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Half of mobile apps share with third parties the location of their users The sale of data to companies outside the business is an illegal practice    Almost half of the most downloaded mobile apps send the location of the device to third parties, while 18% send the name of the user and 16% share up to their email address with other companies, data that applications sell to get financing to advertising companies. An exchange that is an illegal practice but carried out by almost half of the developers of 'apps', according to data from the Federal Trade Commission of the United States.    This shows that data traffic occurs not only due to the negligence of users when accepting conditions of use, but also because of the applications themselves, according to a study carried out by the software development and management services company. of personal data PrivacyCloud. The sale of data to marketing companies so that they reinforce user perles is the source of inco...

Artificial intelligence already has a human voice Neural networks allow Google to interpret a text and apply similar intonations to a person Siri, Alexa, Cortana; they are some of the virtual assistants of the American technological giants. One of these names was added a few years ago: the Google Assistant. Paa the search giant has put many resources to get unseat Apple as the king of the audience. Through the Deepmind laboratory, responsible for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the company, Google has managed to develop a synthetic voice with a precision almost identical to that generated by a human being. This technology is called Tacotron 2, whose operation is based on two neural networks capable of interpreting the text and applying the effects, pauses and intonations that are present in it. From the American portal Quartz indicate that one of the novelties of this version is the ability to pronounce names and difficult words, as well as distinguish punctuation marks or ...

Samsung already has a date for its Galaxy S9 The CEO of the company confirms the presentation of his device at the Mobile World Congress    No, it will not be at CES in Las Vegas (United States). The rumors were aimed at the first major technology fair of the year to unveil Samsung's plans with its high-end phones by 2018. Finally, the Galaxy S9 will see the light in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which starts on the 26th February. This has been confirmed by the CEO of Samsung Electronics, Dj Ko, who confirmed to ZDNET that the S9 will be announced during the MWC 2018. Last year, Samsung launched its S8 in March, so the South Korean has decided to advance a month the launch of its first big smartphone of the year.    This would encourage the rumors that signal this year there will be three releases. The first would be the expected S9, in summer the new Galaxy Note would arrive and the big bet would arrive for the last quarter of the year with a...

They create a sensor to measure the ultraviolet radiation in the mobile L'Oréal launches UV Sense that works without a battery and sends the data to the smartphone    Cases of skin cancer cases increased by 38% during the last four years, which represents an increase of almost 10% per year. The Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) places the focus on the prevention and early detection of this disease that causes 600 deaths annually in Spain. L'Oréal, through its brand of skin care dermatology, La Roche-Posay, has launched UV Sense, the first sensor that works without a battery to measure individual exposure to ultraviolet rays. The new wearable is less than two millimeters thick, nine millimeters in diameter and is designed to be used on the thumbnail. UV Sense is accompanied by a mobile application, available on both iOS and Android, which translates and transfers data from the sensor using NFC (Near Field Communication) wireless technology. The app off...

4G arrives in Spain ultrafast and with better coverage within homes The new connection, which will be implemented progressively throughout the territory until 2018, is faster than the ADSL    Telecommunications operators in the country began yesterday to activate their  ultrafast mobile telephony networks of better quality . Although Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange offer fourth generation connections ( 4G internet ) since the summer of 2013, it is now when they can  lend them over the 800 Mhz band , which until last March was used exclusively for nine channels of digital terrestrial television (TDT). This frequency offers better mobile coverage, especially in the interior of buildings, and a greater geographical reach. The three large companies in the sector have started operations with the authorization of the Government to activate  25 stations or 4G access nodes each in this month . Vodafone concentrated the ignition in the city of Orense. "The lighti...

The dog-robot Aibo of Sony devastates in the presale This intelligent animal is capable of creating emotional connections with humans | It's an update that Sony launched in 1999 and costs 1,480 euros    The domestic robot Aibo, an intelligent dog capable of creating emotional connections with humans launched today by the technological giant Sony, sold out all its stock during the early sale. The first series of artificial pets has been delivered to their owners, after three rounds of pre-orders were exhausted last year, explained a spokesman for the company, who declined to disclose the number of units sold.    The first 30 owners of the Aibo received their dog-robot at a special ceremony at the Sony headquarters in Tokyo, in which the company wanted to celebrate its return to the world of domestic robotics after 12 years. Aibo, an update of the pioneering dog-robot that Sony launched on the market in 1999 , maintains the name of its predecessor, but incorpor...

