The all-electric Rivian R1T is a dream truck for adventurers
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Photos: Rivian With a not-so-dreamy starting price of $69,000 After spending the better part of the last decade operating completely out of the spotlight, US-based automotive startup Rivian has finally debuted its first electric vehicle: a five-passenger pickup truck called the R1T. Announced on Monday at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the R1T is positioned…
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UN warns over human rights impression of a “digital welfare recount”
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The UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has raised concerns about the UK’s rush to apply digital technologies and data tools to socially re-engineer the delivery of public services at scale, warning in a statement today that the impact of a digital welfare state on vulnerable people will be “immense”. He has…
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Designing emotional intelligence for order assistants
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We are coming up on the new wave of technology and innovation, with the ever-present default, a screen is being replaced by voice assistants. Designing interactions till date has always been about a human interaction with a visible medium, like a phone, a screen, a tablet or even a watch. But when you remove that tangible…
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Elon Musk Predicted Man made Intelligence Would Be ‘Severely Unhealthy’ by 2019. How End Is That to Actuality?
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Artificial Intelligence Whether you are worried about human-like AI or eagerly awaiting it, I believe the kind of technology we see in the movies is a century or more away. Image credit: Twentieth Century Fox November 26, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In 2014, Elon Musk posted, then…
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The Tell of Digital Truth: Where We Are, and What’s to Attain in 2019
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Throughout 2018, I've spent a considerable amount of time thinking and writing about virtual reality (VR). I've attended VR developer conferences, experimented with using different headsets, and have conducted research on public sentiment toward the technology. Now, with VRX -- an annual VR industry conference and expo -- in session this week, I've gotten a…
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Crispr Babies, IVF, and the Ethics of Genetic Class Struggle
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Last month, Chinese national He Jiankui flouted a vigorous scientific debate when he told a room full of scientists that he had manipulated the embryos of Chinese twins, using Crispr, and made one resistant to their father’s HIV. He announced to the group that the twins of the experiment had already been born.The big reveal…
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Blockchain Huge Data Alternate choices will Change Entire Industries
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Big data has been big news for businesses in recent years. The rapid rise in internet use and smartphone technology means we are now generating vast quantities of data every minute. According to one 2016 estimate from IBM, 90 percent of the data in the world was created within the last two years. When done…
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Our Cellphones Aren’t Win
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Security flaws threaten our privacy and bank accounts. So why aren’t we fixing them?By Cooper QuintinMr. Quintin is a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Dec. 26, 2018ImageCreditCreditAndrew DegraffAmerica’s cellular network is as vital to society as the highway system and power grids. Vulnerabilities in the mobile phone infrastructure threaten not only personal privacy…
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Qualcomm: Every vacation 2019 flagship Android mobile phone within the US might maybe be 5G – CNET
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Angela Lang/CNET Get ready for lots of 5G phones in time for the holidays next year. The first devices for the fast, next-generation network will hit the market in early 2019. Samsung, for one, said it will have a phone for Verizon, AT&T and other networks in the first half of the year. By the…
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NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To In finding New Year’s Party
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Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105377728 story NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party (bloomberg.com) 47 Posted by msmash on Sunday December 30, 2018 @02:02PM from the up-next dept. New York City police will deploy…
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Why your telephone’s notifications are the sort they’re
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Few inventions affected our relationship with technology as much as push notifications have. Before modern-day notifications, most of us felt in charge of deciding when we want to use and interact with technology, but now, technology is largely making that decision for us. It’s easy to blame technology, but it’s important to note that it…
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If you wish upon an algorithm: Will Sophia ever be steady?
