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Open Bug Bounty has fixed 1 million vulnerabilities

Monday, November 7, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Open Bug Bounty is an open, disintermediated, cost-free, and community-driven Bug Bounty platform for coordinated, responsible, and ISO 29147 compatible vulnerability disclosure. It passed the milestone on 27 October of fixing over 1,000,000 web security vulnerabilities. The Open Bug Bounty project enables website owners to receive advice and support from&n...

Testing solution to make AI more human launches from Applause

Monday, January 13, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly reaching the mainstream. Once the stuff of science fiction, AI is now used to automate many mundane tasks to make our lives easier. And from a business perspective, AI helps brands personalize digital experiences, save money, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. While the excitement around AI is substantial, one area ...

Warnings for aircraft cybersecurity

Thursday, August 1, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft. Engine readings, compass data, altitude and other readings “could all be manipulated to provide false measurements to the pilot,” according to the DHS alert.&nbs...

Gitlab 12.0 released

Friday, June 28, 2019 by Austin Harris

GitLab is releasing 12.0 to help enterprises transform and accelerate DevOps adoption by bringing developers, operations professionals, and the security team together in the first single application for the entire DevSecOps lifecycle. With the 12.0 release, GitLab is building upon security features recently released - such as security dashboards, auto remediation and se...

Using any app or device to do your job is a growing trend

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 by Richard Harris

The majority of global workers are going rogue with work devices, software and applications despite being aware of the potential business risks involved, according to new research released by Snow Software. The study, which polled 3,000 professionals in the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific, finds stark contrasts between the mindset of today’s workers and th...

Crowdsourced security and bug bounty adoption is spreading

Monday, May 20, 2019 by Richard Harris

There continues to be a fundamental imbalance in cybersecurity. Attackers are finding new ways to penetrate cyber defenses as targets proliferate to the cloud, mobile, and connected devices. Defenders need to take a proactive security approach. The evolving threat landscape and the ever-widening security skills gap are giving rise to new approaches such as crowdsourc...

Python programmers get enhanced development tools from Qt

Wednesday, January 2, 2019 by Richard Harris

Qt introduces Qt for Python to substantially simplify the creation of innovative and immersive user interfaces for Python applications. With Qt for Python, developers can quickly and easily visualize the massive amounts of data tied to their Python development projects, in addition to gaining access to Qt’s world-class professional support services and large globa...

New app marketing tool gets smart about user acquisition

Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Richard Harris

Mobile monetization and marketing company ironSource has announced the launch of its ROAS (return on their advertising spend), Optimizer tool. The new tool enables user acquisition managers to automatically bid on dynamic CPI (cost-per-install) rates to reach the desired ROAS goal, solving one of the most painful challenges of user acquisition today of efficient and rea...

Common mobile app testing mistakes to avoid

Friday, December 7, 2018 by Rob Mason

Consumers downloaded more than 175 billion mobile apps in 2017. The cost of developing a mobile app can exceed $1 million, with the median cost falling in the range of $100,000 to $500,000. Multiply those numbers together and it’s apparent that a startling amount of resources are spent yearly on mobile app development. The bad news? Most of those resources are ...

Machine learning data science platform drops by SnapLogic

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Austin Harris

SnapLogic announced SnapLogic Data Science, a new self-service solution to accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning with minimal coding. Through SnapLogic’s drag-and-drop interface, data engineers, data scientists, and IT/DevOps teams can use SnapLogic Data Science to manage and control the entire machine learning lifecycle - including data ac...

AI program is helping fight tropical diseases after Hurricane Maria

Monday, November 12, 2018 by Richard Harris

Wovenware is developing an AI program to help scientists at the Puerto Rico Vector Control Unit (PRVCU) research mosquitoes carrying diseases, such as Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. PRVCU is trying to prevent the spread of these diseases and determine why many mosquitoes have gained immunity to insecticides. Since only one type of mo...

