Author: Henry R. Lares

Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post.  In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.

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An Accurate Classification of AI Technologies

Artificial intelligence has become a huge thing in the past years, and we know how it all is with landscapes, distinctions, and infographics: they all show how people think about AI. Here we’re not going to talk about these categories, since putting things into boxes don’t really mean we have a clear image about them.

We believe that what we’re about to do will be useful for those who are new to this topic, just as much as it will help those with some experience on their backs – they will all be able to start and keep a conversation about AI alive. We’re going to call this your way to pre-existing knowledge on this topic, a way that will let you choose info and even make new knowledge on artificial intelligence.

There are six AI paradigms:

Tools based on knowledge, which are mainly based on databases full of rules and information

Tools based on logic, which are the ones used for knowledge representation and for solving problems

Probabilistic methods, which are the tools that lets agents act in some incomplete information situations

Machine learning, which are the tools that let computers learn from specific data

Embodied intelligence, which is basically an engineering toolbox that shows a body that’s required for higher intelligence – we’re talking about at least a part of functions, like perception, interaction, movement, visualization.

Search and optimization, which make the most out of tools that let intelligence search with lots of possible solutions.

All of these 6 find themselves in other three different branches, called macro-approaches – Symbolic, Sub-symbolic and Statistical.

  • Symbolic – human intelligence can be reduced to the manipulation of symbol
  • Sub-symbolic  – it doesn’t really have a specific representation of knowledge given ex-ante
  • Statistical – this one is based on math and math tools in order to solve the sub-symbolic problems.

There are five problems that AI has been used for:

  1. Reasoning, which is the capacity to solve the problems
  2. Knowledge, which is the capacity to represent and also understand the world
  3. Planning, which is the capacity to set goals and then achieve them
  4. Communication, which is the capacity to understand the language and them communicate with others
  5. Perception, which is the ability to transform the sensorial inputs, such as sounds, images to information that can be used in different cases.

The technologies are divided into two groups: narrow applications and general applications. Of course, if you’re new here, is crucial to understand the difference between weak and narrow AI, strong and general AI and artificial superintelligence. The artificial superintelligence is a theory that’s up to date, the general AI is a goal that’s to be reached and the narrow AI is what we have in the present, and that is a set of technologies that aren’t really able to cope with the things that are outside their scope. Some of these technologies can solve a specific problem, some better than humans (we’re talking about the narrow applications), and others can deal with multiple problems now or in the future, some better than humans (we’re talking about general applications).

Which are some of those technologies?

Robotic Process Automation, which is the one that cites a list of rules to take into account by seeing someone doing a specific task.

Expert Systems, which is a computer program that has some rules to outdo the way humans make decisions. An example of this is fuzzy systems which use values between 0 and 1, and not the traditional logic, which only gives the 0/1 result.

Computer Vision, which are methods to get and understand digital images

Natural Language Processing, which is a subfield that deals with natural language data – language generation, language understanding and machine translation.

Autonomous Systems, which is another sub-field that is placed between intelligent systems and robotics – agile object handling, intelligent perception.

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Hiddad Malware Risk On Google Play Store – Staying Safe Tips

While Google is considered a security expert, it appears that the Google Play Store is not as safe as it should be. Recently Quick Heal Security Lab detected Hiddad Malware on Google Play store. Multiple applications were infected, and, after users installed them they displayed ads that covered the entire screen. It was difficult to uninstall these apps, as they did not show up in app manager. An app that had Hiddad Malware usually appeared under the name “Google Play Service, Google Play Store”, and it used icons from trustable applications, such as Youtube.

Uninstalling the apps

If you have one of these applications you should uninstall it as sooner as possible. Here is how you can do this.

  • First of all, go to Settings and open App Manager.
  • Look for Google Play Store and identify the fake app.

If you are not sure which application should be uninstalled, you can get a program to help you. There are numerous antivirus programs that are designed to detect malware and remove it. This tool will identify the risky applications and you will be asked whether you want to uninstall them.

Staying safe

While unwanted ads aren’t that dangerous, you should remember that risky apps can even end up damaging your phone or threatening your data. This is the reason why you should try to avoid fake applications.

Before you download any kind of app you must take a look at its description. If there is something out of place, don’t install it. You should also take a look at the name of the developer. It is recommended that you install apps from well-known developers since those are usually safer. Reviews and ratings can also help you find out whether an app is risky. Nonetheless, remember that they can be fake as well, so be careful.

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Finance News

Unknown Facts about Barron Trump

Barron Trump is the youngest member of the American President’s family. He turned 12 on the 20th of March this year and, so far, he managed to stay out of the spotlight. Because of this mystery, people are curious to find out more about one of Trump’s heirs. Next, we will share some unknown facts about the ”little Prince”.

