Facebook Face Recognition Software
Facebook face recognition software, DeepFace, is extremely accurate. The software can detect faces and accurately recognize them 97.25% of the…
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With Luis Alvarez
End of Support for Windows XP/Office 2003, Cryptolocker, and Cryptodefense
On April 8th, 2014, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP and Office 2003. While Windows XP is extremely vulnerable now, 25% of Windows users are still running the operating system. In addition, roughly 30% of businesses are using Office 2003 despite the risks. And that’s dangerous considering the amount of viruses continuously introduced into embedded code in documents like .doc or excel spreadsheets.
Our quaint old power grid is at the mercy of hackers
The United States, the birthplace of Thomas Edison and the first commercially successful electric bulb, but the history of commercial use of electricity in the US actually started in San Francisco in 1879, when the California Electric Company, which would later become Pacific Gas & Electric or PG&E, started selling electricity produced at its plant to customers using transmission lines.
Can Government IT change it’s ways?
This month we learned that over 8 million people signed up for the Affordable Care Act, or as most people call it, Obamacare, which is 1 million more people than the original estimates from the government’s Office of Management and Budget. If you’d told someone back on October 1st, when the government’s online insurance exchange website, Healthcare.gov, went online that 8 million people would be able to sign up for insurance online, they would have thought you were crazy
California Dreaming
As far back as the Gold Rush days, California has always been a magical place to the rest of the world, a place where things happened and the frenetic pace of change and progress an accepted fact of life. That only accelerated when technology companies, largely built by former academics from places like Stanford, Berkeley and USC, took root in Silicon Valley, triggering a revolution that still reverberates around the planet today. California has been a world leader in many areas for decades, but it holds the clear title for environmental awareness and activism, and that is translating into changes in construction that will shake the world once again.
Virtual Reality changing the way we see the world
If you watched any of the latest incarnations of the TV show Star Trek, one of the neatest bits of technology on the good ole starship Enterprise was the “holodeck,” an entertainment area that allowed people to enjoy make believe experiences using a concept called virtual reality. The idea of virtual reality isn’t new and has been a staple of science fiction for decades.
