A space-based, virtually unhackable quantum Internet may be one step closer to reality due to satellite experiments that linked ground stations more than 1,000 kilometers apart, a new study finds. Quantum physics makes a strange effect known as entanglement possible. Essentially, two or more particles such as photons that get linked
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Tech juggernaut Microsoft won’t sell its facial recognition software to police or law enforcement until more federal regulations for facial recognition technology are set in place. This is what company president Brad Smith said during an interview. “The bottom line for us is to protect the human rights of people as
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Algorithms designed as part of a contest run by Facebook struggled to reliably identify digitally manipulated videos called deepfakes. According to the company, which recently announced the results of its contest, the best performing algorithm in its competition - which had more than 2,000 participants - was able to identify 'challenging
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When a friend shared a Facebook post with Michelle Burris inviting her to protest in downtown Washington, D.C., last Saturday, she knew she had to go. So she bought a Black Lives Matter mask from a street vendor before marching the streets of the district with a “No Justice, No
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Sparkle, a Nigerian digital platform described to “provide financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians around the world” This comes after the startup was granted a banking license from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Via its Android and iOS mobile application, Sparkle offers comprehensive support for its users. Its offerings
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Has the coronavirus crisis pushed a contact centre upgrade onto the agenda in your organisation? You’re not alone. A collective realisation that being able to field and resolve enquiries efficiently is critical to business continuity has been one of the consequences of the widespread upheaval caused by the pandemic. A well-run
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Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are part of a bigger push by Microsoft to rely on artificial intelligence to pick news and content that’s presented on MSN.com, inside Microsoft’s Edge browser, and in the company’s various
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After hacking and taking down the Minneapolis Police Department website, the Anonymous hacker-group continued their protest spree and hacked the United Nations website, taking down a part of the site – the United Nations Civil Society Participation website – and replacing it with an image protesting the death of Minneapolis
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Plans to further reduce Huawei’s involvement in UK 5G infrastructure are being drawn up following growing anti-China sentiment in the wake of the coronavirus. Britain is already committed to stripping out Huawei equipment from the core of the network by 2023. The core is where voice and data are routed to their
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Microsoft has issued an alert to users concerning a new widespread COVID-19 themed phishing campaign that installs the NetSupport Manager remote administration tool to completely take over a user's system and execute commands on it remotely. In a series of Tweets, the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided further details on the
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