Science and Technology

William Turton, Clara Hernanz Lizárraga and Katie Linsell 06-06-2023 05:00 British Airways, pharmacist Boots and the BBC are among the known victims of a hacking campaign that cybersecurity experts have warned, could collect miles from victims in the coming weeks. Companies told thousands of employees that their personal information could have been compromised by a cyber attack against his payroll provider, Zellis. The Government of Nova Scotia was also affected by what appears to be an attack related to the theft of personal information, according to CBC News. A Nova Scotia government representative was not immediately available for comment. The…

One of the weak points of WhatsApp It was always his low ability to send photos, since the image that reached the recipient had a lot of less resolution than the original. Now, the application is testing a new function that will allow sending in high quality photographs. With this setting, users will be able to select the resolution with which they want to share the photo, although this limits further use of data and from one delay longer in shipping. WhatsApp launched an important change for those who used the "chat with yourself" WhatsApp currently reduces the quality of…

Microsoft Corp. will create a program to assure customers that Microsoft artificial intelligence who buy from company cwill comply with future laws and regulationsseeking to keep customers investing in AI tools ahead of any rules that apply to the new technology are passed. Software company will help clients manage regulatory issues derived from the AI ​​applications they deploy with Microsoft, will convene customer councils on the issues and continue their engagement with policymakers “to promote effective and interoperable AI regulation”, Microsoft said Thursday June 8 in a post. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker has launched a series of AI tools…

Candela Gomez and Franco Pagniello 06-09-2023 15:30 The questions to GPT-chat They are already common, they promise to revolutionize the future of the media, and this time the Artificial Intelligence consultation asked them to order in a hypothetical ranking those they consider to be the best governments best governments in Argentina. Chat GTP analyzed the topic and explained the reasons for its choice, among which appeared none of the presidencies of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. From Juan Domingo Perón to Mauricio Macriartificial intelligence threw out the list and explained with its robotic voice the virtues of each one, but said…

NASA's goal of installing a permanent base on the Moon and another on Mars becomes a horizon with ever-increasing possibilities. A recent investigation published in the journal Nature invites us to think about a technology based on photo-electrochemical elements. According to the article, advancing in that knowledge is the only way to live on the moon or on Tuesday for long periods of time. It is not news that space was always a new point of tension between the great powers, the race that the USA and the USSR maintained with the first trips to the Moon is already part…

This Monday will take place one of the most anticipated events of the Apple brand, its WWDC 2023 developer conferences. Specifically, this year there will be great expectations around an unprecedented product in the offer of the technology company, its first mixed reality glasses: Reality Pro. Said conferences organized by the Californian apple company will take place this year between June 5 and 9 and recently several new features both in terms of software and hardware, since the focus of attention is on the work of its developers. The first conference of the event Global Developers Conference 2023 will be…

Max Tegmark, physicist and artificial intelligence (AI) expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) there is a 50% probability that these technologies will end humanity in case they become more intelligent than the species. In dialogue with the Swedish TV broadcaster SVT, the scientist referred to the extinction of different species over time to warn about the future of humanity. In this sense, he maintained that history destroyed that the most intelligent species on Earth are responsible for the disappearance of those that are "lesser"as in the case of the dodo. Modified artificial intelligence makes a paraplegic man walk…

tandil it has become the "Silicon Valley" of Argentina, as far as the Knowledge Economy is concerned. And it wasn't long after that. A few years ago, the number of companies based in that area that were related to technology were incipient. However, for some time now, everything exploded. To the point of turning it into a kind of "model" that could be replicated in another 100 cities in Argentina. "16 years ago, tandil counted only with 15 companies and no more than 300 people working in the local technology market. Today there are more than 2000 professionals HE, in…

A Chinese businessman was scammed after a cybercriminal used artificial intelligence to impersonate from one of his relatives. Through deception, the scammer managed to steal from the victim a total of 4.3 million yuanabout 567 thousand euros or just over 600 thousand dollars. As explained by the police authorities of the city of Fuzhou, southeast China, the author of the scam impersonated both the appearance and the voice of a close friend of the victim and contacted him through the app wechat, arguing that using to transfer the money from a bank account to pay the guarantee of a public…