New malware empties bank accounts!

ESET researchers have discovered a new bank malware, BackSwap, which uses an unusual technique to bypass special protection measures of popular browsers. Malware, which ESET detects and blocks as Win32 / BackSwap.A, attacks through Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, while in recent releases its creators added attack and Internet Explorer features. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Artificial intelligence system recognizes people by their walk

Researchers at the University of Manchester, in collaboration with scientists at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, have developed a biometric artificial intelligence system that can recognize a person from his steps and ways of walking: In particular, the system can recognize the person simply from the moment he presses a Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

The first bio-electric capsule detects stomach bleeding

Researchers at MIT University in the US have created the first capsule-sensor, containing genetically modified bacteria, which can diagnose bleeding in the stomach. It is actually a bacteria “chip” that combines sensors from living microorganisms with electronics of very low energy consumption. The bacterial-electronic sensor transforms the “signal” (i.e. the Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

3D printer creates biological tissues

©naftemporiki.gr “Tissues are splendidly complex structures, so to create artificial versions of them that work properly, we have to replicate their complexity” said Ali Handemehocheini, who led… A UCLA engineer has developed a technique that uses a specially designed three-dimensional printer (3D printer) to create therapeutic biomaterials from multi-materials. This Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

“Smart” jell-material moving on the bottom of the sea and moves objects

©naftemporiki.gr “Smart” jell-material moving on the bottom of the sea and moves objects A “smart”, 3D-printed jell-material that can “walk” on the bottom, grab objects and move them, developed engineers at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. This material could be used on robots that mimic marine beings like the octopus, Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Apple develops an in-display fingerprint scanner

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Apple is reported to be among the companies experimenting with the use of fingerprint scanners placed on the smartphone screen. According to a report by the Korean newspaper Chosun, Apple is among the companies that will attempt to take such a step. At this stage, the Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Nanorobot made the nanohome, the smallest home in the world

© www.cnn.gr Tech A French team of nanorobotic engineers used a new micro robotic-system to create the smallest home in the world. Researchers used a focused ion beam, a tiny robot, a microscope, and other nanostructure technologies inside a vacuum chamber to build a Nano home, where even mites do not Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Robots that move without battery and motor

©naftemporiki.gr The new propulsion system is based on strips of a flexible polymer that bends when it is cold and stretches when it is hot. This polymer is positioned to activate a switch in … Caltech and ETH Zurich engineers have developed robots capable of moving on their own without Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Significant security gap in email encryption technology

© naftemporiki.gr Significant security gap in email encryption technology An important vulnerability was found in a widely used email encryption technology, according to researchers. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data encryption method sometimes added to programs that send and receive emails. Details of the security gap were made public Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Twitter takes action against “trolls”

©www.cnn.gr Tech Twitter has announced that it is taking additional measures against “trolls” that distort public debate on its platform, making their posts less visible and harder to access. For several years now, the social media tool, founded in 2006 and popularized by the freedom allowed by it, attempts to address Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

The Facebook Messenger design changes radically

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Facebook Messenger is changing its design once again, focusing on the functions of the conversation. The purpose of Facebook Messenger is to return to simpler forms, making it easier -with the new user interface- to make daily contact with the user. According to Verge, the change Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

In the future, Google’s artificial intelligence will phone for you!

© Sofokleousin.gr In the future, Google’s artificial intelligence will phoning for you! Google has introduced a new Artificial Intelligence software that makes an appointment or phone bookings on behalf of users, making voice conversations on their behalf e.g. with a doctor, a hairdresser or a restaurant. As CEO Sunart Pinchai Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Artificial intelligence that mimics the brain by finding the way into virtual labyrinths

©www.cnn.gr Tech Deep Mind, Google’s subsidiary in the field of Artificial Intelligence, unveiled a new program that can successfully find its way into a virtual labyrinth. The originality lies in the fact that the deep learning algorithm of the new artificial intelligence system can “spontaneously” mimic the activity of human brain Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

ZooPark: New malware campaign targeting Android devices

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered “ZooPark”, a sophisticated digital espionage campaign that has been targeting Android devices for several years, based in several Middle Eastern countries. Using legitimate websites as sources of “contamination”, the campaign appears to be supported by nation-states and targets political organizations, activists Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Now Android in refrigerators also

© Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. Google created the “Android Things” platform to bring the “Android” operating system to all kinds of “smart” home appliances and other IoT devices such as refrigerators, robots and automatic vending machines . As with mobile phones, Google does not intend to charge manufacturers of Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

YouTube Remix will replace Google Play Music

©Provided by: pestaola.gr The official launch of the “YouTube Remix” streaming service is expected to mark the end of “Google Play Music”. According to reliable sources reported in various Internet articles, “Google Play Music” is expected to stop at the end of 2018 and will be replaced by the new Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …