Collaborate Disseminate
One of the nice things about reading electronic text is the fact that if there’s a word you don’t understand, you can just highlight it to perform a Google search. Well, a device called the Googstick is designed to do the same thing for paper-printed t… Continue reading Googstick lets users select and search printed text
One time-proven method to make a lesson memorable is to make it a story, but that is not easy if your core material is the repair log of a rotted out analog ammeter. Most folks don’t need a 300A meter on their drill press, so [Build Comics] converted it to …read more
Convincing SMS messages tell victims that they’ve been selected for a pre-release trial for the soon-to-be-launched device. Continue reading Free Apple iPhone 12? Chatbot Scam Spreads Via Texts
Sindhi-language characters can crash iPhones and other iOS/macOS devices if a victim views texts, Twitter posts or messages within various apps containing them. Continue reading Latest Apple Text-Bomb Crashes iPhones via Message Notifications
Getting bounced to a website by scanning a QR code is no longer an exciting feat of technology, but what if you scanned the ingredient list on your granola bar and it went to the company’s page for that specific flavor, sans the matrix code?
Bright minds at the Columbia University in the City of New York have “perturbed” ordinary font characters so the average human eye won’t pick up the changes. Even ordinary OCR won’t miss a beat when it looks at a passage with a hidden message. After all, these “perturbed” glyphs are like a perfectly legible character …read more
This post will explain the improvements that Microsoft has made by making the next-generation alert system of Azure generally available.
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Fingerprinting text is really very nifty; the ability to encode hidden data within a string of characters opens up a large number of opportunities. For example, someone within your team is leaking confidential information but you don’t know who. Simply send each team member some classified text with their name encoded in it. Wait for it to be leaked, then extract the name from the text — the classic canary trap.
Here’s a method that hides data in text using zero-width characters. Unlike various other ways of text fingerprinting, zero width characters are not removed if the formatting is stripped, …read more
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The text-only strategy game once had 100,000 players. Its new owners want to bring it back to its former glory. Continue reading I Talked to the Guys Who Bought ‘Utopia’
This morning Facebook’s AI Research (FAIR) lab released an update to fastText, its super-speedy open-source text classification library. When it was initially released, fastText shipped with pre-trained word vectors for 90 languages, but today it’s getting a boost to 294 languages. The release also brings enhancements to reduce model size and ultimately memory demand. Read More Continue reading Facebook’s fastText library is now optimized for mobile
With a little help from AI, of course. Continue reading How Metadata Can Reveal What Your Job Is