But the crisis has also revealed the pressing need most of us face to work. We might not carry out work that is necessary but we still need to work in order to live. Work remains an obligation in society and something the majority of us have to do, whether the work we do is vital or not. The question for the present is whether people can survive the loss of work, as the economy contracts....
— Yiqin Fu (@yiqinfu) May 28, 2019 The facial recognition reportedly tool took half a year to build and has over 100 terabytes of video data pulled from sites including Pornhub, 91, 1024, sex8, and xvideos. This was compared against profile pictures from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Weibo, and others. When the software was first announced, it had around 1,000 comments — most expressing their excitement about the service with replies like “A true blessing for us credulous programmers,” “When can we use it?...
Blockport’s STO failed to reach its soft cap of €1 million ($1.13 million) in May. Shortly after, the company filed for and was declared bankrupt, according to recently found bankruptcy records. “Since our first equity fundraising (STO) round was unsuccessful, we can’t uphold our planned growth trajectory and therefore have to significantly scale down our operations and team,” Blockport founder Sebastiaan Lichter told Hard Fork. The Blockport STO launched on April 16 and ran until May 15....
According to Musk, the game will be available on Tesla Models X, 3, and S. Like previous games that have made it into Teslas, it can only be played while the car is parked. It won’t be the whole game built into the car — there’s only enough storage space for the first island, but I’ll remind you that island contains two painfully tough platforming levels and five boss fights....
When users are on the hunt for a quality cloud storage option, they can browse through the assorted features of any given service to check out its bells and whistles; or kick the tires on specific issues like file security, transfer speeds, and mobile access. All those points certainly matter, but if you really ask most cloud storage buyers to boil down their decision making process, it comes down to getting the most space in the cloud available at the cheapest possible price....
In Motorcycle News (MCN), Ducati’s VP of Sales Francesco Milicia seemed to provide a bit more clarity on the Italian motorbike maker’s low-emission plans. “Will we produce an electric Ducati soon? No. We think that for the kind of machine we produce now, an electric motorcycle cannot guarantee the pleasure, the range, the weight etc that Ducati riders expect,” he said. Soon is the operative word here. The Italian marque hasn’t totally written off the idea of making an electric bike....
While the Wide score is a new addition, Night is a revamped score to include low-light photography (similarly to its now-retired Flash score). For the Night score, DxOMark will test photos that are taken when the light levels are between 0 lux and 20 lux. It’ll test scenarios with flash off, flash on, and flash auto; it’ll also perform a dedicated night mode test for phones that have that feature....
In a patent that almost looks an April Fools joke, the fancy vacuum maker describes a pair of headphones with air filters built into its earcups, as spotted by Bloomberg. Moreover, it has a second headband that folds down and goes over your mouth to blow the purified air into your faceholes. Bloomberg had previously reported on a wearable purifier back in 2018, so Dyson has clearly been working on the concept for a while....
This is a complex question and one where size matters. It is possible for small aircraft to be powered by electricity. In fact, several companies are already developing small electric aircraft and they could come on the market within the next few years. But for the large aircraft we all use more frequently, it is unlikely to happen anytime soon. The problem isn’t the propulsion technology but the energy storage....
This trend is bringing out the best in technology to not just improve our lives, but to actually save them. However, there’s one issue these life-saving features are facing: emergency services might not be aware of them or equipped to use them. “New emergency features are intended to enhance emergency access and make people safer,” reads a new position paper from the European Emergency Number Association (EENA). “This would be applaudable if emergency services were able to receive this information....
The correct response to reading that is: eureka! We would have also accepted “wow,” “OMG,” and “hooray,” given the potential implications of this incredible breakthrough. Up front: Time crystals are a recently discovered phase of matter. In their ground state, they oscillate between different configurations without losing or using energy. (Read more about how time crystals work here: Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes) A team of physicists led by Lancaster University’s Samuli Autti managed to couple two time crystals together in what’s referred to as a “two-state system,” or a “two-level system....
The study was conducted by Element Energy and included 14,000 respondents from the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands. You know, the countries that make up nearly 80% of the new passenger car registrations across the EU, UK, and EFTA region. And, folks, the key findings are so optimistic that they’ve really made my day. So, let’s get cracking. 1. Lower upfront cost will make EVs the most in-demand powertrain from 2025 Interestingly, upfront cost was identified as the most influential factor in consumer powertrain decision, while driving range, running cost, and access to charging came as secondary....
Turned into a pop-culture icon after the Back to the Future film franchise, this unique vehicle is coming back to life after 39 long years! And the best part? It’s being reborn as an EV! The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was originally established in 1973 by, yes, John DeLorean. Unfortunately, it declared bankruptcy in 1982, and was ultimately bought by Stephen Wynne in 1995. Since then, the DMC has been the largest parts supplier and restorer of vintage DeLorean vehicles....
Excel ability is one of the most requested tech skills needed from a prospective employee. So get and stay hireable with instruction like The A to Z Microsoft Excel Certification Training Bundle. It’s on sale now at a very attractive $39, all thanks to a new $10 price drop from TNW Deals. Over 45 hours of training, these courses will help a complete spreadsheet novice get comfortable, then start innovating in the Excel environment....
Based on a report by Netblocks, the restrictions came in effect on 7 June 2019. “Concerned about the rapid decline of Liberia’s image, diminishing global and geopolitical standing as well as its deteriorating business and investment climate; Determined to help avert the worsening governance situation from further deteriorating thereby undermining Liberia’s fragile peace and democracy after painful sacrifices by Liberians, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), the United Nations, the United States of America, and the European Union, respectively; Encouraged by growing consensus among Liberians at home and abroad about the need for urgent, peaceful and concerted citizens’ mass actions to save the Liberian State from total breakdown as the governance environment continues to worsen;” reads part of the petition by Liberia’s citizens....
The new design has a total of six categories: 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 News Feed settings have been clubbed under some of these categories. Plus, remember how the earlier version had a description below each category? Those have been removed too. So, good luck navigating through these new sections....
When Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, Mark Zuckerberg said the company won’t push to introduce ads in the chat app. In 2016, the social media giant began sharing some user data from WhatsApp to Facebook for better ad targeting. It also planned to introduce ads in the platform — one of the major reasons why WhatsApp’s co-founder, Jan Koum, left the company in 2018. [Read: This WhatsApp script texts your parents every morning so you don’t have to ] The chat app’s founders always disliked ads; the other co-founder, Brian Action, told Forbes in 2014, “You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better....
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will soon start testing ads inside Oculus headsets — despite the VR brand’s founder once promising that it would never happen. “We are not going to track you, flash ads at you, or do anything invasive,” pledged Oculus creator Palmer Lucky, shortly after Facebook bought his firm in 2017. That always sounded optimistic, given the social network gets around 97% of its revenue from ads....
From what we can tell, the purpose of the app is to make meme creation easier by packaging together stock images and basic photo-editing tools. You can apply filters, crop, add emoji and stickers, and “share to social media and message threads right from the app,” according to the app’s description. The creator of the app is listed as “NPE Team from Facebook.” According to The Information, this is the name of an internal testing group at Facebook called New Product Experimentation....
We and our team are the first Australian social scientists to receive funding through Facebook’s content policy research awards, which we used to investigate hate speech on LGBTQI+ community pages in five Asian countries: India, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. We looked at three aspects of hate speech regulation in the Asia Pacific region over 18 months. First, we mapped hate speech law in our case study countries, to understand how this problem might be legally countered....
