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A new American supercomputer named “Summit” literally won the top of supercomputers, being the most powerful and “smart” in the world. “Summit” is based at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and reaches 200,000 trillion petaflops. The title of the No. 1 supercomputer so far Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging application, has announced new and innovative Chat Extensions, giving one billion registered users new fascinating ways to easily communicate and manage their conversations. In December 2016, Viber first introduced the Chat Extensions service, through which users have access to third-party content and services, Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Asia’s largest technology exhibition, Computex Taipei, opens its gates within the week. Visitors will come in contact with high-speed computer chips, PCs for gamers, and innovative startups. However, as far as money is concerned in the field of technology, to a large extent within Asia, it is enough to look Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
More fast, more stable and with a whole new set of features will be iOS 12, the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system (iPhone, iPad). At least this was supported by US giant executives during the WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple’s annual software developer meeting in San Jose, CA. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Coming directly from a sci-fi thriller scenario is Norman: An artificial intelligence, inspired by Hitchcock’s “Norman Bates” character, who is “trained” to understand images, but has an overly “dark” perception of the world. As the BBC says, when a “normal” algorithm generated by artificial intelligence is asked what it sees Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Telexistence is a startup based in Tokyo, which, when I learned about it, made me think about the future of retail. Telexistence, therefore, presented the first mass production of Model H robot. Its operation is simple: the robot is idle, but when the user activates the virtual reality mask, Model Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Apple is likely to upgrade the use of the NFC chip to the new iOS 12 software, which will be presented next week at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). This upgrade will allow the use of iPhone for operations beyond ApplePay, such as access to hotel rooms and public transportation. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Scientists in the UK have created the first three dimensional printed eye cornea. The technique opens the way so that in the future there will be an unlimited availability of corneas, which are the outer layer of the human eye, as today there is a lack of them for transplantation. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
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 …
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 …
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 …
©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 …
©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 …
© 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 …
© 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 …