The speed of Artificial Intelligence learning just got faster

Monday, November 12, 2018 by Richard Harris

Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have partnered with a team from Tencent Machine Learning to create a new technique for training Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines faster than ever before, while maintaining accuracy - and in doing so, broke the world record. During the experiment the team succeeded in training two popular deep neural networks cal...

Machine learning, crowdsourced data, and the birth of Gengo.ai

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 by Richard Harris

The glue that holds machine learning and artificial intelligence together is data. Without the data to create complex learning algorithms from, and to create those life-like AI experiences - neither of them are worth a brass farthing. Charly Walther, the VP of product and growth at Gengo.ai, joined Gengo from Uber, where he was a product manager in Uber’s Advan...

Making apps by collaborating and sharing the profits

Monday, September 24, 2018 by Richard Harris

Everyone has a project idea but most of them never go anywhere because getting all of the resources together to pull it off seems monumental. You might be a developer, but your not a designer. Or you might be a good marketer, but you have no sense of business. For the past 12 months Crowdsourcer.io has been working on a web platform where people can collaborate on pr...

Vita finalizes secure NDA for public beta testers

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 by Austin Harris

Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. has announced the Company is finalizing its plans to begin public beta testing across the US. The Company has worked with its legal team to finalize a secure non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to be used with the select public beta testers. The VITA app has already been undergoing internal beta testing and utilizing large social media influencers a...

BioBlox2D game helps you learn protein docking

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 by Austin Harris

BioBlox2D is a new free mobile computer game inspired by tackling one of the hardest problems in biological science - how molecules fit together.BioBlox2D is the result of a collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and Goldsmiths, University of London. It turns the science of how proteins fit together (or ‘dock’) with smaller molecules, such as medic...

AirVisual's new air pollution data API is now available for developers

Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris

AirVisual is a company that provides the tools and information people need to thrive in polluted environments. By employing big data, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies, AirVisual delivers user-friendly, simple solutions to optimize health and well-being, both indoors and out.They just recently launched a groundbreaking new way to visualize...

The Challenge of User Experience

Thursday, April 28, 2016 by Joe Schulz

In the past year or so, user experience (UX) has been completely dominating the conversation around app development, pushing aside more traditional discussions. That’s not surprising, given user expectations - and the nature of mobile devices in particular. Yet, every day, thousands if not millions of users can’t complete tasks because they weren’t intuitive ...

Pre Production App Monitoring as a Quality Assurance Tool

Friday, April 24, 2015 by Jon Spencer

With the increasing complexity of mobile/web applications and their service-oriented architectures, the elevation of user expectations to levels that were unimaginable only a few years ago, software development teams are more challenged than ever before. Budgets and release cycles are tight, and everyone from finance managers to marketing and sales staff want high-quali...

Twenty20 Releases Crowdsourced Commercial Image Catalog

Monday, March 2, 2015 by Richard Harris

Twenty20, which provides crowdsourced, real-world imagery, has announced that it’s launching out of beta to offer a mobile-oriented, crowdsourced approach to stock imagery, connecting businesses with legal user-generated content.Twenty20 has created an app where consumers can make money from their personal photos by uploading their images directly to the platform. Twent...

Feedzai Fraud Detection Service API Receives Updates

Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

Feedzai is a data science company launched last fall that uses real-time, machine-based learning to help payment providers, banks and retailers prevent fraud in omnichannel commerce through its fraud detection service API. The Fraud API provides fraud detection in real-time with human-readable explanations (i.e. whitebox scoring) helping merchants understand why th...

Crowdtesting: Let Your Apps Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Monday, November 10, 2014 by Joe Schulz

Despite its importance in the software development cycle, controlled lab testing can never identify all the issues that actual users might encounter. For mobile apps in particular, there are literally thousands of combinations of devices, operating systems and network conditions, making comprehensive testing of all scenarios impractical. Furthermore, because testers in ...