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Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Hong Kong, there was a robot named Sophia. It longed for nothing, felt nothing, and was incapable of even the mildest human emotion. But, its creator Geppetto – er, creators David Hanson and Ben Goertzel, I mean – wanted to bring it to life anyway. So…
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San Francisco Symphony Lands a Disrupter: Esa-Pekka Salonen
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ImageThe visionary conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who long said he wanted to concentrate on composing, will be the next music director of the San Francisco Symphony.CreditCreditPeter Prato for The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO — He never said never.For years, orchestras have courted the visionary conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Critics have frequently put his name at the top…
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I musty facial recognition abilities on birds
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Home Biology Plants & Animals / Ecology December 7, 2018 December 7, 2018 by Lewis Barnett, The Conversation Do you know this downy woodpecker? Credit: Lewis Barnett, CC BY-SA As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers that visited your bird feeders, you…
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Why Contact-Tracing Apps Haven’t Slowed Covid-19 in the US
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As Covid-19 spread across the United States this spring, Jodie Pond, the health director in Teton County, Wyoming, looked forward to deploying a new weapon against the pandemic. Technologists were racing to create apps that would quickly and quietly identify people who had been close to others who were infected. This process of “contact tracing”…
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Special File: How ZTE helps Venezuela make China-vogue social administration
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Caracas (Reuters) - In April 2008, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dispatched Justice Ministry officials to visit counterparts in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen. Their mission, according to a member of the Venezuela delegation, was to learn the workings of China’s national identity card program. Chavez, a decade into his self-styled socialist revolution, wanted…
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How You Can Exhaust Adobe Instrument to Fortify Accessibility on Your Designs
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It’s important that as many people as possible are able to engage successfully with digital designs. In this article, we look at some of the ways large technology companies like Adobe are working on improving accessibility, and how you can apply these methods in your own designs. 3 December marks the International Day of Persons…
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Digital pictures begins its subsequent chapter with radical changes – CNET
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Stuart Palley, a professional wildfire photographer here standing in the Angeles National Forest, believes mirrorless cameras will replace conventional SLRs. Stuart Palley Digital photography has changed a lot over the past two decades, with clunky DSLRs giving way to sleek smartphones. Over the next 10 years, expect a similar evolution as the science behind the…
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Whisper of cyber web porn tells us more about ourselves than expertise | John Naughton
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When the internet first entered public consciousness in the early 1990s, a prominent media entrepreneur described it as a “sit up” rather than a “lean back” medium. What she meant was that it was quite different from TV, which encouraged passive consumption by a species of human known universally as the couch potato. The internet,…
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Irregular: Right here is the bendable glass that might also advance to your foldable phone – CNET
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When it comes to foldable devices like the the Royole FlexPai and Samsung's unnamed foldable phone, this major question inevitably comes up: Is that screen made plastic or glass? Plastic looks cheap, but today's glass screen are more likely to break than flex when you bend them. Maybe not for long. CNET got an exclusive…
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No, You Don’t Primarily See Fancy That
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A guide to the new reality-melting technology in your phone’s camera Alexis C. Madrigal Dec 18, 2018 A screenshot from an Unbox Therapy video showing selfies taken under identical lighting conditions with different generations of Apple phonesLewis Hilsenteger When a prominent YouTuber named Lewis Hilsenteger (aka “Unbox Therapy”) was testing out this fall’s new iPhone…
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It’s Showtime for Elon Musk’s Tunnel, With a Prolonged Technique to Lope
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ImageA modified Tesla Model X before an event to unveil the Boring Company’s tunnel in Hawthorne, Calif., on Tuesday. It unveiled the first mile-long stretch of the company’s underground vision of a transit system.CreditCreditPool photo by Robyn BeckHAWTHORNE, Calif. — Fed up with Southern California vehicle snarls, Elon Musk set out to solve the persistent…
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China pressures US, Canada ahead of Huawei hearing
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1 / 10People hold a sign at a Vancouver, British Columbia courthouse prior to the bail hearing for Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer on Monday, December 10, 2018. Meng Wanzhou was detained at the request of the U.S. during a layover at the Vancouver airport on Dec. 1.(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)VANCOUVER, British…
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Despite pause in trade battle, US and China’s economic relationship is with no break in sight modified – Washington Post
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BUENOS AIRES — The trade talks that President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping launched this weekend have raised hopes for a peaceful resolution of the trans-Pacific tariff war — but the economic relationship between the U.S. and China has been permanently altered. Over dinner following the Group of 20 summit Saturday, Trump agreed to…
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‘Ralph Breaks the Net’ is an provocative and poignant examination of Net culture — right here’s what critics are asserting
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Eeyore is one of the many Disney characters to appear in the reference-heavy film. Disney "Ralph Breaks the Internet," the sequel to Disney's 2012 hit, "Wreck-It Ralph," which hits theaters Wednesday, is worthy of the original according to critics. Critics are impressed with its clever examination of internet culture, saying that it "connects to our…
