One of the UK’s busiest airports has been brought to a standstill by rogue drone flights, just days before Christmas.
Qualcomm Wins Against Apple, This Time in Germany
Apple said it will stop selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 phones in retail stores in the country.
Google is a Vital Cog in the U.S. Spying Machine
Microsoft isn’t the only one working closely with the U.S. spying machine. Google has been doing it for years. The company’s roots are tied to the CIA, and it has worked with the NSA as well.
Here’s a sign of how vital Google has become to the US government: in 2010, following a disastrous intrusion into its system by what the company believes was a group of Chinese government hackers, Google entered into a secretive agreement with the NSA…
This mixing of military, police, government, public education, business and consumer-facing systems – all funnelled through Google – continues to raise alarms.
Is it just me, or is it unnerving that companies are allying themselves closer with the military?
Touch Twitter's Sparkle and Something Wonderful Will Happen
That’s not a euphemism, it’s Twitter’s terminology for the option to enable a chronological timeline, now available.
Apple Elevates Machine Learning to Senior Video President Role on Executive Leadership Team
Apple announced Thursday that John Giannandrea was being promoted to the company’s executive team as senior vice president of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
Bent iPads, Phishing Scams – TMO Daily Observations 2018-12-20
Andrew Orr joins Kelly Guimont to talk about Apple’s ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ response to bent iPads and the latest phishing email making the rounds.
How Books Have Changed in the Digital Age
Books have changed in the digital age. Although plenty of people still read paper books, or ‘pBooks’, eBooks are here to stay. Past prognosticators foretold the rise of the Future Book, but that future is different than they thought.
…We were looking for the Future Book in the wrong place. It’s not the form, necessarily, that needed to evolve—I think we can agree that, in an age of infinite distraction, one of the strongest assets of a “book” as a book is its singular, sustained, distraction-free, blissfully immutable voice. Instead, technology changed everything that enables a book…
It’s an interesting read. Books themselves haven’t changed much, but a lot of things around books have.
The Latest App Store Phishing Scam is Tough to Spot
People have reported getting a fake receipt claiming to be a purchase confirmation by Apple.
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Ryan Welsh on Why The Singularity Isn't Coming Soon
Digital Trends interviewed Ryan Welsh, CEO of an AI company called Kyndi that is building an Explainable AI platform for government, financial services, and healthcare.
We’re very far away from artificial general intelligence … If you’re in the industry and you work with A.I. systems, you understand how limited they are, specifically around sensory motor and natural language understanding … Systems are very good at parsing sentences, but not really good at understanding the semantics or the pragmatics of language.
I always thought the Singularity was odd. Basically, it’s the belief that AI will get so powerful it will become god-like and give us all sorts of advanced technology. It’s religion for the atheistic Silicon Valley types.