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The discovery of this bizarre exoplanet — sometimes called a cotton candy planet — provides astronomers with a unique target for further study. “With a mass in the Neptune regime and a radius of Jupiter, WASP-107b presents a challenge to planet formation theories. Meanwhile, the planet’s low surface gravity and the star’s brightness also make it one of the most favorable targets for atmospheric characterization,” researchers explain in The Astronomical Journal....

In the past couple of years, photo editing software has evolved a lot, thanks in large part to artificial intelligence. Now, a new AI developed by researchers from MIT and IBM lets you add, edit, or remove objects in photographs with just with a click. The new tool, GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) Paint Studio, lets you upload a picture and manipulate it without ruining its original details. For instance, if you add a tree or grass to the scene, related objects will be rectified so as to make the resulting image look realistic....

On 22 July, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed suit against the Santa Monica-based company. The department investigated the company and determined it fostered a “frat boy” culture, paid women less, hired women less, and worked to keep its leadership exclusively white and male. Per the affidavit: The affidavit specifically mentions one female employee who took her own life during a business trip “with a male supervisor who had brought butt plugs and lubricant with him on the trip....

AI is, arguably, the fastest emerging industry on the planet. The global market value for AI technologies is now estimated to be in the trillions and there’s no ceiling in sight. It’s an exciting time for startups and big tech companies who are invested in the industry, but the average person struggles to understand exactly what modern AI is capable of. Our aim at Neural is to help you make sense of it all....

With that in mind, we have decided to reschedule TNW Conference 2020 to October 1 & 2. It’s a decision that wasn’t made lightly, but when we can’t fully guarantee the wellbeing of our attendees, partners, and staff, it’s the right decision to make. You can read our full statement here. At TNW we’re optimists. We have always done business on the assumption that everything will get better, and that we can have a positive influence on the world....

As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup show its parent company, Alphabet, has been preparing for this moment for years, telling employees across the massive enterprise that certain language is off limits in all written communications, no matter how casual. The taboo words include “market,” “barriers to entry,” and “network effects,” which is when products such as social networks become more valuable as more people use them....

It happens all the time. You see a great sale or an awesome discount price on something you want…then you don’t pull the trigger. There are plenty of possible reasons for your inaction, but we’d wager a big one is often because you think that deal will be around again later. Well, if you want to get on board with a lifetime subscription to learning up to 14 languages with a world-renowned language training system like Babbel, you better do it now....

There are multiple options in which you can do this; you can transfer files via the cloud, or you can go the old school route and do it through iTunes. However, if you want your data migration to go without a hitch, your best bet is to use an all-in-one manager like AnyTrans. Made to accommodate your iPhone, iPad, iPod, iTunes, and iCloud content, AnyTrans enables you to transfer, manage, and back up iOS data in the easiest and fastest way possible....

The site’s called “From The Desk of Donald J Trump.” That doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like Twitter or Facebook. But I’m holding out hope that we’ll soon find out Trump’s posts are called “Deskies.” That would be cute and this story needs something to lighten the mood because it’s all very sad. Apparently 45’s been posting away on FTDoDJT since 24 March. What makes this interesting is that Fox News had the exclusive and announced the site today, 4 May....

Aside from distilling tweets on a subject, it could also make it easier to discover tweets from people you might not have followed who nevertheless have something interesting to say about a subject. The company also hopes the feature will make it easier for new users to get started on the platform. Currently, that can be a bit daunting, as people who are logging into twitter for the first time probably have no idea who to follow aside from select friends and celebrities....

The first iteration of the product started rolling out on Thursday in Canada and Australia, at a cost of $3.49 CAD and $4.49 AUD, respectively, per month. Twitter has not revealed when the service will be available in other markets. [Read: This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips] Twitter Blue users in Australia and Canada will get the following initial features for their money:...

As TechCrunch reported earlier today, Twitter said that the bot is violating its automation rules, but the company has reached out to the developer to find a way: Twitter’s rules forbid anyone from automatically adding users to a list in bulk. Harding says that he’s talking to the social network’s developer relation team to prevent abuse of the bot. Vicariously’s idea and the procedure is simple: you log in to Vicariously and enter someone’s Twitter handle to replicate their follows into a fresh list that’s added to your account....

As a result, two men pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and extortion, bringing a lengthy legal saga that embroiled Uber and LinkedIn-owned training site Lynda.com in costly data breaches to a close. They then contacted both companies to extort them for hundreds of dollars‘ worth of Bitcoin. At the time, Uber agreed to pay $100,000 in the cryptocurrency. The payment was processed via the tech giant’s HackerOne bug bounty program, and Uber required the hackers to sign a confidentiality agreement preventing them from using the data and publicly disclosing the security breach....

[Read: UK’s first EV-only service station is coming this summer] Not being able to charge your car at home, because you don’t have off-street parking, is one of the few remaining arguments against widespread electric vehicle adoption. However, that could be about to change, all thanks to a partnership between Siemens, charging point provider ubricity, and Westminster City Council in the UK. The partnership sees all 24 of Sutherland Avenue’s — in west London — street lamps modified to offer charging points for electric vehicles, Siemens announced this week....

The UK government has set ambitious targets for the rollout of both new technologies. It wants autonomous cars to be on Britain’s roads by 2021 and has mandated that 15 million premises be connected to 5G by 2025. However, these targets are not going to be met unless the government steps up to ensure Britain is equipped with the necessary infrastructure – including its lampposts. For a nation trying to position itself as ahead on tech developments such as 5G, I would suggest its mistakes so far are literally casting light on the paths that other countries should not be going down in the pursuit of these technologies....

Ask 10 people how to handle a particular problem and you’re likely to get 10 different, likely extremely divergent, approaches. Some of those suggestions are going to be better than others, but among that group, there are likely at least a couple of different options that could work. Just like those varying solutions coming together, project management is becoming a synthesis of different methodologies, with a few even melding together in new hybrid processes....

Watch the video above and follow TNW’s trip to Seoul where we visited the kitchens at Seoul Startup Hub and the robot restaurant, Merry Go Kitchen. The hub’s kitchens are not your typical corporate cafeteria backend, as it’s actually a high-tech food startup incubator. Then tag along to check out Woowa Brothers’ experimental robot-service project at Merry Go Kitchen (their robot is really cute). Want to see more videos from Seoul?...

I thought choosing some cool things to hang on your walls would be easy. But it really isn’t — especially when there are two of you having to decide on something. It’s also damn expensive if you want something beyond a Bob Marley poster. And then what happens if you spend a whole load of cash on a piece of art, then discover you actually kinda hate it two years later?...

Vlogging is an art all its own. To sit in front of a camera, talk naturally and stay compelling for several minutes without pauses and ahhs and mistakes and other disruptions is a true talent. In fact, it’s more than just talent to nail several extemporaneous minutes of talking flawlessly. For most of us, it’s practically impossible. Unfortunately, mistakes mean you need to start editing — and editing requires more time and more attention which slows you down when you really just want to get a video up....

In a yet another instance of Android adware, New Zealand-based independent security researcher Andy Michael found four Android VPN apps with cumulative downloads of over 500 million that not only serve ads while running the background, but are also placed outside the apps, including the home screen. The apps in question are Hotspot VPN, Free VPN Master, Secure VPN, and Security Master by Cheetah Mobile. It’s notable that all these apps originate from Hong Kong and China, where citizens have typically relied on VPNs to get around the Great Firewall....