Only to sing a verse later, ‘someone sleeps tonight with a hunger that’s more than an empty fridge.’ The song is 12 years old, but the message is current. Major cities like New York, London, and Hong Kong have become symbolic of ‘making it’. The wins are big, the falls are crushing. Innovation thrives, and so does inequality. This polarity has caused chaos for young people. Armed with expensive educations, low credit scores, and limited access to loans, young professionals have been thrust into a world of zero hour contracts, back-to-back financial crises, and Covid-19....

The 4a is expected to have a 5.8-inch, 2340 x 1080 screen and come with a plastic body. It’ll be powered by a Snapdragon 730, and will have Google’s custom Titan M security chip. There is, however, no Pixel Neural Core to help with image processing and AI tasks. There’s 6GB of RAM onboard and 64 and 128GB storage configurations. The battery is pegged at 3,080 mAh, but there’s no wireless charging on board....

In theory, any intersection on the map between viral and human proteins is a place where drugs could fight the coronavirus. But instead of trying to develop new drugs to work on these points of interaction, we turned to the more than 2,000 unique drugs already approved by the FDA for human use. We believed that somewhere on this long list would be a few drugs or compounds that interact with the very same human proteins as the coronavirus....

But after FluidFreeRide let me try its new Mantis, a $1,499 vehicle I’d assumed to be complete overkill, I realized there are many legitimate reasons to want a 40 mph scooter. The Mantis’ powerful acceleration is incredibly fun, but it’s also simply built to a different standard than the cheap vehicles most people associate with e-scooters. Do you want a scooter with rock-solid build quality, impressive range, pillowy-soft suspension, and stable maneuvering?...

I can only assume they don’t know a good RPG when they see one. Because, in my not-so-humble opinion, NBA2K20 is the best roleplaying game ever made. Even if you hate sports games, don’t like basketball, and haven’t the slightest clue who any of the people in the NBA are, this game still deserves a spot on your shelf next to your favorite RPGs. The first RPG video game I played was Venture on the Atari 2600....

Then I got my hands on the Litter-Robot 3 Connect. Long story short: it has been an absolute game-changer for my home, and I can’t imagine ever going back to a regular old litter box. Even if the $499 price ($449 for the wi-fi-less version) is a tough pill to swallow, the convenience of almost never having to think about litter is worth it. I took my time before writing this review because I wanted to make sure the experience actually held up over an extended period....

The big deal: On the surface this sounds awesome. If someone commits a crime in your neighborhood and everyone has a Ring doorbell installed, there’s a pretty good chance someone’s surveillance system caught something. But the reality of surveillance is entirely different. There are literally hundreds of studies and thousands of cautionary tales that have been written about the dangers of surveillance. And Ring is arguably more dangerous than any other kind of surveillance system because it invades our homes....

This latest incident illustrates yet again how, beyond carrying all of our phone, text, and internet communications, cyberspace is an active battleground, with cybercriminals, government agents, and even military personnel probing weaknesses in corporate, national, and even personal online defenses. Some of the most talented and dangerous cybercrooks and cyberwarriors come from Russia, which is a longtime meddler in other countries’ affairs. Over the decades, Russian operators have stolen terabytes of data, taken control of millions of computers, and raked in billions of dollars....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Stephen Hawking used to say: Fight the power! Bitcoin price We closed the day, August 30 2020, at a price of $11,711. That’s a minor 1.76 percent increase in 24 hours, or $202. It was the highest closing price in five days. We’re still 41 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Albert Einstein used to say: Fight the power! Bitcoin price We closed the day, August 23 2020, at a price of $11,664. That’s a minor 0.12 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$14.85. It was the lowest closing price in one day. We’re still 41 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Stephen Hawking used to say: Your heart must go on! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 29 2020, at a price of $5,922. That’s a worrying 5.18 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$323.57. It was the lowest closing price in six days. We’re still 70 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Aristotle used to say: Shleppppppp it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, June 10 2020, at a price of $9,870. That’s a minor 0.77 percent increase in 24 hours, or $75. It was the highest closing price in eight days. We’re still 50 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Getting the time right is important in so many ways, from running a railway to doing millisecond trades on the stock market. Now, for most of us, our clocks are checking themselves against a signal from atomic clocks, like those on board the global positioning system (GPS) satellites. But a recent study by two teams of scientists in Boulder, Colorado might mean those signals will get much more accurate, by paving the way to effectively allow us to redefine the second more precisely....

Florida Aquarium Senior Coral Scientist Keri O’Neil, aka “The Coral Whisperer,” and her team of researchers today announced they’d successfully spawned Atlantic coral in a laboratory – the first time this has been accomplished. The implications for their work will almost certainly save “America’s Barrier Reef,” and will probably have a huge impact on efforts to resuscitate coral populations around the world. Not bad for a group of people who’ve spent the last few years teaching sex ed....

Behold the Stanford ankle exoskeleton: Up front: While the device itself is a complex mash-up of AI and mobility technologies, the idea behind it is pretty simple. It connects to a user’s ankles and supports movement using a pulley system that lifts the wearer’s heel up when they step, thus reducing the energy and force necessary to point their toe down as they begin the next step. Per the researchers’ paper: A 42% increase in walking speed is a remarkable improvement....

As most testing takes place inside hospitals in the UK and many other countries, the confirmed cases so far largely capture people who show symptoms. But to accurately predict the consequences of lifting the restrictions, we need to understand how many people with COVID-19 don’t show symptoms and to what extent they are contagious. A recent study, published in the British Medical Journal, suggested that 78% of people with COVID-19 have no symptoms....

Thanks to a collaboration between the [email protected] Consortium and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, you can donate your unused computational resources so researchers can use them to better understand the coronavirus. All you need to do is download this free client, which connects your PC to a distributed network of computers. [Read more: TNW reschedules 2020 event to October 1 & 2] The additional computation power will make it faster to process models that could lead to a cure for the virus, also known as COVID-19....

In an overly dramatic video, spotted by industry magazine Visor Down, Segway teased its Apex electric motorcycle. The Apex is reported to have a 0-100 time of 2.9 seconds and top out at 201kph (ca. 125mph). Sadly though, there has been no mention of the kind of range that the batteries will deliver. That’s kind of an important statistic in the world of electric vehicles. In the video, a motorcyclist can be seen putting in a “hot lap” to the high-pitch shrill of the Apex’s electric motor....

Fast forward to May, when I got to test the Serial 1 Mosh/Cty: a powerful, single-speed ebike that makes urban riding feel breezy and simple. Let’s break down all I’ve learnt during my time with it. How’s the design? The Mosh/Cty looks like a heavy throwback to the original 1903 Harley Davidson “Serial Number One” motorcycle: from its bold design language and strong lines, to its huge wheels. Despite its rather large size (for instance, its wheels measure 27....

In an announcement on July 22, the company said its desktop client now loads 33 percent faster than before, and yet uses 50 percent less memory than older versions. It also loads voice calls 10 times quicker. In addition to the boost in performance, the new Slack version lets you preview conversations and chats you’ve already loaded, even when your network connection is down. The announcement comes only a week after Slack forced a platform-wide automatic password reset in a measure to protect users against a breach dating back to 2015....