Google launches its new machine learning platform

The service is called Cloud Machine Learning and it will be available in a limited preview starting yesterday. According toTech Crunch, the search giants chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google believes machine learning is whats next. Our platform is now available as a cloud service to bring unmatched scale and speed to your business applications. The Cloud Speech API powers Googles own voice search and voice-enabled apps. It can do speech-to-text conversion for 80+ languages....

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 94 words · Matthew Hanson

Intel Officially Kills “Tick-Tock”

The strategy states that a processor must have double the number of transistors after a period of two years. The Motely Fool Read More source: www.techworm.net

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 26 words · Tammy Barton

Microsoft’s TAY AI Chatbot transforms into Hitler loving, sex promoting robot

Twitter seems to turn even an machine into a racist these days. Tay was an Microsoft experiment in conversational understanding. However, Twitter can turn even the most eloquent of diplomats into zombies and the same happened to Tay. And Tay started repeating these sentiments back to users and in the process turning into one hatred filled robot. https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712753457782857730 Tay has been yanked offline reportedly because she is tired. Perhaps Microsoft is fixing her to prevent a PR nightmare but it may be too late for that....

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 91 words · Tracy Ramirez

This is how Anonymous fooled Donald Trump, FBI and the Secret Service

However, the information had not been hacked or leaked. In fact, everything Anonymous posted had been online and available for anyone to see for years. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance says Sun Tzu Read More source: www.techworm.net

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 38 words · Kelly Clark

This small, cheap microbial fuel cell turns urine into electricity

Bioenergy is one such source, and microbial fuel cells can produce it. Microbial fuel cells use the natural processes of certain bacteria to turn organic matter into electricity. There are other ways of generating bioenergy, including anaerobic digestion, fermentation and gasification. But microbial fuels have the advantage of working at room temperature and under ordinary atmospheric pressure. They are also efficient, relatively cheap to run and generate less waste than the other methods....

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 165 words · Bryan Harris

Turns out FBI is taking help of Israeli company Cellebrite for hacking the iPhone

How will it hack the iPhone without Apples help? Looks like an Israeli cybersecurity firm is helping FBI to crack the San Bernardino shooters iPhone without Apples intervention. Cellebrite has a good working relation with FBI. In 2013, the FBI purchased two kits for extracting data from cell phones from Cellebrite. It had more than $280,000 worth of contracts with the agency. source: www.techworm.net

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 64 words · Mr. Stephen Smith MD

You can soon play PlayStation games on iPhones and Android smartphones

You could soon be playing Sony PlayStation games on your Android smartphone or iPhone. Atsushi Morita, SCEs head in Japan and Asia, will lead Forward Works. Other directors of the organization include Andrew House, who is Group CEO of SCE. Miitomo is a social app that lets users create cartoon-like avatars. Sony on its part has hinted to bring hardcore gaming titles to iOS and Android platform in future. source: www....

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 71 words · Michael Bryant

‘We will strike back’ says Anonymous to ISIS for Brussels attack

While the group is best known for hacking its targets, this time Anonymous is also calling for compassion. You dont have to hack them. The Islamic State cannot recruit Muslims in Europe if they are accepted and included in the society. So we want all of you to stand together against discrimination. We do not forgive, the video continued. We do not forget. The group has vowed to keep hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their Bitcoins....

March 24, 2016 · 1 min · 116 words · Kristy Murphy

A cybersecurity startup that aims to change the rules of web security game

At Nullcon security conference last week, NCC Group presented detailed research about vulnerability detection with automated vulnerability scanners. Even the best scan results contained about 50% of false-positives. We definitely need a game changer for web security market, and the time for that has now come. Everything is done online and is available 24/7 from any machine, including your smartphone. According to High-Tech Bridge, they dont just test OWASP Top 10....

March 23, 2016 · 1 min · 145 words · William Gill

Android rooting bug puts millions of Android smartphones at risk from hackers

The bug reared its head again in 2015 and was given the vulnerability identifier CVE-2015-1805 in February 2015. Repairing the rig would require reflashing the operating system. Google has also released aunscheduled patch for its own Nexus productsto protect them from being exploited in the wild. Google then confirmed that a publicly available rooting app could also compromise the Nexus 6. The company has also updated the Android Verify Apps security feature to detect the rooting apps....

March 23, 2016 · 1 min · 145 words · Randy Martinez

Developer breaks thousands of JavaScript, Node apps with 11 lines of code

There is a saying that even hell doesnt have the fury of a scorned woman. A Kik lawyer asked him to delete it from npm. My answer was no, Koculu explained. Kiks legal team then approached npm CEOIsaac Schlueterand requested the name change. Koculu responded by unpublishing all his packages from npm, which included the critical left-pad module. The left-pad module had around 100,000 downloads per day and 2.5 million only in the past month....

March 23, 2016 · 1 min · 94 words · Megan Koch

Experts say ‘invisibility cloaks’ for military tech could breach Geneva Conventions

However, a military lawyer has warned that this could breach theGeneva Conventionson the rules of war. Light reflects off the cloak (red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror. Also forbidden is the misuse of enemy, UN, protective or neutral signs, and flags and symbols. is one of the technologies under scrutiny from Boothby. However, during combat, the supervisors workload should be low enough to ensure that proper decisions are made....

March 23, 2016 · 1 min · 90 words · Aaron Matthews

Facebook’s latest tool will automatically catch troll accounts and let users kill them

According toMashable, even though the notification process is automated, each response is manually reviewed by Facebooks team. This could be a clever way to use its facial recognition feature found in Moments. source: www.techworm.net

March 23, 2016 · 1 min · 34 words · Crystal Henderson