The US has unveiled an unusual new approach to saber-rattling with China: emotion predictions. According to Reuters, military commanders in the Pacific have developed a tool to forecast how the Chinese government will react to American actions in the region. A US defense official said the software calculates âstrategic friction,â but provided little detail about how it works. We tried to dig up further information â but unearthed more questions... Read more âș
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This week, Daniel L. Doctoroff announced that heâs stepping down from his role of CEO at Sidewalk Labs due to serious health conditions. Sidewalk has been limping along since the end of the Quayside project. Now, starting next year, Sidewalk products Pebble, Mesa, Delve, and Affordable Electrification will join Google, becoming core to Googleâs urban sustainability product efforts. The founders started Sidewalk Labs with good intentions, but it exemplifies how... Read more âș
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During the pandemic, video calls became a way for me to connect with my aunt in a nursing home and with my extended family during holidays. Zoom was how I enjoyed trivia nights, happy hours and live performances. As a university professor, Zoom was also the way I conducted all of my work meetings, mentoring and teaching. But I often felt drained after Zoom sessions, even some of those that... Read more âș
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Arrival, the Anglo-American startup that aims to shake up the design and manufacturing of EV fleets, is ready to show us the first prototype of its Car (yes, with a capital C). Credit: Arrival As you might have already guessed, this is no ordinary passenger vehicle. Instead, the Arrival Car has been created specifically for the ride-hailing industry and designed in partnership with Uber. The vehicle features a futuristic minimalist... Read more âș
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Israel-based NSO Groupâs Pegasus spyware comes first to mind when you think about notorious ways to snoop on peopleâs phones. But thereâs a new player in town: Cytrox. This lesser-known company was found enabling surveillance, in a joint investigation by Canada-based Citizen Lab, and Meta In this story, weâll break down the companyâs origins and tell you about its spyware. What is Cytrox? Cytrox started as a North Macedonian startup,... Read more âș
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Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how images are interpreted suffer from racial and gender biases. People who have multiple marginalized identities, such as being Black and disabled, are even more at risk than those with a single marginalized identity. This is why when Mark Zuckerberg laid... Read more âș
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Robots might not be taking over the world just yet, but they are becoming increasingly popular in our lives. Think about it, they clean our floors, make the products that we use everyday, mow our lawns and some of them are even serving as our pets! Robotics is a huge part of so many industries today from healthcare to manufacturing and logistics to construction. The industry has the potential to... Read more âș
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Xiaomi made its laptop debut in India last year with the Mi Notebook series. Its plan was to undercut the competition by offering reasonable specs at an affordable price. While we donât have any sales data to check how the companyâs performing, its laptop range promises to deliver minimal design and good performance at a pocket-friendly price. With that in mind, the company released the Mi Notebook Pro and the... Read more âș
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When you launch a tech startup without a tech background, going headfast into the unknown, you might encounter problems with practically everything tech-wise. But fine, a tech startup does not sound very specific, so letâs narrow down this broad topic. If your tech startup idea has something to do with tracking, counting, or monitoring some activity, itâs probably in the realm of IoT and this article is meant to guide... Read more âș
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Melania Trump has launched her first public endeavor since her glorious reign as first lady was tragically curtailed. While her predecessors ran for president, founded charities, and wrote books, Melania was never going to waste her talent on such trivial pursuits. Instead, sheâs combined her business acumen, tech wizardry, and philanthropy into the perfect project: an NFT venture. The model, designer, entrepreneur, and humanitarian is selling a series of tokens... Read more âș
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In October, Honda announced plans to launch five new EVs in China under its new e:N Series of battery-powered models. And today, I came across a video that deeply disturbed me, to the point that Iâm actually happy I hadnât seen it until now. Let me explain how these two are related. When I first heard of Hondaâs new e:N Series, I was very excited. The next-gen electric cars will... Read more âș
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It used to be that the number one way for brands to garner customer loyalty was with discount codes and special offers. Generally speaking, the more customers spent at a retailer or e-commerce brand, the more rewards they could get. While rewards programs that offer perks such as free items or cash back can be effective, it seems that almost every retailer has adopted this type of loyalty program in... Read more âș
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Car manufacturers have long been generating money through subscription over-the-air (OTA) software updates. But with 3G capabilities set to expire in 2022, things could get even more expensive for car owners. OTA updates are a hot topic for vehicles owners who resent paying for new services. I reported earlier in the year about Mercedes-Benz introducing an OTA subscription update to the all-electric luxury salon Mercedes-Benz EQ to modify the rear-axle... Read more âș
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As with all careers, thereâs a hierarchy of levels in software engineering. As we know, itâs based on experience, technical knowledge, and leadership skills. Now if you are reading this you are probably not super clear on where these lines exist. For example, junior vs senior developer or entry-level vs junior developer. Itâs a bit of a blur, especially when companies have their own sets of criteria for judging these... Read more âș
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The year 2021 was marked by several major breakthroughs for cryptocurrencies. For one, new crypto applications like non-fungible tokens (NFTs) gained ground, with sales of these digital assets setting new records at major auction houses. Secondly, Bitcoin made strides towards mainstream acceptance with major websites like Expedia and Microsoft accepting the coin as a means of exchange. Third, in September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to... Read more âș
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Picture a hackathon. Likely youâre imagining images similar to those that come up when you search âhackathonâ on Google Images: rows and rows of developers seated at tables in a hotel conference room, head down (ample sodas and snacks at hand), racing to write as much code as possible over 72 hours. Less than a decade ago, this idea of hackathons was accurate, but in 2021 much about these events... Read more âș
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The metaverse. Everyoneâs talking about it, major companies are working on the hardware to access it, and it increasingly seems like it could eventually be the next major communication platform on the scale of the world wide web. But if you ask Intel, âeventuallyâ is still a long way off. In its first real statement since everyone started chiming in on the metaverse after Facebookâs rebrand, Intel says that for... Read more âș
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In a historic milestone, a spacecraft has âtouchedâ the sun for the first time. The NASA probe hasnât hit the giant starâs surface, but it has entered the mysterious solar atmosphere â known as the corona. The Parker Solar Probe achieved the feat in April, but scientists have only now confirmed it. As the probe entered the corona, it took these images of streams of plasma surrounding the spacecraft. Credit:... Read more âș
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Have you ever checked your Twitter timeline and wondered what on Earth everyone was talking about? You step away for a few hours and suddenly your timeline is filled with people swapping memes about an event youâve completely missed. We studied these âmemetic momentsâ to understand how memes emerge quickly and spontaneously in response to key social events. We found they move even faster than we had thought, sometimes emerging,... Read more âș
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Oppo released its first foldable, the Oppo Find N, today at an event held in China. The company said last week that it has worked on it for four years, and developed some six generations of prototypes before producing this model. While the device uses a similar type of folding mechanism as the Samsung Z Fold 3, there are certain design differences. The Find N is shorter and wider than... Read more âș
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