Deportation agents are using a smartphone app during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow immigrants released from detention to attend online deportation hearings and to check their location, which advocates say violates their privacy, AP reports. . More…
Australian law enforcement and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation reported the mass detention of more than 800 people in 18 countries suspected of various crimes, the BBC writes. The large-scale operation became possible thanks to a mobile application used by representatives of the criminal world. The messenger called ANOM was positioned ...
A new startup is collecting voice samples from COVID-19 patients online in hopes of finding markers for the coronavirus, Business Insider writes. Modern IT technologies are entering the fight against coronavirus. So, a team of researchers from Harvard and MIT began to train artificial intelligence to diagnose ...
The Russian app FaceApp has gone viral in recent days for its filter that changes the age of a user in a photo, but its terms of use raise privacy concerns. The application has gained immense popularity, allowing users to change their age in the photo: from rejuvenation to ...
The first publicly available mobile earthquake early warning app was launched earlier this year as part of a pilot program designed to give Los Angeles County residents a few seconds of warning before the earthquake hits. But ShakeAlert LA users have not been notified ...
Nowadays, there are mobile applications for almost everything, and now a driver's license in the United States has turned into a digital application for a smartphone instead of the usual plastic card. The states of Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, Wyoming and the District of Columbia are already testing digital ...
Face recognition technology is now available to everyone thanks to the new Russian application FindFace. The program allows mobile phone users to identify strangers they meet on the street by photographing and uploading their picture to a site that uses facial recognition technology, writes The New ...
Biography of Ivan Tsybaev can become a guide on the topic "how to try everything." He worked for an oil and gas company in Sakhalin, studied at a Japanese university, played concerts in clubs in New York, was an IT blogger and interviewed Pavel Durov. In 2013, Tsybaev launched ...
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched its own application “Foreign Assistant” for mobile phones. As reported on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, first of all it should help tourists traveling abroad. In particular, users will be able to obtain information about emergency incidents along the route, including…
Marina Lonina from Ohio was detained after she showed on the social network Periscope the rape of her 17-year-old friend by a young man. Raymond Gates, 29, accused of rape, was also detained. The girl claims that she tried to stop Gates with her broadcast. Periscope is a mobile video streaming application...