China has a history of making dramatic moves aimed at cutting down children’s gaming time, which have included a cyber curfew set in 2019 restricting game play at night, to forcing players to make their real names and identification numbers visible when playing. Some parents have sent kids to military-style anti-gaming camps. It’s clear China is associating time spent gaming with addiction; that more time gaming equals addiction. However, the way the World Health Organization defines addictive gaming disorder is different....

MAX, or Model Assets Exchange, is an online open-source repository for trainable/deployable AI models. You don’t necessarily have to be an AI expert to use the database – there’s even a tutorial that’ll walk you through developing an AI that can write captions – but some of the models available will probably only appeal to enterprise developers. CODAIT also launched the Data Assets Exchange (DAX). Where MAX hosts full AI models, DAX contains datasets that can be used to train your own....

We use selfies for a variety of purposes, ranging from the social to the professional. According to a 2018 survey, 82% of US adults under 34 had posted a selfie on social media. Until the pandemic hit pause on public gatherings, an entire industry was dedicated to generating selfie events and museums. Given this tremendous reach and popularity, the last four years have seen the phenomenon begin to receive attention within the cognitive sciences....

At one point, I thought it was all part of a big conspiracy and the Nuro vehicle featured in the video wasn’t autonomous, but was just a mock up with a human driver inside, and the wing mirrors were there to provide rear vision. This isn’t true, though. [Read: Survey: Drop in pollution gets Brits interested in electric vehicles] Even though Nuro’s R1 vehicle is capable of driving with no human intervention, it needed wing mirrors because outdated regulations said so....

As of May 2020 there are 182 treatments and 99 different vaccines being developed globally. But, based on recent history, only one or two are likely to be transformative, a couple may be partially helpful, some will be shown as downright dangerous, and the majority will have conflicting evidence as to their effectiveness. This is because medical research is a slow and painstaking process. It is also very complicated and easy to come to the wrong conclusions....

— abhishek (@abhishek_tri) March 9, 2021 — Shashi Patel (@shashipatel123) March 9, 2021 The reason is India’s new SMS verification system. Telecom operators have started rolling out a blockchain-based Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that forces telemarketers to register, and avoid being identified as spam — and therefore blocked.. After registration, marketers have to compose and distribute messages that comply with pre-approved templates. Telecom operators will scrub these messages to check the content, and send it only to folks who have given their consent to receive texts from select companies....

I made OpenAI’s GPT-2 (one of the world’s most advanced AI-powered text generators) spit out horoscopes for all 12 zodiac signs. Accomplishing this was actually quite easy. I went to the Talk To Transformer website where programmer Adam King maintains an interactive version of GPT-2 and entered “What is my horoscope for” prompts for each sign. It works like this: GPT-2 isn’t always coherent. In the video above it’s generating nonsense and gibberish....

I believe the reason why this approach is working so well for tech ventures is a simple one: It’s about recognizing reality. The customer is now in charge of the buying process. Their journey does not start with the company website: A recent 2018 Demand Gen survey showed 65 percent of buyers rely more on peer recommendations and review sites — a huge increase from just 20 percent in 2012....

It might not sound like much, but at three months old an infant has a basic grasp of how physical things work. They understand advanced concepts such as solidity and permanence – objects typically don’t pass through one another or disappear – and they can predict motion. To study this, researchers show infants videos of objects acting the way they should, such as passing behind an object and emerging on the other side, and others where they seemingly break the laws of physics....

In 2018, an AI anchor developed by China’s Xinhua news agency made its debut. Earlier this month, the agency released an improved version that mimics human voices and gestures. There’s been advancement in AI with text-based news with algorithms writing great headlines. China’s search giant Baidu has developed a new AI model called Vidpress that brings video and text together by creating a clip based on articles. The company has currently deployed Vidpress on its short videos app Haokan and only works with Mandarin language....

On Sept. 2，2021, government regulators banned their appearance on both television and video streaming sites. Using the Chinese derogatory slur “niang pao” – literally, “girlie guns” – Chinese cultural authorities explained that they were rolling out a rule to purge “morally flawed celebrities” in order to “correct aesthetics” in “performing styles” and “wardrobes and makeups.” Technically this is a rule, not a law. But thanks to the strong control the Chinese government exerts over industry, the tech companies that give these celebrities a platform have quickly fallen in line....

That’s why a growing population of innovative entrepreneurs from emerging markets are taking hold of the opportunities emerging tech can bring to build products, find solutions, and provide services that meet the needs of the other 85% of the global population. This movement has the potential to help close the gap between emerging and developed countries but, in order to make this change happen, we must prioritize making access to technology, IT and STEM skills, and funding available to everyone....

What was it that allowed me to deliver so much faster? And why is it that serial entrepreneurs seem to execute far faster than they did their first-time around? Sure, experience is key. But what is it that serial entrepreneurs do differently when building a new company? More importantly, how can it be replicated by first time entrepreneurs? Below are the top five things I am doing differently this time around as I build my latest InsurTech startup Rnwl, which focus on insurance renewals....

Of course, you’ve heard this story many, many times before. An older woman looking for love and companionship meets a predator posing as a lonely heart, only to be duped out of thousands of dollars. Sometimes these cases can be frustrating, and leave us asking how the victim missed all the glaring red flags. In the end, Cathy discovered that the pictures Marc had sent her were actually of a Brazilian pastor....

Some 49 years later, we are approaching the launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission. Artemis is the latest in a long series of projects over many decades to attempt a human return to the Moon. It’s by far the closest one to being realized, with the earliest launch attempts currently scheduled for March 2022. Artemis 1 will not carry astronauts, but it will launch the first spacecraft capable of doing so on a return journey to lunar orbit in nearly 50 years....

As we enter this new era, it’s critical to build teams that encourage inclusion, community, and empathy. Some leaders are struggling to answer these questions: how do you foster a team environment when you’re miles apart? When conversations at the water cooler and in-person brainstorm sessions can evolve into big company objectives, how do you find opportunities to collaborate and encourage out-of-the box ideas? And as a manager, how do you discover new ways to hire diverse and scalable teams?...

Sharing music is one of the best uses of Discord we’ve yet found. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found a song I loved via a Discord server, most of which have a dedicated channel just for sharing music. There’s also an easy way to show your chums what you’re listening to on Spotify. No, not by telling them. That would involve interacting with other humans, and we can’t be having that nonsense here at TNW....

Moreover, the company is giving you a good deal more flexibility on timing. While previously you could only set messages to disappear after 7 days, now WhatsApp provides the option to delete messages after 24 hours or 90 days as well. These are welcome choices as everyone has a different idea of how permanent messages should be. For some folks, a day is enough, making conversations nearly as ephemeral as real-time conversation in the grand scheme of things....

Your Google Photos image collection can already feature in a personalized screensaver or picture carousel on smart devices around your home, such as the Nest Hub. And now, those photos can also grace your Android phone’s home screen in the form of live wallpaper. Google Photos’ latest app update enables you to set your memories as an automatically rotating wallpaper. To use this feature, you should have the app’s v5....

This coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, spreads through droplet transmission, such as coughing or sneezing. It may also be possible for employees to pick up the virus from touching contaminated surfaces. [Read: 9 tips to perfect your ‘working from home’ morning routine] Traditional offices bring employees together physically — making it easier to get and spread the virus. To stay operational, companies around the world are strongly encouraging their workforces to work remotely from home....