Servo browser engine adopted by Linux Foundation
Servo, an open source browser engine originally developed at Mozilla, has moved over to the Linux Foundation.
A modular, embeddable web engine written in Mozilla’s...
Anti-adversarial machine learning defenses start to take root
Much of the anti-adversarial research has been on the potential for minute, largely undetectable alterations to images (researchers generally refer to these as “noise...
How has technology changed – and changed us – in the past 20 years?...
Just over 20 years ago, the dotcom bubble burst, causing the stocks of many tech firms to tumble. Some companies, like Amazon, quickly recovered their value –...
Technology and the truth: Novel approaches to combating misinformation – Monash Lens
Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few.
Citizens can...
Apple releases TensorFlow fork with speedups for M1 Macs
Apple has released its own fork of the TensorFlow 2.4 machine learning framework, specifically optimized for its newly released M1 processor.
According to Apple, the...
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society
A solar-powered autonomous drone scans for forest fires. A surgeon first operates on a digital heart before she picks up a scalpel. A global...
‘Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’ Is an Uneasy Mix of Two Very Different Worlds
So much about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is like bowling in a run-down alley. Not just in the way Princess Zelda rolls her...
Conspiracy theories, explained
Eleanor’s dad loved science — or so she thought. Eleanor grew up listening to stories of the Apollo missions and audio clips from space...
Should product design be ethical?
Thanks to repeated scandals, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and Netflix’s documentary “The Social Dilemma,” the public has become more aware of some of...
Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump
Within minutes of Donald Trump tweeting that he had fired Christopher Krebs as the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency Tuesday...
