The oceans of Europa may be habitable, according to a new model developed by NASA. This moon — 3,100 km (1,900 miles) in diameter — is the fourth-largest moon orbiting Jupiter. Although smaller than our own Moon, Europa is larger than Pluto. The Voyager and Galileo spacecraft revealed images and data from Europa revealing vast storehouses of water beneath the surface of the giant moon. However, the chemical makeup of these extraterrestrial oceans remains uncertain....

I’ve fallen foul to clichéd cargasms and written about my love for classic car restorations that feature modern all-electric drivetrains before. For me, the joy that can be extracted from old cars is found in their aesthetic, and a good ol’ Rolls is, and always will be, a shining example of that classic exuberant style. [Read: No, Uber and Lyft aren’t shutting down in California just yet] So let me introduce you to my latest car crush, Lunaz’ all-electric Rolls-Royce Phantom — I’ll give you a minute to take it in: Like the Jag before it, the Phantom gets the typical Lunaz treatment, which includes a full structural and aesthetic restoration back to near original spec....

A fleet of 100 remote-controlled scooters is being piloted at the city-owned Curiosity Lab technology testing ground in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. It is understood to be the first trial of its type on public roads. Citizens will be able to hail a scooter via an app and the vehicle will be automatically returned to a base when the ride is over. Go X created the scooter and ride-hailing app, while Tortoise developed the remote repositioning system....

You hear retailers try to push cut-rate earbuds with phrases like, “These are better than AirPods.” Of course, they don’t usually explain how they’re better beyond the lower price. Most often, it’s because they aren’t. Thankfully, the PaMu Slide Mini Bluetooth 5.0 headphones are decidedly not cut-rate earbuds. In fact, they sound better, have a longer battery life and, at $59.99 (59 percent off right now from TNW Deals), are yes, a heck of a lot cheaper than a pair of Apple AirPods....

Cable management may not seem like a big deal. It often isn’t when you’re only dealing with a single cord that charges your phone or one feeding power to your smartwatch. But once you start stacking up device after device, all with their own individual power needs, it starts to get a lot more complicated keeping all those cords straight. Complicated…and messy. Yes, very, very messy. Before too long, it’s like R2-D2 exploded on your desk....

How do I know this? Easy — because of this AI-driven meme generator. God, that was smooth. Anyway, the folks over at Imgflip created something called This Meme Does Not Exist, a meme generator powered by a deep artificial neural network. I was alerted to its existence when one of my friends (shout out you, Ruby) sent me this magnificent Tweet by K. Thor Jensen: — K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) April 28, 2020 And, as I’m sure you’re well aware of by now, it’s amazing....

The internet is great, but for women in particular, that’s not always the case. Because of the wonderful world wide web, there’s a greater risk of non-consensual interactions and new opportunities for perpetrators to target and abuse their victims — whether it’s an abusive message waiting in your inbox or an unsolicited cyber-flash from a complete stranger, unsolicited dick pics have become an all too common form of sexual harassment....

Maybe this was the year you finally did it. A full 100 yards of string lights. Accent icicle lights around every window and awning. Spools of twinkle lights around each and every tree and bush. Even some of those new laser lights to shower your home in shimmering holiday glory. But when you fired up the motorized Santa sleigh with all 8 reindeer, your commitment to the season may have downed the neighborhood power grid....

You are the unique combination of DNA markers that coalesced together to form you. They’re why you like and dislike certain foods, react the way you do to specific environmental conditions, and even explain some of your more idiosyncratic behavior patterns. It’s no different for your dog. Except of course, he or she can’t explain to you why their DNA is telling them to howl at the mailman or chew up your drapes or develop that itch when you tried to change their dog food brand....

Enter GIFcap, a browser-based tool that lets you capture GIFs without the need to download or install any new software. All you need to do is load up the site, and start recording. The cool bit about GIFcap is it lets you choose if you want to capture your entire screen, a separate application window, or an individual tab. Pretty handy. Once you’re done recording, you can adjust the length of the GIF with the trimming feature, which resides right under the playback bar UI....

