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. Petaluma in California has become the first US city to ban the construction of new petrol stations and pumps as part of... Read more ›
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I didn’t want to have to do this, but we need to talk. The levels of automation thought up by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) are not what you think. It’s probably time that we let them go. Human-machine interaction researcher Liza Dixon summed up the reason why quite clearly in a Tweet yesterday. In short, the main problem is that they’re way more complicated, and nuanced than carmakers... Read more ›
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If you’ve started to get into audio, you’ve probably seen something called “bit depth.” The thing is… what the hell is it? Well, we’re here to help. First off, bit depth is one of two metrics involved in measuring the quality of a piece of digital music. The first of these is sampling rate. We’ve covered what this is here, but for a short summary it’s the number of “samples”... Read more ›
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Do I consume social media or is it slowly consuming me? This blurred line has garnered increased attention due to recent documentaries like The Social Dilemma, which popularized deeply unsettling questions about the impact of social media on our mental health, politics, even free will. Yet many of us have our reasons for staying in the game. I’m sure there are some prolific entrepreneurs and writers who have no problem... Read more ›
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Last week, caller identification company Truecaller launched an application called Guardians app that was designed to share your location and other vital information with your family for safety. However, at the launch, the app had a major bug that let hackers take full control over accounts. Security researcher Anand Prakash, who found the vulnerability, informed Truecaller on Thursday, and it was fixed the same day. Truecaller launched the Guardians app... Read more ›
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While OnePlus phones are a great option for folks to get class-leading performance and screens for under $700, they haven’t been the best at photography. The company wants to change that with its new flagship model, and has partnered with the Swedish camera company Hasselblad. The firm is known for its high-end photography gear, including medium-format camera systems and lenses. In a 2019 interview with TNW, OnePlus’ product manager, Zack... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Essential Movavi Mac and Windows Software Bundle include a premium video editor, file converter, image editor and slideshow maker, all in one collection. Digital content does not spring to fruition for free. In fact, just the tools for creating top-notch videos or gorgeous professional-grade images are pretty pricey — and that’s before someone even gets paid to actually use them. The Adobe Creative Cloud suite of digital creation... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Uperfect 15.6″ Portable Monitor is an on-the-go second screen that brings HD-quality video when connected to a smartphone, laptop and more. Second screens always come in handy, especially when the first screen is a little on the small side. You can practically feel your eyeballs scrunching up and your vision deteriorating as you hold a phone screen inches from your face while you play a game or try... Read more ›
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TLDR: A pair of Hollywood’s top photographers lead the Photo School training, a full slate of photography training lectures and videos for immediately elevating your image taking abilities. If you want to learn to act, it couldn’t hurt to have Meryl Streep give you a few pointers. If you want to improve your game on the tennis court, knocking the ball around with Roger Federer could offer some choice tips.... Read more ›
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Alongside cooking for myself and walking laps around the house, Japanese cartoons (or “anime” as the kids are calling it) are something I’ve learned to love during quarantine. The problem with watching anime, though, is that short of learning Japanese, you become dependent on human translators and voice actors to port the content to your language. Sometimes you get the subtitles (“subs”) but not the voicing (“dubs”). Other times, entire... Read more ›
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Midway through a podcast, a high-energy commercial chirps out all the advantages of using a particular learning system for languages. They are familiar: Babbel can get you conversing in just three weeks, it teaches you phrases you’ll actually use in the real world, lessons are designed to help you remember. Then a less familiar selling point: “Other learning apps use AI for their lesson plans, by Babbel lessons were created... Read more ›
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More than 99% of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. Most of these just died out quietly. However, in Earth’s history there have been five major mass extinction events – known as the big five – during which many species became extinct at the same time. Each of the big five events caused at least a 40% loss of all species on Earth. Yet humans... Read more ›
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TLDR: With Audio Optimization Experience software, you can make video games or anything coming through your computer speakers instantly sound clearer, crisper, and better. Back in the day, audiophiles would add one of those ginormous multi-band equalizers to their stereo setups, allowing listeners to tweak every facet of their system’s sound to their highly individualized liking. With all the multi-channel audio and incredibly intricate sound mixing that happens in today’s... Read more ›
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On February 14, a researcher who was frustrated with reproducing the results of a machine learning research paper opened up a Reddit account under the username ContributionSecure14 and posted the r/MachineLearning subreddit: “I just spent a week implementing a paper as a baseline and failed to reproduce the results. I realized today after googling for a bit that a few others were also unable to reproduce the results. Is there... Read more ›
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As someone who’s worked from home since long before the pandemic, having great sound at your desk can make the workday a lot more enjoyable. But if you, like me, have a small desk, you probably don’t want giant speakers taking up all your precious real estate. Fret not, for I’m here to tell you you can get great sound from small speakers too. But to get the most bang... Read more ›
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A team of researchers recently developed a mind-reading AI that uses an individual’s personal preferences to generate portraits of attractive people who don’t exist. Computer-generated beauty truly is in the AI of the beholder. The big idea: Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the University of Copenhagen today published a paper detailing a system by which a brain-computer-interface is used to transmit data to an AI system which then... Read more ›
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Alzheimer’s disease is becoming increasingly prevalent as life expectancies lengthen. But the complexity of the condition makes it hard to find effective treatments. One way to expedite the search that’s yielded promising results is using AI to find existing drugs that could be repurposed to combat the disorder. Harvard researchers recently used the approach to identify 80 candidate medications that merit further investigation. They discovered the contenders through a framework... Read more ›
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This article was originally published by Jem McKenna-Percy 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. One way to enable evidence-based decision-making by cities is to integrate physical and digital urban infrastructure and identify usage patterns and emerging... Read more ›
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Schoolchildren have long been taught that Earth’s composed of four main layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. But a new study suggests their textbooks may be incomplete. Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) discovered a mysterious new layer at the center of the planet: the “innermost inner core.” They suspect it contains secrets about an unknown, dramatic event in the Earth’s history. Geologists... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 Premium Python Certification Bootcamp Bundle is the perfect introduction to all things Python as students learn the basics of using this red-hot programming language. It’s a cliche to say the world is transforming. It’s always transforming, especially in the tech realm. But it’s no exaggeration to say the explosion of growth surrounding the Python programming language over the past 30 years is not a transformation you see... Read more ›
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