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A new machine learning technique developed by researchers at Edge Impulse, a platform for creating ML models for the edge, makes it possible to run real-time object detection on devices with very small computation and memory capacity. Called Faster Objects, More Objects (FOMO), the new deep learning architecture can unlock new computer vision applications. Most object-detection deep learning models have memory and computation requirements that are beyond the capacity of small processors....

Change is hard. However, change is not only vital, but absolutely inevitable. Having a framework for helping large organizations manage significant process changes is its own vital business need. And from Google and IBM to T-Mobile and Capital One to Sony and eBay, the change management system they turn to is JIRA. You can get a complete overview of getting the hang of all JIRA has to offer with the instruction in The Ultimate JIRA Bundle....

Defendants Morgan Hunt and Kim Hecroft were ordered to pay almost $400,000 in civil monetary penalties and restitution in connection with the lawsuit. A US District Court found that Hunt, operating as Diamonds Trading Investment House, and Hecroft, operating as First Options Trading, ran a fraudulent program to solicit Bitcoin from citizens to invest in trading products including leveraged or margined foreign currency contracts, binary options, and diamonds. The defendants used Facebook and email to get Bitcoin from citizens, falsely claiming that they would use the funds to invest in trading for the benefit of their customers....

This is the conundrum that Guy, played by Ryan Reynolds, finds himself in the middle of in the film Free Guy. However, in this case, he is, in fact, an NPC (non-player character) in an open-world computer game called Free City. He is a character in a simulation, and this realization changes his “life” forever. Many of us have wondered if we, like Guy, are just NPCs in some game....

The music company claimed to have proof Google was scraping its lyrics and displaying them in search results, thanks to a clever mix of digital watermarks and Morse code. After suspecting Google was cribbing its transcriptions, Genius added a new watermark to its lyrics, which swapped the original apostrophes for a specific sequence of curly and straight apostrophes. When the straight apostrophes were interpreted as dots, and the curly apostrophes were interpreted as dashes, the pattern spelled out a single word in Morse code: “red-handed....

In summer 2022, people living in Germany can get a monthly public transport ticket for only €9 euros per month — a tenth of its usual price. The ticket will be offered for three months and will be called “9 for 90”. The move is in response to rising energy and fuel prices caused by the Ukraine war. The German government wants to halve its Russian oil imports by June....

Here’s how it works: After you search for an email with a keyword, you’ll see filter buttons on top of the search result such as “Has attachment,” “Exclude chats,” and a date picker. You can even pick the type of attachments such as text, PDF, or image. These buttons or “Chips” will help you narrow down search results. [Read: Microsoft brings combined Word, Excel, and PowerPoint app to iOS] This is much better than an earlier interface for advanced search where you had to manually fill in the information....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019 In a statement, the company said it never altered search results to manipulate political opinions: The “just out” report Trump’s referring to is in fact a study published in 2017 by psychologist Robert Epstein. In a testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee in July, Epstein said Google’s search algorithm has some bias and it “likely impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2....

In a new blog post, the Big G announced Docs will soon display the word count as you type in a dedicated section at the bottom of the interface – without any need to resort to shortcuts or annoying menu settings to see how many words you’ve jotted down. Fabulous. Previously, the only way to check the word count was to head to the ‘Word Count’ feature under the Tools menu – or to use the shortcut (Cmd + Shift + C on macOS and Ctrl + Shift + C on Windows)....

To activate the feature, simply head on over to Google Maps’ Settings, tap ‘accessibility settings,’ and then toggle ‘accessible places.’ You’ll then see a wheelchair icon if the business or location has an accessible entrance. If it does, you can tap on the location to see a more detailed breakdown, such as to see if that accessibility extends to seating, restrooms, and parking as well as entrances. It’s not just for wheelchair users either; the US Census Bureau says over 30 million Americans have difficulties walking or climbing stairs....

After that date, all photos uploaded will count against your free data limit of 15GB. However, all photos uploaded before June 1 next year will still be available under the free unlimited storage option. Google Photos, which has more than 1 billion users, has offered free unlimited storage for high-quality photos (read: compressed) for users across platforms. So it was easy to just turn on the back & sync option with that quality setting and let your photos upload to the cloud without any storage worries....

The change is significant. Chrome commands some two-thirds of the web browser market. Third-party tracking cookies, meanwhile, underpin much of the targeted advertising industry. And, while Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari have already stopped supporting third-party cookies, Google is the first firm to produce replacement advertising support. Rather than tracking and targeting you on an individual basis, Google’s alternative groups you instead into a crowd of people with similar generalized interests....

No worries. Google’s new feature will help you pronounce tricky words just directly from the search results. All you have to do is type “How do you pronounce” followed by the words you want help with. Google will show you how to pronounce the word with audio. You can even use your phone’s mic to practice the word. Google says it divides these words into individual soundbites to help you understand its utterance....

Reuters is reporting that Google has shut down its Mobile Network Insights service over fears that “sharing data from users of its Android phone system might attract the scrutiny of users and regulators.” The service — which is offered to wireless carriers across the world — was essentially a map of signal strengths and connection speeds, and was meant to identify weak spots in their network coverage. Google’s privacy dilemma The search giant launched the service in March 2017, but is said to have shut it down earlier this April....

Catching them is proving to be a challenge – because the smart techniques we’re using to make ourselves more efficient and productive are being co-opted by hackers, who are using them to stymie our advancements. It seems that anything we can do, they can do – and sometimes they do it better. Battling this problem and ensuring that advanced AI techniques and algorithms remain on the side of the good guys is going to be one of the biggest challenges for cybersecurity experts in the coming years....

Although we use different names to refer to drones — for example, remotely piloted aircraft systems or unmanned aerial systems/vehicles — there is a strong consensus among the scientific community about their potential to improve our understanding of the natural world. Technological advancements and commercial investments into the drone market has been phenomenal over the past 10 years, with estimates that the annual global market could reach over US$40 billion by 2024....

So you’re trying to keep yourself occupied while locked down, quarantined, and otherwise isolated? You want to have some fun and keep in touch with friends, naturally — here are a few games that you can play with your friends despite your separation. Recently we discussed various other online PC and console games you can play with your friends. However, we realize that not everyone has access to a console or a game-ready PC — for some people, a phone or a simple laptop is all they have to game on....

Remember iPods? All dedicated music players, in fact? What the heck ever happened to those? Well, the rise of the smartphone happened — and before you knew it, those do-it-all beasts gobbled up the music player’s corner and relegated your iPod to a forgotten desk drawer somewhere. But it’s time for the resurrection of the music device — and right now, you can get in on the renaissance with the nifty Hidizs AP80 Portable Music Player....

Hey you, work-from-home employee…you may have helped save the world from data thieves. Well, there’s no way of knowing your direct impact on cyber crime, but the number data breaches reports was down by a full third — 33 percent — over the first six months of 2020. And the number of people affected by those breaches was also way down, by 66 percent. While there’s no clear single reason behind the swing, at least one cybersecurity specialist said a hyper-vigilance to phishing and other forms of online attack and the lack of easy access through most worker’s home systems could have been a factor in driving those numbers down....

This behemoth 12-billion-parameter neural network takes a text caption (i.e. “an armchair in the shape of an avocado”) and generates images to match it: I think its pictures are pretty inspiring (I’d buy one of those avocado chairs), but what’s even more impressive is DALL·E’s ability to understand and render concepts of space, time, and even logic (more on that in a second). In this post, I’ll give you a quick overview of what DALL·E can do, how it works, how it fits in with recent trends in ML, and why it’s significant....