Even as cybersecurity threats rise, a few American organizations still continue to operate without a defense plan or strategy, Deloitte reported Tuesday. In its 2021 Future of Cyber survey, the accoun...
Technology affects the way people learn, study, work, communicate, think and reflect. It plays an important role in society today. It has positive and negative effects on the world and it impacts dail...
Start-up Greenlight is releasing an investing platform to teach parents how to research stocks and ETFs and comes at no extra cost to subscribers of its fintech app for kids, CNBC has learned. Users o...
Neobanks now number in the hundreds and new ones continue to open — all striving to satisfy consumers’ and businesses’ preference for banking digitally. How do all these digital players st...
Cambridge, England-based start-up Speechmatics said its voice recognition system had an overall accuracy rate of 83% for African American voices. That’s higher than Microsoft (73%), Amazon (69%), Goog...
Even if you come out of college with a technical degree, IT recruiters aren’t going to be racing to hire you. That is, not without some professional certifications under your belt. Some are almost con...
A massive fraud campaign utilizing 151 Android apps with 10.5 million downloads was used to subscribe users to premium subscription services without their knowledge. Researchers at Avast discovered th...
The implementation of ISO 20022 represents a seismic shift towards a more harmonised and richer data model, which will improve banks’ operational efficiency and expand business insights. Most importan...
Based on comorbidities, researchers can use artificial intelligence to predict which COVID-19 symptoms a patient will develop. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers created ...
SUMMARY: Nudging isn’t new – but algorithmic nudging ups the ante. The AI ethics debate now extends to these new means of persuasion. It’s an issue we should all take a look at, whet...
SUMMARY: The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+ young people. The nonprofit is using AI to train counsellors and identify high risk individuals...
Last week, Twitter shared research showing that the platform’s algorithms amplify tweets from right-of-center politicians and news outlets at the expense of left-leaning sources. Rumman Chowdhury, the...
The Best-Selling Vehicles in the World By Country Each country has different preferences for goods, and vehicles are no different. Consumers in a dense country might prefer smaller cars, while countri...
International cooperation on artificial intelligence—why, what, and how Since 2017, when Canada became the first country to adopt a national AI strategy, at least 60 countries have adopted some form o...
When we talk about the fintech industry, we often refer to the great user experience, better value for money, and wide range of innovative products that it provides to customers. These great offerings...