© Provided by capital.gr Rakuten Viber, the company behind one of the world’s leading apps for free and easy communication, announces that it will cut off all business relationship with Facebook. As announced the app will remove “Facebook Connect”, “Facebook SDK” and “GIPHY”, but will also cut off all advertising spending on the social networking platform, giving further impetus

© Provided by sofokleousin.gr After 28 years of research and development, “Boston Dynamics” is putting its first robotic dog on the market. The $74,500 price tag may sound “sharp”, but anyone who has this money can easily obtain it through a simple online store order. This robot model is named “Spot”, several references have already

© Provided by sofokleousin.gr Japan has proven that the perception that “in two, the third does not fit” is wrong, at least as far as supercomputers are concerned. Significant reshuffles are taking place in the new “Top 500” ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, a symbol of national technological

© Provided by Esquire Is there finally in Apple’s plans to create a foldable iPhone 12? This is a question that until some time ago was closer to the realm of the imaginary, than to a more viable approach to Apple’s next big smartphone, which is becoming the hottest topic in the technological world

© naftemporiki.gr A spyware cyber-espionage operation targeted users through 3.2 million “downloads” of extensions to Google’s popular web browser “Chrome”, researchers from “Awake Security” told Reuters; pointing to the problems the tech industry faces in protecting “browsers”, while they are increasingly used for communication, payments and other sensitive functions. Google said it removed more

© RatPack.gr TECH There are now many ways to lock your Android phone, but which is the safest? Nowadays you have to be very careful with your mobile phone, since thousands of phone thefts happen every day. Someone may steal your phone at any time and not notice it. That’s

© Provided by Esquire The New York Stern School of Business has published an extensive study of how Facebook moderators handle information on a daily basis and how it is filtered by both themselves and artificial intelligence systems before or after it is published. According to estimates and the data

© naftemporiki.gr Robots equipped with ultraviolet lamps that patrol vineyards at night to treat diseases that can destroy them, researchers at Cornell AgriTech in New York and SAGA Robotics in Norway have developed. Two such robots are being tested in Chardonnay vineyards in two areas in New York and are set to hit the market

© naftemporiki.gr New electronic material for soft robots Imagine a flexible digital screen that is repaired on its own when it breaks, or a bright robot that detects survivors in dark, dangerous environments, or does dangerous jobs: These visions may become a reality thanks to the work of NUS (National University of Singapore) researchers who developed a

© Provided by Protothema.gr A Japanese robot automatically disinfects hospitals and other sites, destroying the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in just two minutes, using ultraviolet radiation (UV). The “LightStrike” robot of medical equipment company Terumo emits ultraviolet light at a wavelength of 200 to 315 nanometers, which disinfects beds, doorknobs and other surfaces. After irradiation of two to

© Provided by pestaola.gr A new way of interacting with users explores Facebook, creating a new chatbot. This digital interlocutor should present as many human characteristics as possible in the way it interacts with users, so appropriate preparation and training of Artificial Intelligence is required. To that end, Facebook has recruited

© Provided by capital.gr The first international “bell” on the Covid-19 was rang not by a human but by an American computer with artificial intelligence. On December 30, 2019, the “smart” software of the Boston Children’s Hospital HealthMap website, which uses artificial intelligence to monitor social media, news, online searches and other information that may indicate signs of a new

© Provided by pestaola.gr In 2019, 773,943 Kaspersky solution users were attacked by banking “Trojans”. Of these users, one third (35.1%) belonged to the business sector. These are among the findings of Kaspersky’s analysis of the economic threat landscape last year. Banking “Trojans” or “bankers” are one of the most

© Provided by pestaola.gr Canon security expert Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security Canon, offers his top tips for staying safe, while working from home. Electronic “phishing” for problems: Cyber criminals are always lurking for new opportunities, and employees moving out of the company’s network are attractive targets. According to new researches, there has

© Provided by Protothema.gr iphone-hand A security gap in the operating system of Apple’s iPhones and iPads devices, which may have exposed hundreds of millions of users to the risk of hackers brought to light by US cyber-security company ZecOps. Apple has announced that the relevant “patch” that will fix the problem will be included in the next update

© Provided by pestaola.gr Visa offers a number of useful tips for all those who choose e-commerce during quarantine. Online shopping is the norm in the months when the country’s population stays at home, so it is advisable to follow some simple but basic safety rules, according to Visa. Now, even the supply of a household