Month: January 2022
TikTok to fight Holocaust denial
TikTok has rolled out new measures to combat Holocaust denial on its platform in partnership with Unesco and the World Jewish Congress. A total of 17% of content related to the Holocaust on the viral video app either denied or distorted events, Unesco said. Users will also be pointed to the website if they look
China Unicom banned from US
China Unicom has become the latest Chinese telecoms giant to be banned from the US over “significant” national security and espionage concerns. Chinese technology and telecoms firms have been targeted in recent years by US authorities over national security concerns. In November, President Joe Biden signed legislation that stops companies judged to be a security
Battle Robots
The robots will have the ability to operate themselves in the air or on the ground. This first phase of the project will also explore the use of robotic dogs to support troops in dangerous and complex urban environments. In Britain, Three companies have each been given £3m contracts to investigate the use of autonomous
HP Wins Autonomy Sale Case
Hewlett Packard has won a multibillion-dollar fraud case over its acquisition of a British software company. HP sued its founder and former chief financial officer, claiming they “artificially inflated Autonomy’s reported revenues, revenue growth and gross margins”. The conclusions, read out at the High Court in London, come more than two years after the start
Apple AirTag safety guide
Apple has released an updated safety guide amid ongoing concerns over the company’s AirTag devices. The Personal User Safety Guide offers advice on how people can keep themselves and their data safe. AirTags are designed to locate lost items using Apple’s powerful ‘Find My’ network. Its AirTags section shows users what to do if they
Lab Grown Meat
Cultured meat represents the future of the meat and fish industries, as it will eventually be more equitable, cleaner, greener and safer. Cultured meat is clearly more sustainable moving forward, as animal agriculture and fishing have hugely negative environmental impacts. But especially when it comes to fish lab-grown fish is much cleaner, being free from
Face Recognition and Social Risk
with the advent of facial recognition software, augmented with machine learning algorithms, does this area of technology require greater public debate before this technology becomes widely used also, This technology is already being used around the world and is seeing an increase in integrated use in modern devices, unlocking your phone is a good example.
electric cars transportation
As with many technological developments the cheaper the innovation the quicker it will be adopted and the more likely it will be to stand the test of time, in this way hydrogen looks to be a more likely next step in environmentally friendly vehicles. While both electric and hydrogen vehicles are set to be a
5g Revolution
Preliminary research has shown that 5G technology which uses extremely high frequency electromagnetic waves, sometimes called millimetre waves due to their wavelengths being around millimetre, may carry increased health risks compared with older wireless communication technologies. As these millimetre waves have a much smaller range 5G technologies would require a much denser network of transmitters
machine Sophistication
Research into machine translation goes back to the 1950’s , After nearly seventy years of development machine translation is still in its infancy, with computer aided translation only managing fairly basic word for word translation or statistical prediction of relevant meaning. It could be argued that a machine or computer would never be able to