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 Baudriallard used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 5 2019, at a price of $8,151. That’s a minor 0.71 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$58.64. It was the lowest closing price in five days....
Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are chock-full of features that allow for optimum productivity. If you know how to navigate through these programs, not only will you get to accomplish your deliverables faster, but you’ll increase your job prospects, too. “Really solid-to-advanced Microsoft Excel skills are hugely valuable and are required in a vast range of industries and occupations,” says labor economist Julia Pollak. If you only have a surface-level understanding of these two programs, The Premium Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel Certification Bundle packs 18 hours of expert-led training on their functionalities, helping you master sorting, analyzing, and reporting data....
Over the past decade, psychologists have established that our ability to recognize faces varies a lot – much like the ability to sing, for instance. While a small proportion of the population simply can’t hold a note at all, and most are content to confine their very average efforts to the shower, at the top end there are outstanding singers, such as Adele. [Read: How to recognize an alien when you see one] Researchers believe the same applies to facial-recognition ability....
While brave healthcare workers are fighting the spread on the frontlines, you can do your part by following official instructions, washing your hands, practicing social distancing, and… sharing memes. Yes, you read that right, sharing memes, for the advancement of science! Researchers at the University of Amsterdam and KU Leuven have begun a collection of memes, jokes, funny tweets, and other humorous coronavirus content — and they’re asking for your help....
Yes, folks, I present to you Jeep’s very first EV, the… Okay, it doesn’t even have a name yet. But here it is: If you don’t feel wowed, I feel you. It’s a slick-looking car, yet rather ordinary, and I expected something more from the automaker’s electric vehicle flagship. And if you’re thinking “don’t judge a book by its cover,” let me stop you right there. Because we know absolutely nothing about what’s inside the car....
I hope that, by sharing our learnings, we can help other companies facing a similar situation to weather the storm and come out stronger. Around February 2020 we saw our revenue going down. People started to postpone their courses because they weren’t sure if they’d be allowed to fly anymore or be in a classroom together. It was clear pretty early on that social distancing was going to be a big problem for us because 95% of our learning journeys were based on in-person training....
Reducing the data-dependency of deep learning is currently among the top priorities of AI researchers. In his keynote speech at the AAAI conference, computer scientist Yann LeCun discussed the limits of current deep learning techniques and presented the blueprint for “self-supervised learning,” his roadmap to solve deep learning’s data problem. LeCun is one of the godfathers of deep learning and the inventor of convolutional neural networks (CNN), one of the key elements that have spurred a revolution in artificial intelligence in the past decade....
GLAAD evaluated the companies using 12 LGBTQ-specific indicators of online safety in regard to privacy, freedom of expression, and explicit protections. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, all scored poorly on the group’s scorecard — less than 50% out of 100%. Here are the detailed scores from highest to lowest: Among the most alarming concerns pinpointed by the report is targeted deadnaming and misgendering, with Twitter and TikTok being the only platforms offering adequate protection....
The AI adds “musically plausible” kick drum beats invariant to tempo and time-shift. The research team used 665 pop, rock, and hip-hop tracks to train the model where rhythm instruments including bass, kick and snare are available as separate 44.1kHz audio tracks. In the recently released research paper, the team said it lays out the track as a sequence of mapping code of kick vs bass and snare inputs: After all these processing researchers made drum kicks by placing a ‘one-shot’ drum sample at amplitude peaks....
Up to now, the only Android devices for which Remote Play was compatible were Sony’s own Xperias. Now, according to Sony’s announcement, it’ll work with all devices running Android 5.0 or higher — meaning you can finally use that tantalizing Remote Play app on the Play Store. Given the Xperias have had Remote Play as a feature since 2014, it felt like a cruel joke for Sony to make them the only Android phones compatible with Remote Play, and that’s finally been rectified....
The streaming service announced that starting today podcast descriptions will be more prominent so you can get a sense of what a show is about at a glance, without having to swipe for further details.. It’ll also display “descriptive show categories” under each podcast, ranging from “personal stories” to “true crime,” “travel,” and “relationships.” [Read: Spotify now suggests which podcasts you should listen to next] In addition to those changes, Spotify is also moving “trailer” snippets all the way to the top of the episode list, so you can preview a show before committing....
Usually, you download songs on your phone for traveling or the times when the network is patchy. But I think downloading them on the desktop is also important. This could be useful for when you forgot to download an album on your phone while taking a flight, or you simply don’t want to use your phone for a while. Plus, whenever Spotify’s Hi-Fi service arrives, you can listen to your offline tracks through a better audio setup that plugs into your desktop than your phone when your internet service is choppy....
According to new research, Google’s Play Store is riddled with thousands of possible malware-ridden counterfeit apps and games. The two year study, conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Data61, analyzed more than a million Android apps on the platform. They found an alarming number that impersonated legitimate apps and games. “We were able to find 2,040 potential counterfeits that contain malware in a set of 49,608 apps that showed high similarity to one of the top-10,000 popular apps in Google Play Store,” the study noted....
This is done using an algorithm based on your past activity on the platform, such as the tweets that you have liked or engaged with. It may also be based on your preferences on your profile, where you have indicated topics you would like to see in your Twitter feed. “Machine learning” is used to automatically learn from user preferences and apply this to data the system hasn’t seen before....
American firm Superpedestrian claims to have designed an inbuilt sensor-based geofenced system on its LINK e-scooters which ensures riders cannot use them within a second of leaving an authorized zone. The company, founded by urban transport experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has received approval to operate in the UK from the Department for Transport (DfT) and is currently in talks with local authorities in London regarding upcoming escooter trials....
We were, therefore, thrilled to have their CEO, Marc de Vries, take the stage at the TNW 2021 conference and tell us more about how the company is disrupting bike sustainability Founded in 2014 in the Netherlands, the scale-up has over 260,000 members in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Austria, Spain, and the UK. The concept of Swapfiets is quite simple: For a monthly subscription fee, Swapfiets members receive a fully functional bicycle or e-mobility solution for their own use....
For any novice coders or even those looking to brush up on the fundamentals, the entire JS ecosystem is the training focus of the JavaScript Master Class. It’s on sale now at nearly 90 percent off, only $10.99 from TNW Deals. With 299 lectures, more than 30 hours of content and 70 different hands-on exercises, this training will have even a coding first-timer grasping the driving concepts behind JavaScript as well as the tools to use it to its fullest potential....
The 15-year-old in question, going by the name of “Dorothy” on Twitter, had her phone taken away from her after she got distracted while cooking and lit her house on fire, according to The Guardian. But she managed to find other ways to keep her followers updated, including tweeting from her Nintendo 3DS game console claiming she’s leaving forever. — dorothy ? (@thankunext327) August 8, 2019 Because moms know what their kid is going to do before they even do it, she confiscated the Nintendo and let her daughter’s followers know the account “will be shut down now....
There’s a fair amount of young people at my company, and some of them are single and actively dating. Recently one of them showed me how Hitch worked, and the amazing results she got using the app. I was impressed by her story, and the interface of the app, but even more by their tagline: Designed to be deleted. Our purpose as human beings is ultimately to play an important part in the continuation of our species....
According to an investigation by white hat hacker, GreenTheOnly, previously used Tesla infotainment components have been found for sale online. The real kicker though, is that Tesla isn’t wiping the past customer’s personal data from the hardware before passing them on, InsideEVs reports. [Read: Tesla pulls a slick sales move in China, lowers Model 3 price to fit new subsidy limit] Green allegedly obtained four Tesla MCUs (media control units) from eBay and found that the previous owners personal data was still present and freely accessible....
