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Is there anything more obvious than writing a post about some huge VPN deals on July 4th and drawing the line about independence? Independence from online terrorists? Independence from governmental oversight? Independence from throttled bandwidth and streaming service edicts? Yeah, we thought so too. Anyway, none of that changes the fact that it is July 4th…and there is a big sale on two of the top VPN services around. And since they’re all over $50, you can enter the code JULYFOURTH15 during checkout and save yourself an additional 15 percent....

The system was developed to help doctors determine the stage that a skin cancer has reached. While patients often independently find melanomas by spotting a new mole or a change in an existing one, even dermatologists can struggle to decide whether it’s invasive or not. The researchers suspected that AI could assist them with the task. [Read: How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency] They classified the melanomas with a convolutional neural network (CNN), a powerful method of analyzing images that’s proven adept at identifying different skin lesions....

Making maps is usually something you either associate with old dudes in dusty paper-laden shops or serious people who wear colorful glasses and work at huge digital desks. But now, mapping startup Felt makes it easy to create personalized maps using drawing tools such as markers, pins, notes, and images. The startup launched its platform publicly this week following private beta testing with over 1,000 people. And I decided to give it a try....

Well, brain-reading company Neurosity has released a new device that matches that description. The gadget, called the Crown, is a successor to the firm’s device Notion, which was released the last year. The Crown ships with the Neurosity music shift app that works with your Spotify premium account to track your brain activity while you listen to songs. Based on how your brain reacts to a song, the app will automatically suggest more songs....

There’s a rustic charm to camping out, pitching a tent and sleeping in the great outdoors. But be honest…if you could actually sleep and enjoy the convenience of your own personal cabin in place of that tent, you’d ditch those tentpoles in a heartbeat. Assuming you don’t have the resources to build a personal cabin anywhere you’d like to make camp for the night, the Carsule Pop-Up Cabin ($299.99, 20 percent off, from TNW Deals) is the next best thing, turning a vehicle into a portable living room in the outdoors for sleeping and relaxing in comfort....

There may be no tech area that’s seen a greater benefit from the decade-long smartphone wars than those dealing in digital imaging. With various Android and iOS models competing to house ever smaller, ever more powerful, ever more detailed cameras on board, that windfall of technological advancement is now spilling over into tiny cameras showing up everywhere. And the Bebird N3 Pro ($76.95, 44 percent off, from TNW Deals) puts one of those itty-bitty cameras in one of the oddest places ever — right in your ear....

Meet the JetRacer The JetRacer is a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft powered by ten kerosene-fueled micro-turbo-jet engines. Controlled by two joysticks, it’s capable of a high degree of maneuverability, with a video of Zapata flipping and turning the aircraft at speed while flying over water. Not Zapata’s first rodeo Zapata’s had a long history with flying machines. In August 2019, he made history by crossing the English Channel – roughly 35 kilometers (22 miles) wide – on a hoverboard designed by his self-named company, Zapata....

With the training in The 2022 Premium Computer Science Career Path Certification Bundle ($39.99, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals), students with all levels of programming knowledge can get a handle on computer science and the steps needed to get started on a lucrative career becoming one of the important few who know what all that data actually means. The collection includes 9 courses with almost 90 hours of training for a comprehensive computer science education without running up the massive debt needed to nab a computer science degree from a 4-year university....

Security firm Tenable has discovered scammers are leveraging old tactics to get users to sign up for adult services, impersonate popular social media personalities, and artificially boost likes and follower counts. “Given TikTok’s meteoric rise in popularity, it comes as no surprise that scammers would take notice,” wrote Tenable researcher Satnam Narang in a blog post. “So far, these scams appear to be in their infancy.” To get users to sign up for such adult sites, the scammers steal videos from popular Instagram and Snapchat accounts, featuring women dancing, working out, and performing other day-to-day activities....

Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the intellectual theft of Google and Waymo’s autonomous driving software and hardware details. He was once a superstar developer regarded as a pioneer in the autonomous vehicle world. After making well over $100 million for his work at Google Levandowski founded his own company, Otto. He was then hired by Uber where he, according to his own admission, passed off work he’d downloaded from Google/Waymo computers as his own....

The platform is used primarily to stream computer game-related content, although users can broadcast almost anything — from podcasts to costume design, to music rehearsals and beach trips. Although the full impact of the leak remains unclear, it appears to include the earnings of at least the top few thousand streamers, information about new software Twitch was designing, passwords and security data for streamers and viewers, and even the source code for the Twitch platform....

In a new post to its blog, Twitter addressed a topic that’s been the center of much controversy: how much punitive action can (or should) Twitter take against important public figures when they violate the platform rules. It pleaded for sympathy, saying “We understand the desire for our decisions to be “yes/no” binaries, but it’s not that simple. The actions we take and policies we develop will set precedent around online speech and we owe it to the people we serve to be deliberate and considered in what we do....

As it stands now, users can create “geo-tweets,” or Tweets that are tagged with very specific GPS coordinates. The level of specificity unnerves some users who are wary to give away such personal and actionable information. Twitter is out to make that all much better. The upcoming changes include giving coordinates context, turning them into locations. People “inherently want to talk about a “place”. a place, for a lot of people, has a name and is not a latitude and longitude pair....

According to the Wall Street Journal, the test means that drivers taking airport fares in Santa Barbara, Sacramento, and Palm Springs can increase their fares by 10 percent in increments, up to about five times what the usual Uber fare would be. Reportedly they can also decrease their fares, so getting a ride will now basically be a bidding war, as riders are algorithmically matched with the cheapest ride. So it’s basically letting the market decide: high fares and long waits for riders, or low fares and more rides?...

? https://t.co/UVftq2CaBr — Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) May 14, 2020 The Discovery Tours were originally part of the Assassin’s Creed games — namely, AC Origins and Odyssey. The series has always been known for its attempts to capture historical time periods with some degree of accuracy, the antics of the Assassin Brotherhood and Knights Templar being the obvious exception. The developers’ interest in recreating historic buildings — such as Notre Dame in Unity — sometimes borders on the fanatical....

The online course is called “Game Creators Odyssey,” which recalls Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed game. It’s a two-part course, though only “Act 1” of the course is described in detail online. In this part of the course, students study Rational Game Design, a technique for balancing difficulty and player engagement created by Ubisoft itself. The six-chapter act covers pre-production through different kinds of mechanics. All we know about Act 2 is that it’ll cover “ways of creating immersive game worlds and providing players with enjoyable game experiences....

While the hacker’s identity remains unknown, they managed to compromise the account’s credentials to create 11 new empty repositories. The repositories were named “CAN_GOT_HAXXD.” “We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities,” Ubuntu Security team said in a statement. Canonical said it has removed the compromised account from the Canonical organization in GitHub and that it’s still investigating the extent of the breach....

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) explained in a blog post that it took issue with an ad published on January 3, 2019, depicting a graph of Bitcoin‘s price performance. “The ad showed a graph spread across two pages. The horizontal axis was divided and labeled into six-month units showing dates between January 2009 and January 2019,” the blog post reads, “The vertical axis was labeled ‘Bitcoin Price In US Dollars‘ separated by decimal point value increments from $0....

In fact, insiders at US tech companies — from fintech to cloud services — collectively unloaded at least $3.6 billion worth of company shares in May, with top executives from big players like Facebook, General Electric, Cloudflare, and Activision all selling small fortunes worth of stock. [Read: Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19] To digest the loin-thumping wealth recently generated by stock sales, Hard Fork built the visualisation below using the SEC data collated by FinViz....