NBN Co has revealed that over half of the 9274 applications it has received to date for a user-pays connection upgrade came from users in its fibre-to-the-node footprint. The new release of numbers for the ‘Technology Choice’ program, which...
Consider this scene from the 2014 film, Ex Machina: A young nerd, Caleb, is in a dim room with a scantily clad femmebot, Kyoko. Nathan, a brilliant roboticist, drunkenly stumbles in and brusquely tells Caleb to dance with the...
The QAnon conspiracy theory, spread in large part through social media, was recently supported by a majority of Republican voters. It is, at its baseless and thoroughly debunked core, the idea that a cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, baby-eating pedophiles...
Our dependency on tech has soared during the pandemic. The app analytics company App Annie found that people spent around 4 hours and 18 minutes per day on mobile devices in April 2020. That’s a 20% increase from the...
SYDNEY - Technology that can predict bushfires is being developed in Australia, one of the world’s most fire-prone countries. It will offer real-time visual displays of how fires are likely to spread. It comes as dozens of homes...
As machine-learning applications move into the mainstream, a new era of cyber threat is emerging—one that uses offensive artificial intelligence (AI) to supercharge attack campaigns. Offensive AI allows attackers to automate reconnaissance, craft tailored impersonation attacks, and even self-propagate...
GitHub has increased the developer’s cut from apps sold in the GitHub Marketplace from 75 percent to 95 percent, with the project hosting site keeping a 5 percent hosting fee. GitHub is also simplifying the app verification process for...
By the end of last year, there were few better symbols of bad-faith politics than Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that gives online platforms legal immunity for user-generated content. After a fairly sleepy existence since...
Mike Bloomberg invested tens of millions into Hawkfish over the last two years. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s the latest retrenchment from major Democratic donors in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Hawkfish,...
In their defense, many developers of predictive policing tools say that they have started using victim reports to get a more accurate picture of crime rates in different neighborhoods. In theory, victim reports should be less biased because they...
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