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Weird and wonderful: U.S. to give ‘sunless field’ nuclear atomize tech to assorted worldwide locations
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear security office is developing a project to help other countries handle nuclear waste, an effort to keep the United States competitive against global rivals in disposal technology, according to two sources familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: A technician looks at the pool storage where spent…
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5 questions for: Melissa Kramer of Live UTI Free
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While the notion of healthcare technology may be in the spotlight with AI, blockchain and all that, the coalface of care requires building an understanding of patient needs and responding in an appropriate way. Today, in many cases, even some of the most common conditions are subject to a dearth of information, or worse, misinformation…
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How the atmosphere is linked to financial growth — and the finest device to develop both
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Earth’s natural resources largely determine the global economy’s ebb and flow. As such, the effects of climate change continue to cause concern among economists and environmentalists alike. In 2018, professors William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work exploring how climate change affects economic stability. Ultimately, the pair’s research…
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All that you just can comprise to perceive about OnePlus’ contemporary 30W Warp Price favorite
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OnePlus rolled out Dash Charge back in 2016 with the OnePlus 3 and 3T, with the 22.5W charging standard allowing devices like the OnePlus 6T to go from zero to 60% charge in just 35 minutes. With the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition, however, OnePlus is introducing a new fast charging standard called Warp Charge that…
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Researchers produce cell-sucking skills
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Home Chemistry Analytical Chemistry December 18, 2018 December 18, 2018, Japan Science and Technology Agency Dots in the "Histogram Feature Quantities" correspond to each cell. Select and click the dots on the histogram to decide the cells for sucking. T based on the preset feature quantities range and area. Credit: Yokogawa Electric Corporation Single-cell mass…
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Waymo’s lame public driverless inaugurate: Not driverless and barely public
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Waymo testing needed? — After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service. Timothy B. Lee - Dec 7, 2018 4:55 pm UTC The Wednesday rollout of Waymo One, Waymo's commercial self-driving taxi service, falls far short of expectations the company itself set earlier in the year. In late September, a…
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Easy the technique to earn a coding job at Google with an art level
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"I gave my talk with [Voices of VR podcast host] Kent Bye, who is a really awesome guy," she said. The two discussed a range of topics, but one conversation in particular resonated with Pinnick. "His perspective at the time was that we're moving away from the information age to the experiential age with things…
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Vizio Made Dolby Atmos Sound Affordable With Its Contemporary Soundbar Machine, and It be Unprecedented
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Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo)Since its introduction in 2012, Dolby Atmos has been a dazzling new audio technology that you could basically only experience in fancy movie theaters. But recently, high-end soundbars have started supporting the standard, which was cool if you wanted to spend north of $1,000 on a system. Vizio did what Vizio…
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Mercedes opts for more monitors, fewer buttons within the 2021 S-Class
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Teaser images and leaked photos of the 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class suggested the automaker was moving toward a more digital-centric interior. That might have been an understatement. Mercedes-Benz revealed Monday its second-generation MBUX infotainment system, and it is loaded with new technology, including touchscreens, augmented reality heads-up display and improved voice and facial recognition. Gone are…
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10 leisure treasures we miss from the 2000s
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Welcome to 2000s Week! We're exploring the pop culture that shaped us at the turn of the millennium, and examining what the films, shows, and games from the era say about us then and now. It's a little #tbt to the days before #tbt was a thing. It's hard to think of a time before this…
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Every assorted industry has a security tag. Now tech does, too
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Most connected devices are a black box. When you buy a smart toaster, you don’t know how much of your data it’s beaming up to cloud or whether its lax security has allowed it to become part of a bot network (which happened in 2016). How are you supposed to know which smart lightbulb you can…
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Formulation E gears up with car batteries that would possibly perhaps well final a entire hotfoot | Giles Richards
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Formula E has always enjoyed grand city centre destinations as a central tenet of the all-electric series. Beginning its fifth season on Saturday, however, there is a sense that it is in a position to deliver the drama such grand stages demand, now boasting technology, drivers and manufacturers coming together with greater coherence and credibility…
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Gaze Google CEO testify forward of Congress on Dec. 5 – CNET
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Alex Wong / Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the search giant against criticism of political bias, concerns over its data collection policies and worries about efforts in China during a high-profile appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.The leader of the world's largest search…
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Take a look at Out the Unique Amazon 4-star Retail outlets — And Pick up 4 Pointers for Any Industry
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Amazon Amazon now has over 100 physical stores. Image credit: Courtesy of Nicole Leinbach Reyhle November 16, 2018 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon recently opened two of its three Amazon 4-star stores, making its collective brick-and-mortar experiences tally up at over 100 locations between Amazon Books, Amazon Pop-Up, Amazon…
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What are the IoT Applications in the Transportation Replace?
