Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Rousseau used to say: Success is just a product of your motivation! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 03 2020, at a price of $8,787. That’s a minor 0.87 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$77.59. It was the lowest closing price in one day....
Light pollution has been blamed for wasting energy, disrupting wildlife behaviour and harming mental health. One aspect has avoided the spotlight though. Namely, that light not only allows one to see, but also to be seen. This could well attract unwelcome attention – and not just from moths. The innate curiosity of humans and our growing knowledge of the universe in which we live have led us inexorably to a question....
What’s the use of all that AI and Neural Engine, Time? Thankfully, it looks like Apple’s finally introducing text filtering with iOS 14. I installed the beta version of Apple’s upcoming operating system and found this option tucked into Messages settings, and it is automatically enabled. Default categories are All Messages, Known Senders, and Unknown Senders for contacts. This was available in iOS 13 as well, but the feature is more refined now....
Hola quarantine compadres! One of the most interesting things about this pandemic is seeing how different countries are handling the details. In Mexico, where I live, the army and the police are patrolling the beaches to make sure people don’t disobey the public gathering order. In the US, people have been arrested for congregating in groups and then jammed together in tiny holding cells as punishment – they’re an ironic people....
What types of technologies are rescuers using at the Surfside condo collapse site? We don’t have reports about it from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department, but news coverage shows that they’re using drones. A standard kit for a technical search specialist would be basically a backpack of tools for searching the interior of the rubble: listening devices and a camera-on-a-wand or borescope for looking into the rubble. How are drones typically used to help searchers?...
In 2016, a “troll storm” hit Tanya Gersh, a Jewish wedding planner and real estate agent in Montana. The storm began when Andrew Anglin, the editor of the Neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer, published her photo, phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, including one belonging to her young son. Her phone rang incessantly, and she received death threats at her work email along with hundreds of anti-Semitic messages, including a Photoshopped image of her family superimposed above a Nazi concentration camp....
The UFC Que Choisir, a French consumer rights group, filed against Valve, alleging that the company was illegally prohibiting the sale of personally-owned property (in this case, the purchased codes). Since Valve has no serious competition (yet) in terms of digital storefronts, this creates an unfair scenario for the consumer. The TGI de Paris, the court before whom the case was tried, ruled Steam’s prohibition against reselling purchased items isn’t enforceable, even those not tied to a piece of physical media....
Several users took Twitter to pour out their agony. Some of them were logged out of the app and weren’t able to use it to unlock their cars. — briango (@briango) September 3, 2019 — Melissa Chan (@melissachanhk) September 2, 2019 — BuffalloWarrior (@_karthik1107) September 3, 2019 — Ethlie Ann Vare (@ethlie) September 3, 2019 Downdetector.com, a website that shows the status of various services, had many people reporting an outage for Tesla over the last couple of hours....
Most adults, for example, can answer questions about phishing scams or website cookies, but few (28 percent) can identify examples of two-factor authentication. And just 24 percent understand that private browsing only hides your browsing history from other users, not from the sites you’re browsing. About half (48 percent) are unsure what private browsing actually does, in fact. The survey featured 10 questions, each designed to test the knowledge level of American adults on a variety of digital topics, ranging from cybersecurity and social media, to the businesses that power the internet’s biggest platforms....
If you’re looking to inspire a young person with a curious mind, then you’ll enjoy watching them become captivated by the WLKATA Mirobot 6-Axis Mini Robot Arm Education Kit. For a limited time, this comprehensive package, which is primed to provide years of mental stimulation and help lay the ground work for continued exploration, is available for only $1,539.99 (reg. $1,690). Selected by well respected universities and schools in more than 40 different nations, the Mirobot supplies an ideal and realistic learning platform....
