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NEW DELHI: Over 600 million Samsung mobile device users -- including those of the recently-released Galaxy S6 -- have been left exposed to a critical security risk. The exploit was recently demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in London by Ryan Welton, a researcher with security firm NowSecure.
The security vulnerability arises from SwiftKey keyboard that comes pre-installed on a number of Samsung devices. The keyboard which cannot be disabled or uninstalled allows hackers easy access to users' devices.
The flaw allows a hacker to remotely:
1) Access sensors and resources like GPS, camera and microphone.
2) Secretly install malicious app(s) without the user knowing.
3)Tamper with how other apps work or how the phone works.
4)Eavesdrop on incoming/outgoing messages or voice calls.
5)Give attempt to access sensitive personal data like pictures and text messages.
SwiftKey hack affects 600 million Samsung phones, including Galaxy S6 - The Times of India
The security vulnerability arises from SwiftKey keyboard that comes pre-installed on a number of Samsung devices. The keyboard which cannot be disabled or uninstalled allows hackers easy access to users' devices.
The flaw allows a hacker to remotely:
1) Access sensors and resources like GPS, camera and microphone.
2) Secretly install malicious app(s) without the user knowing.
3)Tamper with how other apps work or how the phone works.
4)Eavesdrop on incoming/outgoing messages or voice calls.
5)Give attempt to access sensitive personal data like pictures and text messages.
SwiftKey hack affects 600 million Samsung phones, including Galaxy S6 - The Times of India
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A new SwiftKey keyboard hopes to serve you better typing suggestions by utilizing a miniaturized neural network. SwiftKey Neural does away with the company's tried-and-tested prediction engine in favor of a method that mimics the way the brain processes information. It's a model that's typically deployed on a grand scale for things like spam and phishing prevention in Gmail or image recognition, but very recent advancements have seen neural networks creep into phones through Google Translate, which uses one for offline text recognition. According to SwiftKey, this is the first time it's been used on a phone keyboard.
To grasp how the new system works, we need to understand the old one. SwiftKey currently uses a probability-based language algorithm based on the n-gram model for predictions. There are some additional layers of learning on top of it, which is part of what makes SwiftKey so popular, but the basic implementation reads the last two words in a sentence, looks through a large database, and spits out what it deduces is the most likely word to follow. The two-word limit is a constraint of the n-gram model, and seriously hampers predictions. (Reading back three or four words would be very hard to implement with n-gram, as it would require a far larger database which would in turn be harder for the app to search).
The neural model approaches predictions from a different angle. SwiftKey trained the network with millions of sample sentences, and now each word is represented by a piece of code. This allows the app to better understand sentences in a number of ways. Words that can be used in the same way share similar code. As you'd expect, "Meet" is marked as similar to synonymous words like "met" and "connect." Less obvious is the link with "speak" or "chat," which mean something completely different but linguistically will slide into many of the same places. The same goes for days of the week, months, or any other word or concept really -- one word can share similar code with thousands of others.
Because the model looks at entire sentences, it's able to sequence together words as code to find more accurate suggestions. Going back to the "meet" example, let's take a look at the sentence fragment "Meet you at the." Using n-gram, SwiftKey typically looked at "at the," and served you three suggestions: "moment," "end" and "same." Using the neural model, it looks as the sentence as a whole and services you "airport," "hotel" and "office."
SwiftKey Neural is Android-only and still in alpha, for now. It's part of the company's Greenhouse program, which it uses as a launchpad for new ideas that may find their way into the regular app. It's well worth checking out, but there are, as you'd expect, a few caveats to being on the cutting-edge of keyboard technology.
One of the things that draws users to SwiftKey is its ability to learn your typing style. The regular app can (if you allow it to) scan your emails and social networks for clues, and then monitor your usage of the keyboard itself to improve suggestions. It does this by editing or adding to the language database that the n-gram model uses. Because Neural taps into a different type of database, this personalization isn't available in the alpha. That doesn't mean it won't ever be there -- neural networks are a type of machine learning, after all -- but for now, it's not on the to-do list.
"The sooner you can get an idea out of the lab and into the public, the quicker you get feedback and the more useful it becomes," Joe Braidwood, Chief Marketing Officer at SwiftKey, told Engadget, explaining the reasoning for releasing Neural as a separate app. There's also the question of resources. Neural is a relatively small 25MB download, but it requires more power than the current SwiftKey, using your phone's GPU to run the math. Braidwood says it runs with "no perceivable lag" on even modestly-specced smartphones, but there's likely more optimization to be done before this is ready to replace the regular app.
Caveats aside, SwiftKey's achievement here is impressive. As mentioned, neural networks are more typically found in giant server farms than on your smartphone, but with two apps released in just a few months, small-scale, focused applications of the tech seem to now be feasible. "We're pretty sure that the future of mobile typing is going to use neural networks," Braidwood explained. "Language is such a human thing that if you can build things that think more like humans than computers you're inevitably going to make a more useful keyboard."
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/08/swiftkey-neural-alpha/
To grasp how the new system works, we need to understand the old one. SwiftKey currently uses a probability-based language algorithm based on the n-gram model for predictions. There are some additional layers of learning on top of it, which is part of what makes SwiftKey so popular, but the basic implementation reads the last two words in a sentence, looks through a large database, and spits out what it deduces is the most likely word to follow. The two-word limit is a constraint of the n-gram model, and seriously hampers predictions. (Reading back three or four words would be very hard to implement with n-gram, as it would require a far larger database which would in turn be harder for the app to search).
The neural model approaches predictions from a different angle. SwiftKey trained the network with millions of sample sentences, and now each word is represented by a piece of code. This allows the app to better understand sentences in a number of ways. Words that can be used in the same way share similar code. As you'd expect, "Meet" is marked as similar to synonymous words like "met" and "connect." Less obvious is the link with "speak" or "chat," which mean something completely different but linguistically will slide into many of the same places. The same goes for days of the week, months, or any other word or concept really -- one word can share similar code with thousands of others.
Because the model looks at entire sentences, it's able to sequence together words as code to find more accurate suggestions. Going back to the "meet" example, let's take a look at the sentence fragment "Meet you at the." Using n-gram, SwiftKey typically looked at "at the," and served you three suggestions: "moment," "end" and "same." Using the neural model, it looks as the sentence as a whole and services you "airport," "hotel" and "office."
SwiftKey Neural is Android-only and still in alpha, for now. It's part of the company's Greenhouse program, which it uses as a launchpad for new ideas that may find their way into the regular app. It's well worth checking out, but there are, as you'd expect, a few caveats to being on the cutting-edge of keyboard technology.
One of the things that draws users to SwiftKey is its ability to learn your typing style. The regular app can (if you allow it to) scan your emails and social networks for clues, and then monitor your usage of the keyboard itself to improve suggestions. It does this by editing or adding to the language database that the n-gram model uses. Because Neural taps into a different type of database, this personalization isn't available in the alpha. That doesn't mean it won't ever be there -- neural networks are a type of machine learning, after all -- but for now, it's not on the to-do list.
"The sooner you can get an idea out of the lab and into the public, the quicker you get feedback and the more useful it becomes," Joe Braidwood, Chief Marketing Officer at SwiftKey, told Engadget, explaining the reasoning for releasing Neural as a separate app. There's also the question of resources. Neural is a relatively small 25MB download, but it requires more power than the current SwiftKey, using your phone's GPU to run the math. Braidwood says it runs with "no perceivable lag" on even modestly-specced smartphones, but there's likely more optimization to be done before this is ready to replace the regular app.
Caveats aside, SwiftKey's achievement here is impressive. As mentioned, neural networks are more typically found in giant server farms than on your smartphone, but with two apps released in just a few months, small-scale, focused applications of the tech seem to now be feasible. "We're pretty sure that the future of mobile typing is going to use neural networks," Braidwood explained. "Language is such a human thing that if you can build things that think more like humans than computers you're inevitably going to make a more useful keyboard."
