Australia’s police linking DNA with ancestry could be a privacy nightmare

The Australian Federal Police recentlyannouncedplans to use DNA samples collected at crime scenes to make predictions about potential suspects. This technology, called forensic “DNA phenotyping”, can reveal a surprising and growing amount of highly personal information from the traces of DNA that we all leave behind, everywhere we go – including information about our gender, ancestry, and appearance. Queensland police have already used versions of this approach toidentify a suspectandidentify remains....

5 min · 1044 words · Paige Wright

Auto SMS: An out-of-office reply for your Android phone

Auto SMSis a handy little Android app which lets you send pre-set automated messages whenever you want. The most obvious use for this app is while you’re driving. If you tend to receive urgent messages, or just like to let people know why you can’t reply straight away, Auto SMS will shoot off a message for you. Not only can you use it to reply to text messages, it can also be used to send messages to people who try to call you while you can’t answer the phone....

3 min · 608 words · Anthony Simmons

Automate creating on-brand marketing creatives for social media with this tool

TLDR:The RelayThat Design app automates all your graphic design work to unify project looks, create multiple versions, and generate agency-level creative ads and social posts in minutes. If you’re a driven entrepreneur, you’re likely many things, from a grinding workhorse to a strong salesperson to a gifted marketer. With everything on your plate and all the skills you need to excel, design expert or artistic visionary isn’t always going to find a home on that list....

3 min · 490 words · Kelly Sparks

Automattic makes premium themes available to 17 million WordPress.com blogs

Automattic, the brainchild of WordPress-founder Matt Mullenweg, has just announced that for the first time ever, it is going to make premium themes available to the 17 million blogs hosted on theWordPress.comservice. With a number of premium themes becoming available later this year, WordPress.com blog owners will initially be able to install one of two premium themes: Headlines by WooThemes and Shelf by The Theme Foundry. The availability of such themes will enable blog owners to stand out from the millions of other websites on the service, that is of course when more themes become available....

2 min · 268 words · Mark Morton

Autonomous vehicle makers should be held responsible for accidents, says Law Commission

Autonomous vehicle makers should be held responsible for accidents, says Law Commission They’re a good start, but unless they go further we’re still in danger It’s a good start On one hand, this is good news. The Law Commission is attempting to get its head around how self-driving cars will be regulated, which is gray area right now. However, because the commission’s plans don’t extend through all SAE Levels, and specifically address each one individually, its proposals lack specific scope in the terminology the industry has adopted....

2 min · 380 words · Misty Miller
simple hit counter