For your eyes only is human rights organisation Amnesty International’s latest report on the right to online privacy. It ranks 11 tech companies according to their security standards for instant messaging services. Three out of these don’t deploy end-to-end encryption as a default setting on messaging services according to the international organisation, putting users at risk of privacy violations at the
Mountain View giant announced that the company’s data centres and offices will be exclusively powered by renewable energy by 2017. “And it’s just the beginning”.
The two web giants have been sharply criticised for spreading fake news that influenced the Trump-Clinton presidential debate. And now they’re taking remedial action.
Orange peels and avocado skins have been used to create a cheap, natural and super-absorbent material. Kiara Nirghin, 16-year-old South African girl of Indian origin, has developed a polymer made of polysaccharides from food scraps that can hold water more than 100 times their weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrdZjIDwAU Combatting drought in South Africa In 2016 South Africa
The connection between digital technology and satellite imagery is revolutionising the way natural resources can be used, including monitoring deforestation and desertification. As countries strive to reduce their carbon footprint by limiting deforestation, it is important they have the right tools. These must be transparent, consistent over time and suitable. To help these countries, the Food
The Google Bike Vision Plan was created with a clear goal in mind: double the number of employees riding bicycles.
La ricerca su Google dei termini “vegan” e “vegano” è in costante crescita, a testimonianza di un fenomeno in ascesa.
What did we google in 2015? It’s December and it means that the world’s most popular web search engine released its annual video, an annual roundup of what happened around the world by analysing the most popular searches and the most viewed videos (YouTube is owned by Google). It’s been a demanding and active year.
Human bodies with animal heads. Mountains turning into buildings. Eyes scattered everywhere. These are not hallucinations, but the astonishing and even unsetting effects of the Deepdream technology, the open source code released by Google in July. This Artificial Intelligence System that uses neural networks to generate images through hidden algorithms, thus creating new dreamlike and grotesque
Datacentres would be responsible for 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions globally, data show.
