American intelligence services have reportedly launched a full-scale investigation into a lab in Wuhan, China, over claims that scientists there allowed the novel coronavirus to escape as part of a botched experiment, leading to a global pandemic. China has denied speculation that the pathogen originated inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab, though US government … Read more
Four senators dumped millions of dollars worth of stock while Capitol Hill was being briefed on the threat of coronavirus but before the markets tanked as infections soared, disclosure records have revealed. According to The Daily Beast, Sen Kelly Loeffler and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, reportedly sold … Read more
Sniffer dogs could be out of work after Intel creates a computer chip that can ‘smell’ dangerous chemicals in drugs, explosives and other illegal substances Researchers created a circuit on a chip similar to the olfactory circuit in dogs The team then use artificial intelligence to spot different chemical ‘smells’ The algorithm identifies smells by … Read more
Unfixable flaw in nearly all Intel chips released in the last five years could allow cyber criminals to hijack computers and wreak ‘utter chaos’ The flaw causes a security feature protecting computer memory to load too late This creates a short window in which expert hackers can run malicious code The issue stems from uneditable … Read more
A billionaire supermarket tycoon used the creepy facial recognition app Clearview AI to investigate his daughter’s date as she dined in a Manhattan restaurant. Gristedes Food CEO John Catsimatidis, 71, spotted his daughter, Andrea, on a date with an unfamiliar man while dining at Cipriani Downtown, an Italian restaurant in the SoHo neighbourhood of Lower … Read more