The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International Space Station but have competing ideas of what a crewed Mars mission would look like. Size matters The biggest challenge (or constraint) is the mass of the payload (spacecraft, people, fuel, supplies etc) needed to make the journey. We still talk about launching something into space being like launching its weight in gold....
Considering coding bootcamps graduated more than 23,000 students in 2019, there are likely thousands who entered the workforce unprepared last year. That’s not to say coding bootcamps are bad. They offer efficient and affordable paths for people to jump-start careers in software development, and they help expand talent pipelines for businesses. 83% of graduates report being employed in programming jobs, and bootcamps help normalize the informal, self-directed education that’s already common among developers....
Search engines use a plethora of factors to determine how well your website ranks. However, as Google’s ranking algorithm updates keep shaking the digital marketing landscape to its core, domain authority (DA) has become one of the most critical website performance metrics. Here is what you need to know in order to increase it. What is Domain Authority? Originally developed by Moz, domain authority has gained momentum as one of the most significant ranking factors, contributing to 20% of your website’s success....
I spoke to Dr Tania Abdulezer, a UKCP accredited NLP psychotherapist and certified reverse therapist at Mind Your Language, to find out how to manage anxiety as we get to grips with our new reality. “Anxiety occurs when we are in ‘survival mode,’ activating our emotional and reptilian brain centres,” Abdulezer explains. [Read: Feeling lonely working from home? This nifty noise generator will re-create an office ambience] When this happens, Abdulezer says, it becomes impossible for us to access our rational brain, which is typically tasked with responsible problem-solving, memory, and other complex tasks....
When Harvard’s Leslie Perlow began to study The Boston Consulting Group, she was well aware of the firm’s round-the-clock reputation. After conducting interviews with BCG’s staff, Perlow found that this reputation was coming at a major cost. Employees were leaving the elite consulting firm, in part because they lacked control over their schedules. To address the issue, Perlow offered a simple proposition: If everyone who worked at BCG hated the always-on lifestyle, why not try to give consultants at least a “single predictable night off a week?...
Apple’s Keychain password manager is a handy way to store your credentials and not worry about having to remember them. However, this is mostly limited to the company’s own devices, which means you can only invoke Keychain to fill out passwords on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Now, thanks to Apple’s new iCloud password extension for Google Chrome, you can use Keychain in the browser on your Windows or Linux desktop, as well as Chromebooks....
Given good enough architecture, the larger the model, the more learning capacity it has. Thus, these new models have huge learning capacity and are trained on very, very large datasets. Because of that, they learn the entire distribution of the datasets they are trained on. One can say that they encode compressed knowledge of these datasets. This allows these models to be used for very interesting applications—the most common one being transfer learning....
According to a new report published by Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen and Lucas Shaw, the Google-owned company is painfully aware its kid-friendly alternative isn’t appealing to children, and that it’s struggling to make it safe for the few kids that end up using it. Those who do watch YouTube kids don’t stick around for long either, the report says, instead shifting over to YouTube’s main site as soon as they turn 13-years old....
Well, it seems that Huawei’s first OLED TV wants to change that. The Huawei Smart TV X65 — which has just had a whole load of details about it revealed — is jam-packed full of interesting features. The thing is, now they’re close to hitting the market, I’m not sure I want them. To backtrack a bit, Richard Yu — Huawei’s consumer business CEO — posted a deluge of new information about Huawei’s first OLED TV on Weibo, including some posters: According to Gizchina, the Huawei Smart TV X65 will have a new type of display technology....
Apparently, that might be quite soon. A report from cnBeta suggests the Mate X will arrive in China in limited quantities by the end of this month. It will likely go out in a small batch to quell any potential early issues – which the Mate X seems particularly at risk for, considering its design. Whereas the Galaxy Fold hides the screen when folded, the Mate X keeps it as exposed to the elements as ever....