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The internet of things (IoT) is a popular term these days that are used to interrelate computing devices, digital machines, and mechanical objects. IoT technology is used to transfer data over a network without any human interaction. A plenty of organizations are using IoT to improve their efficiency and to better understand their customers. This…
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Echo vs. Echo Dot: What’s the distinction?
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Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. Image: Amazon / Mashable CompositeBy Genevieve ScaranoMashable Deals2018-11-13 15:34:44 UTC The smart home concept is increasingly becoming the norm. Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in voice recognition assistants and connected devices to make our…
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Stop to Healthy: 5 Causes Why Millennials Don’t appear to be As Well As They Hang
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Millennials Millennials, the first generation expected to be less prosperous than their parents, may also be less healthy. Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images November 9, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Believe it or not, millennials are getting older (and sadly, so are the rest of us). With…
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Audi e-tron first force: Rapidly, contented and familiar
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Even after a few minutes behind the wheel, it’s easy to forget the Audi e-tron is electric. The SUV is not outrageous or radical, but rather pedestrian and effortless. Audi didn’t invent something new with the e-tron. The German car company stuck a competent electric powertrain in an SUV, and, in the process, created a…
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Other persons are shopping 4G LTE laptops — and then no longer activating LTE – CNET
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Lenovo's new Yoga C630 features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor. Lenovo The best way to sell always-connected PCs is downplaying the actual connectivity part.At least, that's what Lenovo has found through the past year of selling computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon LTE processors, said Matt Bereda, vice president of global consumer marketing for PCs and…
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Tech shares are hyped up and it’s killing innovation
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We’re entering an unprecedented era of advanced technology and behemoth tech companies driving its development. Earlier this year, Apple became the first company to reach a one-trillion-dollar valuation, and Amazon followed suit, reaching a one-trillion-dollar market cap in September. Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Facebook, and Netflix are similarly dominant over the S&P 500, together providing…
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The US Needs to Align Technology With a Public Motive
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Disruptive innovations won’t produce a better society unless we work to contain their harms and spread their benefits. Nov 25, 2018 Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Zuckerberg at the joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees hearing on the company’s protection of user dataLeah Millis / Reuters The arc of innovative progress has reached an…
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Lambda College raises $74M for its digital coding college the build you pay tuition easiest after you score a job
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In the world of technology, online learning has been one of the bigger beneficiaries of the last several months, with people staying home and away from their normal routines because of the coronavirus pandemic and using that time to expand their knowledge, or more critically, figure out what to do next if they want to change…
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Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod tempo test changed into hugely misleading
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Motorola wants you to know that it demoed a real Verizon 5G connection on a real 5G phone in Maui that over 330 journalists and analysts were able to see in person. It wants you to know that phone is capable of incredible 5Gbps speeds — enough to apparently download an entire season of your…
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Discontinue of yr crypto roundup: How did IOTA develop in 2018?
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At a time when cryptocurrency was synonymous with blockchain technology, IOTA proposed a modification. IOTA, as its name would suggest, aspired to be a cryptocurrency for the future of Internet of Things (IoT). But its founders thought that the blockchain had “too sluggish transaction times and skyrocketing fees” to be able to power the world of connected…
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The ‘Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools’ stumbled on in Asia, suggests homegrown skills
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New analysis of artifacts found at a South China archaeological site shows that sophisticated tool technology emerged in East Asia earlier than previously thought. A study by an international team of researchers, including from the University of Washington, determines that carved stone tools, also known as Levallois cores, were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000…
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The Most appealing Technology for Fighting Climate Change Is now now not a Technology
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The latest IPCC report does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historical precedent” in order to avoid the climate catastrophe that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average global temperature. Climate change already disproportionately…
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Recapping the TechCrunch China Shenzhen 2018 event
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This year we returned to Shenzhen, the Chinese city known as the world’s “Silicon Valley for hardware,” for an event that was packed full of future-looking discussions, innovative startups, experienced founders, VCs and more. We love Shenzhen. Sure, Beijing has Zhongguancun and Shanghai has its international and diverse entrepreneurial community. But Shenzhen has a certain…
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More companies are chipping their workers love pets
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Ah, security purposes, our favorite road to hell paved with some kind of intentions. Is it like when Facebook took people's phone numbers for security purposes and handed them to advertisers? Sorry, I'm just a little cynical right now. The report explained the purpose of corporate bosses chipping their workers like a beloved Pekinese is…
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News Prognosis: Can also just silent We Contact Isolated Tribes?
