Enlarge (credit: Frank Lindecke / Flickr) Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources and don't hand over credentials to a fraudulent website. But increasingly, sophisticated hackers are undermining that basic sense of trust and raising a paranoia-inducing
The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms Kate Crawford studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor of communication and science and technology studies
The fashion resale app and its young users represents the likely future of retail: more online, more sustainable, and more social Depop, the fashion resale app, has joined fellow British tech companies such as Arm Holdings and DeepMind in heading to a deep pool of investment
Manuel B. Villar, Jr., chairman of Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc. THE Villar Group of Companies is launching its first virtual property expo, which will feature its real estate brands. “It has always been the group’s passion to contribute in the improvement of the lives of the
Andrew Lloyd Webber last night said he could take ministers to court if they do not allow theatres to operate at full capacity from June 21. The impresario said it would be ‘the final death blow’ if the relaxation of restrictions does not go ahead as
The second wave hit almost everyone by surprise when the government had almost declared a victory over Covid in late February/March and people lowered their guards in following Covid appropriate behavior. The contagion started surging around late March in Mumbai, spreading like a wildfire in Maharashtra,
The tech giant has become more, not less, dependent on the US’s superpower rival in recent years, according to analysis Apple used more suppliers from China last year than it did from Taiwan for the first time, highlighting the difficulty the United States government will have
[This article is part of the Understanding Money Mechanics series, by Robert P. Murphy. The series will be published as a book in 2021.] In chapter 7 we summarized some of the major changes in how central banks have operated since the 2008 financial crisis. In the present
Enlarge (credit: Matthew Stockman / Getty Images) A ransomware attack has struck the world’s biggest meat producer, causing it to halt some operations in the US, Canada, and Australia while threatening shortages throughout the world, including up to a fifth of the American supply. Brazil-based JBS SA