Our computer systems are like a safe. They store various important files and personal data which you went to keep secure. That is where you want your computer to be protected from hackers. No hardware or software is absolutely secure. A “real” hacker would be able to penetrate all your defenses if he/she wants to. …
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Can algorithms write better news/stories than reporters in the future?
Without any doubt, computer algorithms have played a salient role in shaping our lives. Algorithms are used in a diverse spectrum of activities where data is collected and interpreted. Nonetheless, the approach risks being a potentially job slaying technology as computers can now write news stories. A number of faculties including the Medill School of …
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Facebook Newsfeed Algorithm
Have you ever wondered what is the criterion used by Facebook to show a particular post in your newsfeed? There are about a billion users on Facebook and a substantial number of posts are created every minute with privacy set as public then why do you see the posts from the people most related to …
CineMatch: The Netflix Algorithm
This is the era of artificial intelligence and this science is getting scarily advanced. Most of the times, when we enter a search query in Google, Facebook or YouTube, the required results show up even before we are finished writing the question. There is nothing behind the screens reading our minds in some mysterious pattern. …
Algorithm Allows a Computer to Create a Vacation Video
Students-researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created a computer software that can sort and edit vacation footage and create the ultimate, most picturesque highlights for a vacation reel. The algorithm developed by two students, Daniel Castro and Vinay Bettadapura under the guidance of Professor Irfan Essa, is a new approach that can analyze video …
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A new computer algorithm can spot a drunken tweeter
The researchers from the University of Rochester have developed an algorithm that helps in detecting the tweets done by a person while drunk. This experiment will help in examining the drinking patterns among the people and will also be helpful in studying various other human behaviors. The researchers began with selecting the tweets from New …
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Dijkstra’s Algorithm
Dijkstra’s algorithm is an algorithm for finding the shortest path in a network of nodes in a graph (abstract data type). The original Dijkstra’s algorithm found the shortest path between two nodes but now many variants exist. A more common variant fixes a single node as a source node and finds the shortest path from …
The Encryption Fiasco
We all have some form of encryption on our devices. We use passwords both as texts and pictures, we can receive alerts through messages and emails while we have secure company accounts that have security embedded in them. But the government wishes to know about certain things when they are investigating a case, which can …
Algorithms That Save Your Life
Robots are becoming an integral part of our lives. Technology is fast replacing manual work either electronically or with the help of robots. These robots or any computing hardware is just a piece of junk unless they have some algorithm running in the background. We can safely state that algorithms play a major role to …
Why is Cybersecurity Important
To an individual, cybersecurity might not look much. As we are not big corporate or hold any national security data, we might not be hacked or harmed. But the outlook for 2016 in terms of personal and national cybersecurity needs to be understood. The United States and governments internationally are working towards making sure cybersecurity …
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