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/08/swiftkey-neural-alpha/
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October is turning out to be a good month for SwiftKey users. Just a couple of weeks ago we were given the opportunity to enjoy early access to neural networks, and now the company has updated its standard keyboard app to Beta 6.0 on the Google Play Store. The build is billed as the “biggest bundle of new features and improvements…since making SwiftKey free for everyone last year” and includes:
• Double-Word Prediction adds a new dimension to the predictions you see, helping you type faster than ever.
• The settings menu has been rebuilt from the ground up to make sure you can find settings and fine tune your experience. Inserting emoji is now faster, smoother and more intuitive.
• Carbon Light is another free theme that’s a distinctively SwiftKey flavor of Google’s Material Design approach.
The double-word predictive input will no doubt appeal to users, and the company has the following to say about it on its official blog:
For the first time, we’ve taken SwiftKey’s mind-reading accuracy to the next level with the introduction of Double-Word Prediction. SwiftKey will now predict the next two words you’re likely to type at the same time, resulting in a much faster (up to 2x) experience for you than ever before. In true SwiftKey style, the Double-Word Prediction feature will continue to capture the phrases that matter most to you to truly embody your personal writing style.
The feature is a seamless new addition to the app and you won’t need to do anything beyond look out for the two word display in your usual prediction bar – applicable in every single language (over 100!) we support in our library.
Please be aware that the Beta might not work perfectly with every Android device, and that given its pre-release state, bugs or other glitches may be present.
http://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-beta-6-0-now-available-651002/
• Double-Word Prediction adds a new dimension to the predictions you see, helping you type faster than ever.
• The settings menu has been rebuilt from the ground up to make sure you can find settings and fine tune your experience. Inserting emoji is now faster, smoother and more intuitive.
• Carbon Light is another free theme that’s a distinctively SwiftKey flavor of Google’s Material Design approach.
The double-word predictive input will no doubt appeal to users, and the company has the following to say about it on its official blog:
For the first time, we’ve taken SwiftKey’s mind-reading accuracy to the next level with the introduction of Double-Word Prediction. SwiftKey will now predict the next two words you’re likely to type at the same time, resulting in a much faster (up to 2x) experience for you than ever before. In true SwiftKey style, the Double-Word Prediction feature will continue to capture the phrases that matter most to you to truly embody your personal writing style.
The feature is a seamless new addition to the app and you won’t need to do anything beyond look out for the two word display in your usual prediction bar – applicable in every single language (over 100!) we support in our library.
Please be aware that the Beta might not work perfectly with every Android device, and that given its pre-release state, bugs or other glitches may be present.
http://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-beta-6-0-now-available-651002/
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Tons of online retailers and manufacturers have been announcing some big promotions for the holidays, and it looks like SwiftKey Keyboard is next on the list. Just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, SwiftKey has announced huge markdowns on a dozen theme packs in the Android app, giving you the chance to save up to 50% off on select themes.
Here are the themes that are now being offered for 50% off:
Accent pack
Cool Punch pack
Gift Wrap pack
Pink pack
Minimal pack
Hot punch pack
Winter Vibe pack
SwiftKey has also announced five new theme packs that will be available at a discounted price for a limited time:
Everything Megapack – Every paid theme (more than 75 in all) in the SwiftKey Store
Material Megapack – 35 themes inspired by the sleek, modern Material Design aesthetic
Old School Megapack – A collection of 31 of SwiftKey’s best-selling themes since the Store was introduced in 2014
Top Ten pack – Our top ten best-selling themes of all time
Rainbow pack – Eight colorful themes that together create a beautiful
The promotion has already started and only lasts five days, so you’ll need to hurry if you want to take advantage of these deals before Monday, November 30th. Haven’t tried SwiftKey Keyboard? It’s one of the best keyboards available on Android, so you should definitely give it a try. Head to the link below to download SwiftKey from Google Play.
