With the release of Swipe the Vote in spring 2016, Tinder, the ultimate hook-up app, broke new ground in the United States by claiming to be able to match young voters with their dream-perfect presidential candidate. The matchmaking app tries to make voting sexy by employing to representative politics its same cut-to-the-chase dating method. Who wants […]
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“Alexa, ask the fact-checkers.” Now you can fact-check politicians instantly with help from Alexa and the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Tap, according to Engadget. The Alexa skill called Share the Facts, is a spinoff of a widget used by fact-checking organizations. The widget enables readers to check out original source material and to share the
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Udacity, the education platform focused on helping workers gain skills they need for great careers in tech, has partnered with IBM Watson, Didi Chuxing and Amazon Alexa to offer a new nanodegree in artificial intelligence, the companies announced today at the IBM World of Watson conference. IBM Watson is co-developing the curriculum of the course
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Technology October 25, 2016 by Brian Galloway Last week’s attack on multiple websites including Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit was carried out using internet-connected home devices as means of overloading the sites, experts have found. The “global event” involved “tens of millions” of internet addresses, analysts said, and used the ‘internet of things” – home devices
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Last Friday’s widespread cyber attack that took down major websites like Twitter, Spotify and Amazon was at least partly attributed to malware that infected devices called the “Internet of Things,” or simply devices like DVRs and routers that are connected to the internet and, as experts have been warning, are at a high risk of
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Around this time last year, chatbots weren’t on our radar, generally speaking. Sure, AI-powered conversations with brands, a la Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have been around for some time. But it was Facebook’s rollout of its chatbot API platform for Messenger in April of this year that catalyzed the creation of 30,000 chatbots (and
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Last Friday, millions of Internet users across the U.S. found themselves unable to access a long list of websites as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took those websites offline. The technique hackers used to cripple nearly half of the Internet was not particularly innovative or clever. The surprise about this attack is not
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Enlarge / We’re also mad you’re connected to the Internet, toaster et al. Disney reader comments 57 Share this story Welcome to the Internet of Evil Things. The attack that disrupted much of the Internet on October 21 is still being teased apart by investigators, but evidence thus far points to multiple “botnets” of Internet-connected
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There are now about 10 billion Internet of Things devices in the world: That’s a lot of bots that a hacker can enslave for an attack. tiero/Thinkstock On the day (perhaps not long from now) when the entire internet crashes, no one will be able to say that we didn’t see it coming. The denial-of-service
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Last Friday saw a massive internet outage after hackers flooded , a major internet gatekeeper for sites like Facebook, Spotify and Netflix, with false bandwidthfrom an ocean of unsecured internet-connected devices. Many of these devices were reportedly smart home gadgets using standardized manufacturer default passwords. It’s alarmingly easy for hackers to search the web for
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