Do you want to know how it feels like to drive Google’s self-driving cars? The Wall Street Journal has captured this in-action. The car that drives itself will not be available anytime soon, but this breakthrough is a signal of another technological revolution that is about to unfold with Google at the forefront of it ...

Just when Siri and Watson are about to face-off to determine who will lord the mobile AI space, here comes another fierce match-up. It involves one half of the previous pair, but this time Apple is going up against Google. Well, not directly as assaulting the search giant, but the world’s strongest brand according to ...

The High Courts have spoken and the Anti-cybercrime Law in the Philippines is suspended. In response to 15 petitions, 14 justices unanimously voted to issue a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to stop the implementation of Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which carries the controversial “online libel” amendment. The threat to curtail Internet freedom in the ...

Gone are the days when society thinks of hackers as the greasy-haired geeks in pajamas who spend their entire life in front of the screen playing around with viruses and infecting networks for fun. Hacking has come a long way from this phase and face. This transformation gives us now the image of hackers—not as an untidy ...

Siri can make calls for you and Watson can beat Jeopardy champions at point blank. But can these two AI heavyweights put together a dream team for you? Well, Artificial intelligence-powered software can create a selection of players that can beat 99% of all Fantasy Football participants’ squad. These very promising numbers are already tickling ...

Artificial intelligence will give dogs a run for their money as man’s best friend; Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that in about 40 years or so, his iPhone will know more about him than any human. During his speech at the QUT Business Leaders’ Forum in Brisbane, the Silicon Valley icon told press that consumer ...

The number thirteen could possibly be the least favorite number of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz. Following four felonies in 2011, the Federal Government has filed nine more charges against the activist coder for breaching hacking laws when he broke into the computer network of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to obtain access to a nonprofit ...

In an age where people continue to share more of their lives online through photos they post on Facebook, one’s privacy vulnerability increases. As a consequence, they tend to lose control on where the photos end up. To answer this issue, McAfee recently demoed the Social Protection App that will halt poachers from stealing someone ...

The battle between Siri and Watson is starting to heat up as IBM wages interest in entering the mobile industry. A space ruled by Apple thanks to iOS and the array of best-selling gadgets, IBM has a work cut out for them. For many, the competition will ripen over the next few years and it ...

Artificial intelligence is on the road to breaking the whole CAPTCHA system. The question that follows is: how are we going to prove we are humans then? According to a Forbes.com article, hackers who are trying to defeat CAPTCHAs are essentially creating programs to think like humans. To counter this, companies will tend to generate ...