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They’re Using Mobile Phone Detection Cameras To Catch Texting Drivers Down Under
A New South Wales, Australia Minister says New South Wales is the first jurisdiction in the world to use Mobile Phone Detection Cameras to catch and prosecute distracted drivers. A recent Time article reports road safety experts are increasingly concerned with the prevalence of accidents involving such distracted drivers. That’s why the rollout of 45 Mobile Phone Detection […]
Google Is Altering Its Search Algorithms Again
The tech giant’s latest algorithm switch will focus on promoting accurate and original news to consumers.
Who Got Hacked This Week? September 30 Edition
What types of cyberattacks were carried out this week, September 30, 2019? Read on to find out about the latest cyberattacks and who got hacked this week.
California Bill Makes Companies Pay Contracted Workers
A recently passed bill will require app-based companies to reconfigure how it labels and treats contracted workers.
AI Can ‘Smell’ Now: Artificial Intelligence Used to Draft New Fragrance Ideas
I’m a fragrance fan – not the noxious mall stuff, though. I stick to the niche world because it smells much more interesting and natural. So I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want AI to be used in drafting a new perfume. But Philyra, a virtual think tank which analyzes hundreds of fragrance industry formulas and […]
Microsoft President Wants to Regulate Big Tech
It’s not every day you hear leading technology companies — or any industry’s top players — asking to be regulated. And yet that’s precisely Microsoft President Brad Smith did when he recently said that government should put up guardrails around engineers in order to regulate big tech. What happens if that doesn’t happen? Democracy might suffer, […]
Facebook Steps into the World of Natural Language Processing with ‘AI Language Research Consortium’
Earlier this year, Facebook put out a call for research proposals centered around natural language processing, or the study of linguistics and AI regarding computer language. Now, it announces which proposals won, and it seems as though the scope of the project is wider than previously thought: the social media platform has found the AI […]
Lithium Batteries Might Disappear – Here’s Why
Due to recent strides in research, calcium may one day replace lithium technology in batteries.
New Bedford Avoids Paying $5 Million in Ransomware Attack by Doing Something Unusual
The city of New Bedford, Mass. — not too far away from us here at TechDecisions — recently avoided paying the $5.3 million hackers demanded of it after successfully launching a ransomware attack. The town’s response? Bargain-and-stall. And it worked. Not the usual method An NPR article reports that after IT personnel discovered the attack the day […]
