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Dig a little deeper into these nuggets of days gone by, and you’ll see something more profound: an idea, a vision of what engineers thought the future could and should look like. It’s the space between sci-fi and reality. [Read: How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency] The Sinclair C5 is a perfect example. The C5 was the brainchild of Sir Clive Sinclair, a famed British inventor that made things like calculators and early personal computers....

Passing a science test might sound mundane, if you’re not familiar with how deep learning algorithms, the current bleeding edge of AI, work. After all, AI is already performing tasks such as diagnosing cancer, detecting fraud and playing complicated games, which are much more complicated than answering simple science questions about the moon and squirrel populations. But despite its fascinating achievements, deep learning struggles when it comes to tackling problems that require reasoning and commonsense....

Luckily for them, an AI system called This Pony Does Not Exist is helping fill the void, by spewing out an endless stream of new pony characters. The site was created by a developer known as Arfa, the same mind behind This Fursona Does Not Exist. Arfa built the system by training a generative adversarial network (GAN) on around 104,000 pictures from Derpibooru, the world’s largest imageboard for My Little Pony artworks....

At a speed of 85km/h, it drove for almost nine hours straight, covering a distance of 710 kilometers! According to the homonymous company, Lightyear, “this distance is the longest range an electric vehicle has ever achieved on 60kWh of energy.” For reference, the 2021 Tesla Model 3 Long Range has an average range of 455km on a 70kWh battery capacity. Lightyear also claims that “even the most efficient electric cars on the market today consume around 50% more energy at this relatively low speed....

So, we had a simple question: when will we be able to catch a robotaxi in Europe? And why can’t we yet? Currently, there are robotaxis (and a small number of roboshuttles) operating in the US, but only roboshuttles in Europe — terms we’ll define later. The difference between the two areas comes down to two things: regulations and ideology. However, let’s take a step back. The first thing to understand is what we mean by autonomous vehicles, robotaxis, and roboshuttles...

Children are spoken to differently depending on their gender. Boys are most commonly spoken to about their abilities, while girls receive comments about their bodies — and little by little, this starts to influence how they see themselves, hindering their full potential. It reflects the appearance of a normal mobile keyboard, but the predictive text input has been altered to make empowering word suggestions. For example, if you type in “women,” the app suggests words such as “smart,” “lead,” and “strong....

In a video posted on Instagram last weekend, a Chevrolet Bolt robotaxi gets pulled over by the San Francisco Police Department for not having its headlights on. As you can see for yourselves above, the incident feels as if it was comically scripted. A post shared by B-RadAbroad (@b.rad916) After stopping the vehicle, an officer walks up to the driver’s window, realizes that there’s no one behind the wheel, and walks back to his cruiser after unsuccessfully trying to open the front door....

Sometimes, that home theater you’ve assembled isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, having a glorious giant screen display with ultra-vivid resolution and color makes settling in for movie night in your darkened living room a true theater-esque experience. But while it might feel like a movie theater to you, the smaller screen as compared to the one in your neighborhood movie palace stands out to one viewer in particular — your eye....

You’d be amazed at what you could build all by yourself with the current state of today’s DIY electronics revolution. And we don’t mean you in the generic sense. We mean you. Yeah…you. With just a dollop of basic training, even a mostly unschooled tinkerer has access to components and guidance to build robotics, home automation and just flat-out fun mini-hardware projects of every kind. Much of that revolution has been sparked by the Raspberry Pi, the sneakily powerful yet remarkably cheap single-board microcomputer that often serves as the brain running these clever innovations....

When her husband was laid off in 2016, she signed up to teach D&D classes on Outschool, an online learning platform for kids up to age 18. Hardy told TNW “I was just trying to think of some way to make ends meet. I thought maybe a handful of kids would be interested.” She was wrong in the best possible way. Hardy’s classes were an instant hit and proved incredibly popular with both children and parents....

