Author: Jouri Altorf

Microsoft AI advises governments on lockdown strategies

Microsoft AI advises governments on lockdown strategies

Researchers have designed an AI framework that recommends cities and regions lockdown and home isolation strategies to combat the spread of the coronavirus. They claim that their AI is superior to the modeling tools used so far. Artificial intelligence, according to researchers at Microsoft, the... Read more

date4 years ago
‘More than 12,000 Android apps contain backdoors’

‘More than 12,000 Android apps contain backdoors’

Extensive academic research has discovered hidden backdoors in 12,706 Android applications. These include secret access keys, master passwords and secret commands found in 6,800 Play Store apps, 1,000 apps from third-party app stores and nearly 4,800 pre-installed apps. Academics from Europe and... Read more

date4 years ago
Zoom attracts more than 200 million daily users

Zoom attracts more than 200 million daily users

The number of daily Zoom users passed the 200 million mark in March. Before the coronavirus outbreak, the record was about 10 million users in one day, according to Zoom-CEO Eric Yuan. The use of Zoom and other forms of digital communication has increased exponentially in many countries since th... Read more

date4 years ago
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