The tracking blocker is powered by DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar, a tool released by the privacy-focused search engine last month to keep trackers at bay. Both ad and tracker blockers are turned off by default. So you’ll need to change setting for the first time. [Read: How to record a Skype call on your phone] You can choose the level of tracking, and add websites in an exception list to exclude them from tracking....
The Business of Mobility is an Urban Mobility Company series highlighting some of the most successful new businesses in the mobility sector. Featuring a closer look at the way in which companies stand out, CEOs, Directors and other c-level executives elaborate on what it takes to turn a great idea into a great company. In 2018 two leaders in parking and ticketing (Parkeon and Cale) joined forces to form Flowbird....
In a blog post yesterday, the Libra association disclosed that its offering up to $10,000 to security researchers that find flaws and help tune up the Libra blockchain. The bug bounty was first opened in June when Facebook officially announced plans for its Libra blockchain and cryptocurrency. However, only 50 specially selected security researchers were invited to scrutinize the platform. Now anyone can take a look under the hood, so to speak....
What began in the late 1930s as a series of conflicts involving battle between troops on horseback, infantry with long rifles, and bi-planes, managed to escalate into a global conflict involving jet fighters, machine guns, tanks, and atomic weapons. And it all occurred in less than a decade. At no point in human history have so many people faced the horrors of war simultaneously as between the years of 1939 and 1945....
They aren’t all alike, and manufacturers use a range of different kinds of batteries. So we’ve decided to select and rank the three most prominent (or promising) battery types: lithium, solid-state, and sodium-ion batteries. We’ll compare the batteries using four criteria: safety, energy density and charging time, sustainability, and price. But before we begin, let’s brush up the basics we need to know. How do the battery types differ? Lithium-ion and solid-state batteries are very much alike....
While 1% of anything doesn’t sound like much, with light, that’s still really fast – close to 7 million miles per hour! At 1% the speed of light, it would take a little over a second to get from Los Angeles to New York. This is more than 10,000 times faster than a commercial jet. The fastest things ever made Bullets can go 2,600 mph (4,200 kmh), more than three times the speed of sound....
Back in 2015, when Apple first introduced USB-C to the mainstream with the redesigned MacBook, I called it the one port to rule them all. These days, my love and appreciation for USB-C have only grown. (By the way, as far as I can tell USB-C was not invented by any single person, but rather a group of engineers from multiple companies). While emptying out a few boxes of pre-2016 gadgets and gizmos, I was hit with painful déjà vu of digging around for random cables and feeling like I could never find the right one....
And much of it is down to the increasing ubiquitousness of cameras. These days, we expect this technology to appear on our devices, but cameras offer much more than entertaining selfies in the realm of security — especially when cloud connectivity and AI underpins its capabilities. We’re about to enter a whole new era of home security, and SpotCam wants to be central in this. Beyond facial recognition AI is synonymous with facial recognition, but the home security systems of the future will look beyond our faces to offer protection....
Regulations cannot catch up to the speed of innovation. Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, etc All these platforms had seen light for a decade while a significant portion of the world still struggles to figure out the boundaries and implications to daily life, let alone setting regulations. If we take a broader lens to look at innovation, the rate of innovation is only moving more rapidly than ever, which makes it more difficult to catch up....
Many countries and private companies have ambitious plans to explore or mine the Moon. This won’t be at some remote point in time but soon – even in this decade. As we set out in our recent paper, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, this will spark tension on the ground unless we find ways to manage the situation imminently. So far, much of the debate around exploring and mining the Moon has focused on tensions in space between state agencies and the private sector....
That line makes Shapps the first British transport secretary in 20 years to acknowledge that car use will need to fall. The urgent need to decarbonize the transport sector is the obvious reason behind this sudden shift – transport is the UK’s most polluting sector, contributing 28% of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. The government’s recent consultation, entitled Decarbonising Transport, set out the challenge and highlighted some of the initiatives that are already underway to cut carbon from transport....
If last year’s summer work from home routine did a real number on your utility bill, you weren’t alone. In addition to the containment being rough on everybody’s psyches, it put a serious hit on our bank accounts as well. Average electrical usage was up more than 9 percent between April and August 2020 compared to 2019, an average increase of about $85 over what residents paid the year before....
Digital technologies, and at their forefront artificial intelligence, are triggering fundamental shifts in society, politics, education, economy, and other fundamental aspects of life. These changes provide opportunities for unprecedented growth across different sectors of the economy. But at the same time, they entail challenges that organizations must overcome before they can tap into their full potential. In a recent talk at an online conference organized by Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discussed some of these opportunities and challenges....
The company launched this device in China in August, and now it’s launching in India with an additional MicroSD slot and Alexa integration. The phone’s specifications are quite robust for the price range. Take a look: Specification Screen: 6.53-inch fullHD+ screen Processor: MediaTek Helio G90T octa-core processor Memory: 6/8GB Rear camera: 64–megapixel sensor with f/1.89 aperture + 8-megapixel ultra-wide angle sensor with f/2.2 aperture(field of view: 120-degrees) + 2-megapixel macro camera + 2-megapixel depth sensor Front camera: 20-megapixel with f/2....
Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove, was America’s first female self-made millionaire. She pioneered a line of hair care and beauty products for people of color early in the 20th century, and the recent Netflix series “Self Made” details the story of this talented innovator and the challenges she overcame on the way to her success. To accomplish her goals, she had to face overwhelming uncertainties. How would she finance her business?...
When you’re talking about business, however, there’s money to be made — potentially lots of money. And unlike other parts of life, in the business world, a small imperfection might result in millions of dollars in losses. That’s scary. What’s even scarier is when these losses happen because engineers make mistakes while trying to implement a new and rapidly evolving technology whose risks nobody fully understands yet and the regulations of which are just getting written....
Instagram today rolled out a new kind of post called Guides, one of the most prominent new features since IGTV. Here’s what they look like, how you can find them, and what you can do with them once you do. Guides are being pitched as a new kind of health initiative on IG, with IG touting its ability to offer “tips on how to look after your well-being, maintaining connection with others or managing anxiety or grief....
Unlike gasoline filling stations where you can drive up to any location, fill up your car, pay, and drive off, EV chargers often require the user to register and set up an account to process payments. It can be a bit of a laborious process just to charge your car, and then there’re all the supporting apps you have to use to access the chargers. [Read: Norwegian ebike owners ride 4x as much after buying their bikes] Thankfully things are changing, today, one of the UK’s most popular EV charger mapping apps, Zap-Map announced the launch of its Zap-Pay service, which aims to address the inelegance associated with using multiple EV chargers....
When you think about quantum systems, like IBM and Google’s quantum computers, we usually imagine a device that’s designed to work with subatomic particles – qubits – to perform quantum calculations. These computers may one day perform advanced calculations that classical computers today can’t, but for now they’re useful as a way to research the gap between classical and quantum reality. Artyam Yurov and Valerian Yurov, the IKBFU researchers behind the aforementioned study, posit that everything in the universe, including the universe itself, should be viewed as a quantum object....
What? You think that’s weird? Well look, sorry, but I didn’t make the rules. I’m pretty confident it says that in the bible or something, okay? Actually, yeah, now I think of it; remember that painting of Jesus having his last meal? With those 12 people all around him? I’m like 99 percent sure they were all draped in some of Ann Summers’ finest. That’s it. That’s where the rule comes from....
