Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants, memo shows
A long and growing list of agencies are using money to bypass Carpenter ruling. Enlarge / If your phone knows where you are, the feds can, too. (credit: Luis Alvarez | Getty Images) The Defense Intelligence Agency, which provides military inte.....»»
Deliveroo posted narrowed loss of $309M, with gross transactions surging to $5.7B in 2020, EITF shows
The clock has officially started ticking on Deliveroo’s plans to go public in April. After announcing last week that it planned to list on the London Stock Exchange, today the on-demand food delivery company backed by Amazon and others publish.....»»
Pickups largely shielded from chip shortage
Automakers appear to have minimized the production impact on their most profitable vehicles during the global microchip shortage. Here’s the latest data from AutoForecast Solutions......»»
Facebook’s new AI teaches itself to see with less human help
This new approach eliminates the need for picture labeling. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Most artificial intelligence is still built on a foundation of human toil. Peer inside an AI algorithm and you’ll find something constructed using dat.....»»
Can Users Poison the Data Big Tech Uses to Surveil Them?
"Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change," argues a new article in MIT's Technology Review (shared by long-time Slashdot reader mspohr): Data is fed into machine-learning algorithms to target you wi.....»»
With unfair police treatment, the tragedy is not limited to the incident itself
New research using a nationally representative sample of more than 12,000 participants shows the collateral consequences victims are likely to confront following unfair treatment by police......»»
US Blacklisted China"s Xiaomi Because of Award Given To Its Founder
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: U.S. officials blacklisted Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp. as a company with military ties partly due to an award given to the company's founder for his service to the state, the.....»»
Samsung’s 3-nm Tech Shows Nanosheet Transistor Advantage
Nanosheet devices allow tuning of memory cell design in a way FinFETs can’t The logic chip industry is heading toward a fundamental change in the structure of transistors. Today’s transistors, called FinFETs, will give way to devices variou.....»»
Study shows cactus pear as drought-tolerant crop for sustainable fuel and food
Could cactus pear become a major crop like soybeans and corn in the near future, and help provide a biofuel source, as well as a sustainable food and forage crop? According to a recently published study, researchers from the University of Nevada, Ren.....»»
Artificial intelligence reveals current drugs that may help combat Alzheimer"s disease
Researchers have developed a method based on artificial intelligence that rapidly identifies currently available medications that may treat Alzheimer's disease. The method also reveals potential new treatment targets for the disease......»»
Fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke more harmful than pollution from other sources
Researchers examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust. While this dis.....»»
Is the OSI Model Still Relevant?
For decades the OSI Model has been the standard framework to understand how data flows. Will it survive as new internet models emerge?.....»»
How Data Centers Must Evolve in the Cloud First Era
Data centers are looking more like public clouds. New infrastructures will transform how they are managed......»»
Early-stage investor Mayfield shows how to scale up your biotech startup at TC Early Stage in April
Early-stage investor Mayfield shows how to scale up your biotech startup at TC Early Stage in April.....»»
Study finds no link between gender and physics course performance
A new data-driven study from Texas A&M University casts serious doubt on the stereotype that male students perform better than female students in science—specifically, physics......»»
Instrument at BESSY II shows how light activates molybdenum disulfide layers to become catalysts
MoS2 thin films of superposed alternating layers of molybdenum and sulfur atoms form a two-dimensional semiconducting surface. However, even a surprisingly low-intensity blue light pulse is enough to alter the properties of the surface and make it me.....»»
"Fungal ghosts" protect skin, fabric from toxins, radiation
The idea of creating selectively porous materials has captured the attention of chemists for decades. Now, new research from Northwestern University shows that fungi may have been doing exactly this for millions of years......»»
Study shows that the GW190521 event could be explained by primordial black holes
In September 2020, the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, a large team of scientists working at different universities worldwide, announced that they had detected most massive gravitational wave binary signal observed to date, which they called GW190521. In a.....»»
MicroStrategy Buys Another 205 Bitcoins, Now Owns 91,064 Bitcoins
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy disclosed on Friday that it just spent $10 million in cash to buy 205 bitcoins. From a report: The enterprise software and bitcoin holder said it paid an average price of $48,888 for each bitcoin, including fe.....»»
Early-stage investor Mayfield shows how to scaleup your biotech startup at TC Early Stage in April
Early-stage investor Mayfield shows how to scaleup your biotech startup at TC Early Stage in April.....»»
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DIGITAL FORENSICS
Artificial intelligence is a very prominent field having the major focus on solving the real time complexities of the issues that could have been raised. Digital forensics basically involves the computation of the data thus given intelligently. Using.....»»