The big idea A unique material, nickel oxide demonstrates the ability to learn things about its environment in a way that emulates the most basic learning abilities of animals, as my colleagues and I describe in a new paper. For over half a century, neuroscientists have studied sea slugs to understand basic animal learning. Two fundamental concepts of learning are habituation and sensitization. Habituation occurs when an organism’s response to a repeated stimulus continuously decreases....

The firm has developed Oscar, an image-detection based AI, that recognizes objects in your hand and guides you to put things in correct bins. Oh, and that’s not all: If you throw stuff in the wrong bin, Oscar will scold you for your mistake. Does that count as trash talk? The company’s founders, Hassan Murad and Vivek Vyas, aim to build the world’s largest dataset for garage items called WasteNet....

Trying to unravel the intricate inner workings of one of the premier project management approaches can feel like trying to learn a foreign language. In fact, the two really aren’t all that different. Both employ whole new vocabularies and require an intimate understanding of very precise methodologies to make sure you actually know what you’re talking about. Considering the complexities, it could be the reason you’ve run into trouble studying for tests like the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam or the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification Exam before was your process, and not your comprehension....

It might sound farfetched, but a group of scientists has developed a “gel” — a thermogalvanic gel to be precise — that can simultaneously cool batteries and turn heat into electricity. [Read: Alternative electrode materials could unlock the secret to faster-charging EV batteries] According to the scientists, they were able to use a 2 mm film of the gel to reduce the temperature of a fast-charging cell phone battery by 68 F (about 20 degrees Celsius) whilst generating five μW (microwatts)....

Enter Unscreen. This free tool practically lets you drop any video or GIF, and then removes the background for you, leaving only the subject in. [Read: 3 easy ways to remove backgrounds from images] I tried the app with one of our own videos, and the result was surprisingly good. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still some bits and pieces that should’ve been removed but weren’t; there’s also the problem of overcutting the actual subject....

Here’s the gist: Quantum physics tells us that quantum particles exist in a state called superposition until they’re measured. If you imagine a quantum particle as a coin, it’s neither heads nor tails and both heads and tails until such time as a measurement is performed (you flip it, wait for it to come to a stop, and decide whether it’s heads or tails). If a quantum particle isn’t measured, it should remain in superposition....

In 2018, when Disney started its direct-to-consumer & international unit, Mayer became its head and began working on the company’s streaming services. Apart from launching Disney+, he helped the company launch ESPN+, and was a key part in acquiring 21st Century Fox, which made Disney a majority stakeholder in Hulu and India’s Hotstar. Mayer was touted to become the company’s CEO. However, when Bob Iger left the firm earlier this year, he bypassed Mayer and handed over the crown to Bob Chapek, who was the chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products....

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to plot more efficient bus routes based on how they are used throughout the day. Machine learning (ML) algorithms could eventually inform updates to 150 routes used by 2,158 buses across Dubai, the RTA said. The authority trialled the system on ten public bus routes over thirty days, using Nol Card (Dubai’s public transport smart card) data to understand patterns such as which bus stops were busy all day, which were primarily used during peak hours and those that were rarely used....

Deep learning models owe their initial success to large servers with large amounts of memory and clusters of GPUs. The promises of deep learning gave rise to an entire industry of cloud computing services for deep neural networks. Consequently, very large neural networks running on virtually unlimited cloud resources became very popular, especially among wealthy tech companies that can foot the bill. But at the same time, recent years have also seen a reverse trend, a concerted effort to create machine learning models for edge devices....

My colleague Tristan is great at traversing through these papers, but I’m just a novice. So, I would want a quick summary of a research document to decide if I want to dedicate more time reading it. Thankfully, researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a new model to summarize text from scientific papers, and present it in a few sentences in the form of TL;DR (Too Long Didn’t Read)....