Machine learning and big data know it wasn't you who just swiped your credit card
Nov 26, 2015 00:27 am UTC| Technology Insights & Views
Youre sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit cards fraud detection unit asking if youve just made a purchase at a department store in your city. It wasnt you who bought expensive...
Imagine if technology could read and react to our emotions
Nov 26, 2015 00:20 am UTC| Technology Insights & Views
Computers have always been good at doing fast calculations, but adapting to the emotional state of the person using the computer now there is a grand challenge! The field is called affective computing, and soon it will be...
Apple Takes Another Step Towards VR, Acquires Motion Capture Startup Faceshift
Nov 25, 2015 07:22 am UTC| Technology
According to latest reports, Apple has acquired Zurich-based start-up Faceshift that can greatly improve its position in the virtual reality business. Faceshift has developed a unique motion capture technology to create...
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages To Arrive Early 2016
Nov 25, 2015 06:26 am UTC| Technology
Google announced last month a new open source initiative, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), which as the name suggests aims to improve the performance of mobile web. The project relies on AMP HTML, a new open framework built...
Amazon Echo Now Supports Custom Voice Commands
Nov 24, 2015 12:36 pm UTC| Technology
It has been a year that Amazon Echo, an expertly tuned speaker, was launched. The device that can respond to human voice when addressed as, Alexa, has been improved by adding new functionalities, VCPost reported. Echo...
Anonymous can't defeat Islamic State, but here's what it could achieve
Nov 24, 2015 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Andres Guadamuz, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex The announcement that hacktivist collective Anonymous has declared war on the Islamic State has been received positively by the public....
Samsung Galaxy A9 Rumors: Specifications, Price, Release Date
Nov 24, 2015 10:55 am UTC| Technology
According to recent reports, a mid-range Samsung Galaxy A series smartphone is on the cards. The reports surfaced after GeekBench browser listed Samsung SM-A9000. According to Geekbench website, the single core score for...