An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – something about 5G and 0G, and all the other Gs – before the baritone unravels, the music falters, and the fanfare stops. “Gee-eze,” says the…
The UN will help people in warzones to influence peace deals through an AI conversation tool they can access through their smartphones. The system will be launched within the next year, the Financial Times reports. The technology was developed by UN officials alongside a startup called Remesh, which produces a tool that creates online conversations with up to…
The incident cut off access to e-mail and shared IT services across customer sites of the multinational Denmark-based facility-management firm.
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TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour. A lack of diversity is one of the biggest problems the tech industry faces, despite a significant growth in the number of women working…
Exaggerated Lion, a newly discovered cybercrime group, uses new and unique tactics to target U.S. companies in BEC attacks.
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Japan-based train company and railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway is trialling machine vision technology from Nokia to improve safety at rail crossings. The firm has started testing at the Tamagawa Gakuenmae No.8 railroad crossingin Machida City, in Tokyo. It is using ‘scene analytics’ software from Nokia to apply machine learning to video images, to monitor…
The 2016 election was a watershed moment for the spread of misinformation online, so social networks have been exploring ideas to prevent the same from happening again in 2020. Twitter’s latest test: labeling “harmfully misleading” tweets by politicians. NBC News first reported on the leaked test, which Twitter confirmed. With the new feature, misleading tweets…
A default password would let anyone access the Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem Base platform, even if it’s not directly connected to the internet.
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Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices of their licensed public networks to create dedicated networks for industrial automation and intelligence. It follows the line from Swedish rival Ericsson, to go through…
The AI Now Institute’s Executive Director, Andrea Nill Sánchez, today testified before the European Parliament LIBE Committee Public Hearing on “Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Law and Its Use by the Police and Judicial Authorities in Criminal Matters.” Her message was simple: “Predictive policing systems will never be safe… until the criminal justice system they’re built…
