Following a month of fatal ransomware attacks, the North American country of Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency. This measure is intended to relieve the government of less tasks so as to tackle the crisis more effectively. President…
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Privacy Activists Against EU’s New Plan to Fight Child Abuse
On Wednesday, the European Union revealed new proposals which would require online platforms to more effectively screen and eliminate child abuse online. This legislation would allow countries in the EU to tell courts to order companies like Meta and Apple…
U.S. Cities Debate Repeal of Ban on Facial Recognition Software as Crime Rate Increases
No As a result of the massive rise in crime rate, bans on facial recognition because of its racial bias in the U.S. are under serious threat. This is also due to increase in lobbying from developers. In July, Virginia…
Apple, Google and Microsoft to Introduce New Passkey Standard
To celebrate ‘World Password Day’ (the first Thursday of May), Microsoft, Google and Apple are launching a ‘joint effort’ to stop the use of passwords. They want to ‘expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO…
Researchers Say Facebook Outage May Show Extent of Dependency on Social Media
Researchers have suggested that users’ response to social outages show how social media is viewed as important as electricity and gas, and not just a mere tool of entertainment and communication. Studying the reactions of users to an outage of…
Study Says COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed Divide in Mental Health Among College Students
According to researchers at Dartmouth College, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that young people most concerned about the virus had a likelihood of struggling with depression, self-anxiety and low self-esteem. ‘The pandemic has put students on a literal mental health…
Researchers Create AI that Reviews Products
In 2020, the computer science team of Alan Riddell, Dan Rockmore, and Keith Carlson set out to create a computer code to write product reviews. However, they struggled with a practical question. ‘Getting the code to write reviews was only…
U.S. “Fort Worth” City, First City to Mine Bitcoin
Fort Worth, Texas, is now the first city government in the U.S. to mine bitcoin. A small mining farm was constructed in City Hall, supervised by Mayor Mattie Parker. The three mining rigs will run 24/7 all through the week…
Mobile App Makes it Possible to test for Neurological Disease at Home
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego recently developed a mobile app that allows people test for ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other neurological diseases just by recording closeups of their eyes. The app makes use of a…
Non-Invasive Respiratory Support Success could be linked to Reducing Breathing Breathing Efforts of COVID-19 Patients
Engineering researchers from the University of Warwick and their team have used computational modelling to illustrate that non-invasive respiratory support has a greater chance of being successful if it allows reductions in the breathing efforts of patients. They compared the…