The Chinese authorities have started using a new monitoring tool that identifies people by their walkway or body shape. The already astonishing number of surveillance cameras, many of which use bleeding edge optics and facemask recognition technologies – China is already using the tool in the two largest cities of Beijing and Shanghai. There is renewed concern among privacy advocates …

Advanced Micro Devices unveiled the Zen-2 architecture for the processor family, which will be launched in 2019 in the coming years. The move is a follow-up to the competitive Zen designs that AMD launched in March 2017, promising a two-fold improvement in throughput. AMD hopes that the Zen 2 processors will be one step ahead of Intel, the world's largest …

Most things do not happen the way they are made in movies. Changes are less sudden, incidents less surprising, people less attractive. However, when an out-of-control move broke through the Australian Outback, the following action sequence seemed to have come directly from a Tony Scott movie. The confusion started when the driver stopped the 268-car 4-loco train and got out …

It's clear Google is moving forward with its Nexus brand of smartphones, focusing instead on the Pixel palette. Unfortunately, that also means that the Nexus lineup is almost over in terms of support and updates, according to this Google support page. According to page listing, it is mentioned that in terms of updates: For both the Nexus 5X and the …

Bill Gates brought a pitcher of human faience on stage during a speech. Yes, you have read this right. To be fair, Gates had a good reason to use the unusual prop. Speaking at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing, China, he talked about the need for safe sanitation around the world and the role of the Gates Foundation in …

The creator of Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, has not forgotten the millions of fans who are impatiently waiting for The Winds of Winter, the planned sixth novel in his series of song and flames series. In the Middle of Monday From a personal post on other book news, Martin dropped just a few words about the long-awaited book. …

Combining paragraphs with sentences is not easy for artificial intelligence (AI). This is because a semantic understanding of the text is required that goes beyond the capabilities of most standard natural language processing models. However, this is not impossible, as recent researchers at Microsoft have shown. In an article published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, "Scientists at Microsoft Research in …

Photo credits – Android Police One of the major differences between Google Maps and Waze, even though Google owns both, is that Waze has more detailed information that some drivers find useful or important. With Waze, for example, users can report accidents so drivers know which routes to avoid. You can also report traffic jams, roadblocks, speed traps, and more, …

Is a hot dog a sandwich? Image: DAVID PAUL MORRIS / GETTY IMAGES Chloe Bryan 2018-11-06 19:00:00 UTC This is An Ode to …, a weekly column in which we share what we really get involved in, hoping that it is you that I will really be there. The Internet is full of sensitive viral debates, from serious to stupid. …

Samsung's annual Developer Conference on Wednesday can highlight all the ways its Bixby buddy gets smarter but the star of the show? Probably Samsung's first foldable phone to be called Galaxy F. The Phonemaker strongly suggests the foldable phone pops up and even its logo in mimics form of a folding phone. However, do not expect any traditional announcement such …