The Menlo Park-based startup behind the app is said to soon raise around $250 million, led by seminal VC fund Sequoia Capital, a returning investor. [Read: Data says Robinhood users are really bad at portfolio diversification] Robinhood’s revenue has seen record growth during the coronavirus pandemic, reportedly around $60 million in March. The increased market volatility has led to new accounts, said Bloomberg’s sources. Robinhood users are still salty about that downtime However, the app has suffered a slew of sudden service interruptions over the past few months, leaving many traders to miss potential gains....

In recent years, the transformer model has become one of the main highlights of advances in deep learning and deep neural networks. It is mainly used for advanced applications in natural language processing. Google is using it to enhance its search engine results. OpenAI has used transformers to create its famous GPT-2 and GPT-3 models. Since its debut in 2017, the transformer architecture has evolved and branched out into many different variants, expanding beyond language tasks into other areas....

I say that as someone who’s been hired by dozens of Fortune 500 companies and many other household brands to help them find, engage and keep online customers. It’s work we’ve been doing for more than a decade now, work that has put us in a position to know as much about contemporary customer engagement as anyone. It’s all about digital experiences The first is that most customers are digital customers now, regardless of their age....

After about the fifth or sixth time you read an article about a Black man being wrongfully arrested due to faulty facial recognition AI, you start to wonder how nobody seems to be doing anything to stop this from happening. Sure, whenever something goes wrong, the company behind the software is always working to improve results and the law enforcement agency using the software is always reviewing procedures to ensure this doesn’t happen again....

DeepMind is the latest AI research lab to introduce a deep learning model that can generate software source code with remarkable results. Called AlphaCode, the model is based on Transformers, the same architecture OpenAI uses in its code-generation models. Programming is one of the promising applications of deep learning and large language models. The growing demand for programming talent has spurred a race to create tools that can make developers more productive and give non-developers tools to create software....

But one thing that most likely won’t happen in the next decade is the automation of commercial aircraft. Pilots, you may now all breathe a collective sigh of relief! And why do I believe that? Automation won’t be the best solution in every single scenario, so let’s take a look at the questions we need to ask when automation is concerned: Do aircraft companies want pilots to be replaced? For aircraft companies to want to replace pilots, there needs to be a cost benefit with a logical path enabling adoption of the technology....

In February, WhatsApp released a whitepaper on how it fights spam and abuse without reading your messages. One of the methods the company uses to fight exploitative child content is to scan content such as unencrypted photos and group information. “We rely on advanced machine learning technology to evaluate group information to identify and ban members of groups suspected of sharing Child Exploitative Imagery (CEI),” WhatsApp says on its blog....

But why would you want to? The Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE-Safe) is changing to allow 18-year-olds to drive trucks across states. While 48 out of 50 US states currently allow 18-year-olds to obtain a Commercial Driving License until federal law is changed, they cannot drive a truck across state lines until they are 21. As a result, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg will create an apprenticeship program for young truck drivers by Jan....

There are two major reasons that thousands of Americans trudge out early the day after Thanksgiving to do holiday shopping: to pick up items and scratch some names off the lengthy gift list; and to save a whole bunch of money. So if you can satisfy those gift demands with these 10 Black Friday-caliber deals right now, why join the early morning battle royale at the mall? Save yourself the headache now....

New technology raises new legal questions More than 1,400 autonomous vehicles from more than 80 companies are being tested on US roads. As they continue to make headlines, their presence raises a few questions about how they might change society. These hypotheticals range from serious to ridiculous–somewhere in the middle lies this question: If you were leasing a self-driving car and fell behind on payments, could it repossess itself? The repo process would certainly be easier if lenders could simply summon vehicles....

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) October 11, 2021 Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space, breaking the record set only recently by 82-year-old Wally Funk, who travelled on the New Shepard’s first crewed spaceflight in July. Funk was one of the Mercury 13 women who qualified for spaceflight in the 1960s but never flew. With commercial spaceflight companies now taking older people to space, it’s timely to consider the potential physical impact space flight might have on them....

The device has Chromecast functionality built-in, so you can directly beam your content through your phone or laptop. Plus, it has a feature-rich remote. So, if you’re holding out for Google’s highly anticipated Chromecast Ultra with a remote, this might do the trick right away. You can easily connect:– A pen drive to it to stream your offline videos on the TV– Wireless earphones via Bluetooth 4.2. Aren’t these some super cool features, Mi fans?...

If you log into Yelp today, you might find that you have the option to add “preferences.” These include several categories on foods you like, what kind of life you live (parent, pet owner), and what you like to do. Now when you search for something on Yelp, you’ll get results based on your stated preferences without having to filter them out yourself. The most helpful and potentially useful of these options are those for restrictions, either dietary or physical....

If you have a compatible system — it works with Intel and AMD as well as ARM processors — simply open up the Microsoft Store, and you should be able to see the new Android apps. These seem to be integrated pretty tightly with Windows. Microsoft says you’ll be able to interact with app notifications right from the Windows Action Center, Snap to a side of your monitor, pin them to the taskbar, and interact via mouse, touch, or pen....

Well, if you’re skeptical and think Libra is going to be delayed, you can take a shot at making some money at it by betting that it won’t launch – just like I told you to do already. While you could probably go down to a bookies and place a bet, that’s not something you’d want, is it? Because you actually know about Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. What you want is a derivatives future, for no other reason than it sounding cool....

In recent years, this technology fandom has jumped from personal tools into the business world. The average employee uses at least 10 different software tools. It was inevitable that people would start to get attached. Workers wear branded t-shirts and plaster their laptops with branded stickers. They recommend their favorite apps to coworkers and friends. And they might even leave a job that doesn’t allow them to use their preferred brands....

That’s why, in a world of ever-changing cyber threats, entrepreneurs should understand how to take action if an issue is discovered. To find out more, we asked members of Young Entrepreneur Council the following: What is your preferred method for handling zero-day exploits? Why does this approach work so well? Here’s what they had to say: Close off public access wherever possible Zero-day exploits, by definition, are brand new, so there’s a critical period between when a vulnerability is discovered and when a patch becomes available....

To make matters worse, police had hired the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Koinex to convert Rs 8.42 crore ($1.19 million) of the seized Bitcoin into local currency — but the company’s banking partner froze its account as a result. A series of requests have reportedly been filed with the country’s supreme court to resolve the matter. Specifically, a police petition challenges a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular that bars financial institutions from handling virtual currency....

But how do we make sure when our landers touch down on the red planet’s surface, nothing unwanted is landing with them? If we aren’t careful, we could be spreading all sorts of life – like in 2019, when a spacecraft crashed onto the moon’s surface with a cargo of tiny, almost indestructible lifeforms called tardigrades. The good thing is, we have policies and laws to prevent this from happening....

In recent months, we’ve seen quite a few reports of the Google Play Store hosting counterfeit apps that are designed to dupe users and earn money through ad farms. In the latest reveal, CSIS Security Group’s report suggests that a fake app – promising updates for Samsung phones – has been installed by over 10 million users. The app, named ‘Updates for Samsung,’ promised users Android firmware updates, but after installing it, it redirected them to an ad farm that charged money for downloading the update....