Month: July 2017

In cringe worthy news it seems that high tech criminals have raised the stakes in sophisticated skimming devices that steal credit card information. Criminals hide these evil devices that anyone can buy over the Dark Web,  around ATMs, gas pumps, and other places unsuspecting consumers swipe their credit and debit cards. These credit card skimming devices steal the magnetic strip information from your card. Thieves use the stolen data to make a reproduction of your card and run up huge charges. It gets worse as criminals also attach cameras to ATMs to steal pin numbers so they can withdraw...

Machine Translation has come along way in recent years with the advent of artificial neural networks to “learn from millions of examples” to increase fluency and accuracy. Translating emails, web pages and even documents from one language to another are offered automatically in certain browsers. And while some of the translations are a bit off like complicated speech and idioms, usually the gist of what is being communicated comes across well. As important technologies like these improve there becomes more interest in evolving and incorporating the functionality into new devices that better serve us. So it is not so...