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Adobe Spark Released for Android in Beta; Offers Intelligent Graphic Design, Typography and More Adobe is one of the biggest names in the world of image editing software, with Adobe Photoshop being the primary choice for most professional and casual image processing. However, the company is also investing heavily in smartphone apps. While there is already the Adobe Photoshop Express app available on the Google Play Store, the company has also announced a new app for Android devices....

AI System That Detects Violence in Crowds To Be Tested in NIT Warangal The developments in the fields of AI and machine learning have ushered in a new era of automation and convenience, but unfortunately, they’ve also given rise to fears of it being used unethically and could contribute to a ‘robocalypse’. Yet, a team of researchers from India and UK plans to employ AI for a benevolent task i.e identifying violent behavior in a crowd or public gathering via drones equipped with machine vision....

Airtel Tweaks Rs 149 Recharge Pack; Offers 1GB Daily Data for 28 Days Bharti Airtel has now tweaked its Rs. 149 plan that comes with a 28-day validity and offers 1GB of data and 100 SMSes per day alongside unlimited voice-calling with free national roaming. The change,according to TelecomTalk, was quietly implemented last week, before which, the unlimited voice calling was limited to the company’s own network. Which meant, you had to pay more to call non-Airtel numbers....

300 Million Smartphones With a Notch to be Sold in 2018: Counterpoint Notches on smartphones have gonefrom being hated to accepted. LG even conducted a survey before finalizing the design of the newly launchedG7 ThinQand found out the respondentsassociate notches with luxury and status. Following the hype created by theiPhone X, many brands including Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Asus have launched smartphones with notches. Now, asAndroid P embraces the notch, there is no doubting thatmore manufacturers will adopt the design....

Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day Bug Discovered, Allows Remote Control of Windows In the past couple of years,Adobe’s Flash Player has been identified as one of the most vulnerable software out there.Considering its popularity, the software was used for a plethora of services, making them highly vulnerable to hacks as well. It was this reason that companies started to move away from Flash onto other technologies. However, for those of you that still use apps that rely on Adobe’s insecure technology, we have some more bad news for you....

Crime-Predicting AI Fares Worse than Humans in Repeat Offender Study, and It’s Racist Too The 21st century has witnessed AI (Artificial Intelligence) accomplishing tasks like handily defeating humans at chess or teaching them foreign languages quickly. A more advanced task for the computer would be predicting an offender’s likelihood of committing another crime. That’s the job for an AI system called COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions). But it turns out that tool is no better than an average bloke, and can be racist too....

AdultSwine Malware Inserts Porn Ads and More in Android Games on Google Play Store While Android might be the world’s most preferred mobile OS, it is also highly vulnerable to foreign threats. We’ve previously had reports ofvarious malware problemsthat have affected users’ devices by turning them intocryptocurrency mining machines,stealing banking informationandother similar activities. Now, a new malware has been reported that displays pornographic ads on users’ devices. As reported byCheckPoint, researchers have discovered a new and nasty malicious code on Google Play Store that hides within over 60 games and apps....