Canadians Are Worried About NSA Spying But Don’t Understand How It Happens
Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:25:19 +0000
Canucks need to know the risks.
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This Special Gamer Chair Will Cool Your Sweaty Ass
Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:55:59 +0000
For between $350 and $500, Thermaltake will sell you a chair with built in fans in the seat.
Read More‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Is Everything That’s Wrong With Big Budget Games
Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:50:08 +0000
A bleak, ‘Candy Crush’ version of a ‘Star Wars’ game.
Read MoreHow Hacking Works
Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceshi-Bicchierai| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:47:44 +0000
Motherboard’s 2017 Hacking Week aims to demystify how the security industry really works.
Read MoreThis Space Plane Is One Step Closer to Cargo Runs to the Space Station
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s flashy vehicle is designed to resupply the International Space Station.
Read More‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Talks ‘Artemis’ and the Future of Moon Cities
Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000
Following on the success of ‘The Martian,’ Weir is back with a second novel set in a bustling Moon city.
Read MoreAmerica Has a Missile Shield Now. But Does It Actually Work?
Credit to Author: David Axe| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0000
The 30-year effort to build a defense system against incoming nuclear missiles is complete. Yet the shield is basically still a prototype.
Read More‘Hey Siri, buy $100 Bitcoin for the burglar guy’
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:08:00 -0800
Apple will apparently bring FaceID to its long-awaited HomePod smart speaker systems next year, but voice assistant tech may be a weak link in domestic and enterprise security, fresh research claims.
The imitation game
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland claim that voice impersonators can fool smart speaker systems into thinking they are an authorized user of those systems.
It’s known that you can undermine voice authorization systems using speech synthesis, voice conversion or even dubbing recordings of a target voice.