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Pentagon turns to intelligence automation to hunt Islamic State
Overwhelmed by thousands of hours of Islamic State surveillance tapes, the Pentagon is catching up to the future by looking to machine learning and big data to help its military surveillance analysts. Codenamed Project Maven, an Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team will sift through hours of video caught by drones flying over Iraq and Syria ...
Google uses artists and neural networks to turn your selfies into emoji
Google Inc. is bringing something novel to the world of emoji: a combination of neural networks and art that enables users to morph their selfies into emojis. Unlike current customized emoji apps, such as Snapchat Inc.’s Bitmoji, the new Google technology uses both machine learning and neural networks to map the user’s face and create ...
Anti-net neutrality spambots run wild on FCC’s web site
Just days after comedian John Oliver urged people to comment on the Federal Communications Commission’s website in defense of net neutrality regulations, reports have emerged that the website has been filled with fake comments in support of less regulation. Following FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s controversial plans to undo the Obama administration’s regulations that all Internet ...
With launch of smart debit card app, kids can now have a digitized allowance
New York startup Current is giving parents the opportunity to control their children’s allowance through an app that allows kids to use a Visa debit card. The app not only allows parents to see how and where the kids are using up their allowance but also lets them set tasks through the app. When the ...
FCC’s website goes down the day after John Oliver again urged public to defend net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission said that the reason its site went down on Monday was not because of John Oliver defending net neutrality once again on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight” show, but because of a cyberattack. In 2014 the British comedian’s diatribe defending net neutrality had led to the FCC’s website crashing under the load of ...
Facebook original TV: coming to a newsfeed near you next month
It seems like Facebook Inc. is gearing up to be the media company it has always denied it is. According to recent reports, the social media behemoth will release Facebook Premium TV shows sometime in the middle of June. The news of Facebook TV emerged after Business Insider said it spoke with numerous people close ...
Uber is now under criminal investigation for snooping on government officials
As if things couldn’t get any worse for ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc., the company is now under investigation over software it allegedly used to avoid police and transportation regulators, according to a report published by Reuters. The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal probe concerning software Uber devised known as “Greyball,” created ...
Apple will invest $1 billion to create manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook announced today that the company is pledging $1 billion to a fund to help create advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S. In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Cook said that Apple will reveal later this year the first investments in the fund, but did not give any details as to ...
Samsung goes bumper-to-bumper with Apple as it prepares to test self-driving cars in Korea
Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has joined a long line of companies in the business of developing a fully autonomous vehicle. On Monday, South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport gave permission to Samsung to start testing its autonomous car technology in the country. Samsung will team up with Korea’s biggest car ...
Trump will round up tech titans again to revamp the government’s IT systems
President Donald Trump will round up some of the biggest names in computer technology sometime in June with a view to creating a technology council to “transfer and modernize” what the government does with technology. While Trump is not renowned for being tech’s favorite president, the man who once called the Internet “the cyber” does ...