http://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-black-friday-deals-657856/
Here are the themes that are now being offered for 50% off:
Accent pack
Cool Punch pack
Gift Wrap pack
Pink pack
Minimal pack
Hot punch pack
Winter Vibe pack
SwiftKey has also announced five new theme packs that will be available at a discounted price for a limited time:
Everything Megapack – Every paid theme (more than 75 in all) in the SwiftKey Store
Material Megapack – 35 themes inspired by the sleek, modern Material Design aesthetic
Old School Megapack – A collection of 31 of SwiftKey’s best-selling themes since the Store was introduced in 2014
Top Ten pack – Our top ten best-selling themes of all time
Rainbow pack – Eight colorful themes that together create a beautiful
The promotion has already started and only lasts five days, so you’ll need to hurry if you want to take advantage of these deals before Monday, November 30th. Haven’t tried SwiftKey Keyboard? It’s one of the best keyboards available on Android, so you should definitely give it a try. Head to the link below to download SwiftKey from Google Play.
http://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-black-friday-deals-657856/
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Everyone’s favorite third-party mobile keyboard just got a little bit better – especially for Mandarin speakers. Today on their blog, SwiftKey announced that Android users just received a pretty substantial update that adds Pinyin support, changes the way the keyboard anticipates your keypresses, and remodeled their Emoji panel to give users a cleaner, more aesthetic experience.
SwiftKey has been supporting Chinese language input since the beginning of 2015. Although users were given seven different input methods for Simplified Chinese, Taiwan Traditional Chinese, and Hong Kong Traditional Chinese, many were left yearning for traditional Pinyin support. Now SwiftKey users are free to appropriate the QWERTY layout to type away Pinyin input to their hearts’ content.
For speakers of all languages, the developers also improved typing performance. SwiftKey is famous for its predictive word selection abilities, but the app also learns to what extent where you intend to touch the keyboard is at a variance with where you actually touch the keyboard. By paying attention to your mistakes, SwiftKey slyly adjusts the hitboxes of keys to make your mistakes less and less frequent.
This recent update improves on the method, but it has also reset your keypress model – the data used to adjust the keyboard. If your typing feels sloppy over the next few days, don’t give up on SwiftKey quite yet. It just has to relearn your clumsy typing habits.
Finally, this latest update overhauled the way Emoji are displayed in their panel, making it easier to quickly pick the image you want out of the crowd. It will also retain the last Emoji category you were previously using, hypothetically decreasing the number of swipes between you and that perfectly composed hieroglyphic text message. Users will also be able to choose between light and dark themes. Sounds perfect for those slated to receive the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update that includes over 200 new Emoji.
If you’ve already got SwiftKey installed, you can expect the update to hit your phone any moment. If you want to cut the suspense, or if you’re just someone wanting to give the keyboard a spin, you can download it in the Google Play Store.
http://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-update-pinyin-typing-enhancements-emoji-660722/
SwiftKey has been supporting Chinese language input since the beginning of 2015. Although users were given seven different input methods for Simplified Chinese, Taiwan Traditional Chinese, and Hong Kong Traditional Chinese, many were left yearning for traditional Pinyin support. Now SwiftKey users are free to appropriate the QWERTY layout to type away Pinyin input to their hearts’ content.
For speakers of all languages, the developers also improved typing performance. SwiftKey is famous for its predictive word selection abilities, but the app also learns to what extent where you intend to touch the keyboard is at a variance with where you actually touch the keyboard. By paying attention to your mistakes, SwiftKey slyly adjusts the hitboxes of keys to make your mistakes less and less frequent.
This recent update improves on the method, but it has also reset your keypress model – the data used to adjust the keyboard. If your typing feels sloppy over the next few days, don’t give up on SwiftKey quite yet. It just has to relearn your clumsy typing habits.
Finally, this latest update overhauled the way Emoji are displayed in their panel, making it easier to quickly pick the image you want out of the crowd. It will also retain the last Emoji category you were previously using, hypothetically decreasing the number of swipes between you and that perfectly composed hieroglyphic text message. Users will also be able to choose between light and dark themes. Sounds perfect for those slated to receive the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update that includes over 200 new Emoji.
If you’ve already got SwiftKey installed, you can expect the update to hit your phone any moment. If you want to cut the suspense, or if you’re just someone wanting to give the keyboard a spin, you can download it in the Google Play Store.
http://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-update-pinyin-typing-enhancements-emoji-660722/
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In what may be bad news for Android users who are fans of one of the world’s most popular virtual keyboards, Microsoft is acquiring SwiftKey to the tune of $250 million. It seems that Microsoft wants to use the keyboard, which has been installed on over 300 million devices, as well as SwiftKey’s artificial intelligence research to bolster their slipping foothold in both the mobile market and the burgeoning AI field.
