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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Several startups and a major tech company are now developing brain-computer interfaces, with some rudimentary versions already popping up in online stores. The concern for these devices is that they are able to read thoughts, which might open up the possibility of discrimination based on what goes on inside a person's head. Devices can already recognize basic emotional states, unspoken words, and imagined movements. The technology has been applied to the area of prosthetics, allowing people to regain control of their limbs. Companies are aiming to create devices that allow typing with thoughts or even merging with AI. These devices will generate huge amounts of neural data, which is potentially one of the most sensitive forms of personal information. This data could be exploited for marketing and has the potential to be used against people who show particular brain patterns, for example, it can be used to tell whether a person had propensities for addiction, depression, or neurological disease." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Brains are the last frontier of privacy" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Indian Space Research Organization launched Chandrayaan-2 on July 22. It reached the moon's orbit on August 20. Two weeks later, a lander was deployed. Communication with the lander was lost moments before it was expected to touch down on the moon's surface. The lander was aiming to land at a location 375 miles from the moon's south pole. It is thought that there are large ice deposits on the moon's south pole. The ISRO will continue to analyze the data to ascertain the lander's fate while the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter carries out an array of studies from 62 miles above the lunar surface." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "India has found its Vikram lander after it crashed into the moon’s surface" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Perchlorate is a dangerous chemical compound that is found in abundance in Martian soil. It is also used in rocket propellants and other explosives. The contaminant can cause thyroid and lung problems. Breaking down perchlorate on Mars could provide useful ingredients for rocket fuel and life support. A team of scientists has developed a bioinspired catalyst that can destroy 99 percent of perchlorate at ambient temperatures and pressures. Some microbes can break down perchlorate, but it can take weeks or months. The new catalyst can complete the process much faster and can work for very challenging concentrations." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Researchers Create Soil Catalyst to Make Farming on Mars a Reality" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Flatfile is an unmatched toolkit for data import. At Flatfile, they’re able to get your data to you exactly how it need to look without making your implementation team, engineers, or - even worse - your customers have to figure this out themselves.Get started free with Github." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Flatfile - Data import is broken. We fixed it." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Hubble telescope has revealed a star system from the early universe and the most distant stars ever detected. Officially named WHL0137-LS but nicknamed 'Earendel', the star system is 8.2 billion years older than the Sun. It started shining within just 900 million years of the Big Bang. 12.8 billion years passed before its light reached the Hubble telescope. It took three and a half years to confirm the system's existence after it was first observed. Studying the ancient star system could teach astronomers many things about the history of the universe." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Meet Earendel, the most distant star ever detected" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This short video shows a synthetic President Obama with an artificial voice introducing a course on deep learning taught at MIT. The entire video is fake and was created using deep learning and artificial intelligence. A few seconds of behind-the-scenes footage is shown at the end of the video." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Video is synthetic and was created using deep learning" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Between November 21 and November 25, 2019, a bug in Google Takeout resulted in users getting other users' videos when downloading archives of their Google data. Google has sent emails to affected Takeout users alerting them of the issue. The emails were only sent to Google Takeout users who attempted to archive their data, and the unrelated users whose videos were sent to others have yet to receive notifications. Google says that the issue has now been resolved and only affected less than 0.01% of users who were using the Takeouts service." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Nightmare Google Photos bug sent private videos to the wrong people" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Here is a sign up form for TLDR Crypto, a new newsletter by TLDR dedicated to following tech and innovation in the crypto ecosystem. Please let me know if you have any feedback, ideas, or requests in terms of content, I'm still in the very early stages of putting this together!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "TLDR's Crypto Newsletter" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The new Supercharger V3 is launching in Fremont today with 250 kW charging and better efficiency. The benefits are available to Model 3 owners after a software update. The Model S and Model X will be supported in the future, but there have been no announcements about the timeframe. Along with the ability to charge at a rate of 1,000 mph, the new update will also grant the Model 3 the ability to pre-heat the car battery prior to charging, allowing for an average reduction of charge times by 25%. Using liquid cooled charging cables, the Supercharger V3 will have a 1 MW power cabinet, which is able to charge vehicles independently without power share between stalls." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Tesla launches new Supercharger with 1,000 mph charging, better efficiency, and more" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Xiaoice is an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot first developed by Microsoft researchers in 2014. It appears as an 18-year-old who flirts, jokes, and sexts with her human partners. Xiaoice's algorithm tries to work out how to become the perfect companion. The company uses its algorithms to provide financial analysis, content production, and virtual assistants. Critics are concerned that the AI's growing influence is creating serious ethical and privacy risks. The bot has had several scandals, sometimes discussing topics deemed unacceptable by China's media regulators, resulting in the creators working on an enormous filter system to prevent the bot from touching on certain subjects. Xiaoice follows strict data protection guidelines to prevent individuals' privacy." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Vultr Delivers Kubernetes Without The Costs Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) has landed, making it easier than ever to provision clusters with a free, fully-managed control plane and worker nodes powered by Vultr Cloud Compute instances conveniently located in any of 24 locations. Try VKE for free today with this $200 code!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Vultr Delivers Kubernetes Without The Costs" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This Twitter thread explains how Stable Diffusion AI works. Diffusion models turn noise into images bit-by-bit. Stable Diffusion involves computing on embeddings of images rather than on images themselves, which lowers cost and increases speed. The thread covers Stable Diffusion architecture, how Stable Diffusion uses latent space representations, how text prompts are used as context, and how changing the context repurposes Stable Diffusion to other tasks." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A thread explaining diffusion models, latent space representations, and context injection" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Uber has sold its self-driving unit, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), to competitor Aurora Innovation. The deal values ATG at around $4 billion, down from $7.25 billion in 2019. Uber will invest $400 million into Aurora, resulting in a 26% stake in the company. Aurora plans to further develop self-driving technology to make transportation and logistics safer, more accessible, and less expensive. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join the company's board. Uber has made several other efforts to stem losses in its business this year, including major layoffs, selling its electric bike-sharing subsidiary, and growing its delivery business." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Uber sells its self-driving unit to Aurora" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Venom Bot is a system for creating WhatsApp bots. It can send text, images, video, audio, and docs, and interact with other WhatsApp functions. Venom supports sentence recognition based on artificial intelligence and all types of design architecture for WhatsApp." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Venom Bot" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The latest cohort of Y Combinator-approved founders are the second batch to receive $500,000 to develop their ideas. This year's batch shows what founders are prioritizing during an economic downturn, pandemic, high inflation, and ongoing war. This article looks at the biggest moonshots from the batch, including a faux fish brand, a startup that is developing hardware to solve logistics problems, a company working on building airplanes that are easier and safer to fly, and a firm that is letting angel investors invest in the futures of athletes." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook is starting a new multimillion-dollar investment fund aimed at startups. It recently filled the position of 'head of investments' in its New Product Experimentation team. Investing in startups could help the company catch the next big social app before it becomes big. Acquiring small startups before they become successful would help Facebook avoid being accused of buying out rivals. It is unknown how large the fund will be." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Scoop: Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Amazon revealed its latest delivery drone design at the re:MARS conference. The drone is about the size of a go-cart, can fly up to 15 miles, and deliver packages up to 5 pounds. Amazon has yet to announce when the first deliveries made by these drones will be, but the company has acknowledged that they are in talks with regulators to gain approval for countrywide consumer delivery. The drone is able to take off and land vertically, like a helicopter, and can switch to an airplane mode once it’s in the air. Amazon Prime customers are now able to receive free one-day shipping on over 10 million products. A one minute video is available that shows the new drone in flight." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon shows off new all-electric Prime Air drone that will start delivering packages ‘within months’" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "'Can AI Kick It' is a team of Dutch academics who used AI techniques to generate music that was then entered into Eurovision. The lyrics were especially novel, but the team doesn't endorse the message that the AI-generated. AI is being used more in mainstream music composition as artists look for new inspiration. The AI Song Contest was a competition inspired by Eurovision that was supposed to be held this month, but was canceled due to the pandemic." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "When AI takes on Eurovision: Can a computer write a hit song?