Do you use smartphone apps to organise lunch dates, make convenient online purchases or communicate the most intimate details of your existence? Beware, these apps may be secretly talking to each other and potentially breaching your security, researchers warn. Continue reading Your smartphones may be secretly talking, breaching security
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Got camera? Facebook adds more Snapchat-like features
Facebook is adding more Snapchat-like features to its app. The company says it wants to let people’s cameras “do the talking” as more people are posting photos and videos instead of blocks of text. Continue reading Got camera? Facebook adds more Snapchat-like features
Quadruped robot can change steps with speed
In a first, a research group has found that by changing only its parameter related to speed, a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps. Continue reading Quadruped robot can change steps with speed
China-made wearable robot to enter market
A China-made wearable robot, which can help disabled people walk, is expected to enter the market in one to two years, the developer has said. Continue reading China-made wearable robot to enter market
NASA stopwatch to measure fraction of a billionth of second
NASA engineers have built a stopwatch that can measure accurately fraction of a billionth of a second. Continue reading NASA stopwatch to measure fraction of a billionth of second
Facial recognition tech helps diagnose rare genetic disease
Researchers have successfully used a facial recognition software to diagnose a rare, genetic disease that mainly affects children of African, Asian and Latin American descent, paving the way for physicians to diagnose the disease by snapping a photo.
The technology used to diagnose the disease, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, also known as DiGeorge syndrome and velocardiofacial syndrome, is similar to that used in airports and on Facebook. Continue reading Facial recognition tech helps diagnose rare genetic disease
UK workers at risk of being replaced by robots
More than 10 million UK workers are at high risk of being replaced by robots within 15 years as the automation of routine tasks gathers pace in a new machine age, a report said on Friday.
The report by the consultancy firm PwC found that 30 per cent of jobs in Britain were potentially under threat from breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI). Continue reading UK workers at risk of being replaced by robots
This algorithm can predict users’ affinity towards mobile game
Researchers have developed a new algorithm that predicts when a user will leave a mobile game
This information can become handy for the game studios so that they can design strategies to maintain the player’s interest.
Continue reading This algorithm can predict users’ affinity towards mobile game
‘Sensory skin’ to detect damage outside spacecraft
Scientists at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are developing a system that acts like a sensory skin to help astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged
The “Flexible Damage Detection System” technology may offer a possible solution to NASA’s problem of figuring out in real-time where a spacecraft is damaged and how seriously. Continue reading ‘Sensory skin’ to detect damage outside spacecraft
Goldman building robo-adviser to give investment advice to the masses
Goldman Sachs Group Inc, known for advising the world’s richest and most powerful, is building a so-called robo-adviser geared to mass affluent customers, according to a job listing posted Monday on the bank’s website. Continue reading Goldman building robo-adviser to give investment advice to the masses