The not-for-profit organization has announced it’s exploring a bunch of “alternative funding models for the web.” To that effect, it said it has started testing an ad-free news subscription product for $5 per month in collaboration with Scroll, a news subscription startup. The service is expected to offer ad-free browsing, audio versions of news articles, and cross-platform syncing of news stories from multiple websites. Scroll currently has an ad-free news subscription in collaboration with 12 media partners, including Slate, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, USA Today, and Vox....

Elon Musk has revealed that he hates being the CEO of Tesla. Oh boy! Specifically, The Wall Street Journal reports the following words: Well, I don’t know about you, but I feel devastated by the emotional turmoil he has been going through… But wait, there’s more! According to Reuters, he also said that he has tried “very hard not to be the CEO of Tesla, but I have to or frankly Tesla is going to die....

This year, however, there are two versions of the world’s most popular basketball sim. And it’s important to know which one you’ll be playing. There’s a current gen version that’s only available to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series players. That’s right, you read that correctly: PC players get the last generation version that’s also available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. What does that mean? Well, you’ll be missing out on a lot if you’re stuck in the last gen....

Admit it, you take your mouse and keyboard for granted. How often do you actually think about how much time your fingers spend sprinting over the keys or clicking your way across the web? Well, if you’re gonna type or surf (and you’re gonna), you might as well up your accessory game with the mouse and keyboard that best fit your needs and (just as importantly) your style. Check out this assortment of cool Azio keyboard and mouse options, all at up to 24 percent off right now with this TNW Deals sale....

But doomscrolling through Netflix’s catalog is no longer the only way to find those rare nuggets of gold. After years of testing, the streaming behemoth has finally launched a shuffle button that lets an algorithm do the digging instead. Imaginatively named “Play Something,” the feature recommends shows based on your viewing history. Click the button and Netflix will play a series or film that the recommendation system thinks you’ll enjoy....

The artist, which has directed cult classics like Fight Club, Se7en, The Social Network, Zodiac, and Gone Girl, revealed the news in an interview with French outlet Premiere. There aren’t many details as to what the partnership involves, but the move makes perfect sense given the pair’s evolving relationship. [Read: Traders dump Zoom for Expedia as Pfizer vaccine teases life after COVID] Fincher’s collaboration with Netflix dates back to House of Cards, for which he directed the opening two episodes and served as an executive producer....

If you want to start a riot in any household, you don’t have to yell or pick a fight or point out a raging injustice. All you have to do is shut off the WiFi. Within seconds, everyone will be running around like a crazy person in a house fire. Everyone now depends on a steady, reliable access point to the web — and if it goes south, there will be hell to pay....

While the research itself is interesting – they created an algorithm that keeps the devices from constantly needing to be re-calibrated to handle the human brain’s fluctuating neuronal activity – the real takeaway here is how close we are to a universal BCI. BCIs have been around for decades in one form or another, but they’re costly to maintain and difficult to keep working properly. Currently they only make sense for narrow use – specifically, in the case of those who’ve lost limbs....

But there’s un irrefutable fact: when electric vehicles do catch fire, they burn fiercely and require a new skillset for emergency respondents to fight the flames. Austrian firefighting equipment manufacturer Rosenbauer has developed a special EV fire extinguisher, specifically designed to tackle the complexities of EV fires, Rideapart reports. But first, things first. What makes electric car fires unique? Yes, lithium-ion batteries are flammable The issue is the lithium-ion batteries that power EVs up....

But that all could change with the development of new “mixed reality” (MR) technology, which could inject new forms of interactive storytelling into our museums – introducing holographic tour guides and immersive digital displays in place of finger-smudged glass cabinets and faded information boards. Unlike the total immersion of virtual reality (VR), or the computer screen required for augmented reality (AR), MR uses a head-mounted glass display, similar to the Google Glass spectacles, which enables the user to see their real-world surroundings while virtual features are overlaid on top, creating a sense of mixed perception....

Here’s a little tidbit for all you podcasters and wannabe podcasters out there: invest in knowing how to record good audio. While quality audio certainly does wonders for the professionalism of a recording, it even plays a surprisingly large role in whether listeners even take the whole project seriously. A USC study found when subjects were asked to rate two versions of the same YouTube talk — one with crystal clear audio and another with poor sound quality — there was a marked difference....

Electric lighting is transforming our world. Around 80% of the global population now lives in places where night skies are polluted with artificial light. A third of humanity can no longer see the Milky Way – the galaxy our solar system belongs to. But the light at night has deeper effects. In humans, nocturnal light pollution has been linked to sleep disorders, depression, obesity, and even some types of cancer....

For as long as students have sat in classrooms or scholars have scoured relevant texts, note taking has been a human art form. Of course, the process of determining what’s worthy of being jotted down and what can go by unregistered is an art in itself. It’s also why the highly idiosyncratic best methods of note taking still remain such a mystery to many, not to mention so time-consuming. It possibly because they’ve never had the right tool to integrate notes into their work, especially in the digital age....

Called “DIB-R,” the AI takes a picture of any 2D object – an image of a bird, for example – and predicts what it would look like in three dimensions. This prediction includes lighting, texture, and depth. Credit: Nvidia DIB-R stands for differentiable interpolation-based renderer, meaning it combines what it “sees,” a 2D image, and makes inferences based on a 3D “understanding” of the world. This is strikingly similar to how humans translate the 2D input from our eyes into a 3D mental image....

This week writer Martin SFP Bryant raised the issue on Twitter in response to the latest Mercedes-Benz update . He notes, — Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP) August 11, 2021 All-electric luxury salon Mercedes-Benz EQ has an OTA functionality to modify the rear-axle steering with a ten-degree steering angle. I’m not entirely clear how great a benefit this is to drivers in reality, but it raises more significant issues about OTA updates and their monetization....

As my colleague, Napier pointed out, this move is dumb. It comes in the wake of payment processors bullying the platform into banning sexually explicit content for a ‘clean’ image. However, porn is one of the most popular content categories on OnlyFans, and the ban deprives a lot of sex workers of a chance to earn more money. After facing a lot of backlash over this decision, the company addressed the issue over the weekend, and recognized that sex workers have played a huge part in OnlyFans’ growth....

For banks and financial institutions, such problems are particularly unsettling. IT disruptions lock costumers out of their accounts, disabling them from paying for food, rent or petrol. Not only is there a financial loss because of customer churn and damage control, but the institutions are sometimes fined for their IT shortcomings. Still, the number of IT failures is on the rise. This is a known and old problem with no easy fix: banks are running legacy systems that are 30-40 years old....

Now, AWS is the unquestioned industry leader, holding a dominant third of the entire cloud market, which is set to exceed $330 billion this year. The opportunities are there for those looking to make a name for themself and start a career as a proven AWS expert with the training in The All-Level AWS Cloud Professional Bootcamp. Right now, it’s available for only $34.99, an over 90 percent savings from TNW Deals....

In the vast majority of cases, COVID-19 is a respiratory infection that causes fever, aches, tiredness, sore throat, cough, and, in more severe cases, shortness of breath and respiratory distress. Yet we now understand that COVID-19 can also infect cells outside of the respiratory tract and cause a wide range of symptoms from the gastrointestinal disease (diarrhea and nausea) to heart damage and blood clotting disorders. It appears that we have to add neurological symptoms to this list, too....

And with good reason. Social scientists have found that traditional interviews – without set questions or scoring metrics – are poor predictors of job performance. When this happens, interviewers make subjective judgments based on irrelevant information, like physical appearance and nonverbal cues. Illegal stereotypes based on gender and race may also be at play. And unfortunately, employment litigation has not succeeded in tamping down these practices. Although many companies were successfully sued in the early 2000s for making subjective employment decisions in hiring, pay and promotion, a Supreme Court ruling in 2012 made those claims nearly impossible to bring as a class action....