Pindrop, a company that focuses on voice fraud, is warning that voice cloning technology is becoming a huge threat. With the help of AI-powered software, cybercriminals are starting to clone people’s voices to commit scams. There are only a handful of cases until now, but the amount of money stolen is as high as $17 million. […]
More than 60% of the world’s population depends on agriculture for their survival and as time passes by, this number is bound to rise exponentially. As countries develop, the share of population involved in farming declines while the number of people that need to be fed grow. This puts us in a situation where comparatively […]
It has happened before and appears to be happening again! For most of the nineteenth century, immunity to yellow fever divided people in New Orleans between the acclimated (who survived yellow fever) and the unacclimated (who did not catch the disease). Lack of immunity dictated whom people could marry, where they could work, and, for […]
In a world crippled with coronavirus, the importance of social distancing can’t be overestimated. As suggested by health experts, maintaining a considerable distance from others is the only way to break the chain of transmission. But how do we do that? How to know if we are considerably away from other people and not putting […]
Despite being a poster-child of controversies, Elon Musk has built four multi-billion dollar companies in four distinct fields: software, energy, transportation, and aerospace. At the age of 12, he coded a video game called Blastar which was later sold for $500. However, like you often read in the bios of extraordinary people, he could never fit […]