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Hawley alleged that the app tracks your searches, keystrokes, and your location and shares it with the Chinese government. — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 4, 2020 [Read: TikTok developer launches Resso in India to take on Spotify and Gaana] At a briefing with reporters, he said TikTok is required to collect the data and share it with Beijing: Several US agencies have already banned the China-based app, including the Navy and some military branches, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Homeland Security....

The report, from CNBC, says that ViacomCBS has plans to create a new streaming service. It feels inevitable — all of the other major media conglomerates have joined the streaming wars. Warner Media is rolling out HBO Max. NBCUniversal has Peacock. The Walt Disney Company has Disney+ and Hulu. A post-merger ViacomCBS service has been a rumor for a while: Yaron mentioned it in his breakdown of the potential pricing of all streaming services combined....

According to a spokeswoman for the company, the new headline package will offer a 152Mbps headline download speed, but Virgin Media will continue to offer its 30, 60 and 120Mbps tiers too. Customers on these packages should see speed increases of “at least” 20Mbps. The average broadband speed in the UK according to Ofcom is currently a little under 15Mbps, but nearly 75 percent of the UK has access to 30Mbps connections or faster....

A team of AI researchers in Russia have managed to come up with one of the coolest gesture-control systems for drones that we’ve seen yet. What’s even more impressive is that it works with multiple machines simultaneously. Controlling swarms of drones in real-time is the dream. And, when you pre-program them with advanced software and run them in unobstructed areas it’s pretty easy to accomplish. But if you want to, say, control a swarm of drones inside an office building, in real time, things get a bit trickier....

Created by Ronald Moore (of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica fame), the series is centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon mission of 1969. However, it’s a fictional show with alternative reality – akin to The Man in the High Castle and The Watchmen. In an interview with Collider, he confirmed that there will be 10 episodes of one hour each. The clip above shows Moore and his team describing how they worked to make the scenes look and feel as realistic as possible, hiring a group of tech consultants to help them along the way....

But what exactly is Roblox and why did it hold an IPO? Let’s take a look. What’s Roblox? Roblox is an online game platform where you can create your own games and play games made by others — think of it as a Minecraft competitor.The title has been around for a long while; the first PC version was released in 2006. The company released versions for iOS, Android, and Xbox, in 2012, 2014, and 2015 respectively....

Often that question is, “Why did you leave your last job?” Of course, there are lots of reasons why you might be searching for a new career. Maybe you moved locations, decided to change roles, or simply wanted a new challenge. However, if you were laid off from your previous job, you need to be honest. Getting fired is nothing to be embarrassed about. In fact, it’s more common than ever....

The carmaker Nissan has promised to beef up EV production at its Sunderland plant in north-east England, while its industrial partner is set to build an electric battery plant nearby. Meanwhile, in Cheshire, Vauxhall’s owner Stellantis has announced it will invest £100 million (US$139 million) into building electric vans and cars at its Ellesmere Port plant. What will all these batteries look like? Most EVs today use lithium ion batteries, but these have a number of limitations....

While WhatsApp has long allowed you to load a backup of your chats onto a new device, you’ve traditionally had to stick to the same OS. WhatsApp says that in the coming weeks, users will be able to bring their conversations from iOS devices to Samsung ones running Android 10 or higher. This includes voice notes and photos in addition to text. There have been workarounds to transfer your messages from one platform to another, but many of them are paid or buggy....

The revelations, reported by news outlet Indian Express, come as the Facebook-owned messaging service filed a lawsuit against the Israeli company for helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists, and senior government officials. “Indian journalists and human rights activists have been the target of surveillance and while I cannot reveal their identities and the exact number, I can say that it is not an insignificant number,” a WhatsApp spokesperson was quoted as saying to the publication....

