In its recently published report onTechnology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions, Deloitte predicts that over 300 million smartphones will have on-board neural network machine learning capability in 2017, allowing devices t...
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who aspired to the position of Secretary of State in the administration of the coming US President Trump, will instead head the state committee on cybersecurity. The industry and expert ...
The Committee on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament adopted areport outlining recommendations for the introduction of 'civil law rules on robotics'. The report proposes, among others, the elaboration and adoption of an EU 'l...
The US Department of Commerce (DoC) issued aGreen Paper on Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things, aimed to identify elements of an approach for the DoC to foster the advancement of the IoT. In addition to identifying...
Two men who worked on Microsoft's online safety team are suing the company, as they claim to have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resulting from having to view 'inhumane and disgusting content'. The men receive...
The W3C Social Web Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts. The first is on Webmention -a simple way to notify any URL when a user links to it on his/her site, and a way to request notifications when other site...
The sixth GenderIT mini edition highlighting the 'End violence: Women's rights and safety online' project is now online. Each edition focuses on one country in which the research was conducted, and brings ...
In a new judgment, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that employers may read private communications made during office hours. The case of B?rbulescu v. Romania involved a Romanian national who had instituted action agai...
LiFi, a category of Visible Light Communications, might be the answer to the significantly growing demand for transmissions of mass quantities of data (in the context of the continuous growth of Internet of things devices, mobile ...
Civil society organisations, companies and individuals from more than 35 countries have signed anopen letter asking governments to 'reject laws, policies, or other mandates or practices, including secret agreements with companies,...
A survey conducted by Broadband Genie indicates that 63% of Brits are in favour of the use of mass Internet surveillance. Furthermore, 67% of Brits say they lack confidence in the ability of ISPs to store their data safely. W...
Huawei Positioned in the Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for Network Firewalls 10 Years in a Row Jan 12, 2023 [Shenzhen, China, January 12, 2023] Recently, Gartner, a global IT research and consulting firm, released the 2...