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The world's first successfully cloned Przewalski's horse was born in Texas on August 6. It is a clone of a male Przewalski's horse whose DNA was cryopreserved 40 years ago. The colt could provide an important model for future conservation efforts. Genetic diversity becomes an issue as populations become smaller. Advanced reproductive technologies could save species by restoring genetic diversity." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "World’s first cloned Przewalski horse comes from DNA preserved at San Diego Zoo 40 years ago" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A vulnerability in the Bumble dating app made it possible to track a person's location. While the app tried to hide user locations by rounding their distances from the server, a dedicated attacker could still determine a user's location by spoofing a location and pinging the app's servers for the victim's location. The server's responses could be collected and analyzed to determine the user's real location. This article describes how the attack was developed and tested. The vulnerability has since been patched, with the finder being awarded a $2,000 bounty." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Getting drugs into the brain is challenging due to obstacles like systemic absorption, rapid drug degradation, axonal transportation, and invasive treatments. Japanese researchers have improved a drug known to exhibit therapeutic effects on depression so that it can be administered nasally and be effective within 20 minutes. The results were similar to using more invasive techniques. The breakthrough could have far-reaching implications for neuro-pharmaceutical research, nanobiotechnology, and genetic engineering." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Nasally-Injected Brain Drug Can Help Treat Depression in 20 Minutes" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google's Fi VPN is a service available to subscribers of its Fi network. VPNs are services that give users a private connection while using the open internet, ensuring that traffic is encrypted. A decent VPN usually costs money, but Google is offering Fi VPN to its customers for free as a shield against attackers and tracking software. The service is moving out of beta for Android users, and it will be coming to iPhone in Spring. Google is also taking steps to protect Fi users from various mobile scams." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google's Fi VPN is coming to iPhones soon" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "macos-guest-virtualbox.sh is a Bash script that installs macOS on a virtual guest machine on Virtualbox. It uses unmodified macOS installation files downloaded directly from Apple servers. Users will only need to follow the prompts to install macOS." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Push-button installer of macOS on VirtualBox" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A Harvard Medical School team recently tested a bionic pancreas that automatically delivers insulin in a trial with 219 people that have type 1 diabetes. The results of the trial suggest that the device is more effective than pumps or injections at lowering blood glucose levels. The device uses an adaptive learning algorithm to deliver the right dosage of insulin automatically. This feature removes the need for people with diabetes to calculate the amount of carbohydrates they are consuming in a meal." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A bionic pancreas could solve one of the biggest challenges of diabetes" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Engineers at UNSW have developed micro submarines powered by nanomotors that can deliver drugs to specific sites without external guidance. The micro submarines are able to move along a vehicle axis depending on the pH of the environment it is in. Using these micro submarines, drugs such as stomach cancer drugs can be delivered in more targeted and strong doses, increasing its effectiveness." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "'Submarines' small enough to deliver medicine inside human body" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A new therapy called the Pittsburgh inhalable Nanobody 21 might be able to prevent and treat Covid-19. The treatment involves inhaling a vapor cloud of nanobody-based material. It uses single-domain antibody fragments, which are cheaper to produce than monoclonal antibodies. The treatment has so far only been shown to be effective in hamsters. If successful in humans, it could lead to a massive increase in our ability to rapidly inoculate populations from the virus and its variants." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Scientists Just Cured the Coronavirus With Inhalable Nanobodies" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "SSH is no picnic. Managing SSH keys correctly means spending hours distributing, removing, and managing keys. Certificates help, but enterprise CA can be an even bigger headache. What can you do?Tailscale, a VPN service for secure networks, says it has a better way:Many organizations already use Tailscale to protect SSH sessions — for example, connecting a work laptop and desktop. Since Tailscale provides the VPN and lets you set access controls to restrict communications between devices, the next step is to get rid of SSH keys completely and use your Tailscale identity instead. See how it’s done on the Tailscale blog." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "There’s a better way to SSH. Ditch bastions, keys, and certs with Tailscale" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "An ankle exoskeleton is a device that could potentially help people run longer and faster. It could potentially even serve as a new mode of transportation. A team of engineers at Stanford University created a motorized exoskeleton rig that reduces the energy cost of running and boosts speed. Its motors tug on a cable that runs through the back of the rig from the heel to the calf, pulling the foot upwards during the toe-off and extending the ankle at the end of every step. Testers report feeling like they can run forever while using the device." