Blog

• 5G Technology is coming this year, and it's faster than you'd ever imagine;

  

  07 February 2018

  The New era of mobile technology is about to catapult the globe into a network of high speed communication, with download speeds set to increase 100 times over.

• Is Facebook Listening In On Us?

  

  06 February 2018

  Our private conversations on the world’s leading social media app have always been under scrutiny, even our day-to-day conversations are potentially being heard, we just don’t know…

• Youths in care can benefit from the use of social media, rather than creating risks.

  

  05 February 2018

  The use of social media is usually seen as a risk for vulnerable groups. However, a new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that youths in care benefits from the social, emotional and psychological support received from social media networks.

• Do violent games make players violent? Apparently, not.

  

  01 February 2018

  A team of researchers at the University of York have investigated the existence of a link between violent games and violent behaviour of players, finding no evidence of such connection.

• Teenagers critically use social media and would benefit from adults' guidance, study suggest

  

  31 January 2018

  Teenagers are able to get the best of social media, grasping their potential in a critical way. A study suggests that more support in identifying the benefits of social media should be provided to these young users.

• Using social media to limit the risks of restaurant related health problems

  

  30 January 2018

  A new study shows the potential of an improved system for tracking foodborne illness exploiting online Yelp directory website’s restaurant reviews. The study was published in JAMIA, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, by the Columbia University Department of Computer Science.

• Predicting psychosis in patients with up to 83% accuracy through speech analysis software.

  

  29 January 2018

  A software analysed transcript of interviews with young patients at-risk and predicted that those would have developed forms of psychosis within two years. The results were confirmed up to 83%. In two independent groups of young participants at risk for psychosis, the same computer software was capable of identifying a disruption in the flow of speech were the patients went ‘off track’ during their speaking, being able to forecast those who were most likely to develop psychosis in the future with 79% accuracy.

• AI development allows corruption's recognition

  

  25 January 2018

  A team of scientists from the University of Valladolid (Spain) has developed a computer model based on neural networks which predict in which Spanish provinces cases of corruption are more likely to appear, outlining the conditions that favor their appearance.

• Bitcoin wallet devices present some security flaws, opening up to risk

  

  24 January 2018

  The devices that are used to manage accounts on the Bitcoin payment system that manages user accounts presents security risks and could be improved, study suggests.

• Virtual reality will require the involvement of human sense to verify the operations of information systems

  

  23 January 2018

  Many applications recently developed, and still in development, wish to make information systems and machines capable of identifying their users and considering their individual needs and emotions. Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd studied how ordinary consumers could reliably verify the operation of systems by using human senses.