Proposed changes include publishing a list of approved assets on the NYDFS website. Any licensed digital asset provider would be allowed to offer these as long as it notifies the regulator first. The department also wants to devise a “proposed model framework” to allow companies to create their own model system. If a company‘s plan is approved, the business would then be free to list new digital assets without the need to first get permission from NYDFS....

After getting banned from virtually every major social website on the planet earlier this year, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Shopify, he wants to build his own platform. Well, not like there’s any other choice. [Read: There’s more evidence Twitter is testing an ‘undo’ button, but it’ll cost you] Last night, Trump’s senior adviser, Jason Miller, said on a Fox News show that the former president will launch a new platform in two to three months: Miller added that he’s expecting that this new platform will attract “tens of millions of people....

Previous OnePlus devices had been limited to 90Hz. That’s still better than most phones, mind you, which are stuck at an oh-so-2019 60Hz. Granted, there aren’t many games – let alone video – yet available to take advantage of the increased refreshed rate, so it’s mainly a cosmetic change. Credit: TrueTech OnePlus did say it was implementing optional motion smoothing feature to interpolate frames and deliver higher refresh rates in video – but if it’s anything like motion smoothing on TV’s, I’m going to have to say ‘no thanks....

The contest, which ran in the summer of 2022, invited the public to submit an idea for a bio-inspired robot that could help the world. An international panel of judges chose the robot fish concept designed by student Eleanor Mackintosh because it could help reduce the amount of plastic pollution in water. The winning design was subsequently turned into a functioning prototype. The robotics panelists and researchers, led by Dr....

The World War I-themed movie, which clinched a Golden Globe award for best movie and secured 10 Oscar nominations earlier this week, was one of six film releases leaked in a massive screener dump over the past 24 hours, TorrentFreak reports. This brings the total number of leaked screeners in 2020 to 16, which is a significant increase compared to an all-time low in 2019. For those unfamiliar, screeners are usually intended only for private award screenings....

Some left descendants. Most – plesiosaurs, trilobites, Brontosaurus – didn’t. That’s also true of other human species. Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens. Humans are inevitably heading for extinction. The question isn’t whether we go extinct, but when. Headlines often suggest this extinction is imminent. The threat of earth-grazing asteroids is a media favorite. Mars is regularly mooted as a bolt hole. And there is the ongoing menace of the climate emergency....

For VR, the circumstances were exceptional; it could enable remote meetings and virtual presence and fill the void left by our lack of in-person interaction. But that moment never came. Some even warned of a VR winter. We had a VR-killer-app moment in 2019 when Valve released their long-anticipated VR-only game Half-Life: Alyx. The lack of a killer app is often touted as VR’s missing link; an app that would drive mass adoption of the technology, and Half-Life made it pretty far....

Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Portland, Oregon has become the first US city to ban the use of facial recognition tech by private businesses. Other cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Oakland have enacted similar laws prohibiting public institutions from using facial recognition, but Portland’s is the most stringent ban as it bars both public and private use of the technology....

Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. 2020 is finally over. The year was already surreal and tough enough, thanks to the pandemic. But the en masse shift to remote work and the race to find a vaccine created unique threats in cyberspace, allowing criminals and threat actors to mount a variety of attacks, ranging from phishing scams to sophisticated espionage campaigns aimed at stealing COVID-19 research....

Over the past few years, we’ve seen several much-hyped robots take the stage, promising a friendly at-home companion to do, well, just about anything you’d imagine a home robot to do. Your friend, your photographer, your jukebox, your toy. For both Anki and Jibo, two of the main players in the companion robot space, the public reception was quite positive. Media and investors alike saw the potential of a Rosie the Robot Jetson style family member — it is the 21st century, after all — and we are long overdue for intelligent technology to enter our homes....

Now we have used this sensitivity to effectively chill a 10-kilogram mass down to less than one billionth of a degree above absolute zero. Temperature is a measure of how much, and how fast, the atoms and molecules that surround us (and that we are made of) are moving. When objects cool down, their molecules move less. “Absolute zero” is the point where atoms and molecules stop moving entirely. However, quantum mechanics says the complete absence of motion is not really possible (due to the uncertainty principle)....

In what’s being dubbed “a beautiful experiment,” the team discovered how to catch an artificial atom in mid “quantum jump,” and interfere with its outcome. Schrodinger’s cat lives! With regards to Bohr and Schrodinger What makes quantum computers special is their qubits. Where computer bits are switches that indicate either ones or zeros, qubits exist in more than one state at a time until observed. This is called superposition and, at its most basic, means we have more options for outcomes in the quantum computing world....

For a lot of product designers, sustainability is becoming the key focus of their creative process. They’re on a mission to find new ways to replace some of the most common (and most carbon intensive) materials and components with new, green alternatives. And that’s good news for the planet, because radical breakthroughs in zero-waste, bio-based, and energy neutral — or positive — products are needed more and more. The good news: breakthroughs are already being made everyday!...

The company is looking to raise an ambitious $3.4 million on Indiegogo to get its plan off the ground and is promising ‘out of this world’ rewards – none of which include actually going into space. If the campaign reaches its goal, the shoot should blast off sometime late next year. If what you really want is a copy of the resulting video, then the cheapest tier to get that is $25....

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit situated in New York said that since Trump uses the social network to communicate matters related to government affairs, he can’t bar some Americans from accessing that information. A three-judge bench ruled unanimously in favor of the verdict. Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote in the ruling that the first amendment bars any official who uses social media to communicate with common folk can’t exclude people from an “otherwise open online dialogue....

Good news for bigots: If you hate the LGBTQPIA+ community and don’t want to attend STEM events with queer people, golly gee are you in luck! The event is being held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Conference organizers announced the venue earlier today alongside a glowing recommendation for its host city of Dubai: — react-eurasia (@ReactEurasia) June 6, 2022 Here’s the text of the thread: Why can’t queer people attend?...

Needless to say, the antiquated Windows Media Player looks completely outdated with Windows 11’s modern UI, and Groove has been lackluster since Microsoft gave up on its streaming service, so it’s about time they got a replacement. The company today began to roll out the new simply named ‘Media Player‘ to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev Channel. Media Player is a relatively minimalistic app that replaces both the old WMP and the Groove Music app; Microsoft says your library and playlists will automatically be transferred over from the latter....

Sometimes concept cars are created to demonstrate upcoming production models, in other cases they serve as pure abstract imaginations of the future. Take Ford’s 1958 nuclear-powered concept, the Nucleon, for example. Nearly 30 years before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers at Ford designed and made a 3/8 scale model of a car, which it said would be powered by a nuclear reactor in the trunk (or boot if you’re British)....

While our anxiety around how this data will be used has grown considerably in recent years, culminating with the launch of a federal probe by the DOJ in recent weeks, it’s done little to stop the flow of information from individuals to companies, or from one company to another. The data trade, in fact, has overtaken oil as the world’s fastest-growing commodity market according to some experts. And while we grow increasingly anxious about it, there’s little we can do to stop its flow....

Okay, that might be a tad dramatic. But every great science fiction horror story has to start somewhere. And Intel’s amazing advances in the area of multiagent evolutionary reinforcement learning (MERL) could make a great origin story for the Borg – a sentient AI that assimilates organic species into its hive mind, from Star Trek. MERL, aside from being a great name for a fiddle player, is Intel’s new method for teaching machines how to collaborate....