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Oct 9, 2024

Breaking up big tech: US wants to separate Android, Play, and Chrome from Google

Posted by in categories: business, law, mobile phones, robotics/AI

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has submitted a new “Proposed Remedy Framework” to correct Google’s violation of antitrust antitrust laws in the country (h/t Mishaal Rahman). This framework seeks to remedy the harm caused by Google’s search distribution and revenue sharing, generation and display for search results, advertising scale and monetization, and accumulation and use of data.

The most drastic of the proposed solutions includes preventing Google from using its products, such as Chrome, Play, and Android, to advantage Google Search and related products. Other solutions include allowing websites to opt-out of training or appearing in Google-owned AI products, such as in AI Overviews in Google Search.

Google responded to this by asserting that “DOJ’s radical and sweeping proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and developers.” While the company intends to respond in detail to DoJ’s final proposals, it says that the DoJ is “already signaling requests that go far beyond the specific legal issues in this case.”

Oct 8, 2024

Scientists invent artificial plant that cleans indoor air and generates electricity

Posted by in categories: biological, mobile phones, solar power, sustainability

Scientists have invented an artificial plant that can simultaneously clean indoor air while generating enough electricity to power a smartphone.

A team from Binghamton University in New York created an artificial leaf “for fun” using five biological solar cells and their photosynthetic bacteria, before realising that the device could be used for practical applications.

A proof-of-concept plant with five artificial leaves was capable of generating electricity and oxygen, while removing CO2 at a far more efficient rate than natural plants.

Oct 6, 2024

Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite service approved for areas hit by Hurricane Helene

Posted by in categories: climatology, mobile phones, satellites

Satellites are broadcasting emergency alerts on all networks.

Oct 5, 2024

Apple Releases Critical iOS and iPadOS Updates to Fix VoiceOver Password Vulnerability

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Apple’s iOS 18.0.1 fixes a VoiceOver password vulnerability and an audio bug in iPhone 16. Update now!

Oct 5, 2024

Google Adds New Pixel Security Features to Block 2G Exploits and Baseband Attacks

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, security

Google enhances Pixel security in Android 14 to block baseband attacks, 2G downgrades, and SMS Blaster fraud.

Oct 4, 2024

Carbon Fiber Structural Battery Paves way for Light, Energy-Efficient Vehicles

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation

When cars, planes, ships or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced. A research group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is now presenting a world-leading advance in so-called massless energy storage — a structural battery that could halve the weight of a laptop, make the mobile phone as thin as a credit card or increase the driving range of an electric car by up to 70% on a single charge.

“We have succeeded in creating a battery made of carbon fiber composite that is as stiff as aluminum and energy-dense enough to be used commercially. Just like a human skeleton, the battery has several functions at the same time,” says Chalmers researcher Richa Chaudhary, who is the first author of an article recently published in Advanced Materials.

Research on structural batteries has been going on for many years at Chalmers, and in some stages also together with researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. When Professor Leif Asp and colleagues published their first results in 2018 on how stiff, strong carbon fibers could store electrical energy chemically, the advance attracted massive attention.

Oct 4, 2024

Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Whether it’s the smartphone in your pocket or the laptop on your desk, all current computer devices are based on electronic technology. But this has some inherent drawbacks; in particular, they necessarily generate a lot of heat, especially as they increase in performance, not to mention that fabrication technologies are approaching the fundamental limits of what is theoretically possible.

As a result, researchers explore alternative ways to perform computation that can tackle these problems and ideally offer some new functionality or features too.

One possibility lies in an idea that has existed for several decades but has yet to break through and become commercially viable, and that’s in optical computing.

Oct 3, 2024

AI will save us all, but only if it’s decentralized — SingularityNET CEO

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, singularity

With the recent release of the iPhone 16, which Apple has promised is optimized for artificial intelligence, it’s clear that AI is officially front of mind, once again, for the average consumer. Yet the technology still remains rather limited compared with the vast abilities the most forward-thinking AI technologists anticipate will be achievable in the near future.

As much excitement as there still is around the technology, many still fear the potentially negative consequences of integrating it so deeply into society. One common concern is that a sufficiently advanced AI could determine humanity to be a threat and turn against us all, a scenario imagined in many science fiction stories. However, according to a leading AI researcher, most people’s concerns can be alleviated by decentralizing and democratizing AI’s development.

On Episode 46 of The Agenda podcast, hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond separate fact from fiction by speaking with Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist and researcher who first popularized the term “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI. Goertzel currently serves as the CEO of SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance, where he leads the projects’ efforts to develop the world’s first AGI.

Sep 25, 2024

Necro Android Malware Found in Popular Camera and Browser Apps on Play Store

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones

Necro malware infects 11 million Android devices via apps on Google Play, using steganography to evade detection.

Sep 25, 2024

Google’s Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Google’s shift to Rust for Android has cut memory vulnerabilities by 52%, highlighting the benefits of safe coding.

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