Itâs been 66 million long years since an asteroid erased the dinosaurs â and astronomers are getting antsy. In the last few months, theyâve warned that space rocks as big as the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, and the Great Pyramid of Giza could all miss Earth by just millions of miles. In response, NASA is resorting to increasingly desperate measures. After simulating catastrophe impacts and slapping asteroids with... Read more âș
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As part of UKâs FlyZero initiative, the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) unveiled on Monday a concept aircraft with ambitions as high as the skies itâs gonna fly to. Itâs a midsize commercial plane, able to carry 279 passengers, and designed for transatlantic flights with one refueling stop or no stop at all. Okay, nothing remarkable here. Credit: Aerospace Technology Institute But whatâs extraordinary is that the concept aircraft is expected... Read more âș
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When I first started writing about IoT in 2013, device makers promised a world where IoT would seamlessly facilitate a machine-to-machine connection between the smart gadgets in our lives, including our smart home. Made possible by machine learning, our devices would become instinctual in the way they spoke to each other and responsive â with no human interaction. One of the most significant examples touted at the time was car-to-smart... Read more âș
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Curious Kids is a series by The Conversation that gives children the chance to have their questions about the world answered by experts. If you have a question youâd like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.com and make sure you include the askerâs first name, age and town or city. We wonât be able to answer every question, but weâll do our very best. Why canât we put... Read more âș
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This article was originally published on Jobbioâs blog. Money is a universally taboo subject. Thatâs why negotiating a salary is tricky, not just for fresh job-hunters, but even for those with years of work experience. Finding the perfect middle ground between feeling short-changed and being unrealistic is crucial in obtaining the job offer you deserve. We spoke with a group of experts comprised of Talent Acquisition Specialists, Hiring Managers, and... Read more âș
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Earlier this month, we saw Android issue an important update. The update enables Android users to use their mobile to lock, unlock, and even start a compatible car. The most interesting factor is the use of Ultra Wideband technology. In reality, weâve been able to start our cars remotely using products like Viperâs Smart Start since 2009. Apple tech could lock, unlock and start your car with an iPhone or... Read more âș
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Mark Zuckerberg might be looking out for a shiny future in the metaverse, but the companyâs past mistakes continue to haunt him. Amidst the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, a number of refugees from the community currently based in the US and UK have sued Meta to the tune of $150 billion, for failing to clamp down on hate speech against the minority group. Before we look at the allegations... Read more âș
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Nearly every company has had to adjust to a distributed working model since the pandemic hit, with workers now dispersed to a wide range of locations and time zones. One unexpected benefit of this massive paradigm shift is that startups today are better prepared than before to adapt to the demands of becoming a global organization, including those that I invest into as a General Partner at Frontline X, a... Read more âș
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By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33Â million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their childrenâs movements using their cellphones. The Markup has learned, however, that the app is selling data on kidsâ and familiesâ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it. Through... Read more âș
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It was just last year that WhatsApp added the option to let your messages disappear automatically, but the company has expanded the feature in a big way. Rather than forcing you to manually enable disappearing messages for each individual chat, WhatsApp now lets you default to disappearing messages for all new one-on-one chats. Moreover, the company is giving you a good deal more flexibility on timing. While previously you could... Read more âș
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There are two main reasons many Android enthusiasts have gravitated toward Google Pixel phones over the years. The first is probably the phone lineâs standout cameras. The second is getting the âpureâ Android and Google services experience, free of the bloatware and unnecessary features found on so many other devices. Thatâs why Googleâs latest Pixel feature drop, which adds a quick-access shortcut to Snapchat, has me scratching my head a... Read more âș
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How useful is your AI? Itâs not a simple question to answer. If youâre trying to decide between Googleâs Translate service or Microsoftâs Translator, how do you know which one is better? If youâre an AI developer, thereâs a good chance you think the answer is: benchmarks. But thatâs not the whole story. The big idea Benchmarks are necessary, important, and useful within the context of their own domain. If... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The South Korean province of Gyeonggi is trialling an alert system that monitors bus driversâ brainwaves in a bid to reduce accidents... Read more âș
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Research in mathematics is a deeply imaginative and intuitive process. This might come as a surprise for those who are still recovering from high-school algebra. What does the world look like at the quantum scale? What shape would our universe take if we were as large as a galaxy? What would it be like to live in six or even 60 dimensions? These are the problems that mathematicians and physicists... Read more âș
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Extremely fast charging of our EVs would be a dream come true, right? Just imagine rolling up to a charger and juicing up your battery within mere five minutes, or as long as it takes to fill up a car with gas. Mmm, I bet that would convince even the most stubborn Earth-killer lovers to flock to EVsâ superior embrace. Unfortunately, this is still just a dream. Of course there... Read more âș
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A new frontier in the battle for the web may emerge this week. At a virtual âSummit for Democracyâ hosted by President Joe Biden, the White House is expected to launch its âAlliance for the Future of the Internet.â While precise plans for the alliance remain unclear, internal documents suggest the US aims to pull allies towards its vision of a free internet â and away from the models of... Read more âș
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A new era of space stations is about to kick off. NASA has announced three commercial space station proposals for development, joining an earlier proposal by Axiom Space. These proposals are the first attempts to create places for humans to live and work in space outside the framework of government space agencies. Theyâre part of what has been called âSpace 4.0â, where space technology is driven by commercial opportunities. Many... Read more âș
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With the average adult spending 4.2 hours a day on smartphone apps in 2020, our reliance on technology has evolved even more than we might have thought possible. From ordering food to connecting with loved ones or binge-watching the latest series, our data consumption is an integral part of daily life. As a result, businesses are also consuming more data than ever before, and this trend will only grow. But... Read more âș
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All of us have dumb ideas, and our friends might indulge us by giving us a few bucks to fulfill them. But a billion dollars? Well, perhaps âif youâre Donald Trump. US Presidentâs social network said in a press release that it just received $1 billion in funding from a âdiverse group of institutional investors,â without disclosing any names. After this deal, the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is... Read more âș
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Whether itâs athletes on a sporting field or celebrities in the jungle, nothing holds our attention like the drama of vying for a single prize. And when it comes to the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), some of the most captivating moments have also been delivered in nailbiting finishes. In 1997, IBMâs Deep Blue chess computer was pitted against grandmaster and reigning world champion Garry Kasparov, having lost to him... Read more âș
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