I miss Apple’s AirPort range. Back when I was taking my first forays into home networking, these wireless routers and extenders were a vital part of my setup. Yet, as per usual, good things couldn’t last. Back in 2018, Apple bowed out of the networking game entirely and discontinued its AirPort and Time Capsule line-up. Besides me, one who hasn’t let this slide is Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In a piece published earlier this week, the renowned Apple analyst and leaker called for the company to reintroduce Wi-Fi routers as part of its product portfolio....
The Barcelona-based team consisting of a nurse, a firefighter, and three developers will receive $200,000 and assistance from IBM and its partners to bring the project to life. Promoteo began as an endeavor by firefighter Joan Herrera. Realizing there were no systems in place to monitor the health of firefighters combating wildfires, Herrera and nurse Vicenç Padró began collecting data by hand. Eventually, they joined forces with three IT professionals, Salomé Valero, Josep Ràfols, and Marco Rodriguez, and the team joined the Call For Code challenge....
Artificial intelligence is a backbone technology that nearly all enterprises rely on. The majority of our coverage here on Neural tends to discuss the challenges involved in training and developing AI models. But when it comes to deploying AI models so that they can do what they’re supposed to do when they’re supposed to do it, the sheer scale of the problem is astronomical. Think about it: you log in to your banking account and there’s a discrepancy....
According to a press release, $1.2 billion will go towards backing growth rounds and the remaining $800 million will be used to support more nascent companies. [Read: Don’t believe the hype: Why skepticism is increasingly important for VCs] Interestingly — and perhaps unsurprisingly given the current climate — the fund will specifically target companies fundamentally changing how we live and work, as well as those providing enterprise infrastructure and AI to underpin these changes....
Websites of environmental advocacy organizations There is no Earth B, LetIndiaBreathe.in (LIB), and FridaysForFuture (FFF) have now been blocked for several days because of a government order that’s not come to the fore till now. However, there’s no clarity as to why the order was issued. For those of you lucky few who still can, checkout https://t.co/FYISshaybw to send/encourage mails against Draft EIA'20 https://t.co/5LcoFXjuhh pic.twitter.com/GUM3iBz08a — ThereIsNoEarthB (@thereisnoearthb) July 10, 2020 In a statement, There is no Earth B said that the organization is still ascertaining the reason behind their website being blocked despite not hosting any objectionable content: Fridays For Future India, the country arm of an initiative started by Greta Thunberg, also issued a similar statement....
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and Purdue University have announced their plan to integrate wireless charging into the state’s highways thanks to a special magnetizable concrete, called “magment.” Developed by the homonymous German firm Magment, this concrete product consists of cement and recycled magnetic particles. As per the company, the concrete medium has “record-breaking wireless transmission efficiency… up to 95%,” and “standard road-building installation costs, while “enabling universal charging,” among other uses....
The global influencer market was estimated to be worth $13.8 billion (£11.2 billion) in 2021. Individual influencers such as Zoella and Deliciously Ella are worth around £4.7 million and £2.5 million, respectively. Some 300,000 people aged 18-26 are already using content creation as their sole income source. The lifestyles we see advertised on social media are enticing, but is influencing a viable career path? Underneath the glossy exterior lies precarious income, pay inequality based on sex, race and disability, and mental health issues....
The idea is that this should prevent strangers sending you hateful messages; pings from people you don’t know are already filtered into a separate inbox, so this takes things one step further. [Read: 3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers] Instagram noted that you’ll have the option to “turn both comment and DM request filters on and off in a new dedicated section of your Privacy Settings called Hidden Words....
Here’s what we’ve got in store for you today. JSTOR, the infamous popular online library has 6,000 of its ebooks and 150 journals under open access. You can also read 26 of its public health journal archives till June 30. The European Space Agency (ESA) has some kickass tools to take you to infinity and beyond. These tools include a star mapper, a telescope explorer, and a few documentaries....
Here’s what Apple has to say about the new feature on its iOS 13 page: Last year, Apple introduced the ability to report spam messages and calls through a third-party extension with iOS 12. As a result of that, India’s telco regulator released a much-awaited DND app last November. Earlier, popular apps like Truecaller came to iOS users’ rescue when it came to identifying spam calls. However, there was no automatic ‘silencing’ of calls....
