Enlarge / Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, looks at Boston Dynamics’ robot police dog in January 2022. (credit: Getty Images) Boston Dynamics and several other robotics companies have pledged not to weaponize “general purpose robots” according to an open letter released publicly on Thursday and first reported by Axios. Although with sizable caveats...
Enlarge / Matter promises to make smart home devices work with any control system you want to use, securely. This marketing image also seems to promise an intriguing future involving smart mid-century modern chairs and smart statement globes. (credit: CSA) The specification for Matter 1.0 was released on Tuesday—all 899 pages of it. More importantly,...
Enlarge / Tech decommissioning businesses have been transformed from what some describe as a collection of “man with a van” outfits into a regulated industry. (credit: Lorne Campbell, Guzelian, and SWEEEP Kuusakoski) Mick Payne remembers the moment the madness of the way we dispose of our data was brought home to him. The chief operating...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core of the OS that hackers must control to successfully take control of a computer. A cornerstone of that progress was the enactment of strict new restrictions on the loading of system drivers that could run...
(Black PR Wire) SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Amazon Catalytic Capital, a new initiative to invest $150 million in venture capital (VC) funds, accelerators, incubators, and venture studios that provide funding to entrepr
(Black PR Wire) Diamond Bar, CA – The 13th Annual Houston Black College Expo™ is back in-person again Saturday, October 8, 2022, from 10 am to 5 pm at the NRG Center, 1 NRG Park, Houston, TX 77054. Students can meet with 50+ college
(Black PR Wire) Fort Valley State University has been awarded $1,399,964 from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program to increase the number of low-income, academically talented
Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. (credit: Colin Williamson) In 1993, Sega’s Virtual Fighter arcade game broke new ground with fully 3D polygonal graphics, a first for a fighting game. Thanks to a Twitter thread from an artist named Colin Williamson,...
Enlarge / The White House, Blue Sky, Red Trees, and Green Grass (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Today, the White House proposed a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a set of principles and practices that seek to guide “the design, use, and deployment of automated systems,” with the goal of protecting the...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group a hefty fee to recover data stolen during a recent cyber intrusion. Ransomware operators breach targets’ networks, encrypt all their data, and...