What we need is a superhero better villain. Independence Day Humans fight. Whether you believe it’s an inalienable part of our mammalian psyche or that we’re capable of restraint, but unwilling, the fact we’re a violent species is inescapable. And it doesn’t appear that we’re getting better as we evolve. Researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a study on existing material covering ‘human aggression’ in 2002 and their findings, as expected, painted a pretty nasty picture of our species: The rational end game for humanity is self-wrought extinction....

Speaking at TNW Conference this year, Usha Raghavachari, Innovation Lab Director at D-Ford, described how her team can bring a 118-year old brand into the future. D-Ford is a design startup within Motor Company, whose mission is to help the company learn and adopt new tools to create “what’s next.” As Raghavachari explained, D-Ford is focusing on a human-centered design approach, which aims to “drive human progress through empathy, creativity, and design....

The first exoplanet with the potential to host life as we know it, meaning it was orbiting a star similar to the one we call ‘the sun,’ was discovered by Mayor and fellow Nobel winner Didier Queloz in 1995. In the time since, researchers have confirmed the existence of more than 4,000 exoplanets. But we won’t be making the trip to any of them, says Mayor. He told Agence France-Press: Rather than concern ourselves with dreams of colonizing planets throughout our galaxy and beyond, Mayor says “We must take care of our planet....

But our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges. Rapid advances have led ethical dilemmas These ideas and more were swirling as my colleagues and I met in early November at one of the world’s largest autonomous robotics-focused research conferences – the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. There, academics, corporate researchers, and government scientists presented developments in algorithms that allow robots to make their own decisions....

Welcome to the era of bullshit jobs, as anthropologist David Graeber coined it. Since the 1930s, whole new industries have sprung up, which don’t necessarily add much value to our lives. Graeber would probably call most jobs in software development bullshit. I don’t share Graeber’s opinion, especially when it comes to software. But he does touch an interesting point: as more and more processes are automated, most jobs are obsolete at some point....

As the influx of electric vehicles is booming, automakers and tech companies have been focusing on optimizing an EV’s most vital and expensive part: the battery. And while lithium-ion batteries have been the mainstream option so far, there’s another promising competitor on the making: solid-state batteries. What do they have in common? Both types use lithium to produce electrical energy and their overall structure is quite similar. Simply put, they have an anode (the battery’s negative side), a cathode (the battery’s positive side), and an electrolyte....

The endless Bitcoin trading had the traders stressed but it also allowed them to connect over how much the currency was going up or down in the market, thereby, revealing just how large their portfolio was and how strong their trading skills they were. Bitcoin had turned the streets of NYC into a trading floor. When the Bitcoin obsession vaporized as quickly as it had appeared, it left in its wake a bunch of new currency traders who had been encouraged and educated on the trading process by their own network....

Let’s count together. One, two, three, zero: He’s developed exactly zero production model robo-taxis. We know this because “zero” is exactly how many fully-autonomous production cars there are in the world. This bodes well for world-renowned AI experts Rodney Brooks and Kai Fu Lee. They took to Twitter right after Musk made prediction to challenge the timeline. — Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) May 8, 2019 Brooks tweeted, “Let’s count how many truly autonomous (no human safety driver) Tesla taxis (public chooses destination & pays) on regular streets (unrestricted human driven cars on the same streets) on December 31, 2020....

Smoking has been shown to be a risk factor for more severe forms of COVID-19, and now vaping is under fire for similar reasons. A recent study, published by researchers from Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco showed that vaping significantly increases the likelihood of a COVID-19 diagnosis among young people aged 13 to 24 in the US. The researchers conducted a survey in which they asked participants whether they ever vaped, smoked or both (defined as “dual use”), and whether they were current users....

This made physicists propose that an invisible substance called “dark matter” was providing extra gravitational pull, causing the stars to speed up – a theory that’s become hugely popular. However, in a recent review, my colleagues and I suggest that observations across a vast range of scales are much better explained in an alternative theory of gravity proposed by Israeli physicist Mordehai Milgrom in 1982 called Milgromian dynamics or Mond – requiring no invisible matter....