What lies beneath: 'Cognitive' GPR could vastly speed urban construction
Digging a hole in most major cities—for new construction or infrastructure repair—is no minor undertaking.
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Software
Cortana Show Me focuses on help with settings
Cortana had her day in the spotlight this month with the announcement of a new Windows 10 preview with Cortana Show Me. This is not the final build, however, but people are talking about the Cortana preview anyway as a good ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Using AI to make push-notification apps smarter
A pair of researchers in Taiwan has developed an artificial intelligence system to filter smartphone push notifications, thus allowing only those the user wants. In a paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, TonTon Hsien-De ...
Software
Microsoft Garage project Ink to Code works on sketched ideas
At the very time of this writing, someone somewhere on a plane, train or bar stool will be excited over some drawing or words scribbled on a napkin which he and his companion are moving around to describe the next big idea—what ...
Security
Researchers found a security flaw that had 10 million banking app users at risk
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed a tool to perform semi-automated security testing of mobile phone apps. After running the tool on a sample of 400 security critical apps, they were able to identify ...
Dec 6, 2017
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Datally app launched by Google helps monitor, control mobile usage
(Tech Xplore)—A new app from Google is designed to ease the load off mobile users who are regularly worried about using up their mobile data.
Security
Phones vulnerable to location tracking even when GPS services off
Demonstrating a potential privacy breach, a team of Princeton University engineers has developed an app that can locate and track people through their smartphones even when access to the Global Positioning System, or GPS, ...
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Microsoft Learn Chinese for iOS helps beginners, intermediates
(Tech Xplore)—What would you say to learning Chinese with the focus on speaking it—and having fun doing so?
Robotics
MekaMon robot from Reach Robotics is now ready for battle
(Tech Xplore)—Talk about game-changing robots. A UK team have created a robot weighing about 2.2 pounds that you just take out of the box and proceed to put together with an easy setup, to unleash it into play either in ...
Security
Appthority discovers app developers hard coding credentials into mobile applications using Twilio, putting users at risk
(Tech Xplore)—A team at Appthority, a threat protection company, has found that many app developers have been hard-coding credentials into products that use Twilio communications services. Doing so, they note makes it relatively ...
