Alexa, from Amazon, can now express joy or disappointment
The voice of Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa is now able to express enthusiasm or disappointment when she speaks English. Three different intensity levels are proposed for each of these two…
Read more »5G Has Security Breaches That Track Phones
A few months before its formal deployment in Canada, 5G is increasingly scrutinized by the cybersecurity community, which has just discovered 11 new vulnerabilities. These would allow hackers to track…
Read more »Spotify Kids, the new app designed for kids
Spotify announced Tuesday the launch of Spotify Kids, an application for children over three years old so they can listen to their own music. This online music space allows children…
Read more »50 years ago The Internet Was Born
On October 29, 1969, a small research group at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) managed, for the first time, to send a message from one computer to…
Read more »Twitter will no longer accept political ads
In a series of tweets, Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, announced that the platform he created will no longer accept publishing political ads around the world. “We made the decision to…
Read more »Australia wants to use facial recognition to block access to adult content
Australia believes that it has found a solution to restrict access to adult content for minors. The government has proposed to use facial recognition to confirm the age of Internet…
Read more »A new cancer immunotherapy strategy developed
A cell therapy that amplifies the immune response of T cells against cancerous tumors was developed by Canadian scientists associated with the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center (HMR) and the Université…
Read more »A gel that repairs heart wounds
A first human protein gel to repair heart attack injuries has been developed by researchers at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI). This gel is composed of recombinant collagen…
Read more »Earth has entered the age of Meghalayan
Earth has officially entered a new chapter in its history, the age of the Meghalayan, the third and last period since the beginning of the Holocene era nearly 12,000 years…
Read more »Fertilized sperm 50 years ago still viable
The sperm of four rams stored since 1968 in an Australian laboratory has been thawed and successfully used to inseminate 34 ewes. Researchers Simon de Graaf and Jessica Rickard of…
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