy’s technology labs have certainly been busy over the last few years with all manner of strange and exotic (so-called ‘UFO-tech’) patents being filed ranging from high-energy ‘force fields’ to new types of propulsion systems and vehicle designs. Now the same engineer … Continue reading
