This decision has been in the works for a while. The first draft of the WHO’s new ICD was published in January 2018. This weekend’s decision was more of a final confirmation that the various organizations within the gaming industry weren’t able to change the WHO’s mind than anything else. The new edition includes “gaming disorder” and “hazardous gaming.” The former is the one most people have noticed, and is defined as “a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour” in which a sufferer gives priority to gaming over and above other interests, and in spite of negative consequences....

Thunderbolt ports are present in machines with Windows, Linux, and macOS. So, that covers a lot of computers. Ruytenberg said all Thunderbolt versions and systems shipped between 2011 to 2020 are affected and no software patch can fix these vulnerabilities. So, Intel would need to redesign silicon in order to fix these flaws. [Read: Small errors in coronavirus testing might lead to surprisingly big problems] There’s not much you can do here....

I prefer the neckbuds form factor over truly wireless buds any day as I don’t have to get them out of the case every time I need to use them — I can keep the former hanging around my neck whenever I am not using them. I’ve been using the Redmi SonicBass neckbuds for over a month now, and despite some missing features, they’re a good pair for just ₹999 ($13....

You get the picture. The streaming wars are getting nasty — and you’re the one who’s paying for it. Unless… you refuse to pay. This is what Allthestreams.fm wants to help you do. The self-styled “pirate radio for streaming” basically pays for subscriptions to a bunch of streaming services, and then randomly chooses one show to play for you — free of charge. [Read: This tool automatically removes the background from any video or GIF] You can’t browse catalogs like you could with a normal subscription, but that was never the point....

Over time I developed a methodology for interpreting physical and verbal cues to understand what people were saying to me in situations where it was difficult to hear – such as at a conference or at a table with multiple conversations happening at once. Then COVID-19 happened and everyone started wearing masks. It was like starting all over again because I couldn’t watch people’s lips to fill in the blanks my hearing left out....

Dubbed Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR), the system aims to detect whether a specific piece of text was generated by a language model algorithm. You can give the tool a spin here. With AI and natural language generation models already employed to produce fake news and spread misinformation, GLTR has the potential to distinguish machine generated text from human-written text to a non-expert reader. According to results shared by the researchers, GLTR improved the human detection-rate of fake text from 54 percent to 72 percent without any prior training....

The brain of a writer never turns off. Even when they aren’t working, they’re working, turning over words in their head, thinking through their next sentence, their next paragraph, their next project. It’s hardwired into their brains. It’s just what they do. Of course, that gets a lot harder to do without a vessel to capture those thoughts whenever they occur. For many scribes, that receptacle is the trusty laptop, ready to crack only and take some dictation fairly quickly, but not always the most portable of devices....

Your resume of professional skill sets should look a lot like your financial portfolio: chock full of diversification. While each job requires a set of specialized abilities and talents to excel in each field, there’s no telling when you might need to know something completely different. If you do want to give yourself a more well-rounded roster of skills, you can’t do much better than learning to code. Beyond its adaptability to so many types of digital projects, freelance programming is a booming market, with skilled coders bringing in an average of $50 an hour....

The Big G’s latest update to its Arts & Culture app introduces a quintet of Art Filters that transform you into masterpieces by the likes of Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo. The feature uses 3D-modelled augmented reality filters to map your face onto artifacts. It also applies machine learning-based image processing to keep your head movements and facial expressions aligned with the virtual objects. To use the filters, just open up the app for Android or iOS, tap the camera icon at the bottom, and select Art Filter to pick the artwork you want to become....

Attachable lens kits have become a go-to accessory for iPhone enthusiasts who love their smartphone’s video quality, but get frustrated by its limited shooting field. Unfortunately, that usually means carrying around an assortment of different lens and constant switching to capture the wide angle, fisheye and various other shots users want. Debuting in 2017, FusionLens has now taken the lens game up a notch with the latest FusionLens hardware ($79....

It’s not a perfect system, but I nonetheless believe in the power of this data to such an extent that I’d be totally happy if readers skim my actual listening impressions — collected over weeks or months of careful critical listening — just to get to the measurements and my interpretation thereof. After all, this data tends to align with what I’ve heard anyway, despite the fact that I write my listening impressions before putting a speaker through the test bench....

Many physicists aren’t satisfied with this explanation, though. They want a more fundamental description of its nature. Is it some new type of energy field or exotic fluid? Or is it a sign that Einstein’s equations of gravity are somehow incomplete? What’s more, we don’t really understand the universe’s current rate of expansion. Now our project – the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) – has come up with some answers....

There has been a push to use machine learning in the moderation of online content, but those efforts have only had modest success in finding spam and removing adult content, and to a much lesser extent detecting hate speech. Fighting fake news is a much more complicated challenge. Fact-checking websites such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact do a decent job of impartially verifying rumors, news, and remarks made by politicians....

We Do Solar was founded in September 2021 by Karolina Attspodina and Qian Qin. They’ve created a solar panel kit that you can attach to your balcony or fence — and can help renters reduce their energy bills by up to 25%. The panels come with mounting straps, a micro-inverter, and a plug. They can be attached to a balcony railing or privacy screen. Once installed, connected, and plugged in, you immediately start generating energy during the day....

No, it doesn’t vibrate. But you’re close. The researchers call it “OMOY: A Handheld Robotic Gadget that Shifts its Weight to Express Emotions and Intentions.” Apparently, its purpose is to read your texts aloud and calm you down when you get upset. It does this by moving a 250g weight around inside its torso area. The researchers, a team from the University of Tsukuba, claim the physical sensation of feeling a weight shift inside the robot adds gravitas to what it says....

The new app has a clever spin on instant messaging. It encourages users to create interest-based chat groups based on common hobbies, likes and preferences. A (rough) translation of its iTunes description reads: The app is available for both Android and iOS, although it appears to be exclusive to its home market of China. The ByteDance boom ByteDance’s empire of social media apps have been growing steadily in the last few years....

The feature will be voluntary to use — unless the country you live in mandates it — and it’ll roll out in the “coming quarters.” The company said that with ID verification it wants users to give “more confidence that their matches are authentic.” Tinder first rolled out this feature in Japan in 2019, where the local rule makes it mandatory to verify if you’re an adult aged 18 or above....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Trump’s accounts would be blocked at least until Joe Biden replaces him as president on January 20. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. The social network had already blocked Trump from posting for 24 hours. It also removed a video of Trump calling the rioters “very special” and repeating false claims about the election....

While someone ‘Googling’ stuff is not surprising, it’s quite unusual when a big company’s CEO says they prefer some other search engine. In a big endorsement, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted he loves DuckDuckGo and it’s his default search engine. — jack ??? (@jack) November 27, 2019 The search engine positions itself as a pro-privacy search service that doesn’t sell your data like the major search companies. While DuckDuckGo might not have giant numbers – the company claims to average about 40 million queries a day, while marketing software firm HubSpot estimates Google fields 5....

Beykpour said one of the steps the company takes to reduce toxicity is to de-rank abusive replies using machine learning: He added that Twitter optimizes replies that are more likely to get reactions or replies. However, it tweaks its algorithm to de-rank replies that are reaction-worthy, yet abusive. When Thompson asked him about how the company tries to control system so it doesn’t incentivize toxicity, Beykpour said the social network trains its AI models rigorously to understand its rules and regulations: The last line is quite intriguing, and is likely at the heart of many a controversy surrounding Twitter....