Every year at Superconference, Editor-in-Chief Mike Szczys gets the chance to talk about what we think are the biggest, most important themes in the Hackaday universe. This year’s talk was about science and technology, and more importantly who gets to be involved in building the future. Spoiler: all of us! Hackaday has always stood for…

A website that uses AI — Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) — to generate photos of people who do not exist is circulating on social media and forums this week. A news writeup adds: Every time the site is refreshed, a shockingly realistic — but totally fake –picture of a person’s face appears. Uber software engineer…

Microsoft prez Brad Smith talks AI and ethics with the Pope The head of an organisation noted for being a bit unpleasant over the years, and is now trying to rehabilitate its image for a new generation, met the Pope this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Your phone’s video capabilities lag behind its photo abilities. Here’s how they can be fixed. …read more Source:: CNet

Plus Android app tracking and Google’s US expansion. …read more Source:: CNet

After years of fighting the idea, Sony announced last September it is finally bringing “cross-platform gameplay, progression, and commerce” to the PlayStation Network, with Fortnite as the first example. Months later, the company’s efforts have yet to gain wide traction and now we may have identified the bottleneck: Sony. Several major third-party developers have accused…

It has added the technique of using malicious XML files as its delivery method. …read more Source:: Threatpost

This expensive car repair is maddening. Here’s why. …read more Source:: CNet

We all know CERN as that cool place where physicists play with massive, superconducting rings to smash atoms and subatomic particles to uncover secrets of matter in the Universe. To achieve this aim, they need to do a ton of research in other areas, such as development of special particle detectors. While such developments are…

J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a fraud in September 2017 and said, “You can’t have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart.” By January 2018 he had walked the remarks back but said he still was…