The EU adopted a mechanism to impose sanctions on individuals and legal entities for cyber attacks, the EU Council said in a statement on Friday.
The EU Council has established a framework allowing to impose targeted restrictive measures to deter and respond to cyber attacks which present an external threat to the European Union or its member states, the statement...
Spyware crafted by an "advanced cyber actor" infected multiple targeted mobile phones through the WhatsApp messaging service without any user intervention through in-app voice calls.
The malware was able to penetrate phones through missed calls alone via the application's voice calling function, a spokesperson for the Facebook subsidiary said on Monday.
An unknown number of mobile phones were infected by the...
Scribes of the world, rejoice! There is still some time before we are replaced by machines able to spit out reams of velvet prose in less than the time it takes to sharpen a 2B pencil. For smooth the (robot) prose was not.
That conclusion we drew from examining the work of an artificial intelligence writer developed by QLX for...
Popular instant messaging app Telegram has been updated for Android users with several new features and a new design. The updated Telegram 5.6 version can now be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Some of the major highlights include archived chats, bulk actions, new icon, and improved usability.
The new archived chats feature is aimed at helping users clean up...
The Group of Twenty Agriculture Ministers Meeting concluded Sunday with calls to feed a growing global population and promote sustainable agriculture through new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics and drones, and to increase cooperation among farmers, nonfarm businesses and academia.
Separately, a meeting between the U.S. and Japanese farm ministers Saturday failed to produce any breakthrough on lowering agricultural...
Shanghai Jiushi, the largest bus company in Shanghai, has launched buses running on biodiesel produced from edible oil by using special technology. More than 2,000 buses used biodiesel fuel, which is more environmentally friendly than traditional diesel, started on May 7 across Shanghai. Applicable for refueling buses, B5 fuel consists of 5% of biodiesel, obtained by processing waste vegetable...
Artificial intelligence is getting deployed in several spheres and the use keep expanding. Facial recognition is one aspect that is gaining wide prospective applications in China. Tencent last year disclosed it will use facial recognition to detect underage gamers in order to curb China’s growing gaming addiction. Baidu also recently showcased a cat shelter that uses facial recognition to...
Korean market has been one of the leading in production of smartphones, thanks to home grown companies like Samsung and LG. However, it now seems that the once-bustling smartphone plans for productions are now about to fade out.
Both smartphone brands from South Korea — Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are either shutting down their production lines in the home...
Bioengineers at Rice University have made a breakthrough in bioprinting of tissues. The team has been able to create entangled vascular networks that can mimic the body’s natural passageways for blood, air, lymph, and other vital fluids. Scientists created a proof-of-principal that is a hydrogel model of a lung-mimicking air sac that has airways delivering oxygen to surrounding blood...
Researchers at Arizona State University have developed ‘mechanical trees’ that capture CO2 passively and sequester it for industrial and agricultural use.
The technology involves discs of sorbent stacked in columns. When a column is fully extended, the discs are exposed to air and capture atmospheric CO2. Once full, the discs are them lowered back into the column where the CO2...