Archive for July 2017
The Knightscope K5 – Why the toddler-bashing, drunk-fighting, self-drowning security bot is a great help for Robotics PR
The Knightscope K5 and Robotics PR The Knightscope K5, Silicon Valley’s very own mini Robocop, is a small robot which undertakes advanced security duties around the building. It may look like an upper-class trashcan, but it’s actually an incredibly advanced robot which has a host of advantages over a human security guard. It constantly monitors the […]
Rebranding France
How President Macron is putting France on the top spot France has become the world’s top soft power nation making a big leap from n°5 to n°1 within a year. This makes France the most influencial nation, overtaking the U.K. and the United States. Not long ago, this would have been unthinkable. There […]
Why it is wrong to worry about Robotics and AI
Sutton Trust releases report showing robotics and AI will worsen social mobility What it said and why it’s wrong by Luke Chambers One of the most repeated terms in relation to robotics is ‘Robotics will lead to significant job losses’ and ‘robots are replacing our workers’. So much so that it now competes […]
Bithumb Users Lose Billions of Won in Hack
Bithumb was hacked and people lost billions of won after data was leaked from an employee’s personal computer. No passwords were lost, but more than 30,000 user records (approximately 3% of their user base) had information lost as a result. Email addresses and phone numbers were used in targeted social engineering attacks to extract hundreds of […]