Most websites that we use today generally give you feedback on the passwords that you have created when setting up a new account, rating them either weak or strong. They also advise you to use a mix of upper and lower case letters, along with numbers, to ensure a secure password. However good the advice […]
During the second quarter of 2015 there were 230,000 new malware samples created daily. This is one of the alarming details to emerge from the latest PandaLabs report, the security laboratory of Panda Security, which analyzes cyberattacks carried out during this period. The document also reveals that the threats aren’t just directed at individuals, but […]
While happily working on your computer getting stuff done, little do you suspect that in the background, your important files are being subjected to a military-grade encryption to which you don’t have the key. Suddenly, a Cryptolocker alert appears on the screen—you have only days to pay the ransom or lose all your encrypted files […]
Today, being a designer is about much more than drawing beautiful interfaces in Photoshop or Fireworks. To properly design a website or application, a UI designer must understand the technology with which their products will be built; therefore, they must have a minimum set of front-end development skills. The World Wide Web is not static. […]
In WordPress, a navigation menu, a list of categories or pages, and a list of comments all share one common characteristic: They are thevisual representation of tree-like data structures. This means that a relationship of superordination and subordination exists among the elements of each data tree. There will be elements that are parents of other […]
Researchers outside Google are testing the software that the company uses to add artificial intelligence to many of its products. An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform some neat tricks, including translating English into […]
Researchers from Google’s AI Lab say a controversial quantum machine that it and NASA have been testing since 2013 resoundingly beat a conventional computer in a series of tests. Google says it has proof that a controversial machine it bought in 2013 really can use quantum physics to work through a type of math that’s […]
Leading computing companies are helping both themselves and others by open-sourcing AI tools Facebook is releasing for free the designs of a powerful new computer server it crafted to put more power behind artificial-intelligence software. Serkan Piantino, an engineering director in Facebook’s AI Research group, says the new servers are twice as fast as those […]
The best human players easily beat the best computer-based Go engines. That looks set to change thanks to a new approach pioneered by Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers. One of the last bastions of human mastery over computers is the game of Go—the best human players beat the best Go engines with ease. That’s largely because […]
While IT specialists with deep technical knowledge in particular fields remain important, your IT team needs generalists with a broad view across technology areas and the ability to understand the interactions between them. Much has been said over the past several years about the need for CIOs to transform IT — to go from keeping […]