Microsoft had its busiest Surface event ever today, announcing a total of eight or nine new products, depending on how you’re counting. Despite many of those leaking in the days leading up to the event, Microsoft managed to keep a couple of products, like the Surface Duo and Earbuds, a secret. That’s a rarity these days. We’ve written about all of Microsoft’s announcements in separate posts, but we know you’re lazy, so we’ve collected all the biggest details here....
Tesla’s move made absolutely no sense and it even cost the company the safety recognition by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). But new details from the company’s Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, shed at least some light into the automaker’s choice. During his presentation at the 2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition on Monday, Karpathy revealed that the reason behind the vision-only autonomous driving approach is the company’s new supercomputer....
During Tesla’s Q1 earnings call on April 17, Lars Moravy, Tesla’s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, commented on the recent fatal crash in Texas and proved that Elon Musk’s claims were, well, lies. Musk had claimed via Twitter that Autopilot wasn’t enabled, and that it wouldn’t work on a street without lane lines, as was the case. Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled & this car did not purchase FSD....
But AI isn’t a panacea or cure-all. In fact, when improperly applied, it’s a dangerous snake oil that should be avoided at all costs. To that end, I present six types of AI that I believe ethical developers should avoid. First though, a brief explanation. I’m not passing judgment on developer intent or debating the core reasoning behind the development of these systems, but instead recognizing six areas where AI cannot provide a benefit to humans and is likely to harm us....
Now, Germany’s famous Autobahn will welcome its own wireless charging system — although it won’t be available to individual EV drivers. Instead, it will power a public bus transporting passengers to the city of Balingen. The technology will be provided by Israeli wireless charging company Electreon, which will collaborate with German EnBW — an EV charging infrastructure provider — for the realization of the project. Electreon will deploy 1km of Electric Road System (ERS) along a stretch of the Autobahn, providing dynamic wireless charging while the bus is in motion....
According to a document published by a New York district court, Nikolas Sharp, a former employee of network device maker Ubiquiti, hacked the company’s system and demanded a $2 million ransom. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the story, so let’s unpack what happened. Who is Nikolas Sharp? What was the big Ubiquiti security incident? In January, the company, sent an email to its customers saying that a hacker had gained access to its systems hosted on third-party services —such as AWS — and some customer data including names, email IDs, addresses, and phone numbers may have been exposed....
While predictive analytics can be very helpful and save time for data scientists, it is still fully dependent on historic data. Data scientists are therefore left helpless when faced with new, unknown scenarios. In order to have true “artificial intelligence,” we need machines that can “think” on their own, especially when faced with an unfamiliar situation. We need AI that can not just analyze the data it is shown, but express a “gut feeling” when something doesn’t add up....
Unfortunately, the quest to finally observe dark matter is hitting a wall. Simply put we need more particle colliders. And whether they get built is, seemingly, completely up to the powers-that-be in the European and US political arenas. Cash rules everything The development of particle colliders has been one of humankind’s most expensive scientific endeavors. However, they haven’t produced much in the way of practical results. Where the global scientific efforts of the atomic and nuclear science communities have weapons of destruction and nuclear power plants to show for their work, particle colliders have seemingly presented more questions than answers since they’ve been in operation....
[Read: BMW is reportedly working on a 1,000HP all-electric M5 that’ll rival Tesla’s Plaid Model S] Firstly, let’s take a look at a few iconic examples from years gone by to see how things “used to be.” More specifically, let’s look at a fast bike, an adventure bike, and a “comfortable” bike. The Kawasaki Ninja First up, is one of the most well-known motorbikes. With a top speed of up to 176 mph, it’s also one of the fastest: the Kawasaki ZX-11, aka the Ninja....
The reduce method executes a callback function that we provide on each element stored in an array and outputs the final value the operation generates. It’s a cleaner way of iterating over and processing the data stored in an array. Currently, it’s supported by all of the major browser versions, and is available in Node.js from version 10.0 upwards. Today, we are going to explore this reduce method; more specifically, we’ll go through how and when to use it in different scenarios....