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News AnalysisThe death of a young American missionary on a tropical island at the hands of an indigenous group has left us to wonder: Are they better off with us or without us?ImageA tribesman aims an arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter flying over North Sentinel Island in December 2004, two days after an…
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Russian Meddling, Markets, Opioids: Your Monday Evening Briefing
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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCreditPool photo by Alexei Druzhinin1. Russian efforts to sway the 2016 U.S. election included an extraordinary effort to target black Americans and suppress turnout among Democratic voters, according to a new report commissioned by the Senate.The report also argued that the…
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How To Stable Your IoT Devices And Why Might perhaps perhaps simply amassed You Quit It
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The IoT technology is not only taking over the industry, but it’s taking over our households, too. The number of IoT devices is rapidly increasing everyday — all with the intent for us be able to control everything at the touch of a button. No problems this far in the IoT home device plan. Everything…
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Legal professionals for Detained Huawei Exec Reveal She Might well well additionally no longer Hover as Bail Resolution Hangs within the Balance
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Chinese newspapers on sale in Beijing decrying the detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.Photo: Andy Wong (AP)Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei (and daughter of its founder, Ren Zhengfei) detained by Canadian authorities for extradition to the U.S. this month on allegations she lied to financial institutions as part of…
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The stammer villain of Netflix’s grownup thriller ‘Cam’ is broad tech
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It's night time, and webcam-performer Lola starts her erotic show in a moodily lit pink bedroom. She sits in front of a large TV that's relaying the feed from her show, as well as the live-chat window that runs alongside. She giggles into the webcam and teases the audience that she'll begin touching herself once…
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A First-Timer’s Manual to Turning AR Into ROI
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Augmented Reality The good news for your company is that AR is widely available to nearly anyone who wants to adapt it -- using a tool which, would you believe, is on Facebook? Image credit: Busakorn Pongparnit | Getty Images Stephen Nations Guest Writer Director, Public Relations, Drive Social Media November 28, 2018 8 min…
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Incapacity: A Clearer Message on Cochlear Implants
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DisabilityPortrayals of this technology as a “miracle” for deaf people overlook its potential downsides and challenges. By Sara NovicMs. Novic is a deaf writer and teacher who uses American Sign Language and English. Nov. 21, 2018ImageI.S.D.B. is spelled out in sign language underneath some of the conference schools at the Idaho School for the Deaf…
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Electric fish in augmented fact show how animals ‘actively sense’ world round them
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Bats and dolphins emit sound waves to sense their surroundings; like a battery, electric fish generate electricity to help them detect motion while burrowed in their refuges; and humans use tiny movements of the eyes to perceive objects in their field of vision. Each is an example of "active sensing" -- a process found across…
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Routine: Kushner-backed startup is going down offense after hunkering down in March
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New York (CNN Business)The pandemic delivered a serious scare to Ryan Williams and his technology real estate startup, Cadre.The investment platform hunkered down and braced for the worst in March, despite being backed by well-connected and well-heeled investors like Mark Cuban, George Soros and Jared Kushner. So Cadre, led by Williams, its 32-year-old co-founder and…
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The Contemporary Iron Johns
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In meetings and retreats, chastened menfolk are working stuff out.ImageThis won't hurt a bit: A member of the ManKind Project is invited to explore his emotions with the help of others at a weekly meeting in Midtown Manhattan.CreditCreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York TimesOn a Monday night in a sparsely decorated room in Midtown Manhattan,…
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How I replicated an $86M mission in Fifty seven traces of code
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When an experiment with existing open source technology does a “good enough” jobThe Victoria Police are the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. With over 16,000 vehicles stolen in Victoria this past year — at a cost of about $170 million — the police department is experimenting with a variety of technology-driven solutions to crackdown on car theft. They…
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Dancing in the Co-Financial system: Are you Sq. Dancing or Foxtrotting?
