It’s pretty cool when you’re assigned by your school to hack a mobile app, like when these Israeli students were assigned to hack Waze. The assignment was to demonstrate what malicious hackers could do by creating a fake traffic jam on the app, which provides real-time traffic updates and notifications to people on the road.… Continue reading Israeli Students Create Fake Traffic Jam in Waze App Hoax
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Facebook’s DeepFace Software Is Almost As Good As Humans at Matching Faces
Do you ever wonder what Facebook does with its trove of party pictures and Instagram shots? Well, besides storing photo albums that will only serve give our kids and grandkids a good laugh, Facebook has assembled an artificial intelligence team that’s using our photos to teach computers to verify human faces. According to a recent… Continue reading Facebook’s DeepFace Software Is Almost As Good As Humans at Matching Faces
After 25 Years of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee on Keeping the Internet Free and Open
On March 12, 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed “a universal linked information system” that would later become the structure of what we all know today as the World Wide Web. 25 years later, about 40% of the world’s population connects using the Web, and no end is in sight for the things we can accomplish… Continue reading After 25 Years of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee on Keeping the Internet Free and Open
The Human Brain Now Registers Emoticons like Real Faces
Today the smiley face emoticon is practically part of our everyday language. Between texts, emails, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, the emoticon is used by almost everyone, everywhere. So it’s no wonder our brains have adapted to recognize the smiling emoticon as if it were a real face. When numerous students began sending… Continue reading The Human Brain Now Registers Emoticons like Real Faces
Yahoo Gets Hacked and Resets Email Passwords
Have you recently been prompted by Yahoo Mail to reset your password? Yahoo discovered that hackers gained unauthorized access to email accounts yesterday and has taken a few steps to better protect its users. Although Yahoo was ambiguous about the nature of the “third party” attack in its security update, it has no evidence to… Continue reading Yahoo Gets Hacked and Resets Email Passwords
Earn Skill Certifications in Computer Science Online for Less than $500: The Pluses and Minuses of MOOCs
The technology skills gap has employers looking high and low for qualified candidates. According to CIO Magazine there are 3.9 million open positions out there that hiring managers say they have a hard time finding qualified candidates to fill. If you happen to be on the job market but are lacking those in-demand skills employers… Continue reading Earn Skill Certifications in Computer Science Online for Less than $500: The Pluses and Minuses of MOOCs
The Immunity Project Is Crowdfunding the World’s First Free Vaccine to End HIV and AIDS
Did you know that super powers actually exist? About one of every 300 people was born with a natural power: immunity to HIV. These “HIV controllers” have provided scientists a genetic blueprint to recreate the conditions any body needs to be immune from the deadly HIV virus. Using this research, the Immunity Project was able… Continue reading The Immunity Project Is Crowdfunding the World’s First Free Vaccine to End HIV and AIDS
Automation: Theory Vs. Reality
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I spend a lot of time on this task. Should I just write a program to automate it?” And then by the time you get to writing all the code, debugging it and going off on a few tangents, you notice that developing your program is actually taking… Continue reading Automation: Theory Vs. Reality