While many people think of SwiftKey solely as a predictive keyboard, if a sometimes unsettlingly prescient one, the company also has quite a bit invested in adaptive learning and AI algorithms that allow human behavior to be accurately predicted. Stephen Hawking’s current language assistance program, after all, was designed by SwiftKey, and the company is developing tools to help other communicatively disabled people engage in the world around them via their Symbols app.
The 150-employee company is based out of London, and its co-founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock both can expect to make over $30 million individually from Microsoft’s buyout. Acquisition of AI frontrunners is something of an arms race in Silicon Valley right now. Google seems to be leading the way with their far-reaching DeepMind research (a company they acquired in 2014), but apple isn’t far behind with VocalIQ, an AI software set with natural applications for Siri.
Acquiring SwiftKey accomplishes two objectives for Microsoft. Recently, the Windows creator has been buying up mobile tech left and right in an attempt to push their way back into a game that has become overwhelmingly Android/iOS dominant. Meanwhile, although they have been pursuing AI in smaller avenues, Microsoft hasn’t had any big-hitter that could attempt to rival DeepMind.
No word yet on how this will affect the SwiftKey keyboard – which is not available on Windows phones – on Android and iOS. Neither Microsoft nor SwiftKey have elected to comment on this matter as of yet. Hopefully our beloved keyboard will not meet the same fate as Sunrise, a calendar app that was gripped, stripped, and digested whole by Microsoft like a bacterium in the grip of mighty amoeba last year, only to be assimilated entirely into Outlook.
http://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-acquires-swiftkey-671056/
While many people think of SwiftKey solely as a predictive keyboard, if a sometimes unsettlingly prescient one, the company also has quite a bit invested in adaptive learning and AI algorithms that allow human behavior to be accurately predicted. Stephen Hawking’s current language assistance program, after all, was designed by SwiftKey, and the company is developing tools to help other communicatively disabled people engage in the world around them via their Symbols app.
The 150-employee company is based out of London, and its co-founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock both can expect to make over $30 million individually from Microsoft’s buyout. Acquisition of AI frontrunners is something of an arms race in Silicon Valley right now. Google seems to be leading the way with their far-reaching DeepMind research (a company they acquired in 2014), but apple isn’t far behind with VocalIQ, an AI software set with natural applications for Siri.
Acquiring SwiftKey accomplishes two objectives for Microsoft. Recently, the Windows creator has been buying up mobile tech left and right in an attempt to push their way back into a game that has become overwhelmingly Android/iOS dominant. Meanwhile, although they have been pursuing AI in smaller avenues, Microsoft hasn’t had any big-hitter that could attempt to rival DeepMind.
No word yet on how this will affect the SwiftKey keyboard – which is not available on Windows phones – on Android and iOS. Neither Microsoft nor SwiftKey have elected to comment on this matter as of yet. Hopefully our beloved keyboard will not meet the same fate as Sunrise, a calendar app that was gripped, stripped, and digested whole by Microsoft like a bacterium in the grip of mighty amoeba last year, only to be assimilated entirely into Outlook.
http://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-acquires-swiftkey-671056/
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UK-based artificial intelligence firm SwiftKey has been acquired by Microsoft, the company has confirmed.
The Financial Times reports the deal is worth $250m (£174m).
SwiftKey is known for its predictive keyboard, which can be found installed on millions of smartphone devices.
The company said it was a "milestone" in its history.
"Our mission is to enhance interaction between people and technology. We think these are a perfect match, and we believe joining Microsoft is the right next stage in our journey," said SwiftKey's founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock in a blog post.
The company, started by the Cambridge University graduates in 2008, is the latest UK artificial intelligence (AI) firm to be bought up by a US tech giant.
DeepMind - which began within the University of Oxford - was bought by Google in 2014, for £400m. Another firm, VocalIQ, was bought recently by Apple.
As well as the popular smartphone app, SwiftKey is known for being behind the computer software on Prof Stephen Hawking's wheelchair.