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Have you ever been to a fast-moving square dance? Partners dance together, spin around a time or two, and then move onto new partners. As the dance progresses, some people return to their original partners, while others will dance once and leave the floor. If you pay attention, this resembles a fast-emerging business strategy that…
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Sharing Economic system 2.0: Expertise is Casting off the Need for Single Asset Possession
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The definition of the sharing economy varies usually depends on who you ask — or what site you search. You will find that the definition often includes the sharing of a good or service through an online platform. The truth is, the sharing economy has existed for centuries. Communities historically shared limited resources instead of…
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New York Currently: N.Y. Currently: Year of the Lady, but No longer on the Metropolis Council
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New York TodayImageWomen make up only 22 percent of New York’s City Council.CreditCreditHolly Pickett for The New York TimesWeather: Chilly and clear, high of 39. Likewise tomorrow, then a chance of flurries Thursday.Alternate-side parking: in effect till Christmas.‘Gender equity’ on the City CouncilIn politics, 2018 has been called the Year of the Woman.Nationwide, more women…
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Cash is serene king and folks serene utilize banks – right here’s where technology hasn’t taken over
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CLOSE It's going to get more expensive to open up a new credit card. USA TODAYFewer Americans are using cash in a normal week.(Photo: Getty Images)Financial innovation has changed so much that we're all paying for our favorite new smartphone apps from the comfort of our homes at 2 a.m. and using bitcoins transferred from our…
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Interview: How High-Tech Glasses Price North Builds Futuristic Retail Experiences For Optimal Suits
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The Canadian technology brand is creating a new way to experience smart glasses, with high-touch retail locations in Brooklyn and Toronto that enable personalized fit and function The development and adoption of wearable technology has had an interesting trajectory. While wearables and fitness tracking technology took off, accessories like Google’s Glass and Snap’s Spectacles failed…
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Sojern raises but another $120M led by TCV to elongate its walk advertising and marketing and marketing platform
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Travel continues to be one of the biggest verticals online, projected to be worth over $1 trillion by 2022, and today a startup that helps travel-related businesses connect the dots between their products and would-be customers is raising a large round of funding to capitalise on that. Sojern, a company that works with businesses in…
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Abilities shapes insurance protection companies’ response to wildfires
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Home Earth Environment November 22, 2018 November 22, 2018 by Pat Eaton-Robb In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 photo, Joe Balog, a workforce management director at Travelers, examines weather, social media and other data from recent natural disasters inside the company's catastrophe response command center in Windsor, Conn. The company uses the data to determine…
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How Expertise Plays a Crucial Feature in Itsy-bitsy Commercial Growth
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Do you ever think why technology is so important in small businesses? The answer is simple. Technology saves time and labor, and it increases the security of your business. As most of the business tasks nowadays depend on the latest technology; consequently, the corporate world cannot ignore the benefits of technology to businesses. Businesses need…
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 108 With Worm Fixes and Efficiency Enhancements
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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. Safari Technology Preview release 108 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector,…
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2019 Tech Dispositions: Customers Weigh In and Rep Predictions
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As we continue to wax nostalgic -- or something like it -- on 2018 and look ahead to the next year, we wanted to get a sense of how users feel about the past, present, and future of tech. We've covered our top news stories of 2018, and looked back on which predicted tech trends…
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A Spell binding Fresh E book Explores the Eerie Connection Between Tech and the Supernatural
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A page of Willem ’s Gravesande’s 1720 book Physices Elementa Mathematica with Jan van Musschenbroek’s magic lantern projecting a monster.Image: Public DomainThese days, the idea of trying to contact spirits using technology calls to mind those reality shows that send obnoxious “ghost hunters” into abandoned hospitals. But as a new book investigates, the practice has…
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The Dialog: That Christmas When the Trumps Noticed Purple
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The conversationAnger can be power. But maybe it shouldn’t be. ImageTrees made from red berries line the East Colonnade during the 2018 Christmas Press Preview at the White House on Nov. 26, 2018.CreditCreditLeah Millis/ReutersBret Stephens: Gail, I was all set for us to converse about Michael Cohen and the Russians. And then the death of…
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2018 become a irregular notch three hundred and sixty five days — what’s subsequent?
