Into mystery movies? Beware of spoilers.
Opening scenes of a crime thriller.
The protagonist, a beat detective with a good amount of personal problems, examines the room where the murder took place. One by one, the film introduces the various characters in the story, and the question inevitably pops up into your head:
Who’s done it?
Well… Knives Out and Star Wars director Rian Johnson might have ruined the fun for all of us. According to the filmmaker, Apple doesn’t let bad guys use an iPhone on screen for branding purposes.
There you go. Now you can start ruling suspects out.
A week in retrospect
Speaking of crime…
A new study on cloud security published this week revealed that only 57% of all business-sensitive data stored in the cloud is protected by encryption. This is particularly worrisome considering that 47% of businesses report having suffered a breach or failed a security test in the past year.
Is your data at risk? This article might help you figure it out.
Stop pointing that at me.
The debate around the use of facial recognition to fight crime is heating up. In response to mounting criticism, London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick tried to calm down the public by highlighting the benefits of the technology.
There seems to be a general misunderstanding, as the system currently being employed in the UK doesn’t store the data it captures. It simply compares faces against a data base of known offenders, in real time.
The images we post on Facebook and Instagram do much more to endanger our biometric privacy, assures the Met’s chief.
Meanwhile, a global report from communications firm Edelman revealed that 60% of people feels tech is advancing too fast…
And, speaking of advances…
The MIT Technology Review has published its annual list of technological innovations poised to have a big impact on solving the world’s problems. Here are the contenders:
- Unhackable internet
- Hyper-personalized medicine
- Digital money
- Anti-aging drugs
- AI-discovered molecules
- Satellite mega-constellations
- Quantum supremacy
- Tiny AI
- Differential privacy
- Climate change attribution
Would you add or change anything?