  1. Barron Trump is the first son of an American President who lives in the White House after John Fitzgerald Kennedy JR. How’s that possible? Well, as we know, the Presidents before Trump – Obama, Bush and Clinton, Bush and Obama all had daughters. The other inhabitants from the White House were the proud fathers of young adults who didn’t live with their parents;
  2. Barron rarely appears in public, but this year he made an appearance at the Annual Egg Roll organized by the White House;
  3. Trump’s youngest son attends the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, while the other Presidential children from the past 35 years attended Sidwell Friends;
  4. Barron speaks both Slovene and English fluently. We can imagine that he has to thank his mother for that;
  5. Barron is almost as tall as his parents and he’s only 12. By the time he stops growing, he will be taller than both Melania and Donald;
  6. Unlike other kids whose fathers became the American President, Barron Trump didn’t rush into moving at the White House. He made this step in June after months of living with his mother in New York;
  7. He has a whole floor to himself at the White House. Hearing this, everybody wonders what can he do with an entire floor? This will remain a secret forever;
  8. In case you were curious to know how much money was spent on protecting the Trump family while they were living in New York, you should know the facts stated by CNN Money. According to them, over $1 million/day was spent on security during those times.
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What can you Swap Clash of Clans for in 2018: Best Six Alternatives

Thanks to Clash of Clans, 2012 was a decisive year for video games on mobiles. It was and continues to be a very successful game, but of course, other people want success too, so its unique style of video game has been copied many times since. Now we will describe 6 of them and maybe in case you get tired of Clash of Clans you can give one of these a try.

Castle Clash

Castle Clash was released in 2013 by Lords Mobile. Compared to other such games, it is still behind, but this game was the first to be brave enough to toe-to-toe with the famous video game from Supercell. This game has some historical efforts and a fantasy touch behind it which deserves our respect.

Dawn of Mars

When a game is made similar to the Clash of Clans it usually has the same game style combining base attacks and management of enemy fortresses. However, Dawn of MArs is not one of them as it took another path. Even though in order to get resources you still need to build your base, the engine of the game is no longer violent and it has a story instead. This story stays at the base of conquering Mars and got us pretty excited.

Hero Sky

In this Clash Royale copy, the only thing you can see as different is the theme. Regarding this game, its theme includes flying ships and an attractive, albeit zany, a hodgepodge of Greek gods. Regarding its gameplay, not much innovation is provided to the players, but it does offer some really high production values being a serious product.

Call of Duty: Heroes

Everybody wanted to play Clash of Clans when it first got released, and Activision did not stand a chance not to put their hat in the ring too. This game which is a well-known “shooter” franchise has quite a compact strategy game, but it also includes some original aspects borrowed from their own video games: you can use special attack powers such as helicopter ones which give us the feeling of an FPS genre. We must admit it works and it is not just a clone which changed the look of the buildings and units just to get played.

Jungle Heat

Similar to Castle Clash, this game came into the industry in 2013 as well aiming to ride the wave of Clash of Clans just like the other games we talked about earlier. This game was received pretty well by the community of gamers as it is still receiving new content due to their excitement to play it. They have a patch available which offers gamers the possibility to play in high-resolution graphics, and that is quite impressive, right? The company behind the game, My.com, followed Supercell’s steps of their famous game and now we have enabled the opportunity to play a jungle-style Clash Royale.

Lunar Battle

This fantastic game was inspired by an Atari classic from 1982, and your objective is to colonize space. It has the same strategy base as the one of Clash of Clans, but the combat of the Lunar Battle was changed into battles between warships. This is the breath of fresh air we needed and was provided by this change plus the retro wave music that sound like the last album of Daft Punk and some outstanding graphics.

Now that you got excited about at least one of these games, we do not think that Clash of Clans would get mad at you for trying something new for once.

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iOS 12 Jailbreak Security Exploit Discovered by a New Team

Every single member of the jailbreak community can not wait for the iOS 12 jailbreak to finally be launched. Many experts said that the iOS 12 is not as easy to jailbreak as its predecessors, but a recent report says otherwise. The read and write privilege along with the security exploit of the iOS 12 jailbreak were discovered.

The Tweet that changed it all

Simone Ferrini, a security researcher’s name on Twitter, confirmed that he and the team which he works with were able to pen iOS 12 beta. The latest beta release is beta 12 ahead of the forthcoming Golden Master seed of iOS 12, according to Redmond Pie.

“Kernel Memory R/W” was also achieved, according to the same tweet which underlines the massive amount of work put into this task. What you must take into account though is that the team has not discovered a full and final jailbreak for the iOS 12 platform of Apple. However, it gives us a hint on how the possible jailbreak for the iOS 12 might look like for the public.

Juicy detail

We must also mention the fact that other two security researchers and developers are said to be part of this process as they were tagged in the tweet. TRUEL IT Company is the company tagged in the Twitter biography of Ferrini, and it looks like these two members of the team are connected with it as well. The tweet also featured a video which describes the work that has been taken on. An iPhone connected to a terminal session is shown in the video which also confirmes that what the team is claiming was precisely accomplished.

In case you want to try this jailbreak for yourself, you still need to wait a while.

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