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Criminals in Brazil are benefiting from Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service

03/23/202303/22/2023 L. Green

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The technology was meant to provide connectivity in the Amazon rainforest, but criminals are using it. Brazilian federal agents are increasingly finding Starlink internet units on the sites they raid in the Amazon rainforest. The agents are shot at, and the criminals often escape, but the technology is being left behind. Starlink internet services are a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The company has nearly 4,000 satellites in low orbit, providing with people in remote areas of the world – such as the Amazon rainforest – with online connectivity. The…

SpaceX curbed Starlink internet service for drones in Ukraine

03/16/202303/15/2023 QR Code Press

The company president said it has taken steps to stop the Ukrainian military from using the service. SpaceX has actively prevented the Ukrainian military from using the company’s Starlink satellite internet service in order to control its drones since Russia’s invasion, said Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating officer at SpaceX. The president pointed out that connection is being used by the Ukrainian military on the whole. The satellite connectivity has been providing the military with broadband communications to help in the defense against the Russian military. That said,…

New AI model has over 90 percent accuracy detecting Alzheimer’s disease

03/14/202303/13/2023 L. Green

A team of researchers has leveraged artificial intelligence as a highly effective way of diagnosing the disease. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently published a study in PLOS ONE in which they detailed a novel way of using an AI model to detect Alzheimer’s disease with greater ease and accuracy. Artificial intelligence software has already been proven helpful in detecting several types of disease. Deep learning in AI models have already shown to be successful for the detection of several kinds of disease using data from high-quality brain magnetic…

FBI and DoD were actively involved in facial recognition development

03/10/202303/09/2023 Stephanie Beck

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The software used in everything from street cameras to drones was developed in part by the Pentagon. Internal documents made public due to a lawsuit response have shown that the US government was profoundly involved in the research and development of facial recognition software they were hoping to use for mass surveillance. The FBI and Defense Department were actively involved in R&D to help identify people from footage. According to the documents, the FBI and Department of Defense were actively involved in facial recognition software research and development in the…

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant misses its mark

03/08/202303/07/2023 John Montgallo

The company is now making the largest cuts in its history to the teams working on that technology. The teams at Amazon that have been working on the Alexa voice assistant are being hit by the largest job cuts the company has ever seen. The concept of Alexa was first created by Jeff Bezos more than a decade ago on a whiteboard. In Bezos’ vision of the voice assistant, it would provide the user with help in completing a full spectrum of different tasks ranging from reading a bedtime story…