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“[Three] keys and additional $70,000 will be rewarded to hunters who solve the puzzle,” reads a notice on the game’s website. There are curious things to note here, besides the dope prize. This clue is the “Zero Knowledge Key,” and it comes with a message: “Don’t be so SNARKy”. (Hint: budding cryptocurrency project Zcash utilizes technology known as “ZK-SNARKs” to keep its transactions relatively private.) Satoshi’s Treasure began back in April....

But how can we make our lives and our businesses more sustainable? What are the seemingly small/simple changes we can introduce to make a big impact tomorrow? These were just two of the questions that Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles explored on a city trip with the innovative ID. Buzz Cargo concept car to one of Europe’s sustainability tech capitals, Amsterdam. During the trip, the ID. Buzz Cargo met three startup founders who are seeking to change the world of tomorrow by taking a deeper look at the way we package, design, and transport products....

If you’re worried about what’s going on inside your dog’s mind, a new AI system will tell you — just by listening to it bark. The feature will soon be added to Furbo, an “interactive smart dog camera” that lets you have a video chat with your mutt, toss it treats, and get alerts when it barks. We’ve reviewed earlier versions of Furbo in the past, but the woof interpreter is a new addition to the product....

2021 is rapidly counting down to its final days, with 2022 just a few short weeks away. When you step back and think about everything you accomplished this year, are you happy with those results? Ask most people about their annual resolutions and for those who didn’t accomplish their goals, more than half say lack of self control is what did them in. So for 2022…no excuses. With the training in the Stone River eLearning and StackSkills Unlimited Lifetime Membership Bundle ($89, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals), you’ll have access to nearly 2,000 courses work worth of in-depth training in virtually any discipline you can imagine, setting you up for big success hitting all your 2022 milestones....

In the previous article “Individual artificial intelligence: A new technology that will change our world”, we talked about the fact that a new type of artificial intelligence will become a bioelectronic hybrid in which a living human brain and a computer will work together. Thus, a new type of AI will be born – individual artificial intelligence. By combining fundamentally different components (a living human brain and an electronic system), we will see how the emergence effect works (the birth of new properties that are not inherent in the combining elements separately)....

After six decades of research and development, aligning AI systems with our goals, intents, and values continues to remain an elusive objective. Every major field of AI seems to solve part of the problem of replicating human intelligence while leaving out holes in critical areas. And these holes become problematic when we apply current AI technology to areas where we expect intelligent agents to act with the rationality and logic we expect from humans....

Meet Card V. Card — the world’s first competitive multiplayer bank account. Sound confusing? Let me break it down for you in simple words: a shared bank account that you get to spend from without depositing any funds. Yep, it’s practically free money. There’s one catch, though: there are 499 other people with access to the account that are rushing to bottom it out before you can. “Credit cards are inherently predatory,” the company says in its manifesto....

“Anorexic patients can normalize their eating rate by adjusting food intake to feedback from a smartphone app,” says Professor Per Sodersten, lead author of a recent study on the matter published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. “And in contrast to failing standard treatments, most regain a normal body weight, their health improves, and few relapse.” The study showed the failing in traditional treatment methods, most of which treated anorexia as a mental disorder rather than an eating disorder....

Of course, the solution is usually one of those clunky stands that turns into another item you have to cart around when you and your laptop go mobile. The solution to the solution is the MOFT, or, as it’s better known, the “invisible” laptop stand. Right now, you can get the MOFT and save a couple bucks at the same time with this $17 sale price from TNW Deals with limited time promo code: WEEKEND15....

Every company has IT needs. And every company needs a highly skilled, borderline brilliant, ultra talented expert running point on all their tech-based admin and growth projects. Scoring a top tech talent to sit at the head of those initiatives is more important than ever. That’s why cloud architecture is one of the 10 most in-demand tech jobs of 2021. It’s also why an entry-level cloud architect can expect an average salary safely into six figures for their efforts....

