Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and computer scientists has identified vulnerabilities in popular automation apps that can make it easy for an abuser to stalk individuals, track their cellphone activity, or even control their devices with little risk of detection. After designing an AI algorithm to identify hundreds of…
Beijing aims to become the world’s leading AI ‘innovation center’ by 2030. Beyond dancing robots and eager-to-help digital avatars, Shanghai’s World AI Conference saw China stake its claim to global artificial intelligence leadership and frame itself as a clear alternative to the United States. Assumptions that the US was far ahead in the fast-moving field…
A 390-foot superyacht designed to run entirely on liquid hydrogen is poised to make waves at the upcoming Monaco Yacht Show — where it will be listed for sale with a whopping $645 million price tag. Though never publicly confirmed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the vessel — named “Breakthrough” and also known as “Project…
ChatGPT was effective in predicting future fashion trends using past data, while DALL-E 3 was able to incorporate these trends into generated images. However, there were also various errors, necessitating the need for expertly worded prompts from fashion designers. Credit: Yoon Kyung Lee from Pusan National University Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chinese internet giant Baidu plans to launch its driverless cars on ride-hailing app Uber in Asia and the Middle East this year, the two companies said on Tuesday. The multi-year partnership will see “thousands of Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform across multiple global markets,” the companies said…
Example call graph of a simple Android app. Credit: Future Internet (2025). DOI: 10.3390/fi17050186 Researchers have discovered a modern solution to detect vault applications (apps) on smartphones, which could be a game-changer for law enforcement. The paper is published in the journal Future Internet. The analysis, led by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) and…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fashion is found on runways, shop windows and the accounts of social media influencers. Until recently, Varun Grover, Distinguished Professor at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and other information systems researchers had considered fashion and technology uncomfortable bedfellows. “Most of the time when we talk about technology, we’re talking…
Credit: Junchen Zhou from Pexels Chinese EV maker Xiaomi said it would cooperate with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its cars which had been in autonomous mode just before the accident. Three college students died on Saturday night after their Xiaomi SU7 hit a concrete barrier on a section of…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some “unofficial” parental control apps have excessive access to personal data and hide their presence, raising concerns about their potential for unethical surveillance as well as domestic abuse, according to new research from UCL and St. Pölten UAS, Austria. According to some sources, up to 80% of parents use apps to…
An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects that contain sensors and software that connect to the internet, that are coordinated to increase power grid resilience. Credit: Anu Annaswamy and Vineet Nair There’s a lot of untapped potential in our homes and vehicles that could be harnessed to reinforce local power grids…