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Phone design got a little eccentric this past year. Reciting a mantra of “more screen is always better” under their breath, smartphone manufacturers did their utmost to kill the bezels around their displays, with most of them opting for the notch as the primary solution. Some copied the iPhone X’s wide notch, others boasted of…
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Deepak Chopra: Use skills to kind a more comely and aloof world
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CLOSE Deepak Chopra is teaming up with Alexa to give 'Daily Reflections' to help you start your day relaxed and focused. USA TODAY 11/28/18 5:45:33 PM -- New York, NY, U.S.A -- Deepak Chopra -- Photo by Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Staff(Photo: Robert Deutsch, USAT) If you ask Deepak Chopra what the world needs, you…
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Zak Brown hopeful McLaren are on road to recovery after lean years | Giles Richards
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As Formula One heads into its final grand prix in the sunshine of Abu Dhabi, a cold, rain-sodden, windy night envelops the McLaren Technology Centre. It heralds the beginning of a winter during which the team face one of their toughest challenges. After a season of shattered hopes and disappointment left McLaren reeling, they have…
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How an app can wait on fight loneliness in feeble of us at Christmas
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While loneliness is experienced by all ages, it’s especially pronounced in older people. In the UK, 51 percent of all people aged 75 and over live alone and approximately 6 percent of older adults leave their house once a week or less. An increasing proportion of these older adults live in rural areas. In an age when…
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Open sourcing diagnosis, plus US, China and HQ2
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The big news today is that — finally — we have Amazon’s selection of cities for its dual second headquarters (Northern Virginia and NYC). Then some notes on China. But first, semiconductors and open sourcing analysis. We are experimenting with new content forms at TechCrunch. This is a rough draft of something new — provide…
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The Snowden Legacy, section one: What’s modified, in actuality?
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Part 1 of 2 — In our two-part series, Ars looks at what Snowden's disclosures have wrought politically and institutionally. Sean Gallagher - Nov 21, 2018 1:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Remember this guy?Digital privacy has come a long way since June 2013. In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the…
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Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one among Silicon Valley’s fastest-rising enterprise machine startups
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PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesn’t receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software companies receive. In fact, though it counts as customers heavyweight companies like Capital One, Spotify and Netflix; it employs 500 employees; and it has five offices around the world, it…
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12 cloth-lined items that cloak how technology might maybe perhaps even be more cosy
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Fabric-coated tech products have slowly but surely padded into the market in 2018, suggesting a future of gentle, unobtrusive devices. Here's a look at some of the best examples. Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort first predicted the rise of cosy technology more than 20 years ago, in the seminal exhibition Softwear. Her vision was for a future…
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IBM’s Watson helps tennis fans argue with every other
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New York (CNN Business)With spectators unable to fill stadiums, sports leagues have to get creative with new forms of digital engagement to keep fans entertained. During the US Open, which started Monday, the US Tennis Association is inviting fans to engage in online debates about some of the sport's most contested questions, with the help…
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Every thing to hold in thoughts sooner than donating cash
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experience greater happiness that even shows up in your brain activity. Whether you’d like to support fire victims and domestic violence survivors, or you want to be an effective ally to trans people, donating money to nonprofit and crowdfunding campaigns is an effective and tangible way to make a difference. Money helps fund critical programs…
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Human Embryo Gene Editing Will get a Highway Plot—Not a Green Light
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For decades, scientists have been tinkering with genes—cutting and pasting bits of DNA into organisms like plants, bacteria, and mice. So, of course, they thought about the possibility that one day someone might use such tools to alter human genes, even human germlines—making changes to people’s DNA that they’d pass on to future generations.In 2012…
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How scientists are discovering out dreams in the lab
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Once, studying dreams was the domain of mystics, prophets, and a certain sex-obsessed Austrian psychoanalyst. With neuroimaging techniques and better technology, dreams have become a focus of scientific research, from efforts to record dreams to studies investigating how lucid dreaming might be beneficial to mental health. Journalist Alice Robb is the author of Why We…
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7 Newbie Errors to Steer clear of When Adopting Really helpful Devices for Your Firm
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Many companies launch Internet of Things initiatives but few are successfully implemented. November 29, 2018 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It typically takes careful planning and execution to be successful when adopting any new technology. Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are no different. The problem is that some of us typically…
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What would occur if a solar storm hit Earth?
