Taylor Swift has used facial recognition software for safety at events – but how far should the technology go? Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/TAS18/Getty Images for TAS Taylor Swift raised eyebrows late last year when Rolling Stone magazinerevealed her security team had deployed facial recognition recognition technology during her Repudiation tour to root out stalkers. But the company […]
When companies first try to explore the potential of new technology, they tend to think within current frameworks, but often miss its deep implications. Echoing the quote attributed to Henry Ford—“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”—we start using new technology to improve what we already do before realizing that […]
2019 is going to be an amazing year for technology. Truth be told, I’ve been saying that since I started in the tech space. But every year, it holds true – there are innovations across virtually every industry. Even as a technology professional, I find it hard to keep up. So, with all the great […]
Who do you trust online? That question may be the No. 1 litmus test for governments, companies, social media interactions, politicians, traditional news media, global websites and the people who use technology over the next decade. Allow me to explain one perspective on this trust question with an example from this past week. It was […]
In 1994, only 3 percent of U.S. classrooms offered access to the internet. Researchers like me coined the term the “digital divide” to acknowledge the emerging disparities between the “technology rich” and the “technology poor.” Since then, schools have been in a virtual arms race to acquire more technology. By 2005, 94 percent of instructional […]
Dr. Polina Anikeeva, is all things fascinating from being a passionate neural engineer to handing out tests inspired by comic book characters for her students at MIT. She is currently an associate professor in the Materials Science & Engineering department at MIT. She recently won the 2018 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. […]
WASHINGTON: China is making technological advances in a far shorter timeframe than it took the United States, rapidly narrowing the gap between the two countries, a senior US intelligence official said Jan 22. Reaping the benefits of sending tens of thousands of students and researchers to the United States, and a determined policy to buy and […]
By now, we’ve established that digital technologies — in their various forms — are capable of delivering cost savings and competitiveness. But there’s also an immense green side to digital that has not been fully calculated. A recent report out of the World Economic Forum suggests digital technology will help cut global emissions by a least 15 […]
FILE PHOTO: Fossil hybrid smartwatches are pictured during the preview day of the IFA trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, in Berlin, Germany August 30, 2018. REUTERS/Christian Mang (Reuters) – Fossil Group Inc said on Thursday it would sell its intellectual property related to a smartwatch technology currently under development to Alphabet Inc’s […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has reportedly asked social media platforms to use Microsoft’s PhotoDNA for investigation into regular criminal cases. PhotoDNA, as its name suggests, creates a digital signature of an image to help detect duplicate images. Launched back in 2009, the technology has so far been quite renowned for preventing child exploitation. […]