The deal furthers Microsoft's new mobile strategy, spearheaded by chief executive Satya Nadella.
Microsoft buys UK AI firm SwiftKey - BBC News
The Financial Times reports the deal is worth $250m (£174m).
SwiftKey is known for its predictive keyboard, which can be found installed on millions of smartphone devices.
The company said it was a "milestone" in its history.
"Our mission is to enhance interaction between people and technology. We think these are a perfect match, and we believe joining Microsoft is the right next stage in our journey," said SwiftKey's founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock in a blog post.
The company, started by the Cambridge University graduates in 2008, is the latest UK artificial intelligence (AI) firm to be bought up by a US tech giant.
DeepMind - which began within the University of Oxford - was bought by Google in 2014, for £400m. Another firm, VocalIQ, was bought recently by Apple.
As well as the popular smartphone app, SwiftKey is known for being behind the computer software on Prof Stephen Hawking's wheelchair.
The deal furthers Microsoft's new mobile strategy, spearheaded by chief executive Satya Nadella.
Microsoft buys UK AI firm SwiftKey - BBC News
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One of the most popular keyboards for Android and iOS, SwiftKey, was recently purchased by Microsoft about a month ago. Now, the acquisition is fully complete.
Harry Shum, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President for Technology and Research said:
The final terms and purchase price has not been disclosed, but was estimated to be around $250 million. This would make SwiftKey co-founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock roughly $30 million each.
http://www.talkandroid.com/287887-swiftkey-is-now-officially-owned-by-microsoft/?utm_source=feedburner-ta&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums+%28TalkAndroid+-+Android+News%2C+Rumours%2C+and+Updates%29
Harry Shum, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President for Technology and Research said:
The final terms and purchase price has not been disclosed, but was estimated to be around $250 million. This would make SwiftKey co-founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock roughly $30 million each.
http://www.talkandroid.com/287887-swiftkey-is-now-officially-owned-by-microsoft/?utm_source=feedburner-ta&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums+%28TalkAndroid+-+Android+News%2C+Rumours%2C+and+Updates%29
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Emoji have gone from a weird, insular Japanese thing to a global phenomenon. Remember how upset everyone was when we didn't have that taco emoji? Now SwiftKey is looking to improve everyone's emoji game with Swiftmoji, a keyboard with predictive emoji. This is a giant leap for mankind.
The basics of Swiftmoji are much the same as the main SwiftKey. You get regular text suggestions, there's swipe input, and you can personalize with your account info. What makes it distinct is the emoji bar, which sits just above the keyboard's regular suggestion bar. As you type, it uses context to guess at which emoji make the most sense. For example, start talking about taking a vacation, and you get planes, palm trees, and so on.
The emoji bar can be undocked from keyboard and dragged around wherever you want. The chain of icons float along a bit like Facebook chat heads. You can simply drag the floating bar back to the keyboard to re-dock. Want to give it a shot? You'll have to join the beta before the link below will work. You can also get it on APK Mirror. It's not clear if this app will go on to become its own product, but I'd wager on its features being merged into SwiftKey eventually.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/05/17/swiftkeys-new-beta-swiftmoji-keyboard-predicts-what-emoji-you-might-want-to-use/
The basics of Swiftmoji are much the same as the main SwiftKey. You get regular text suggestions, there's swipe input, and you can personalize with your account info. What makes it distinct is the emoji bar, which sits just above the keyboard's regular suggestion bar. As you type, it uses context to guess at which emoji make the most sense. For example, start talking about taking a vacation, and you get planes, palm trees, and so on.
The emoji bar can be undocked from keyboard and dragged around wherever you want. The chain of icons float along a bit like Facebook chat heads. You can simply drag the floating bar back to the keyboard to re-dock. Want to give it a shot? You'll have to join the beta before the link below will work. You can also get it on APK Mirror. It's not clear if this app will go on to become its own product, but I'd wager on its features being merged into SwiftKey eventually.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/05/17/swiftkeys-new-beta-swiftmoji-keyboard-predicts-what-emoji-you-might-want-to-use/
