© Provided by: capital.gr Google announced in June its effort to boost Chrome to such an extent that it can automatically block annoying ads. This announcement was made after the big development of ad blocking programs in the form of extensions, and now the company itself has decided to take

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Facebook announced yesterday that it would start using face recognition technology to inform users of the service when other users “upload” their photos. According to the company’s announcement the use of this feature will be optional while it is done to protect the privacy of the

©Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. Facebook: New button to get rid of your annoying friends Are some Facebook friends annoying, but you can not (do not want to) erase them? You may be one of those who will benefit from the new wake-up button that the network will launch  in

©naftemporiki.gr Broadband connection via … wet twine (rope) Engineer at a small, British Internet service provider has managed to make a broadband connection work by using two meters … wet twine (rope). Andrews and Arnold’s engineer who carried out the experiment made it essentially for fun. This connection was at

© Provided by: capital.gr. By Thomas Fox-Brewster Facebook has paid a fee to thank some well-meaning hackers who have modified a 19-year security gap that could potentially be exploited to intercept user accounts. Although the social network is now secure, many top websites remain vulnerable to this security gap, researchers

© Sofokleousin.gr Google: new apps turn you into comic! (vid) Now whoever -and whenever wants to- can become a comic character, and behind this entertaining innovation is of course the giant of technology called Google, which has launched new Apps. Google is developing new photo applications and has officially announced

© Provided by: capital.gr Facebook has announced a new augmented reality tool suite that its members will be able to use in messages they exchange via Messenger. “World effects” -as it characterizes them- allow the user to convert three-dimensional objects into photos and videos and use them for messages they

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Microsoft adds new tools with Artificial Intelligence features to Word, Excel, and Outlook applications in the Office 365 suite. More specifically, in an event organized by the San Francisco company on Artificial Intelligence, Office Insights was announced, a machine learning function that will analyze data from

©naftemporiki.gr “Modern space communication systems use complex software to support scientific and exploratory missions,” says Zanet Briones, lead researcher on this project at … NASA’s spacecrafts are generally based on human-controlled wireless systems to communicate with Earth – but as the volume of data grows, the US space agency is

© Provided by: pestaola.gr ESET researchers, in collaboration with Microsoft, have shaken down an important botnet business known as “Gamarue” that infects computers since 2011. The Gamarue Tracking Business (identified as Win32 / TrojanDownloader.Wauchos) also involved law enforcement agencies, in particular the FBI, Interpol, Europol and other agencies. Coordinated abusive

© protothema.gr How they can monitor mobile phones Edward Snowden, who revealed the massive surveillance of security authorities inside and outside the United States, has repeatedly warned that: “No smartphone is safe”. Indeed, there are few times when a variety of monitoring methods for large groups of people have seen

© naftemporiki.gr TITAN V: The world’s most powerful graphics card for PCs, from NVIDIA NVIDIA presented the world’s most powerful graphics processor (GPU), as the company claims: It’s TITAN V, which, according to the company, is the most powerful GPU for a PC -at this moment- in the world and

© Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. The 3-D printers -in a while- will print everything and fast The progress in three-dimensional printers is continuous and in a few years there will be almost nothing that can not be produced by such a device. Two new innovations come to confirm this:

© Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. Mozilla “collects” voices to make a new speech recognition program Everyone can -the last few days- “download” on his computer hundreds of thousands of voice samples already collected by the “Mozilla Foundation” under the new project of “Common Voice”. This is an open source

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Rolls-Royce have signed a co-operation agreement to examine ways in which space and satellite technology can be exploited to help develop autonomous and remotely controlled ships. Self-directed or remote-controlled ships will have less room for human error and smaller crews will be able to

© naftemporiki.gr Typing on electronic devices via a ring Technology that allows the user to form letters and numbers with his fingers and see them appear on electronic devices screens developed by Georgia Tech researchers. The system is activated via a ring on the thumb, which has a gyroscope and