EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation
In the second of two exclusive interviews, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sat down with Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s Chief Technology officer to discuss the...
EmTech Stage: Facebook’s CTO on misinformation
Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so too has...
What is AI? We made this to help.
Defining what is, or isn’t artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes....
An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI
The news: A new AI model for summarizing scientific literature can now assist researchers in wading through and identifying the latest cutting-edge papers they...
Privacy In The Age Of Pandemic
From research to expanding our product portfolio, Avast has taken important steps throughout 2020 in support of privacy and data protection
2020 has been an...
Customer Experience Can Be Improved 3 Ways. Explore How
When improving customer experience, businesses often focus on customer service. However, with the necessity of online presence and the creation of online user experiences...
Locking Down Smart Home Security
We can eliminate some security gaps in our smart household devices — here's how
Last week, after realizing that I had no idea what my...
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
For example, they trained 50 versions of an image recognition model on ImageNet, a dataset of images of everyday objects. The only difference between...
A Smarter Security Strategy for Healthcare Risks
In late October the FBI issued an alert regarding imminent and increased advanced ransomware risk to hospitals and healthcare providers in the U.S. Such...
Hang up the Phone: MFA’s Insecure Reliance on SMS
It’s hard enough to get people to use multi-factor authentication (MFA)—you know, something you know, you have and you are. Most websites, email accounts...