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In Brief Researchers have developed an AI system testing a small subset of pictures and was able to predict criminality with an 89.5 percent accuracy. Such technology brings up some ethical and legal questions about its application, joining a long list of concerns AI raises in general. Reading Criminals’ Faces Assessing a person’s trustworthiness and innocence based on their facial characteristics may seem

Brief Info: Researchers used AI to identify the brain patterns caused by exposure to specific fear triggers, information they then used to "reprogram" study participants out of that fear. The method could be used in the future as a way to rid people of phobias without exposing them directly to their fear or to help people with PTSD overcome their disorders.

Brief Info: In 2014, 3,179 people were killed, and 431,000 were injured due to distracted drivers. As a result, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking a smartphone 'driver mode' that will block apps while driving.

Brief Info: How easily one can steal a Tesla Model S? Just offer a free burger to the owner. A team of researchers demonstrated how easy it is to hack and drive away a Tesla car using the keyless driving mode after installing a malware on the owner’s Android device.

Short Bytes: Alibaba’s YunOS is expected to bypass iOS in Chinese mainland by the end of this year. It’s a Linux -based mobile operating system that aims to become the top smartphone operating system in the country. The analysts have also predicted that outside China, YunOS isn’t expected to enter the premium smartphone segment.

Brief Info: San Francisco Municipal Railway aka Muni was compromised with hackers taking control of around 2000 computers on the network. A ransom of 100 Bitcoins has been asked by the hackers. Also, Muni was made free for the commuters on Saturday as the payment machines didn’t work.

Short Bytes: The 4G technology based on the LTE standard has reached most parts of the world. OpenSignal has released the State of LTE report for November 2016. Singapore tops the charts of the top 10 countries with the highest average 4G LTE speed.

Brief Info:  Kensington Security Slot is present on various portable devices like laptops, gaming consoles, hard drives, monitors, etc. It can be connected to an anchor in order to prevent the device from theft.

Brief Info: Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system is a machine learning based system capable of performing language translations effectively. A new research done by Google Brain team makes it capable of translating language pairs it never translated earlier using its own interlingua

Brief Info: A corrupt MP4 video can slow down and freeze your iPhone. The video – can be sent as a link in a message – affects iOS running devices starting from the latest iPhone with iOS 10 down to iOS 5 and possibly lower versions.

Brief Info: Microsoft has advised Windows 10 users to avoid altering Linux subsystem files using Windows tools, app, consoles etc. This might result in the loss of metadata, making the whole Linux environment corrupt. The company advises you to access files on your Windows filesystem from within Bash.

Brief Info: The notorious hackers are using Facebook messenger to spread dangerous Locky ransomware. They are sending malicious .SVG files in Messenger to lure the users into downloading further malware. The users need to immediately check their Chrome extensions and look for suspecting entries. They are also advised to change the Facebook passwords.

Brief Info: In a new video, hacktivist collective Anonymous has “requested” Donald Trump to take care of the American citizens. It proclaims that Trump has a chance to make himself great again by doing memorable deeps and ending the wars.

  Brief Info: The autonomous aerial vehicle (UAV) prototype AirMule has completed its first completely untethered flight, but its control system made a handful of incorrect decisions. Tactical Robotics, the makers of the AirMule, envisions UAVs landing and taking off from rugged terrain that human pilots can't handle.

Brief Info For the second time in three years, the Tesla Model S electric luxury sedan is the “Most Loved Model” of car based on owner surveys, earning 627 out of a possible 1,000 points. With the cost of EVs expected to drop significantly, Tesla will need to address potential areas of improvement in order to stay on top of the market.

Brief Info Researchers have created a heuristically trained neural network that outperformed conventional machine learning algorithms by 160 percent and its own training by 9 percent. This new teaching method could enable AI to make correct classifications of data that's previously unknown or unclassified, learning information beyond its data set.

Brief Info: According to its creators, the MATRIX PowerWatch can count steps and calories burned, monitor sleep, and tell the time using the wearer's body heat as a power source. Matrix's thermoelectric technology could appeal to other tech companies for use in medical devices and smart sensors, providing a new way for us to power the devices we wear.

Brief Info: In an unexpected move, Google suspended accounts of around 200 users including access to everything associated with those accounts. The users tried to take advantage of a tax loophole in the US and make profits on Google Pixel Phones. P ixel phones are close to Google’s heart. And the company has taught a good lesson to those who used their extra brain .

