Author Archives: Muhammad

People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones

Liri can juggle so many jobs, in multiple countries, because she has hired out her face to Hour One, a startup that uses people’s likenesses to create AI-voiced characters that then appear in marketing and educational videos for organizations around the world. It is part of a wave of companies overhauling the way digital content […]

Belarusian hackers are turning the country’s surveillance state against it

In exchange, BYPOL has access to material from the Cyber Partisans to help them conduct investigations into the regime, which are then published on BYPOL’s own Telegram channel. Those investigations have been popular and successful, and one of their documentaries was cited during an American congressional hearing on Belarus which took place shortly before the […]

In the data decade, data can be both an advantage and a burden

In 2016, Dell Technologies commissioned our first Digital Transformation Index (DT Index) study to assess the digital maturity of businesses around the globe. We have since commissioned the study every two years to track businesses’ digital maturity. Sam Grocott is Senior Vice President of Business Unit Marketing at Dell Technologies. Our third installment of the […]

How a Mindful Smile Improves Your Happiness & Health

Babies smile—a lot. Beauty queens smile—on cue. Winners smile—mostly in between all that jumping and high-fiving. Smiles are a way of expressing our happiness, our joy, our pride, or our gratitude. More than that, smiles are a way of connecting, of saying—without words—‘I’m with you on this. I acknowledge you as a fellow human, or […]

Is Ginkgo Bioworks synthetic biology story worth $15 billion?

“Times must be good when a young biotech company can afford to hire people to write unrelated magazine-style articles,” snarked Dirk Haussecker, a savvy biotech stock picker who is active on Twitter. Kelly says the magazine was inspired by Think, a periodical printed by IBM starting in the 1930s. “Why did they do that? Well, […]

How—and why—the Taliban won Afghanistan’s high-tech war

For the coalition, things were quite different. Western forces did have access to a wide range of world-class technology, from space-based surveillance to remotely operated systems like robots and drones. But for them, the war in Afghanistan was not a war of survival; it was a war of choice. And because of this, much of […]

Riding the Roller Coaster of the 6 Basic Human Emotions Is Exhausting

Although there is no census definition of the term ‘emotion’ in the psychology community, it is often described as episodic, synchronized, and temporary changes in affect or the feeling of state. It reflects our quick ability to observe objects and situations in our environment and then adapt our behavioral and physiological responses to that stimuli. […]