Escooter providers are forever seeking ways to facilitate, promote, and enforce safe and responsible ridership. Companies are increasingly turning to AI to aid their efforts. Uber recently published aĀ patentĀ using cameras, mapping, and custom AI processors to detect non-compliant rider behavior such as parking outside designed areas. Uber can then notify users of improper parking or issue penalties.Ā Get free rides for sticking a helmet on your head Veoride... Read more āŗ
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One of the key challenges of deep reinforcement learning modelsāthe kind of AI systems that have mastered Go, StarCraft 2, and other gamesāis their inability to generalize their capabilities beyond their training domain. This limit makes it very hard to apply these systems to real-world settings, where situations are much more complicated and unpredictable than the environments where AI models are trained. But scientists at AI research lab DeepMind claim... Read more āŗ
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Surrounding Earth is a powerful magnetic field created by swirling liquid iron in the planetās core. Earthās magnetic field may be nearly as old as the Earth itself ā and stands in stark contrast to the Moon, which completely lacks a magnetic field today. But did the Moonās core generate a magnetic field in the past? In the 1980s, geophysicists studying rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts concluded the Moon... Read more āŗ
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Last night, Apple made a huge announcement that itāll be scanning iPhones in the US forĀ Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). As a part of this initiative, the company is partnering with the government and making changes to iCloud, iMessage, Siri, and Search.Ā However, security experts are worried about surveillance and the risks of data leaks. Before taking a look at those concerns, letās understand, what is Apple doing exactly?... Read more āŗ
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After being postponed a year due to the pandemic, the 2021 Tokyo Olympics are cause for great excitement. Weāve waited impatiently to once again, behold the impressive display of sporting skills and competitive endeavors from the top athletes in the world. But an additional factor to get excited about this year is the introduction of many new technologies used to enhance the whole experience. Being held in Japan, arguably one... Read more āŗ
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Marketing for early-stage technology companies is one of the most active discussions in media, blogs, meetups, conferences, and wherever. Yet, despite the degree of coverage, founders can still struggle to understand how to correctly approach marketing for early-stage startups. Iāve noticed a few reoccurring misconceptions crop up in chats Iāve had with entrepreneurs across a range of industries. Since these beliefs can be huge roadblocks to a companyās business success,... Read more āŗ
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As someone whoās been on tablets PCs since before the Surface line even popularized 2-in-1s, Iām something of a religious stylus user. I wrote many of my college notes on Microsoftās OneNote, but in the last few years, the app has lived in a rather frustrating dichotomy. You had āOneNote for Windows 10,ā built on the more modern UWP code and available right from the Windows Store, and then you... Read more āŗ
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Everyone knows the pain of losing your metro ticket and having to line up behind tourists at the station gates as you rush to meet a train. Moscow Metro recently announcedĀ a trial of facial recognition called FacePayĀ on the Filevskaya metro line. 1000 commuters are participating in the trial, and the process is simple. Users install the Moscow Metro app, thenĀ upload a photo of their face and link... Read more āŗ
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TLDR: The combination of a HomePower One Backup Battery Power Station and the SolarPower One Portable Solar Panel can have you absolutely ready when the power goes out. One any given day, you can do a quick Google search and pull up a dozen stories. Thousands of people without power in Great Falls, Montana after a substation failed. Or thousands more in the dark after equipment failure in Denver, Colo.... Read more āŗ
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Google today unveiled four new Nest cameras and a doorbell in an effort to simplify home security ā and bring its strongest competition to Amazonās Ring system yet. They also include Nestās first battery-powered units, as well as a reduction in price in a redesigned wired Nest Cam, making its security products more accessible than ever. Long story short, hereās whatās new: 2nd Gen Google Nest Cam (wired) ā $100... Read more āŗ
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During a rather historic meeting at the White House on Thursday, automakers, the United Autoworkers (UAW), and other leaders officially expressed their support to Biden administrationās plans to strengthen American leadership on clean vehicles. Through a series of statements, it became clear that the US is finally fully committed to reducing its greenhouse emissions and building a more sustainable transportation model. Ford, GM, and Stellantis announced their common goal to... Read more āŗ
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Days after Oppo revealed its new-gen under-the-screen camera tech, Xiaomi is set to debut its own in a mainstream device. The company is expected to show off its tech in the Mi Mix 4, launching on August 10. Agatha Tang, the companyās head of global PR, posted a teaser on Twitter touting the clear screen design without a notch orĀ a hole punch. Innovating on innovation pic.twitter.com/dpl4RmZ7v4 ā Agatha Tang... Read more āŗ
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The typical Australian will change careers five to seven times during their professional lifetime, by some estimates. And this is likely to increase as new technologies automate labor, production is moved abroad, and economic crises unfold. Jobs disappearing is not a new phenomenon ā have you seen an elevator operator recently? ā but the pace of change is picking up, threatening to leave large numbers of workers unemployed and unemployable.... Read more āŗ
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If you had gotten used to navigating Facebookās settings, time to wake up and get to work again. Because the company is rolling out a redesigned settings page on its mobile apps. The new design has a total of six categories:Ā Account, Preferences, Audience and Visibility, Permissions, Your Information, and Community Standards and Legal Policies. With this design change, some of the earlier sections such as Security, Privacy, Ads, and... Read more āŗ
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Nissan has revealed its 2022 Leaf EV, which not only comes with more standard features than last yearās model, but is priced significantly lower as well ā like more than $4,000 lower. In fact, the Leaf is now the cheapest EV in the US market, as Endgadget pointed out. And from our research that does seem to be the case, with the next car on the budget list being the... Read more āŗ
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If youāre using Google Drive, you probably received an email earlier this week about a new security update to the file storage and sharing platform. According to the email, āDrive will apply a security update to make file sharing more secure.ā True to the promise, the change is a security upgrade for some of the Google Drive files you might have shared in the past. It will make it harder... Read more āŗ
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When I started using computers as a child, I naturally gravitated towards making weird drawings and strange shapes on Microsoft Paint. But there were a ton of apps that were popular before that. Programmer Vikrum Nijjar has resurrected one of them called Kid Pix in a browser window. The app was originally released for Macs in 1989.Ā If the name doesnāt sound familiar, it might be because the app was... Read more āŗ
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While many celebrated the potential emissions reductions achieved during a year and a half of life in quarantine, the summer of 2021 alone has seen wildfires raging across the US Pacific Northwest, Turkey, and Greece, and extreme flooding across Germany, China, Uganda, and India, just to name a few. Not to be a debbie downer, but itās certainly not the time to let āhot vax summerā overshadow āhot af climate... Read more āŗ
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who keep their tabs neat and tidy and those who drown in an endless sea of microscopic slivers atopĀ their browser. Actually, scratch that. I donāt think Iāve ever met someone who keeps their tabs tidy. I certainly donāt. Oh, Iāve tried. Over the years Iāve various tab grouping methods. Iāve tried double-layer horizontal tabs. Iāve tried various extensions that... Read more āŗ
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Researchers and lawmakers have slammed Facebook for disabling the accountsĀ of academics who wereĀ analyzing political ads on the platform. The company on Tuesday shut down accounts, apps, pages, and platform access associated with theĀ NYU Ad Observatory, which investigates the transparency ofĀ online political ads.Ā Facebook said the teamās data collection methods violated the social networkās rules around user privacy. Laura Edelson, one of the researchers whose accounts was... Read more āŗ
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