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  • Video And Photos Of Japanese Robotic Buddhist Priests

    Video And Photos Of Japanese Robotic Buddhist Priests

    Technology is evolving very fast and sooner or later, everything on Earth if not yet ready, will be runned by Technology.

    In Japan, Kyoto Temple unveiled an android Buddhist deity to help people. Android Kannon named ‘Minder’ is the main preacher at Kodaiji Temple as from February 23, 2019.

    Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
     ‘Minder’ is displayed at Kodaiji Temple on February 23, in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

    The Sh10 Billion project to assemble the android was a collaboration between the Zen temple and Hiroshi Ishiguro, Professor of intelligent robotics at Osaka University.

    Minder being displayed at Kodaiji Temple on February 23, 2019 in Kyoto, Japan. Photo|The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

    Here’s a video report was done by DW news agency and shared on their official Youtube account.

    This was unveiled after Japanese company Nisseieco Co. Ltd. unveiled another robot priest programmed to help with tasks at Buddhist temples, including the reading of Buddhist scripture during funeral ceremonies.

    According to a report by Business Insider, the humanoid robot named “Pepper,” was designed by Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, was seen in action wearing a Buddhist robe chanting sutras at Japan’s largest funeral and cemetery expo.

    Michio Inamura, the company’s executive adviser, said the robot would be able to fulfil religious duties that are increasingly neglected in society, as donations to, as well as people affiliated with temples is in decline in the country.

    Is the technology also venturing into the human-dominated religion? Where are Christian and Muslims learned minds? Can Tech embody the spiritual foundation of religion?

     

     

     

  • Most Unsafe Gadget Huawei Suffers 1Million Cyber-attacks Daily

    Most Unsafe Gadget Huawei Suffers 1Million Cyber-attacks Daily

    You remember when the late Jacob Juma was murdered and investigations into his gruesome death led by the former CID now DCI boss Ndegwa Muhoro launched that never clearly yielded something? Nairobi’s CCTV cameras apparently failed to capture the most important video details of the murder that has remained a blame game to this very date. Huawei CCTV that costed Kenyans billions of shillings and almost zero benefits, to say the least, was at the center of all that.

    Away from that, the Chinese tech giant Huawei stomachs more than a million cyberattacks per day on its computers and networks.  China’s under fire Huawei security chief, John Suffolk has confirmed this.

    According to Suffolk most of the attacks are focused on IP-theft, and Huawei, which leads the world for 5G network innovation and files more patents than any other company, has accused the U.S. government of mounting cyberattacks as part of its concerted campaign against them.

    Last month, Huawei alleged in the media that; “The U.S. law enforcement has threatened, coerced and enticed existing and former employees, and has executed cyberattacks to infiltrate Huawei’s intranet and internal information systems.”

    Suffolk, however, did not attribute the attacks to any country or particular threat actor and did not confirm whether they were from nation-states or competitors. He, however, acknowledged that although almost all attacks are defended, some attacks on older systems get through.

    “Cyberattacks have included a type of theft of confidential information by sending a computer virus by email.” Reads Huawei’s report

    Such phishing or business email often rely on social engineering to trick employees into installing malware disguised as attachments, or visiting fake sites or viewing social media clips that are laced with harmful code.

    Suffolk used the media to confirm his claims that although Huawei is battling its own allegations around cybersecurity, vulnerable to intelligence tasking by Beijing within overseas markets—either to steal or disrupt. Suffolk told the media that if the company’s CEO Ren Zhengfei was ever asked to compromise the company, he would blankly refuse to do that if he was pressurized to do that, he would close the company down.

    Last week, the EU report warned that the combination of new technologies and 5G networks risks hostile state control of critical infrastructure, logistics, transportation even law enforcement. Even though the report failed to openly mention China or Huawei, but did reference sole 5G suppliers from countries with poor democratic standards, which clearly means Huawei and China was the reference.