AI software helps bust image fraud in academic papers

Enlarge / Colorized photo image of a Western blot test result. (credit: Getty Images) Scientific publishers such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Taylor & Francis have begun attempting to detect fraud in academic paper submissions with an AI image-checking program called Proofig, reports The Register. Proofig, a product of an Israeli […]

Breach of software maker used to backdoor as many as 200,000 servers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Fishpig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig’s […]

How Medical Practices Can Be More Efficient

Image Source: Pexels.com Efficient medical practices translate to satisfied patients and productive staff. In turn, you will retain clients and acquire new ones due to the streamlined process. If you want to generate more revenue in your organization, everything should be in order. Thanks to technology, you can boost patient experience with sheer simplicity. Also, […]

Careers in Coding & Computer Science

The Growing Demand for Coding Skills In 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that, by 2020, there will be 1.4 million programming-related jobs available and only 400,000 graduates with the coding skills required to fill those roles. Computer Science is an expanding field of study, highly relevant to various industries. For example, economists use the coding […]

Field Sales Management: A Look At The Improved Processes

Managing field sales is a skill and those who have successfully managed to hone the skills have their faith in sales management software. Managing the on-field tasks manually is just not possible. You need to have an automated software that could take the scheduling and management pain away from your shoulders. On-field sales process is […]

Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Researchers from Google investigating the scope and impact of the Spectre attack have published a paper asserting that Spectre-like vulnerabilities are likely to be a continued feature of processors and, further, that software-based techniques for protecting against them will impose a high performance cost. And whatever the cost, […]

How Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career—and its own guitars, software

L-R: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform as Buke and Gase in November 2018. Each holds one of the band’s titular, custom-built instruments: a baritone ukulele and a guitar-bass fusion. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] NEW YORK CITY—The band brings to the stage: two stringed instruments, neither of which look exactly like a bass or a […]