Facebook strives to hit back at deepfakes with AI
Being products of deep learning and generative neural network architecture, deepfakes are way more advanced than traditional fake image or videos – and often impossible to identify. The consequent harm can be far-reaching,and social-media portals are gradually waking up to the threat of such refined fakes spreading doctored information to manipulate public opinion on a […]
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European organizations face data science skills shortage
While the world grapples with unprecedented economic challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is also driving the need for digital transformation in organizations. Digital transformations will generate massive amounts of data, enabling organizations to extract actionable intelligence from such data, thus leveraging analytics. However, a recent survey from MIT has found that change […]
Autonomous vehicles learn at home during lockdown
As the world is forced to stay at home for an unprecedented duration owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, firms which were working on self-driving automobiles have been badly hit. For them, being off road means precious data-gathering time lost forever – because the more on-road data they can gather, more accurately can their automation systems […]
Sports’ new Secret-Sauce: Data Science
How Data Science is driving the word of professional sports If you’ve ever wondered how to win the most competitive football league in the world with almost 20% of the season left to play and a 36%-point margin, here’s the recipe: a talismanic manager, superstars in the starting line-up and tactical brilliance using a bucket […]
Cyber attackers may be preparing for even more serious assaults
Now that cyber attackers have presumably registered all COVID-19 related domains and penetrated some with phishing attacks, they are perhaps readying to launch far more serious assaults. According to COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition, a volunteer group of cyber security experts working to prevent such attacks, the number of high-risk coronavirus-linked domains exploded at the beginning […]
Can AI reopen workplaces?
#BackToOffice in the offing – and AI will be instrumental Face it: you’re probably not going back to the office any time soon. It’s been almost half a year since the COVID pandemic has been in our midst, and until a vaccine has been confirmed, it isn’t likely to change any time soon. Over the […]
Home and the World
How the global crisis may affect job seekers at home The COVID-19 crisis continues to rip through the world. It has affected 210 countries,infected around 3 million, and killed around 200,000 – and the numbers are rising every passing moment. We live in a strangely interlocked world with countries interconnected in myriad ways. Any calamity […]
Largest ever DDoS cyberattack on a European bank recorded
A few days ago, malware reverse engineering experts from the security firm Akamai managed to mitigate the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks manipulate multiple connected online devices to overwhelm websites with fake traffic. This particular attack was targeted at a major bank in Europe and generated an average of 809 million […]
Why the smartphone is a new weapon in the COVID-19 battle
Feted as a communications wonder and reviled as a social distractor, the impact of smartphones on our lives have always had its share of controversies. However, its role in battling the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be crucial. The two basic advantages that sets the smartphone apart from all other devices are: (i) it can […]