Developers behind NHS’s abandoned Covid-19 symptom tracker app ‘tried to block’ other firms from creating similar software amid fears they could distract from its launch NHSX, the health service technology unit attempted to block rival software Developers of several app competitor were urged to stop work by NHSX or MoD The app turned out to … Read more
Uber will begin selling its ride-hailing software to public transit agencies in a bid to shore up more revenue The company announced its first partnerships this week Marin County will be one of the company’s first customers It will use the software to coordinate four wheelchair-accessible vans Riders will be able to book trips via … Read more
Facebook showcases feature in its business communication tool Workplace that lets employers ban topics like ‘unionize’ An internal presentation on a feature in ‘Workplace’ suggested that ‘unionize’ could be a word banned by employers The presentation caused backlash from employees and was taken down The incident is the latest clash of company culture at Facebook … Read more
Wireless security cameras designed to give people a sense of security at home could be leaving their network open to hackers, a consumer watchdog has warned. More than 100,000 cameras produced by Chinese firm HiChip – and used in homes across the UK – have been shown to have various security flaws by Which. The … Read more
The NHS’s long-awaited coronavirus contact tracing app could be an effective way to cut down new cases and stop the spread of the disease, a trial on the Isle of Wight has suggested. Just two new cases of the illness have been discovered on the island, which is home to around 140,000 people, since the app’s … Read more
Google says it will stop providing custom AI and machine learning tools to help fossil fuel companies operate their extraction operations Goole will stop building custom AI tools to help fossil fuel companies The announcement came in response to a Greenpeace report that criticized the close relationship between cloud service providers and the gas and … Read more
Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software. Their API – a software blueprint for individual apps built by each country’s health authority – will be available in 22 countries around the world. Apple and Google did not reveal which countries are set to use the API but it … Read more
Researchers are harvesting people’s protective mask selfies from Instagram without consent to try and use them to improve facial recognition software By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 20:17 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 20:17 BST, 19 May 2020 Researchers have been harvesting selfies of people wearing protective masks from social platforms like Instagram in … Read more
The company’s journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley. Wozniak is pictured left 1976: Founders Steve Jobs, … Read more
Trying to analyze Donald Trump made a speech recognition bot literally CRASH – and the only way to make it work properly was to strip out its grammar and syntax tools Researchers assigned a speech recognition bot to analyze Donald Trump The bot struggled to make sense of his rambling and fragmentary sentences The team … Read more