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AI On The Rise: Getting a Piece of Siri and Glimpses of the Future

Ever since the inception of computers, tech enthusiasts have striven to improve how these machines interact with the world around them. To some extent, improvements have sprung from the idea of mimicking the creator’s way of thinking that gave birth to what we know now as artificial intelligence (AI). As the gap of “intelligence” gets ...

AI on the Rise Weekly: Invades Atmosphere and Ocean, Mimics Children’s Mind and More On Mobility

From a blurry mirage half a century ago, artificial intelligence has transcended several technological feats. Following a series of breakthroughs in mobility, big data, crowd computing and automotive, AI now moves outside the box to engage in environmental protection campaigns and large-scale aerial surveying to create maps. Researchers are also intrigued on how they can ...

AI On the Rise: Driverless Car, Gogobot Apps, and Advertising

As machines get sophisticated, the less they require human supervision or intervention. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), various functions are now being performed by computers, functions that used to be accomplished by a live person. This could pose positive and negative outcomes alike. Advantages lean on the financial aspect, efficiency and accuracy. Those who will be ...

Citrix Synergy 2012 Stars: Mobility, Virtualization and Cloud

Citrix Synergy 2012 kicked off on a high note this past Wednesday. At the center of it all was the ongoing discussion of how the cloud era is changing the course of mobility, virtualization and cloud computing, with an emphasis on mobility. Mobility Mobility is a sector Citrix intends to attack aggressively as demand mounts on both ...

Adobe Addresses Vulnerabilities in Defense Industry, Recommends Upgrades

Flash Player vulnerabilities are pretty much one of the most common issues that everyone who uses a web browser faces. A recent attack via custom crafted e-mails with malicious attachments infected Adobe Flash Player on Internet Explorer for Windows platforms and targeted defense-related businesses. Alarming as it is, any intrusion on the line of this industry may ...

HOW TO: Spot the Right Consumer Cloud for Your Media

The entrée a big name like Google is confirmation of the unwavering demand for cloud storage.  The evolution of data and technology has brought us to the new school of storage, accessed via web service APIs, cloud gateways and web-based interfaces. Today we present a multi-dimensional comparison of cloud storage heavyweights and the unanswered questions surrounding ...

Microsoft Quietly Patches a Zero-Day Flaw in Hotmail

Microsoft has finally and stealthily found a way to fix the Hotmail accounts hacking issue. The tech giant has successfully dealt with its password reset system that was previously breached by hackers, thereby allowing them control of some e-mail accounts. Cyber intruders were able to intercept the outgoing HTTP request following a password request reset ...

How To: Take Advantage of HTML5 Trends and Tools

HTML5 is already making its mark on today’s internet era by overcoming the limitations of its Flash and HMTL predecessors. The unification of HTML and XHTML syntax and the introduction of application programming interfaces (APIs) are good examples. HTML5 also simplified multimedia and graphical content management without having to rely on proprietary plugins and APIs. ...

AI On the Rise Weekly: Discovering New Singing Talents, Crowd Computing, and Prostitution

The time when computers know everything may not be as far-off as compared to decades ago when research around artificial intelligence commenced. With experts noting that AI is on the brink of passing the Turing Test and its ubiquity seen, felt and used everyday, the future is gleaming for the science of replicating how the ...

Mobile Browsing Trends: Opera Mini Reemerges as a Top Tool

Despite the iPad producing the most activity across mobile devices, according to a recent report from Chitika, don’t count out RIM just yet, at least not as far as mobile browsing goes.  They’re seemingly rising from the dead as BlackBerry Opera Mini browser bested iOS counterparts in speed tests based from the recent New Relic ...