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Image copyright Getty Images A violent storm on the Sun could cripple communications on Earth and cause huge economic damage, scientists have warned. Why are solar storms such a threat? In 1972, dozens of sea mines off the coast of Vietnam mysteriously exploded.It was recently confirmed the cause was solar storms, which can significantly disrupt…
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Tesla, Uber, Waymo, and Cruise are going by draw of a foremost actuality evaluation as concerns mount for their self-riding car tech (TSLA, GM, GOOGL)
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Timelines presented by auto and tech companies have positioned 2018 and 2019 as milestones in the development of autonomous-driving technology. But delays, reported development issues, and a fatal crash have raised questions about the near-term potential of self-driving vehicles. Experts told Business Insider that the media and autonomous-driving industry have created unrealistic expectations about the…
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About a of the Simplest Industry Classes I’ve Realized, I’ve Realized From the Saddle
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Bicycling This Walmart tech executive shares his passion for mountain biking, and what it's taught him. Image credit: Courtesy of Jeremy King Jeremy King Guest Writer Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Walmart November 30, 2018 9 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Wheels up at 6 a.m.: That’s the only…
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How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Technical Wizardy Introduced Comedian Books to Existence
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Miles Morales hangs out in adorable concept art from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.Image: Jesus Alonso Iglesias (Titan)Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse looks like a goddamn living comic book. It’s vibrant and bold, and jam packed with cutting-edge animation technology that helped pioneer its inventive aesthetic. We’ve got an exclusive look at Titan’s upcoming guide to the…
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Stress mounts to bury carbon emissions, but who pays?
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LONDON (Reuters) - When countries gather on Sunday to hammer out how they will enact pledges to cut carbon emissions, a Norwegian-led oil consortium will offer a solution: pump some of your excess carbon dioxide to us and we could store it for you. Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired…
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Wall Side road is jumpy that a $1 billion acquisition will enable Virtu to scrutinize on purchasers, however the agency has a huge conception to quell those anxieties
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Virtu Financial got its start in the secretive world of high-frequency trading. But in recent years it has been trying to break into a business dominated by Wall Street's bulge bracket banks: buying stock on behalf of large asset-management clients such as hedge funds and pension firms. The acquisition of New York broker dealer ITG…
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Outdoors the Box: AI and machine studying might maybe net site the next Jobs, Gates, or Zuckerberg
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Microsoft’s Bill Gates (L), Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (R), and Apple’s Steve Jobs didn’t need a college diploma to run their companies.During the Industrial Revolution, many people feared that the emergence of new technologies — textile mills, factories, steam-powered manufacturing — would eliminate their jobs. Labors, artisans, and farm workers who relied on their physical toil…
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Disguise time is now not all the time all tiresome: Technology can get invaluable connections for varsity students
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Julia Freeland Fisher, Opinion contributor Published 7:00 a.m. ET Nov. 28, 2018 Healthy development and access to opportunity both hinge on relationships — and it turns out technology can help.At Willis Junior High school in Chandler, Ariz. on Dec. 19, 2012.(Photo: Michael Schennum/USA TODAY Network)In 2018, screen time and bad parenting are practically becoming synonyms.…
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Talking horses and agreeable faces: The upward thrust of virtual celebrities
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Image copyright Dengeki Online Image caption Virtual YouTubers are animated characters, often anonymously controlled by human users A different kind of internet celebrity is emerging; virtual characters that talk on YouTube or pose on Instagram like living, breathing people. Is this the dawn of a new breed of star?Kizuna AI has 2.3 million YouTube followers.…
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7 A hit Members Dish on Their Worst Job Interviews (and What they Learned)
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We’ve all got one of *those* stories.ImageCreditCreditGreg KletselPretty much everybody who’s ever held down a job has at least one bad interview story. For me, it’s showing up soaking wet in the middle of a downpour for an interview at a major publishing company.“This weather is terrible, isn’t it?” my interviewer asked as I stashed…
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Apple locations zero.33-celebration show camouflage time apps on stare
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A number of app developers building third-party screen time trackers and parental control applications are worried that Apple’s increased scrutiny of their apps in recent weeks is not a coincidence. With Apple’s launch of iOS 12, the company has implemented its own built-in screen time tracking tools and controls. Not long after, developers’ third-party screen…
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