Over the past 20 years, digital marketing has surged from a lazy river to a freakin’ ocean, spreading out in innumerable directions. Even if you’re focused on SEO, content distribution, ad servicing, email contacts and social platforms, there are still a dozen other venues that need to be addressed to keep an organization’s digital efforts optimized and running smoothly. And if you want to do the job right, you can’t sleep on any of those avenues....

The system was trained on hundreds of pairs of maps that showed surface temperatures and air pressures. These included the hot and cold spells that typically lead to extreme weather events. Each pair showed these conditions in the same geographical area, but several days apart. After training, the system was applied to maps that it had never seen before and tasked with making five-day forecasts of extreme weather. The predictions it produced were 85 percent accurate....

For all its complexity, the core steps for building web traffic aren’t rocket science. In fact, just knowing the right word that everyone is using in their web searches, then inserting that word into your page can make all the difference between a web success and complete irrelevancy. That’s called search engine optimization (SEO). And yes, while the practice itself is simple, getting it right is often a completely different story....

Maybe it’s because of COVID-19. Maybe it’s because people love the frenzy of hunting uber-elusive prey. Or maybe it’s just because a pair of mega-corporations planned it this way all along. But no matter why it’s happening, there’s no doubt that the supply of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles available this holiday season will come nowhere close to satisfying demand. We’ve known for months that the long-anticipated launch of both Sony and Microsoft’s next generation gaming consoles would be met with shortages, anxiety and some absolutely insane scalper prices....

This new testing suite — part of the AI2-THOR update — has more than 100 physics-enabled physics-enabled rooms that have complex environments and obstructions that might get in the way of a robot arm while interacting with objects. ManipulaTHOR will enable faster training in more complex environments without needing to build real robots. The new framework update allows these simulated robots to move in these rooms like humans and perform tasks such as navigating a kitchen, opening a fridge, or popping open a can of soda....

Over the past couple of years, YouTube has found itself fighting a whole range of issues. From failing to regulate problematic videos, to facing the pressures of regulating toxic comments and hate speech, and recommending troubling videos on its homepage to its users. Earlier this week, Chris-Stokel Walker, the author of YouTubers, which looks at the lives of successful content creators who make a living on the platform, as well as its impact on society, hosted a TNW Answers session....

That’s not to say useful quantum computers have actually arrived yet. They’re still somewhere between a couple years and a couple centuries away. Sorry for being so vague, but when you’re dealing with quantum physics there aren’t yet many guarantees. This is because physics is an incredibly complex and challenging field of study. And the difficulty gets cranked up exponentially when you start adding “theoretical” and “quantum” to the research....

It’s a standing-type model that slots into the C+walk walking-area mobility series, which will also include seated-type and wheelchair-linked-type vehicles. A removable lithium-ion battery allows the C+walk to travel about 14km on a single charge, and it needs some 2.5 hours to recharge from zero to full. Users can set the scooter’s maximum traveling speed via a speed adjustment switch, and can choose between five different options, ranging from 2 to 6km/h, with an additional 10km/h setting for experienced users....

David Feinberg, the head of Google’s health initiatives, defended the move, stating the company is working towards building an “intelligent suite of tools to help doctors, nurses, and other providers take better care of patients, leveraging our expertise in organizing information.” Last week, it emerged that Google had struck a partnership with the US non-profit healthcare provider Ascension — called “Project Nightingale” — to develop AI-based tools in exchange for moving all the patient data to its cloud infrastructure....

Earlier today, General Motors (GM) said in a press release that it’s acquired an 11% equity stake in Nikola to the sum of $2 billion. In exchange, it will receive certain “in kind” benefits — including building the Badger, Nikola’s upcoming fuel-cell truck. Before we unpack that, let’s dive into the badger hole as to how Nikola got here. Nikola is perhaps the most successful car company to have never actually produced or sold a vehicle....

— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019 At approximately 12:45 PST today, tweets coming from the account seemed to be the work of either a hacker or a disgruntled employee. The attack appears to be a coordinated effort between several accounts, with many of those participating being immediately banned. At this time it’s unknown if this is a prank or if threats contained in the messages are real. As of 1:15 PST (about 30 minutes after the first tweet) the offending tweets have been deleted....

A concept from Lena Emara, a product designer at Twitter, will hopefully prevent you from doing this. Here’s how it works: when you’re tweeting, the app will show you the account the tweet will go out from, on the top of the composition window. So just in case, you’re tweeting something personal from a brand’s account, you can notice it straight away and make changes accordingly. Scroll to the ‘Account breadcrumbs’ part of Emara’s tweet below for a closer look at her concept....

Career monitoring website Comparably recently put together their list of the top 10 tech jobs for grads — and right at no. 7 is UI/UX designer. Of course, understanding both the front end interface of web design along with the back end hardware analytics and technical know-how isn’t easy. But with starting salaries around $71,700, it’s worth the study time. You can get a firm grip on both with training in The Ultimate UI and UX Designer Bundle, available now at the discounted price of just $24 (over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals....

Escooters are set to hit the streets of Liverpool as part of a one-year trial by Swedish firm Voi. The pilot scheme – a joint initiative of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Liverpool City Council – will see 50 scooters available for public hire, with more to follow later this year. It comes as the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) legalized the use of escooters for limited trials in July, with over a dozen cities now taking part across the UK....

Rated 4 out of 5 stars on MacUpdate, MacPilot is a tool that can help you unleash Mac’s untapped power. It allows you to unlock over 1,200 features and access them all with the Macintosh user interface you already know from inside and out. There aren’t any command line tools or complicated file operations involved, either. Everything can be accessed with the help of the app. With MacPilot, you can do things you’ve never done before with your Mac....

This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Vienna’s municipal transport authority Wiener Linien is taking over the management of the city’s fixed-station bikeshare scheme after the previous operator, outdoor advertising company Gewista, shut half of the 121 stations due to financial issues....

Io is the most volcanically-active body in the Solar System apart from the Earth. Astronomers know of more than 400 volcanoes strewn across the surface of Io. These eruptions release vast quantities of sulfur gas which freezes, falling to the surface of Io, coating the moon in red, orange, yellow, and white deposits. [Read: What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US presidential election] Although sulfur in Io’s atmosphere is known to come from volcanoes strewn across the moon, several questions remain about its composition....

There are probably loads of you out there who really wish they understood the finer points of programming, electronics, robotics, the Internet of Things, and all that…but just don’t know where to start. We don’t blame you. There aren’t a lot of simple proven entry points into the grass roots subculture of tinkerers and tech innovators that don’t feel overwhelming quickly. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few accessible ways in....

Researchers located and revealed the names of a number of companies that have been using the faces of celebrities to promote heinous Bitcoin scams, Brandpunt+ reported earlier this year. Brandpunt+ then launched a deeper undercover investigation which eventually led to Kelder confronting one of the person’s believed to have used Kelder’s face to scam people. In an exclusive episode released on Brandpunt+’s YouTube channel yesterday, Kelder is seen contacting one of the alleged scammers....

If you take a quick glance at other big news outlets, you’ll see the majority of images have a very stock photo feel to them. But not at TNW. Here, we’re all about DIY article images. Why? Well, by making our own visual art, we — the writers —get to add another element to our stories. We can stretch our creative muscles, use the medium of image to highlight a specific element of our story, create a vibe, or, regularly, make ourselves laugh....