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Infamous ‘Gaydar’ AI Tries (Again), Fails (Again) & Shuts Down
‘Gaydar’ AI Is Shutdown After 2nd Test Fails Do you think it’s possible to determine whether someone is homosexual or heterosexual simply by looking at them? To me, it’s a concept that sounds absolutely ridiculous. For more than a little while, however, a somewhat disturbing ‘Gaydar’ AI has existed which…
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Apple’s ‘Netflix For News’ App To Demand 50% Revenue Cut
Apple’s ‘Netflix For News’ There have been growing reports over the last few months that Apple was planning to launch a news/magazine service via their App Store. The program would, in basic terms, provide good relevant news and magazines of interest to readers based on a rather modest subscription fee.…
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Tinder Investigating After 40,000 Pictures Taken From Site
Tinder is investigating an incident in which over 40,000 user facial pictures were downloaded by a programmer and shared on the internet. The data obtained by the programmer is now offline, however, it was mostly thought to have affected users based in the California region (although activity outside this area is…
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Researcher Finds Bug That Allowed Free Uber Rides
Bug bounty programs can be a lucrative income source for white-hat hackers and it was so for security researcher Anand Prakash who discovered a huge flaw in the Uber’s system. The flaw would essentially let people abusing it book rides for which they never have to pay. The bug was…
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ASUSTOR Launches ADM 2.7 Beta
ASUSTOR NAS’ are about to become even better than they already are with the recent release of ADM 2.7 beta. While its still in the beta form, it’s stable enough for public testing and it brings along some great new features along with bug fixes. “Creating a user-friendly and easy-to-use…
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Enjoy Your Own Modular Robot – CellRobot!
Robotics have come a long way from the days in which we imagined a machine helping someone walk. Now not only are machines helping people walk, they are giving limbs back to those who have lost their own, helping create houses and combining with 3D printers to replace and build…
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Apple Starts Invite Only Bug-Bounty Program
Companies are looking at increasing their security, working on finding and dealing with problems as they occur. One way companies are looking at addressing these issues is through bug-bounty programs. Apple is looking at starting to their own while but with an invite-only twist. Apple’s new scheme was announced at…
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Classic Yahoo Messenger to be Terminated This Year
In the day of electronic communications, we’ve seen our messages change from a telephone call to text on your phone and now you can send images and documents from your phone without a second thought. First introduced in 1998, Yahoo has had a messaging application for years but it would…
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Windows 10 May Be Removing Programs Without Telling You
Windows 10 is designed to be the next step for Microsoft’s operating system, with internet functions built-in alongside apps and new gaming technologies designed to help users make the choice to move that little bit easier. With Windows 10 now a recommended update you would expect that some users would…
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Computers Can Now Accurately Forge Human Handwriting
Alex Graves, a specialist in Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural networks at the University of Toronto, published a number of fascinating findings before the documentation was quickly removed. Graves’ research is astonishing and revolves around the concept that specific data points in combination with a Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural network…
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Four New Bugs Have Been Found in Internet Explorer
I know most of you don’t even use Internet Explorer and we all know how it was humiliated throughout the years. However, since the new Microsoft Edge might be using some IE code, it’s worth pointing this out anyway. It looks like security experts have encountered and disclosed four new…
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A Robot Passed the Self-Awareness Test and This Is How It Did It
When talking about robots and self-awareness, I think most people would just freak out, but there are some people who would be extremely excited and interested about these things. But I don’t think freaking out would be the case here, even though a robot just passed the first self-awareness test…
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Not Everyone Will Get Windows 10 on the 29th of July
If you were eagerly waiting to get your hands on Windows 10 on the 29th of July, you might be a bit disappointed. Microsoft just ruled out some updates on the upcoming Windows distribution timings, so bear with us on this. The company said that Windows Insider program members will…
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Google’s Inception Module
Google are an innovative bunch who invest in concepts which can be visually stimulating, I could have found a more apt word, but will stick with it. This time around the search giant’s creation, in this case goes by the name of “The Inception Module” and is software which is…
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Facebook-Less Messenger Is a Thing
First there was MySpace and Bebo, then came along Facebook. Now everything from your computer to your phone can have Facebook on it, be it the social website or just the messaging aspect of the social site. Now it would seem that users are able to use the messaging platform,…
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