Huawei has reported sales surge by 18 per cent compared to 19.5 per cent in 2018, shrugging off the intense effort by Trump administration to weaken the Chinese technology group and shut it out of western markets, as it shipped 240m smartphones in 2019 up from 206m the previous year. After the US banned exports…
Chinese tech companies are at an advanced stage of shaping facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, as they aspire to dominate markets in the developing world for their designs. China Telecom, ZTE, Dahua are among companies proposing global standards in the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and…
Facebook has dropped its year-long appeal against a £500, 000 fine imposed by the UK’s data watchdog for its failure to protect users’ information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, without accepting any admission of liability. The payment comes amidst intense scrutiny of Facebook’s role in the democratic process, with a fresh dispute emerging over the…
Google, the world’s most popular search engine, is adopting artificial intelligence in its ranking algorithm. The change which Google explains as the most significant revision in at least five year, uses a new form of language analysis to understand users’ queries better and will affect its responses to one in `10 searches , according to…
Alarms already sounded by Bill Gates, late Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, about artificial intelligence and how one day super-intelligent robots will one day wipe out or enslave humanity. Superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just human relationships and jobs but civilisation itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as…
Apple’s reputation is dented by the discovery that iPhone owner’s were exposed to more than a dozen software vulnerablities for the last two years. Hackers were able capture iPhone owner’s text messages, photos and device locations on hundreds of thousands of devices until security researchers at Apple’s smartphone rival Google revealed it of the sustained…
A Bombay Stock Exchange fake website has been used by scammers to con you into paying for stock transaction and also harvest your credit card and bank details.. The fake site looking very convincing, and can be difficult to spot any differences between the real one and the fake. Mumbai Cyber police have initiated investigations…
UK cyber security upstart Darktrace, a world leader in Enterprise immune System Technology and Threat visualisation, is in talks with Silicon Valley investors to raise its value to £283million US$ 400million. The funding would mean the company’s valuation has quadrupled in less than a year. Darktrace was seeking to top up its cash reserve in anticipation…
2.4 million customers of Carphone warehouse personal details have been compromised in a cyber attack according to a statement from mobile phone retailer. At least 90,000 customer’s encrypted credit card information may have been accessed according to their statement. The retailers owner Dixons Carphone says they are very sorry for the attack. The affected part…
Kamil Hismatullin, a Russian coder and security researcher, revealed a great discovery – how to delete any video on YouTube. He discovered a flaw in YouTube that allowed anyone to delete any video uploaded to the site In January 2015 Google, launched a new experimental program called Vulnerability Research Grants rewarding security researchers that look…