Now, the second, even more challenging phase of the struggle begins – what exactly to do about it. More specifically, how do we deal with climate change without plunging those on the threshold of poverty into further hardship? Without damaging our already fragile biodiversity? Without threatening our already polluted water and air? Proposed solutions to deal with climate change vary enormously in terms of their benefits and pitfalls. Take my own research field of landscape ecology....

Griffith’s research and inventions have the potential to improve women’s health dramatically. The problem for women is that she stands out for another reason: She’s female. In 2020, only 12.8% of U.S. inventors receiving patents were women, and historically male researchers have ignored conditions like endometriosis. Male researchers have tended to downplay or even outright overlook the medical needs of women. The result is that innovation has focused mainly on what men choose to research....

If you work regularly editing photos or video, your fingers can get mighty adept at flying around the keyboard. But at a certain point, achieving the level of precision you need is going to extend beyond a few pre-set macros or clumsily inching a mouse just right. You need pinpoint control and the option to sprint through slow, repetitive tasks easier, whether you’re working with Photoshop, Final Cut Pro or another digital creation app....

The tech is used to review contentious decisions made by officials on the pitch. But many players, pundits, and coaches say the system is so slow and inconclusive that it’s causing more problems than it solves. — James Milner (@JamesMilner) November 28, 2020 Now researchers from the Technical University of Munich have used machine learning to find out what supporters are saying about VAR on Twitter. The team first used the official Twitter API to collect more than 600,000 English language tweets made during 129 matches of the 2019-20 Premier League season....

Speaking at a Twitter media event held in New York City yesterday, Dorsey replied “Hell no” when asked if Twitter would join Libra, The Verge reports. The CEO, who also founded well-known payments company Square and several months ago shared his cryptocurrency plans with TNW, also questioned the tech giant’s intentions to issue its own ‘cryptocurrency’: “It’s not an internet open standard that was born on the internet,” Dorsey said....

Conservative politicians have long called for a fully-autonomous metro. In 2012, then-London Mayor Boris Johnson said Britain’s capital would have driverless trains within 10 years. A decade later, he claimed the switch would free people from being “prisoners of the unions.” The government reiterated the case during recent funding talks with Transport for London (TfL), which operates the local underground network. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps made working towards driverless trains a condition of the bailout....

With the growth of WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and more all-in-one website building platforms, it’s never been easier to pound out a brand-new site in minutes. But what if you want to make some additions or modifications to that site to make it a completely unique online experience? Well then, a little good old fashioned coding know-how is — and will always remain — your best bet. That programming foundation starts with the core disciplines HTML and CSS....

Popular media has brought us characters like Jake Sully in Avatar, Wade Watts in Ready Player One, and Danny and Karl in the Black Mirror episode Striking Vipers. In these examples, the character’s virtual alter-ego is physically different from who they are in the real world. The connection between the real person and their virtual avatar is called “embodiment”. If you have a strong sense of embodiment when using VR, you might feel as if your virtual body is your own biological body....

What’s better than winning $10,000 in cryptocurrency as the uber winner of The Complete Bitcoin (BTC) Investment Giveaway Contest? Well, the fact that those winnings also come with the means to turn that $10,000 into $15,000, or $20,000, or even more. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving… To get involved, you only have to enter the free and simple drawing. Just enter your name and if you’re the lucky selection, you’re the immediate winner of $8,000 worth of Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency in the world; as well as another $2,000 worth of its closest rival Etherium, all managed through trusted cryptocurrency platform Coinbase....

San Francisco’s WaterField Designs might have just hit on the best of both worlds. Its new Tech Folio fits most laptops up to 16 inches, as well as a bunch of accessories, and can be carried in hand or on your person with a comfy strap — all while maintaining a slim, discreet profile. Design WaterField’s design language features materials like full grain leather and waxed canvas that weather naturally and develop their own distinctive patinas....