The technology that will allow to save the Tables of Daimiel A project by WWF and Coca-Cola creates tools for saving millions of liters of water per year    Las Tablas de Daimiel is a wetland that spans more than 3,000 hectares of La Mancha. They once occupied ten times more territory, but the overexploitation of the water that nourishes this treasure of biodiversity has left them at a minimum. Cereal crops such as corn and barley, melons, eggplant orchards, onions and garlic and, of course, the vineyard of La Mancha still competes for water from the aquifer 23, a key part of the hydrological system of the Upper Basin of the Guadiana River and essential contribution for the Las Tablas wetland.     To reverse this situation, WWF and Coca-Cola launched the Mission Impossible project, which since 2012 seeks to return this immense bag of water of more than 5,500 square kilometers to a healthy state. Since then, the participating farms have saved around 2,500...

The turnover of the Spanish video game grew by 21% in 2016 The number of development studies has been reduced by 6% in 2017 due, among other factors, to the consolidation phase that the sector is going through    The Spanish video game industry continues to grow and does so in figures that are not insignificant. In 2016, the sector reached 617 million euros , 21% more than in the previous year. However, for the first time since the 'White Book of Spanish Video Game Development 2017' began to be developed in 2014 , the report measuring the state of health of the sector, the number of development studies in operation has decreased. If in 2016 there were 480 companies that, not without hardship, tried to take their video games forward, last year it closed with 450 companies, 6% less . It is not a figure that concerns especially the Spanish Association of Production Companies and Developers of Videogames and Entertainment Software (DEV), which developed the study in collab...

A WhatsApp vulnerability allows you to spy on group conversations The application is renewed with new functions to avoid Telegram competition    Despite the end-to-end encryption implemented in WhatsApp conversations, the application of the Facebook universe has an important security hole, according to a group of cryptography researchers from the Rühr University in Bochum (Germany). These researchers have discovered a problem in WhatsApp through which it is possible to access without permission in a private group of the application through the falsification of the mechanism of verification of invitations from the servers of the app, if these are hacked.    Researchers at Rühr University in Bochum (RUB) have discovered flaws in the encryption process of applications such as Signal, Threema or WhatsApp, which, in the case of the latter, would allow anyone who is able to access their servers to introduce a person in a private group chat without the permission of y...

Half of Spanish Internet users stored their passwords in an insecure way The keys used have a low level of security     123456 or qwerty are the most used passwords in the whole planet and according to Kaspersky Lab, half of Spanish consumers store their passwords in an insecure way. About three out of ten point to it in a notebook and 10% use the same password to access all online services. According to this study, "many" Spanish consumers understand the need to have strong passwords in their accounts. Regarding the platforms that demand safer keys, 65% cited online banking, while 44% did the same with payment applications such as digital wallets and 43% pointed to ecommerce stores.     However, the difficulty of remembering all these secure passwords means that it is "very likely" that they will forget and end up unable to access their accounts. In fact, 40% of Spaniards can not quickly restore those passwords after having lost them, according to ...

Facebook will prioritize the posts of friends on your wall The changes will harm the interests of companies and media in the social network     After having boosted the video, having stimulated the publication of Instant Articles for media and corporations; Facebook takes a 180º turn and changes its famous algorithm to prioritize the publications of contacts and groups in the wall of the social network instead of the announcements of companies, brands and media. The CEO of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, has acknowledged that public corporate content now accounts for most of the platform's space and that the measure will reduce the time dedicated to the social network. Zuckerberg has posted an entry through his personal profile where he announced that Facebook will experience "a great change", which will seek to enhance social relations through its platform. The first modification will occur with the increase of the frequency of appearance in the News Feed of public...

Hackers, now on your Netflix account Security experts warn of a campaign to steal credentials from the streaming platform     Hundreds of Netflix users have received an email in recent days with the subject Notice-Document followed by a series of numbers. An email that impersonates the North American company and that it is a phishing campaign, according to Panda Security. This attack aims to steal the passwords of the users of the streaming platform. They ask users to verify their access data to the company through a link and then validate the payment information.     Once the false email link is clicked, the user is redirected to a fictional Netflix page, which requires the introduction of the platform's email and password, according to Panda Security's experts. The technical director of PandaLabs, Luis Corrons, has warned that the "real risk" is that the attackers resell the stolen accounts "on the black market" and use them to carry out attacks ...