Neowin News Feed for: Human

Supercomputer passes the Turing Test laying the foundations for Skynet

James Walker — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:38:58 +0000

After 64 years, a computer has finally passed the Turing Test designed to make a machine exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from that of humans in double-blind trials. Read more...

Facebook defends Moves privacy policy changes, although it may be too late

Brockman Davis — Fri, 09 May 2014 01:35:59 +0000

Facebook is trying to defend the changed policies of Moves, saying there is a difference between "sharing" and "commingling" user data. Though their defending statements may be too late to make. Read more...

Scientist injects computer virus into body

Brandon Boyce — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:34:35 +0000

Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading purposely injected a computer chip into his hand that contained malicious code. The computer chip is normally used for identification purposes, typically for tagging animals, but in... Read more...

IBM software acts as human memory backup

James Hall — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:10:06 +0000

Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Or exactly what the company president said at the morning meeting? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are... Read more...

Human error tops the list of security threats

Steven Parker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:21:25 +0000

IT managers also say its insider threats that really worry them the most When it comes to security, human threats score much higher than those posed by technology. So says a new survey... Read more...

Microsoft blames human error for WGA glitch

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:48:04 +0000

Microsoft blamed human error for a Windows Genuine Advantage problem that identified legitimate Windows users as pirates last week. According to Alex Kochis, Microsoft senior product manager for WGA, new software was accidentally loaded onto... Read more...

Bank of Scotland blames human error in data screw-up

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:39:28 +0000

Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is telling 62,000 customers they could be at risk of identity theft after it stuck an unencrypted disc in the ordinary post, which was subsequently lost. The disc, containing information on... Read more...

Glue Thinner than a Human Hair can improve Chip Technology

Thu, 17 May 2007 22:13:08 +0000

Nanoglue is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and could potentially help make extremely tiny computer chips, according to U.S. researchers. Developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, nanoglue is... Read more...

Cisco Fights Shareholders on Human Rights

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:04:29 +0000

Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems is fighting a shareholder action that urges the company to adopt a comprehensive human rights policy for its dealings with the Chinese government, and with other states practicing political censorship... Read more...

Human resources consultancy increases worker effectiveness

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 May 2004 16:02:59 +0000

Mercer Human Resource Consulting, the world's largest firm of its type, has announced the successful pilot of a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based solution that allows its workers to increase efficiency by better utilising the traditional travel... Read more...

Survey finds human at fault for security breaches

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:00:04 +0000

Human error is to blame for 84 per cent of IT security breaches, according to a survey of more than 900 organisations. In its second annual study of IT security and the workforce,... Read more...

Camera lens mimics human eye

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:33:29 +0000

Philips Electronics has invented a tiny digital-camera lens that can focus on objects and create sharp pictures in ways similar to the human eye. Unlike high-end digital cameras, the new lens does not require mechanical... Read more...

Microsoft in human rights row

Tom Warren — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 02:27:22 +0000

Gates's firm supplied technology used to trap Chinese dissidents, says Amnesty Technology sold by Microsoft to the Chinese government has been used by Beijing to censor the internet, and resulted in... Read more...

EBay removes ad for sale of human kidney

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 03:09:25 +0000

Auction Web site eBay removed a listing Thursday from a British man who was attempting to sell one of his kidneys to finance medical treatment for his sick daughter. Peter Randall had put... Read more...

Messenger outage caused by human error

Steven Parker — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:17:55 +0000

Technicians were installing routers to upgrade the .Net Messenger service, which underlies both Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger. The technicians incorrectly configured the routers. Service was out from 9 am to 2 pm Eastern time... Read more...

First Human Clone?

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:31:31 +0000

Sounds very, very dubious. "There is a report late Thursday that a Canadian-based group will announce one of its members has given birth to the first human clone. The group has scheduled... Read more...

Scientists test first human cyborg

Steven Parker — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:49:12 +0000

Thanks Mark (our field reporter in the U.S.A) who heard this from a mate who saw this on Warp2search where CNN got it from some British site, ya you get the picture.. OXFORD, England --... Read more...