Although he didn’t mention them by name, Cook warned that they need to take responsibility for the “chaos” they create as a result of their innovations. “It feels a bit crazy that anyone should have to say this, but if you built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos,” Cook said. Speaking to a gathering of 30,000 attendees, including graduates, and their family and friends, Cook mounted a not-so-subtle attack against his rivals for failing to own up to a variety of issues like fake news, data breaches, privacy violations, and hate speech....

Decentralized remote workforces have quickly become the routine. While eradicating the commute and never having to wear pants to work in your home office are huge upsides, there are a couple of drawbacks too. In many cases, workers no longer enjoy the in-house computer network of their workplace, which means everybody is doing their own thing when it comes to stuff like scheduling. If you thought it was tough to corral everybody in the sales team for a meeting when you were all under one roof, just try it in this scheduling Wild West we’re in now....

It might feel like the sex tech of today is already more advanced than many people would have predicted, but in too many ways, it still shows signs of immaturity. The adult industry could still learn a thing or two from the emergence of other formerly nascent technologies, such as smartphones. Hell, teledildonics even had its own innovation-limiting patents in place until last year, which is all too reminiscent of the many FRAND patent rulings at the start of the smartphone wars....

Twitch streamers who use the site for monetary purposes do so by becoming Twitch partners or affiliates. Twitch partnership is usually exclusively reserved for the streamers with the biggest audiences and a consistent streaming schedule — you have to work for it, in other words. And once you’ve received partnership, you’re expected to maintain your audience. Perhaps, given the benefits of increased support attention and the chance for monetary gain, it’s no surprise someone would have tried to game the system by artificially inflating subscriber numbers....

The company defines deepfakes as “any photo, audio, or video that has been significantly altered or fabricated in a way that intends to mislead people or changes its original meaning.” While the definition kind of makes sense, Twitter will need to make sure its AI wouldn’t classify memes are deepfakes. Expanding on this in its survey, the social network says a piece of media that makes someone sick (huh?). Another example of violating the policy is adding or removing people from the original piece of content that can be considered as deepfake....

Five months after he was carjacked while driving for Uber, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage to his car, David Morrow finally received an offer of assistance from the company: $1,000, the amount of his insurance deductible. But there was a catch—Morrow would need to sign a nondisclosure agreement promising to not sue Uber, disparage the company, or talk any further about his carjacking or the details of his settlement....

Unfortunately though, it looks like this comfort has been short lived. Recent posts on Reddit have claimed that AirPods Pro firmware update has made the earbuds’ noise canceling worse. After seeing this, RTINGS retested the headphones, to see if the AirPods Pro firmware update had actually impacted the sound. And, spoiler, it had. [Check this out: Don’t believe everything you read about AirPod sales] The outlet found that while the software change had improved some elements of the AirPods Pro’s performance (specifically the earbuds’ frequency response), they discovered a “significant drop” in the noise-canceling performance — especially when it comes to bass....

Brexit may be causing food shortages, export pains, and economic damage, but the UK could reap one big benefit from leaving the EU: an end to constant cookie warnings. The country has unveiled plans to overhaul its privacy rules while maintaining an alignment with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told The Telegraph that the changes would get rid of “endless” cookie pop-ups, which websites use to comply with EU laws....

The Microsoft Exchange hack, which was identified in January, affected over a quarter of a million servers worldwide. The Biden administration said it had a “high degree of confidence” that the attack was carried out by “malicious cyber actors” affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Beijing has previously denied responsibility for the breach. The White House also accused the MSS of using criminal contract hackers in operations including “cyber-enabled extortion, crypto-jacking, and theft from victims around the world for financial gain....

According to records obtained by Salem Reporter, the banned titles — “Windows 10 for Dummies,” “Python Programming For Beginners,” “Blockchain Revolution,” and others — are part of the 1,600 books not allowed in Oregon prisons. Books like “Electronics Demystified,” “Java For Dummies,” and “Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dummies” have been classified under “Material that Threatens,” while “Windows 10 For Dummies” has been marked as “Information would create clear and present danger....