Category: General
Instagram thinks sharing your friend’s rape threat will get you back on the app
An Instagram post of friends walking through the crystal-clear waves of Ibiza might get someone to check in with the photo-sharing app, but a screenshot of a rape threat? Not so much. On Thursday, Guardian reporter Olivia Solon shared on Twitter that Instagram had tried to do such a thing with one of her posts—it shared […]
How secure is Apple’s Face ID, really?
In its latest product event, Apple confidently moved to convince consumers that face recognition is the most convenient way to secure your phone and the sensitive information you store in it. Face ID, the company’s face recognition technology, which will be replacing its fingerprint scanner in the new iPhone X, requires you to only show […]
Should we ban sex robots while we have the chance? | Jenny Kleeman
“AI sex dolls are on their way, with potentially sinister social consequences. So before they hit the market, we must ask whether they should,” writes robotics expert Jenny Kleeman. People are blowing a fuse about sex robots or rather, rape robots. Journalists from the New Statesman and the New York Times among others have […]
New poll finds U.K. ‘woefully unprepared’ for the zombie apocalypse
Perhaps, given things like climate change and the threat of nuclear war,, it’s not surprising to find that most citizens of the United Kingdom aren’t worried about the zombie apocalypse. That’s what a poll by YouGov, an internet-based market research firm, indicates. According to their findings, only 11 percent of Brits have a plan for […]
Onfido raises $30M more for its AI-based identity verification technology
Malicious hackers and security breaches that have exposed personal information of millions of people have pushed the issue of online security into the spotlight, not just for individuals but for organizations that do business with them. Now a company called Onfido, which has built a way to help websites verify people’s identities using a photo-based […]