The United Nations Climate Change Conference, which was postponed a year because of COVID-19, has promoted a series of announcements from foundations and individuals attempting to pour money into efforts to fight climate change, an area many think philanthropy has neglected. As policymakers from around the world gathered in Glasgow for a series of long-awaited […]
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Several countries and companies announced plans Wednesday to stop selling cars that run on gasoline or diesel over the next two decades, as part of efforts to clamp down on a significant source of planet-warming emissions. But the impact of the measures will likely be limited since several major car markets — notably the United […]
The Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery September crash near Miami accelerated to 90 mph (145 kph) in the seconds before he lost control and smashed into trees, federal investigators said Wednesday — a conclusion disputed by the attorney representing the driver’s family. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a […]
Cryptocurrencies are on the rise, as two of the world’s biggest cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum, soared on Monday to new records as Ether hits its all-time high, exceeding $4,700. The world’s leading digital asset, Bitcoin, rose to its latest upshot by jumping 7 percent, reaching a valuation of $66,170, almost binding to its October 20’s […]
In a field like cybersecurity, where a company’s operational integrity depends on their ability to detect, protect, respond, and govern data from root to stem, it is no surprise that machine learning and artificial Intelligence in cyber security would rise to great prominence. It was always inevitable that Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]
The silos between messaging and voice are disappearing and that is creating demand for service providers that understand what it takes to be successful in both segments. Enterprises need to choose a set of solutions that can serve their needs no matter what communications application they’re using. The increased demand for unified communications has created […]
Uber on Thursday posted a big rebound in third-quarter revenue thanks to riders and drivers returning from pandemic lockdowns, but its bottom-line loss was wider than Wall Street expected. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said its third-quarter loss widened to $2.42 billion, or $1.28 per share, from $1.1 billion, or 62 cents per share, in […]
An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. It’s the latest challenge for the New York startup that has angered privacy advocates around the world over its practice of “scraping” photos from social media […]
The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The company, whose spyware researchers say has been used around the world to break into the phones of human rights activists, journalists, and even […]
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of […]