The next generation of legal highs could be discovered by AI. Scientists in Canada have developed a model that identifies future designer drugs before they even hit the market. But don’t get too excited: the researchers aren’t planning to provide your next buzz. Instead, they want the cops to find it first. High times It wasn’t easy introducing AI to the drug game. First, the neural network needed a crash course in pharmacology....
PastBook, a startup out of Amsterdam, is bringing its web-to-print photobook service to iOS. Thanks to some nifty AI integrations, it looks and feels a lot like something Google would make. And that’s a good thing. We’re closing in on a generation who’ve grown in up in a world where photography is almost exclusively a digital medium. But there’s no substitute for artful prints, family photo albums, and the aesthetics of a physical memoir of your personal journey as either a shutterbug, subject, or both....
In recent months, technology news has been dominated by reports of numerous hacking attempts, subsequent break-ins and embarrassment of companies that have seen customer information stolen and their reputations tarnished. Gawker found itself subjected to a spate of attacks by online collective Gnosis – a group that posted over a million user logins to file-sharing websites – more recently Sony found its network of corporate websites and services compromised again and again, even the FBI wasn’t spared from an unauthorised intrusion....
It’s an odd, and fascinating day in the realm of Microsoft security. As wenoted last week, today is the day for users of various Microsoft products to get their update game on, with some 8 new security bulletins going live to correct a total of 23 flaws. On the heels of the news, computer security firm Kaspersky isdistributing stern wordsto PC users that we have decided to pass along:“[Among the patched applications today,] both IE and Silverlight are two software clients that are heavily used […]....
As you know, this is a litigious society. There are companies set up all around the world to purchase companies who have portfolios of trademarks and patents. See, the company isn’t going to use these trademarks and patents for anything real, be it a product or service. No, it’s going to use these to sue people and try and win money. Take this company for example, Innovatio IP. According to areport by TechDirt, it has been suing companies for patent infringement on what seems to cover any implementation of WiFi (Wireless Internet)....
