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protothema.gr: Research: mobiles and internet addiction causes brain imbalance The addiction of people to “smart” electronic devices could cause a significant brain imbalance, according to a new study published by the British newspaper “Independent”. The research, which was conducted on people who depended on their mobile phone and the internet, Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Microscopic “machines”, known as molecular machines or nanomachines, are likely to play an important role in the future in the development of new materials, sensors, energy storage systems and other innovations with practical applications such as nano-robots circulating within the body to destroy cancer cells. © Shutterstock nanomachines, the “vehicle” Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. Three-quarters of Android apps monitoring you – Tinder, Spotify and Uber among them Do you use Tinder, Spotify, Snapchat and Uber on a smartphone? Then you have to know that you are being monitored. According to a survey by Yale University’s personal data lab Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© Provided by: pestaola.gr Baidu and Xiaomi announced their strategic partnership in two growing technology sectors: the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. The announcements were made during the first Xiaomi developers conference in Beijing. Baidu is considered to be the Chinese rival of US Google and is listed with Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Taryn Southern -highly successful on the YouTube platform- once took part in talent shows and was trying to work with people. Today Southern boasts synthetic capabilities of her partner, an Artificial Intelligence program (AI), which completed her new album: “I AM AI”. Southern wrote the melodies and lyrics and then Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Some time ago, Saudi Arabia took an original decision and granted citizenship to a humanoid robot, Sophia. It is the first country to proceed with such a move. Sophia is designed based on the image of Ondrej Heborn from “Hanson Robotics”, a company in Hong Kong. As has already been Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
US scientists, funded by the US Army, are developing the first artificial brain implants designed for the “automatic” treatment of mental illnesses. These devices record neuronal activity, and when they think something is wrong, they automatically stimulate the brain with electrical pulses to change the feelings and behavior of a Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
naftemporiki.gr Bookmarks: New feature on Twitter Last month, Twitter had begun to work on a new tweets saving / storing feature that appears on the timeline so that the user can spot them or find them again in the future. Plus, this feature has been named, while testing is in Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© www.cnn.gr Tech In our time, Twitter even used by the trees. And the tweets they send have to do with the effects of climate change on them in real time. Scientists in Europe are using the power of social media to showcase the impact it has (climate change) on Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© Shutterstock Biohackers change their DNA by themselves! Some have begun to “hack” their DNA themselves, in other words, to modify their genetic material at will and without scientific supervision at home, using genetic “tools” that can be traded on the Internet as well. Biologist Joshua Zainer, who previously worked Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© www.cnn.gr Tech Hundreds of websites, even of well-known companies, use dedicated logging software to track exactly what the user is typing on his keyboard when he visits their web pages. This practice -which is questionable by its legitimacy according to experts, since it is not done with the knowledge Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© www.cnn.gr Tech In five years at most hackers of a hostile country or malicious terrorists will be able to massively control most cars on the streets of a city, causing unavoidable millions of deaths. The nightmarish scenario -which may soon be no longer a scenario- presented to the British Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© Provided by: Capital.gr First -European-wide- the Greeks in online gaming. Almost last in their knowledge of the internet 70% of Greeks are connected to the internet “on the go” via a portable device. The overwhelming majority (9 out of 10) are young, aged 16-27 90% of young people aged Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
© naftemporiki.gr Firefox Quantum was launched on November 14th. As Mark Mayo, vice president of Mozilla, wrote in a blogpost, has been the biggest update since Firefox 1.0 was launched in 2004. Greater speed with less memory promises Mozilla with its new browser, Firefox Quantum, which has which has caused Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
Another milestone in the long way to creating quantum computing was achieved by the big US company IBM, which announced it has created the first processor with 50 quantum “bits” or qubits. This is the first time a company achieves this, which gives a comparative advantage to IBM against Google Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …
JESSE DRUCKER, SIMON BOWERS / THE NEW YORK TIMES The US company earns almost 70% of its worldwide profits from its offshore business. Four years ago, exasperated Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, told US Senate members that his company never avoided paying taxes or transferring profits to exotic Caribbean islands. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …