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Galaxy Watch 3 app reveals new gestures for calls, taking photos | The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 app has arrived at the Play Store. Two new smartwatch gestures are available. Users will be able to silence calls and alarms with a simple twist of the wrist. The second gesture allows users to answer incoming calls or take pictures by clenching their fist and then releasing. Samsung has impl... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Setting up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet | This article follows a Starlink user as they set up their new service. The antenna needs to be mounted in a location that has a 100° view of the northern sky. While the provided cables felt rugged, the router design is impractical. The satellite dish uses two internal motors to orientate itself to get the best signal. ... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
WWDC 2019 Session Notes (GitHub Repo) | This repository contains a set of notes regarding Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2019. It is usually faster to read through a list than to watch the whole presentation. A link to several interesting articles appears before the list of contents. Each topic also has a link to the relevant part of the WWDC present... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores (18 minute read) | Rite Aid Corp quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 of its stores in the US over the last eight years. In some cities, the technology was deployed in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The technology used was from a company with links to China and its government. Rite Aid claims that it has stoppe... | 4Miscellaneous |
Byte, Vine’s successor, has been purchased by another TikTok clone | Clash, a TikTok competitor, has purchased Byte, another TikTok competitor. The details of the purchase are still vague, but Clash's website now directs visitors to download Byte and the app is no longer available on the iOS App Store. Clash's co-founder says that the two apps will be released together as one product wi... | 4Miscellaneous |
WeWork reveals massive $900 million loss in filing to go public | WeWork, which has rebranded as the We Company, release its IPO prospectus on Wednesday, revealing a $900 million loss in six months. It was recently valued at $47 billion. With 527,000 members, WeWork currently has 528 locations, with plans to open another 169 new locations. Membership has grown by over 100 percent eve... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Twitter acquires newsletter platform Revue | Twitter has acquired Revue, a Dutch startup that lets users publish and monetize email newsletters. Revue serves major publishers like Vox Media and The Markup. While newsletters might not be an obvious fit for Twitter's platform, it would make it easier for writers to connect to subscribers while giving them a way to ... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Apple acquires talking Barbie voicetech startup PullString | Apple’s Siri has been lagging behind in its utility and developer ecosystem, especially since the ability to create Skills is available on both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. In order to keep up, Apple has acquired PullString, the company behind creating talking toys for kids, such as the talking Barbie. PullString... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Visualize Critical IT Data End-to-End (Sponsor) | Single monitoring platform with easy to use out-of-the-box dashboards to correlate metrics, traces and logs. Start a free Datadog trial. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Slack launches Huddles, Discord-like audio calls you can hop in and out of | Huddles is a new feature in Slack that allows team members to jump in and out of a persistent call freely at all hours. The feature is designed to replace the informal office conversations that colleagues used to have across their desks. There is a screen-sharing feature, so teams can use it for spontaneous meetings. H... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests | Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in New York have gone on strike to protest the company's response to COVID-19 infections among its warehouse employees. There is officially one confirmed case at the warehouse, but workers claim there have been at least 10 and that the company has failed to notify workers or prope... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Semgrep: Fast Code Scanning to Find Bugs and Enforce Code Standards (Sponsor) | Semgrep: Fast Code Scanning to Find Bugs and Enforce Code Standards . Semgrep is a fast, open-source tool that supports 20+ languages. Its 1,500+ rules and simple syntax mean you don’t have to deal with unwieldy regexes or a thorny domain-specific language. Code is analyzed on your computer or build environment, and ne... | 0Sponsor |
Cruise, GM partner with Microsoft to commercialize self-driving vehicles | Cruise and General Motors will partner with Microsoft to commercialize driverless autonomous vehicles. Cruise is now valued at around $30 billion. The company will use Azure for its self-driving vehicles. GM will work with Microsoft to develop its digitization initiatives and to explore opportunities to streamline oper... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Twitter is now letting developers add labels to bot accounts | Twitter is now letting developers add labels to their bot accounts. The feature has been in testing since September and was meant to be rolled out by the end of 2022. Automated account owners can now opt in to have the label applied to their account. Twitter won't be auditing the accounts that apply for the new label. ... | 4Miscellaneous |
Reaching Challenger Deep, American Businessman Completes Deepest Submarine Dive in History | Victor Vescovo, a retired US Navy officer, made a record-setting solo dive to the bottom of the ‘Eastern Pool’ of the Challenger deep, reaching a depth of 10,928 meters. A world record was set for the longest time spent at the bottom of the ocean by an individual after Vescovo spent four hours exploring the basin. It t... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light | The Planetary Society's crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft is successfully raising its orbit solely using the power of sunlight. In the past four days, the spacecraft has raised its orbit by about two kilometers. The mission team has confirmed the increase can only be attributed to solar sailing. An image from the Ligh... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
regular expressions 101 (Website) | Regex101 allows you to write regular expressions and test them on strings. It is able to generate an explanation of your regex as you type. There is a quick reference guide, with tokens sorted into categories such as Anchors, Meta Sequences, Quantifiers, Group Constructs, and more. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
European Union Wants All Smartphones To Have A Standard Charging Port | The European Union is again pushing for the development of a common charging port for all smartphones available on the market. A large amount of electronic waste is generated from smartphones requiring different charging ports, and the change to a standardized port would make users' lives easier. The Radio Equipment Di... | 4Miscellaneous |
Amazon built an Alexa cuckoo clock and wants your help backing new projects like this one | Amazon's 'Built It' program is a Kickstarter-like effort where customers can choose to back a product, and if there is enough support within 30 days, Amazon will build it. Customers will only be charged if the product is developed and ships. Prices are raised once the product has been released. There are currently thre... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock | Reddit aired a five-second long ad during the Super Bowl. The ad consisted of a long text message that hinted at the GameStop stocks saga. A screenshot of the ad is available in the article. | 1Big Tech & Startups |
I Think I Know Why You Can't Hire Engineers Right Now (13 minute read) | It has been harder to hire engineers in recent months, despite all the media about how hot the hiring market is. Attracting engineers to a position requires them to have cool stuff to work on, smart people to work with, and repeatability in the work environment. This article explores these factors and why they are impo... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
The Simplest of Slumbers (13 minute read) | This article describes several sleep studies in animals to explore the nature of sleep. There is a lot of variation in how different animals sleep. Animals with brains consolidate memories, flush out toxic waste, and strengthen connections between nerve cells during sleep. Animals without brains seem to also need sleep... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
A group of big banks plans to launch its own digital currency within a year | UBS and 13 other large financial firms around the world have joined together to create their own blockchain-based digital currency. They have partnered with a blockchain startup called Clearmatics, who will create the utility coin. Very few details have been revealed about the token, and it is unclear what the banks me... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Blush (Website) | Blush is a tool that allows developers to use and customize illustrations from artists around the world. It is currently available as a plugin on Figma and as a web app. Additional integrations are coming soon. There are 13 collections of images with categories such as Fancy Plants, Cityscapes, Squiggles, and more. Blu... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Google’s Project Starline is a ‘magic window’ for 3D telepresence | Google's Project Starline uses a combination of specialized hardware and computer vision technology to create life-sized 3D images of people. It appears to require an elaborate set up including a photo booth with lights, sensors, and a large display. Google claims it creates an immersive video chat experience that make... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine | Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. The engine can convert heat to electricity with over 40% efficiency. The researchers plan to create a system that stores excess renewable energy into heavily insulated banks of hot graphite that will use the ... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Google opens Stadia Makers program for indie game developers | Google launched its Stadia Makers program at the virtual Google Games Developer Summit. The program targets experienced independent game developers and is done in partnership with Unity. It provides technical assistance from Unity, free development hardware, and funding. A link to apply for the Stadia Makers program is... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Apple’s WWDC Highlights: Death of iTunes and $6,000 Macs | Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is over, and as expected, iTunes is no longer. It has been split into separate apps that will focus on each of its core functions. New features that demonstrate the iPhone’s focus on privacy were demonstrated at WWDC, showing how the operating system restricts apps from collectin... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
The US is building a $500m ‘exascale’ computer that will be the world’s most powerful | Intel will build the world’s most powerful supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. The Aurora supercomputer will be the first US computer to reach exascale performance and will be capable of more than a quintillion calculations per second, which is seven times faster than Summit, the world’s curren... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Soccer superstar Messi is being partly paid in crypto by PSG | Lionel Messi's financial package at Paris Saint Germain includes $PSG Fan Tokens. The two-year deal, with an option for a third, includes an annual salary of $41 million plus bonuses, and a $30 million signing-on fee. It is expected to bring a windfall of commercial revenues, such as through jersey sales. Messi joined ... | 4Miscellaneous |
Bolt (GitHub Repo) | Bolt is an algorithm for compressing vectors of real-valued data and running mathematical operations directly on the compressed representations. It can help save significantly on compute time for large collections of mostly-dense vectors. Bolt currently only supports x86 machines from fall 2013 or later. Benchmarks are... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Belgium’s government network goes down after massive DDoS attack | Belgium's government IT network was targeted by a massive distributed denial of service attack, knocking most of its internal systems and public-facing websites offline. The attack, which focused on Belnet, a government-funded ISP, impacted the activities of more than 200 Belgian government organizations. Parliament an... | 4Miscellaneous |
Lark (GitHub Repo) | Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python that can parse all context-free languages. It can automatically build annotated parse-trees and it provides first-rate performance in terms of both Big-O complexity and measured run-time. Examples and performance comparisons are available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
This is Sony’s Spatial Reality Display, and you can buy one for $5,000 in November | Sony's Spatial Reality Display is a holographic display that features a 15.6-inch 4K screen, a camera, a speaker system, and the ability to place digital objects and designs into a 3D space. It uses a combination of a high-speed face- and eye-tracking camera, real-time algorithms, and lenticular lenses that provide a c... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Audible comes to the Apple Watch | Audible is coming to Apple Watch on watchOS 5, users can use the watch to play/pause, jump forward/back, set a sleep timer, skip, and control narration speed. Audible also has fitness programs that guide you through meditation, 5K runs and indoor cycling. Audible costs $15 a month, the app is free for no additional cha... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a forest | MIT researchers are developing a technique to grow wood inside a lab, similar to how some meats are now cultivated. They have successfully grown wood-like plant tissue from cells extracted from leaves, without soil or sunlight. Lab-grown wood would be grown in whatever shape is required, making the growing process more... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Boston Dynamics’ robots are preparing to leave the lab - is the world ready? (11 minute read) | Boston Dynamics has been showing off advanced robots for years, gaining a large following for their machines. After decades of developing robots, Boston Dynamics is finally set to launch its first commercial bot later this year, a quadrupedal robot called 'Spot'. Robot development is difficult and requires significant ... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Scientists Succeed in Creating Northern White Rhino Embryos | There are currently only two northern white rhinos left in the world, both of them female. Scientists have successfully created embryos using eggs from the females and frozen sperm from dead males. These embryos will soon be transferred into a surrogate mother. It is hoped that this will help save the species. The Leib... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Ikea and Sonos made the ultimate speaker lamp | Ikea and Sonos have been working for years to design and produce a pair of speakers, and they will be available this August. The Symfonisk is a speaker combined with a table lamp, and the bookshelf speaker is the smallest speaker that Sonos has ever made. Both speakers are fully compatible with the rest of Sonos’ range... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
NocoDB (GitHub Repo) | NocoDB turns any MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, or MariaDB into a smart spreadsheet. It features a gallery view, rich spreadsheets, workflow automations, collaboration tools, programmatic access with APIs, and more. Screenshots are available in the repository. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
This Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones | Special Services Group (SSG) is a surveillance vendor that works with US government agencies. It is currently marketing to local police departments. The devices it offers include cameras hidden inside items including tombstones, baby car seats, and vacuum cleaners. Surveillance technology is improving, and devices are ... | 4Miscellaneous |
A Birth Control Pill for Men Could Start Human Trials This Year | Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a non-hormonal form of male birth control and plans to start early human trials by the end of the year. The contraceptive kept lab mice sterile for up to six weeks with seemingly no side effects. It works by targeting how the body interacts with vitamin A. The t... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
GM's Cruise partners with DoorDash to test autonomous food delivery | GM's Cruise self-driving division will team up with DoorDash to test autonomous food delivery in San Francisco, starting in early 2019. Cruise has 180 vehicles and over 400 safety drivers, and will be using the service to start experimenting with commercial uses of its self-driving technology as it doesn't yet have a l... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Eva Design System (Website) | The Eva Design System is a free and open source customizable design system that easily adapts to your brand. It is available for Sketch with mobile and web component libraries. Eva makes sure that designs stay consistent across all applications and platforms without the need to spend thousands of hours on implementatio... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Self-driving homes could be the future of affordable housing | Honda recently announced the IeMobi Concept, an autonomous mobile living room that attaches and detaches from your house. When parked, the vehicle becomes a 50-square-foot living or workspace. Volvo just unveiled its 360c concept vehicle that serves as either a living room or mobile office. These self-driving mobile ho... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Facebook is opening its experimental predictions app to all users | Forecast, Facebook's community for crowdsourced predictions and collective insights, is now available for people in the US and Canada to participate in. Anyone can view the website, but people in other countries are not able to participate yet. The platform presents questions that people can answer and provide short re... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Google Workers Demand Company Cut Contracts With Oil Industry | More than 1,100 Google employees joined together to publish an open letter to Googles chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, to demand that the company create a stronger plan to address climate change. The letter urges Google to put its users first, and that it should stop offering cloud computing services to oil-related... | 4Miscellaneous |
European Space Agency probe to intercept a comet | Comet Interceptor is a new space venture that will launch in 2028, aiming to catch and study an object from the outer reaches of the Solar System. The probe will consist of three components, the main mothership and two smaller spacecraft that will separate near a comet to conduct different but complementary studies. It... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Netflix to charge global members sharing their accounts an additional fee, following tests | Netflix is expanding its test to charge members for sharing accounts with people outside their household to include global markets. The company will iterate on the feature over the next year to create a balance for customers. Subscribers can now add sub-accounts to their service, each with its own profile and login det... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Amazon is acquiring home Wi-Fi start-up Eero | Amazon has announced plans to acquire Eero, a company that develops internet routers. Smart home devices have been a focus for Amazon, with its recent acquisition of Ring, a video doorbell maker, and Amazon’s own Echo smart speaker device. Eero devices currently cost $199 and are able to reach a range of 1,500 feet wit... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Tesla Cybertruck To Join Dubai Police Fleet In 2020 | Tesla's Cybertruck will be joining Dubai's police fleet in 2020. A photo of a modified Cybertruck with the official livery of the Dubai police force was posted on the organization's Twitter account. Dubai's police fleet includes models like the Bugatti Veyron, Aston Martin One-77, BMW i8, Ferrari LaFerrari, Lamborghini... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
pdoc (Website) | pdoc auto-generates API documentation from a project's Python module hierarchy. It supports type annotations, cross-links between identifiers, customizable HTML templates, numpydoc and Google-style docstrings, and more. It comes with an integrated live-reloading web server. An example is available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Reddit adds a new way to post with launch of ‘Predictions’ feature | Reddit is introducing a new on-platform feature called Predictions that will allow users to make predictions on current events. Subreddit moderators can create Prediction Tournaments, a series of questions that users can predict the answers to. Users will be able to bet on questions using tokens that they receive when ... | 4Miscellaneous |
Broot (Software Tool) | Broot is a tool for navigating directories. It can provide overviews of large directories, locate and access folders, manipulate files, create shortcuts, view file sizes, and more. The current version of broot works on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
A scannable QR code advertisement created by drones above the skies of Shanghai (Twitter Thread) | A Twitter user recently captured a photo of a synchronized drone swarm in China creating a scannable QR code in the sky. The code was part of an anniversary show for a mobile game. It linked to the game's download page. A video of the full drone performance is available in the thread. | 4Miscellaneous |
Samsung’s official Galaxy S21, 21 Plus, and 21 Ultra teasers have leaked, and the camera squircle is gone | The Samsung Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra are expected to arrive in January. Three brief teaser videos from Samsung have leaked, previewing the new phones' designs. The videos show a new camera bump with three cameras on the S21 and S21 Plus and five cameras on the S21 Ultra. It appears that the S21 Ultra has a c... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
MLGO: A Machine Learning Framework for Compiler Optimization | MLGO is the first industrial-grade general framework for integrating ML techniques systematically in LLVM. | 4Miscellaneous |
Ex-Googler's Startup Comes Out of Stealth With Beautifully Simple, Clever Robot Design (14 minute read) | Stretch is a robot mobile manipulator that is small, lightweight, capable, and affordable. Designed by Hello Robot, Stretch weighs 23kg and has a 34 cm square footprint. It costs $17,950 per unit, a fraction of what other mobile manipulators sell for. Stretch was designed to bring mobile manipulation into a home or wor... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years | Dirty Pipe is a high-severity Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted users to add an SSH key to root user accounts to remotely access servers with full root privileges. The vulnerability can also be used to create root shells and overwrite data in read-only files. Dirty Pipe is similar to another exploit discovered ... | 4Miscellaneous |
Tianwen1 probe sends back its first picture of Mars | China's Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first pictures of Mars. The mission launched in July last year and is expected to enter Mars orbit around February 10. It is China's second attempt to reach Mars. The image, which is available in the article, was taken from 1.4 million miles away from the planet. It shows geolo... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Nvidia’s AI-powered scaling makes old games look better without a huge performance hit | Nvidia's latest game-ready driver includes a tool called Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR) that can make most games look sharper. The technology works by rendering a game at a higher resolution than the monitor can handle and then downscaling it to fit the monitor. It uses AI to increase image quality, low... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Scientists Discover Psychedelic-Like Drug That Doesn't Cause Hallucinations | Scientists have discovered a psychedelic-like drug that can produce rapid, long-lasting antidepressant effects in mice without causing hallucinations. It acts on the same serotonin receptors in the brain as antipsychotic drugs and psychedelics. The drug produces antidepressant-like effects within 30 minutes, and its be... | 4Miscellaneous |
Facebook just published an update on its futuristic brain-typing project | Facebook's brain-reading computer interface is able to look for patterns in activity in the brain and match them with specific words and phrases in real-time. In experiments, participants answered multiple-choice questions with their thoughts, which were then translated into words by the brain-computer interface. The s... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Google raises its GSuite Prices | Google is raising the prices for GSuite from $5 and $10 per user per month for its basic and business plans to $6 and $12 per user per month respectively. The Enterprise plan will stay at $25 per user per month. The new pricing will go into effect on April 2. There are now 4 million businesses on GSuite. | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Kubernetes YAML Generator (Website) | This page generates a YAML script based on an editable configuration. Users can specify resource types, DNS policies, containers, and other settings and easily export them. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021 | Google has announced several updates coming to Android that include new widgets for some Google apps, new Android Auto features, and updates for Google Assistant and Google Photos. Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy S21 owners can now use their phones as a car key with compatible BMW vehicles in selected countrie... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
SpaceX and Tesla are ‘working on’ ventilators, Elon Musk says | Tesla and SpaceX employees are working on ventilators just in case they are needed. The announcement comes after a direct plea by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for Musk's companies to help hospitals in the fight against COVID-19. It is unclear what Musk's exact plans are at the moment. The project will require cer... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Microsoft launches a personalized news service, Microsoft Start | Microsoft Start is Microsoft's new personalized news service. It is available as a website and mobile app and it has been integrated into some Microsoft products. The feed combines content from news publishers in a way that's tailored to users' individual interests. It is not designed to replace services like MSN. User... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Awesome Flutter (GitHub Repo) | This repository contains 98 tips and tricks for Flutter. The list includes widgets, plugins, code, and examples. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Facebook says the FTC privacy inquiry could cost as much as $5 billion | Facebook’s first quarter 2019 earnings report revealed that the company paid a $3 billion dollar fine to the Federal Trade Commission. Investigations into Facebook’s role in breaching privacy agreements is still ongoing, and the company estimated the final fine will be up to $5 billion dollars. The FTC plans to issue a... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
This 'snake robot' can fix pipelines on the ocean floor | Eelume is a six-meter-long snake-like robot that will make deep-sea oil and gas operations safer, cheaper, and less polluting. It can be kept at a docking station at depths of up to 500 meters for six months, travel up to 20 kilometers between charges, and it has parts that can be swapped out for different tasks. Eelum... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Apple has cleared out its Facebook and Instagram pages for iTunes | Apple is rumored to be removing iTunes from its software lineup with its upcoming Mac OS update. iTunes will supposedly be split into different, more specific apps, for each of its functionalities. The Facebook and Instagram pages for iTunes have now been cleared out, with all the pictures, posts, and videos removed fr... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
iOS Dev Tools (Website) | A list showcasing the greatest iOS development tools, including websites, desktop, and mobile apps, and back-end services. A weekly update delivered right to your inbox. Sent once a week, every Friday. No spam, not ever. Unsubscribe at any time. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Google employees are becoming unhappy with pay, promotions and execution, survey results show | Google's annual employee survey shows that a growing number of staff are unhappy with their pay packages and their employer's ability to act quickly when needed. Employees indicated that they were pleased with Google's ability to deliver on its mission and values. Almost all employees agree that the company's products ... | 4Miscellaneous |
AI and Solar Energy Powered Mayflower Sails for Ocean Exploration | ProMare, a non-profit marine research corporation, and IBM have launched an AI and solar-powered ship. In 2021, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) will sail on a route similar to its namesake Mayflower, who sailed across the Atlantic 400 years ago. It will collect data from the ocean to help scientists tackle issues s... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two | Many companies are starting to use computers and automation to fill and replace roles, and this is starting to have a real impact on job availability. The transition to using computers for menial jobs is similar to how the farming industry started replacing workers with machinery. There is now an upper class part of th... | 4Miscellaneous |
Fake Amazon reviews draw fraud charges in groundbreaking FTC case | False reviews from companies have been a problem on Amazon’s marketplace for years and Amazon has been fighting this problem by going after the companies and individuals that sell review services. In a landmark case, the FTC has successfully sued Cure Encapsulations Inc for purchasing fake reviews, as these fake review... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet | Mary Meeker, a general partner at venture capital firm Bond Capital, has released a 333-page slideshow that delves into every important internet trend in the last year. The report revealed that 51 percent of people in the world were internet users last year, up from 49 percent in 2017. Seven out of the top 10 companies... | 4Miscellaneous |
Google contractors are secretly listening to your Assistant recordings | A whistleblower working as a Google contractor has revealed that contractors have been listening to Google Home recordings as part of their roles in transcribing audio to improve speech recognition. Many of the recordings appear to have been made without owners of the device using the ‘Hey Google’ listening trigger. Th... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Drug reverses age-related cognitive decline within days | An experimental drug called ISRIB has been shown in laboratory studies to reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice. The drug has already demonstrated a variety of cognitive benefits, and the new study adds to the research by showing rapid restoration of youthful cognitive abilities in aged ... | 4Miscellaneous |
gotestfmt (GitHub Repo) | gotestfmt outputs Go test results in a beautifully formatted fashion. It can be easily installed and set up in a CI system. gotestfmt supports several CI systems, or users can add their own CI. Output examples are available through the link in the about section. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million | Last week, a 10-second video by artist Beeple sold for $6.6 million. The sale was made possible through a type of digital asset called non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which authenticates ownership of digital assets using blockchain technology. Each NFT is unique. OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, saw monthly sales grow from... | 4Miscellaneous |
Ikea goes all in on smart home tech | Ikea has announced that it will invest heavily in a new Ikea Home smart business unit with end-to-end responsibility for its portfolio of smart devices. Ikea first started releasing smart home devices in 2015 by introducing tables and lamps that could wirelessly charge Qi-compatible phones. Since then, Ikea has release... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Kredis (GitHub Repo) | Kredis (Keyed Redis) allows developers to interact with higher-level types and data structures as coherent objects rather than as isolated procedural commands. These higher-level structures can be configured as attributes within Active Models and Active Records using declarative DSL. Examples are provided in the reposi... | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Twitter’s CEO and Elon Musk are beefing over bot counts | Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal has pushed back against Elon Musk's concerns around spam and bots on the platform. He claims that the internal estimates for bots or spam accounts over the last four quarters were all well under 5%. The deal to buy Twitter is temporarily on hold pending details to support Twitter's estimate.... | 4Miscellaneous |
Uber and Lyft are behind a sharp rise in US traffic deaths | According to a study from the University of Chicago and Rice University, Uber and Lyft have increased the number of traffic deaths by 2-3% since 2011, about 1,100 fatalities a year. This is because drivers spend 40-60% of their time driving aimlessly while searching for passengers. Traffic deaths hit a 60-year low in 2... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Nightmare Google Photos bug sent private videos to the wrong people | Between November 21 and November 25, 2019, a bug in Google Takeout resulted in users getting other users' videos when downloading archives of their Google data. Google has sent emails to affected Takeout users alerting them of the issue. The emails were only sent to Google Takeout users who attempted to archive their d... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere (Twitter Thread) | Phosphine is a chemical that can only be produced in extreme environments, such as in the depths of Jupiter or Saturn, through organic processes, such as the decaying organic matter, or through synthesis by humans. Traces of Phosphine were discovered in the atmosphere of Venus. Scientists have investigated other possib... | 4Miscellaneous |
Not Self-Driving, But Tele-Driving: Startup to Deploy Remote-Controlled Cars as a Step Towards Full Autonomy | Vay is a Berlin-based startup that plans to use human teledrivers to drive cars remotely. Its customers will be able to order a vehicle to drive themselves, with the teledrivers taking over between rides. Vay claims that its rides will cost a fraction of what Uber and Lyft currently charge for rides. The vehicles are b... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
Laravel Pint (GitHub Repo) | Laravel Pint is a zero-dependency PHP code style fixer for minimalists. | 4Miscellaneous |
React Spectrum Libraries (GitHub Repo) | React Spectrum is a collection of libraries and tools for building adaptive, accessible, and robust user experiences. It has accessible features and support for over 30 languages. React Spectrum has components that are customizable and designed to work with keyboard, mouse, and touch interactions. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Gradio (GitHub Repo) | Gradio makes it easy to create user interfaces for machine learning models in Python. It can generate shareable links and get feedback on model performance. Gradio has built-in manipulation and interpretation tools for debugging. A GIF demo is available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Magazine Layout (GitHub Repo) | This is a nifty open source library from AirBNB that makes it really easy to display images in a grid on iOS. If you're making anything that needs a nice directory layout like AirBNB this library looks pretty cool. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
Scientists just turned plastic bottles into . . . vanilla flavoring? | Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have found a way to turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic into vanillin, the main flavor component of vanilla beans. Synthetic vanillin is used in many products, with the global market valued at $510 million in 2018. The process involves degrading PET pla... | 4Miscellaneous |
Amazon debuts Showroom, a visual shopping experience for home furnishings | Amazon has launched Showroom, a visual design tool that lets you put furniture and decorations into a virtual living room. You can tweak the wall color, flooring, and any of the items in the room. When you're done you can add all of the items to your cart in one click. Amazon says "The result is a photorealistic render... | 1Big Tech & Startups |
Artichoke Ruby (GitHub Repo) | Artichoke is a Ruby 2.6.3-compatible implementation of the Ruby programming language written in Rust, aiming to run Ruby source code in the same way that MRI does. It is still a work in progress. Unlike MRI, Artichoke will only support UTF-8 and binary encodings. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
China's New Space Station Will Be Powered by Ion Propulsion System | China's Tiangong space station's first module will have an ion propulsion system that will greatly improve energy efficiency and slash journey times to Mars. While ion thrusters have been used since the 1970s, this will be the first time a crewed spaceship is propelled by one. Ion drives use electricity to accelerate i... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
ArtLine (GitHub Repo) | ArtLine is a deep learning-based project for creating line art portraits. There are many examples available. An 8-minute explanation video is linked. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science |
JPMorgan Chase tests neuroscience-based video games to recruit interns | JPMorgan Chase & Co is seeking to increase the diversity of its workforce by broadening its candidate pool, and it will use neuroscience-based video games to help achieve this goal. The bank will use technology developed by Pymetrics, a start-up that develops games that help companies assess an applicant’s social, cogn... | 4Miscellaneous |
Medical device creates temporary 'second skin' to treat wounds | Nanomedic Technologies, an Israeli startup, has created a portable device that can create a temporary and transparent skin layer that can be applied to patients without touching the wound. The device uses a patented electrospinning technology which creates nanofibers by applying a strong electric field to polymer solut... | 2Science and Futuristic Technology |
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