Brief Info: The same team that hacked the Tesla Model S also found a weakness to exploit in the Google Pixel at a South Korean hacking competition. Qihoo 360 was awarded a $120,000 bounty from Google, who now is working on beefing up Pixel's security.

Brief Info: In a trial of 19 blind people, participants were able to read between 63 and 81 words per minute using HandSight, a finger-mounted camera system that reads texts aloud. While the device's reading rate is fairly slow, its design could prove particularly useful in helping the visually impaired navigate text presented in a complicated layout.

Brief Info: Infecting people’s computers with the help of malicious USB drives is an old trick being used by hackers even today. Going one step ahead, in the recent months, we witnessed the rise of USB Killer devices that fry your computer. In a video, YouTuber Thomas Kim has made his own USB Killer using the parts from camera flash.

Brief Info: Data science experts have developed an AI software system that can rapidly self-assemble into the most efficient form for a given task without any human input. The system could significantly reduce the energy needs of data centers, which currently account for 3 percent of global energy usage.

Brief Info: Jürgen Schmidhuber asserts that, by 2050, there will be trillions of self-replicating robot factories on the asteroid belt. In a few million years, robots will naturally explore the galaxy out of curiosity, setting their own goals without much human interaction.

Brief Info A new AI lip reader has been built to process whole sentences at a time, allowing the AI to teach itself what letter corresponds to each slight mouth movement. LipNet was 1.78 times more accurate than human lip readers in translating the same sentences.

Brief Info Using swarm intelligence, UNU was able to predict some of the biggest events of the year with stunning accuracy. Swarm intelligence may be a safer way to develop AI since the intelligence gathering is human centered.

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Brief Info: At PwnFest 2016, security researchers from the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 and South Korean security researcher JungHoon hacked Windows 10’s Microsoft Edge web browser. One of these hacks took just 18 seconds to complete. The event also witnessed the world’s first attack on VMware Workstation 12.5.1.

Brief Info A deep neural network, which has four layers of up to 512 neurons each, was able to correctly identify what genre a book belongs to just by analyzing its cover. The resulting rate of accuracy is significantly better than mere chance.

Do you have private pictures or videos that you don't want any body to lay their eyes on? If you do, I'll be guiding you on how to hide your pictures and videos with just an application. Follow the below steps and you will get it done in no time. Interesting fact: You can hide the video locker or photo locker app from your app drawer

Brief Info: KDE, the name behind the popular Linux desktop environment, has made its way to the smartphone platform. Plasma Mobile is a new open source smartphone OS launched by KDE e. V. which uses the Wayland display to put Plasma workspace on mobile devices. It also houses a plethora of applications based on the Qt framework.

Brief Info: The Facebook account of a person who has passed away can be memorialized after a request submitted by a verified person. However, Facebook also provides you with an option to auto-delete your Facebook account after getting notified about your death.

Brief Info The AI, called MogIA, based its analysis on 20 million data points from platforms such as Google, Twitter, and YouTube. The AI aims at learning from the environment, developing its own rules at the policy layer, and developing expert systems without discarding any data.

Brief Info The JB-10 jetpack delivers 7 percent more power than the previous model, can go up at a rate of 1,000 feet per minute, and supports rides 5 to 10 minutes in length. JetPack Aviation is just one of several companies developing the tech, but before it can become mainstream, developers need to figure out an efficient way to train pilots.

Brief Info The combined traffic from mobile devices hit 51.2 percent, vs. 48.7 percent for desktop access, for the first time ever. This statistic could encourage businesses to prioritize their mobile websites and revolutionize how we use computers.

Brief Info Tech colossus, Microsoft, has released its AI software for developers everywhere, and it can even be run from a single laptop. Open-source deep learning software has the potential of opening the floodgates of technological revolution.

Brief Info: A couple from Nashville has sued Amazon and demanded $30 million in damages after a hoverboard fire destroyed their million-dollar home. The couple claims that they tried hard (and failed) to find the original manufacturer of the board. In accordance with a clause in Tennessee law, now, they are suing the seller, i.e., Amazon.

Short Bytes: The various logical drives in Windows are assigned a drive letter. Generally, the drive letter for the first logical drive is C followed by D, E, F. Well, A and B are also alphabets. These drive letters are kept in reserve for some special purpose. Here is the reason.