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Bot-distributed misinformation

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Supremacy is  behind-the scenes story of the ruthless shadow battle between Microsoft and Google and their AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good and the dangerous direction that they’re now going.  Human brain power outstripped by AI. Five years ago no one had heard of Open AI. Now the research firm is powering Microsoft’s software, writing everything from code to school essays and bot-distributed misinformation. In Supremacy AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World, journalist Parmy Olson  carefully tracks the rise of two young companies, – the American OpenAI and the British rival DeepMind, … Continue reading Bot-distributed misinformation

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Troubling reality of global supply chain

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Peter Goodman, New York Time’s Global award-winning Economics Correspondent, makes an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain – exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of complex and fragile network for their basic necessities. How does the wealthiest country on Earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula? How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making … Continue reading Troubling reality of global supply chain

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How a $300 gadget can do what $80million F-35 can’t

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Raj M Shah, a 27-year-old US Airforce Captain, on a patrol in 2006, was flying an F-16 fighter jet near Iraq’s border with Iran when he realised that he did not know which side of the border he was on, as he lost sense of direction.  That was a serious problem, entering Iranian airspace could cause an international incident, worse still he might be shot down. Although the $30million F-16 was among the world’s most advanced jets, its navigation system could not graphically pinpoint his location on a moving map. Shah back at base, figured out a simple hack, by … Continue reading How a $300 gadget can do what $80million F-35 can’t

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TikTok lawsuit to block a US Law rising free speech concerns

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As tensions rise between the world’s two biggest economies, the Department of Commerce confirmed it had revoked permissions that had allowed US companies to export certain goods to Chinese technology giant Huawei. The US exports computer chips to Huawei starting in 2019, citing ties to the Chinese military. TikTok has filed a lawsuit to block a US law that would ban the video app in the US unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, calling the act an “ extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights” of the company and its 170 million American users and followers. They asked … Continue reading TikTok lawsuit to block a US Law rising free speech concerns

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Apple poaches AI staff from Google

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Apple, the $2.7tn tech company, has poached dozens of AI expert staff from Google  to set up a secretive European laboratory, “Vision Lab”,  in Zurich for developing AI models for AI smartphones. Apple even acquired two local AI start-ups – Virtual Reality group FaceShift and image recognition company Fashwell, to power products such as Open AI’s ChatGPT chatpot. According to insiders Apple is clearly focused on deploying generative AI on its mobile devices, a breakthrough that would allow AI chatbots and apps to run on the Apple phone’s own operating system and hardware rather than powered by cloud services in data centres. … Continue reading Apple poaches AI staff from Google

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Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Did you know that Artificial intelligence alarmists warn that machine learning will end up destroying humanity – or make humans redundant but imagine what if AI tools simply do a bad job.  Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired, and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents, and astonishing real-world practices, reporter and professor at New York University, Hilke Schellmann reveals, after five years of investigating, exposes the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, the tools that are widely used by employers in hiring, firing, and … Continue reading Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Think Big for success to colonise swaths of economy

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Amazing riveting revelations of Amazon’s endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary. Dana Mattioli, Wall Street Journal’s Amazon correspondent, whose reporting highlighted on allegations of Amazon’s anti-competitive behaviour, in her latest book “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power, reveal how Amazon sells its own branded goods by accessing sensitive commercial data on successful third-party sellers, only then to launch its own Amazon-branded competing goods immediately, despite a senior Amazon executive denying under oath to Congress that it would misuse … Continue reading Think Big for success to colonise swaths of economy

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Robots are taking over warehouse jobs

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Online grocery stores  doing a intricate coordination with software, artificial intelligence, Robots, vans and workers. At Ocado warehouse outside Luton, hundreds of robots are whizzing around a grid, collecting items for online orders efficiently with speed and precision. Ocado had been using these unique robots to collect and distribute products, bringing them to staff, who pack them into boxes for delivery. Roboits zoom around the grid , bring items to robotic arms, which reach out and grab what they need for customer’s  shop.  Boxes of tea, coffee, packets of crumpets, peanuts are all grabbed by the arms using a suction … Continue reading Robots are taking over warehouse jobs

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GPS jamming

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Global positioning System signals are being jammed using a device that emits radio frequency signals on the same frequencies used by GPS satellites. These interfering signals being sent by the GPS satellites, rendering GPS receivers within the range of the jammer unable to accurately determine their position, speed or time. As much as 46, 000 aircraft have logged problems with GPS over the Baltic Sea since August, as most GPS problems reported on the GPSJAM.org website have come in eastern Europe, bordering Russia. Some of the flight in and out of Britain are among thousands that have been impacted by … Continue reading GPS jamming

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Beta blockers may not be effective for heart attack patients

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Beta blockers are prescribed to heart attack patients regardless they provide any  clear benefits according to a landmark trial. The daily tablets which can even trigger fatigue, nausea,and even sexual dysfuction, are offered to the majority of Heart attack patients. Around 60, 000 people are prescribed beta blockers every year in the UK and many will remain on the pills for life. The trail found that for about 50 per cent of patients, they do not reduce the risk of death or further heart attack. Experts claim that the findings will change the way heart attack patients are treated on … Continue reading Beta blockers may not be effective for heart attack patients