Krishna A study looking into the accuracy and bias of gender and skin colour in automatic face recognition algorithms tested with real-world data has found that some demographics show higher false positive or false negative rates. Facial recognition has been routinely used by both private and governmental organisations worldwide. Automatic face recognition can be used for … Read more
Google is pressing ahead with plans to ditch third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in favour of its own “privacy sandbox”, despite the launch of an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over whether the practice is anti-competitive. Third-party cookies are created by entities other than the website that the user is … Read more
A US government-appointed panel has concluded that the nation should not agree to an outright ban on the development of use of autonomous weapons, following a public discussion on the issue. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which is led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, held a two-day public discussion on how the … Read more
The primary claim to data gathering, determining what data is in the first place, what the status of information is, and how knowledge is to be made operational, is no longer wed to universities and academic institutions. Neither is its output: essay, report, document – the sole format through which broadly shared notions on what … Read more
Artists have always exploited the conditions for technological change, applications and services, from the pencil onwards. In the move towards ubiquitous computing – from the Internet to the ‘Internet of Things’ – the poetic process of making meaning and creating experiences is no longer only productive at the level of design, but it lies at … Read more
In Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy he makes a distinction between the real enemy and the absolute enemy. This latter enemy is the one that negates your own position, questions your very existence. The real enemy denotes our possibility to act, we can react to challenges and threats. The absolute enemy appears on thresholds to new … Read more
The debate about Internet of Things in Europe rose at a time when the structure of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) was already established. It is obvious that the holistic approach adopted by the “Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)” unit (DG INFSO/D4) in its initiatives, especially the Communication of June 2009 and … Read more
Today, there are roughly 1.5 billion Internet-enabled PCs and over 1 billion Internet-enabled cell phones. The present “Internet of PCs” will move towards an “Internet of Things” in which 50 to 100 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Some projections indicate that in the same year, the number of mobile machine … Read more
Metrics are basically key performance indicators. Most commonly used metrics are mentioned below: 1. Average transaction response time It is the Average time taken to perform transactions during each second of the scenario run. 2. Total transactions per second The total number of transactions that passed, the total number of transactions that failed and the … Read more
Normally all the performance testing tools that are used for load testing could also be used for stress testing. Below mentioned are the ones that are most commonly used: 1. Loadrunner Loadrunner from HP is the widely used tool to perform stress testing and the results provided by Loadrunner are considered as a benchmark. 2. … Read more