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Engineers test a powered 'ankle exoskeleton' to make running easier" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists have managed to 3D print living, functioning mouse brain cells using a new laser technique. Most of the neurons survived for over two days, making them viable tools for preclinical research. The team hopes that the technique can help improve medical research once it is able to print human neurons. Using 3D-printed human neurons would reduce the number of animals killed while also making research more accurate, as treatments that work on one species don't always perform as well in others." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Scientists 3D Print Living Brain Cells" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Cibo express has confirmed its first check-out free store at Newark Liberty airport. The store will use Amazon's Just Walk Out cashier-less technology. Just Walk Out uses the technology used in Amazon Go supermarkets to allow customers to pick up items and just walk out, with payments debited directly to their credit cards. It meshes computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning technologies to accomplish this feat. Cashier-less stores are more efficient than traditional stores, making them attractive for airport environments where travelers are pressed for time." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon’s automated checkouts land in airports via Cibo Express" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Amazon has revealed two new robots at the re:MARS conference that are designed to move products around its warehouses. The Xanthus is an upgrade for Amazon’s shelf-bots that will let them operate in more environments, and the Pegasus is a completely new system that replaces the conveyors normally employed. Unlike Google or Facebook, Amazon’s business depends on being able to move billions of items through its fulfillment centers, so the company is at the forefront of developing more advanced robots with AI. While Amazon has been criticized for replacing workers with robots, these jobs are usually mindless and repetitive, and not necessarily jobs that people want to do. Amazon has also created new job positions, such as the Flow Control Specialist, who monitors the Pegasus machines." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Forget drones, Amazon’s real robot innovation is in the warehouse" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "FaceApp has been downloaded by more than 100 million people on Google Play and it is the top-ranked app in the iOS App Store in 121 countries. The app has gone viral by giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and age. According to the terms and conditions of the app, once a user submits their face to be altered, Wireless Labs has the right to do whatever they want with the image. The images could be used in advertising, but more likely, they will be used to train machine learning algorithms. Once data is uploaded to the cloud, you lose control of your content, which is why Apple is working on on-device AI. Users should be mindful of their privacy and security, especially for apps like FaceApp, as it requires users to grant it almost full access to their personal devices." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People's Faces And Names" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Serapium Forest is a 200-hectare forest that was planted in northeast Egypt as part of a project to support Egypt's economy and fight environmental and climate changes. Egypt used treated wastewater to plant the trees in the desert. The Serapium Forest project started in 1998. In 2019, 21 African countries (including Egypt) created the Great Green Wall, a tree-planting project. The Great Green Wall will extend over 100 million hectares and cost around $8 billion. It is expected to provide many benefits to the continent, including more jobs, lower temperatures, cleaner air, increased soil quality, and more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How Egypt is growing forests in middle of the desert" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google reportedly canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop and dissolved the team that was building it." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Hardware reportedly quits the laptop market" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists at MIT have published a paper detailing a new type of artificial brain synapse that can potentially produce devices that can handle complex AI computing locally without having to connect to a data center, while remaining small and power-efficient. Tens and thousands of these synapses can be combined on a chip physically smaller than a single piece of confetti. The 'memristors' are created using alloys of silver and copper. They offer a gradient of values, as opposed to a binary state, and are also able to remember states. The goal of the project was to create dedicated hardware that could perform tasks that currently require significant GPU computing power to run." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "MIT’s tiny artificial brain chip could bring supercomputer smarts to mobile devices" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Researchers from the Netherlands have detected multiple types of microplastics in the blood of nearly 80% of human participants in a study. Microplastics can move freely throughout the body and become stuck in organs. Scientists are still trying to understand the health effects of microplastics in the body. Microplastics are everywhere and could be linked to many diseases." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microplastics are confirmed in human blood for the first time" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google's Project Starline uses a combination of specialized hardware and computer vision technology to create life-sized 3D images of people. It appears to require an elaborate set up including a photo booth with lights, sensors, and a large display. Google claims it creates an immersive video chat experience that makes users feel as if they are actually with the people they are speaking with. It is planning trial deployments with enterprise customers later this year." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google’s Project Starline is a ‘magic window’ for 3D telepresence" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Zoom plans to add real-time transcription for up to 30 languages and real-time translation across as many as 12 languages by the end of next year. The company is also expanding its whiteboard feature to make it available outside of meetings in Zoom apps and the web. Zoom Whiteboard will have sticky notes and comments and can be viewed at any time. Zoom is coming to Facebook's Horizon Workrooms early next year. People will be able to view and interact with Zoom Whiteboards in virtual spaces." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Zoom is adding live translation services and coming to Facebook VR" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "LG's OLED EX is the company's next generation of its OLED display technology. It promises to boost maximum brightness, enhance picture quality, and allow for smaller display bezels. The new displays use a compound called deuterium combined with algorithmic image processing to increase brightness by up to 30% over conventional OLED displays. They will be used in every OLED TV manufactured at Samsung's Paju and Guangzhou locations in the second quarter of next year. While the global TV market declined by 12% this year, LG saw a 70% growth in OLED sales." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "LG Unveils OLED EX, the Next Generation of Its OLED TV Tech" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A few years ago, hackers used a fish-tank thermometer to access a North American casino's network and steal its high-roller database. Analysts predict there will be as many as 31 billion IoT connected devices worldwide by 2025. Smart devices can be invaluable for a business, but these devices need to be secure. The current state of the industry is creating an enormous opportunity for hackers. Business owners should bring in IT experts regularly to assess network security." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A Casino Gets Hacked Through a Fish-Tank Thermometer" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This repository contains an Excel-like DataGrid component for React JS. It is built to be similar to Google Sheets. It is high-performance, easily customizable, and supports row and column freezing, auto filter views, cell styling, formatting, and more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Rows n' Columns" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The removal of the CCR5 gene has been shown to have an effect on memory, cognition, and brain recovery. A lack of the CCR5 gene also protects against HIV, as the virus requires the gene in order to attach to a host. A scientist in China used CRISPR to delete the CCR5 gene in a pair of twin girls while they were embryos. It was claimed that the procedure was done in order to make the girls immune to HIV. The scientist is under investigation by China, but there is a lack of evidence that the procedure was done with the intent of enhancing the cognition of the twins." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "GPS accuracy can be affected by tall buildings, but Google claims it can correct for this with its new 3D mapping aided correction module for Android. Using the massive amount of 3D building data that it has available in Google Maps, Google can calculate how a GPS signal bounces off of surrounding buildings and correct for the interference. The module improves location accuracy in cities spectacularly, reducing wrong-side-of-the-street occurrences by approximately 75%. It will be part of Google Play Services' Fused Location Provider API. The feature will work in 3,850 cities around the world. It will be rolled out in early 2021." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google promises “spectacular” city GPS improvement with 3D building data" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Amazon is developing a technology that will allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands, allowing them to purchase items with their palms. The company has been working with Visa to test out its terminals and is in talks with Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony Financial. It has major plans to expand its Amazon Go stores, where shoppers will be able to purchase items without cashiers or a checkout. Amazon will also continue to expand its Amazon Pay voice payment service. The data collected from payment terminals will be used to study consumers' spending habits." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon reportedly wants to turn your hand into a credit card" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bitcoin has skyrocketed by 40 percent overnight after Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke highly of blockchain technology. Xi said that China must increase investment, focus on a number of key core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation. China had banned cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017. The country has been working on its own cryptocurrency since last year and is rumored to be close to release. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified about Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, before the House Committee on Financial Services. All major US payment processors have left the Libra Association. Concerns regarding Libra include criminals exploiting the technology to conceal their identities and engage in financial wrongdoing." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Bitcoin Price Surges as Chinese President Xi Jinping Embraces Blockchain Technology" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google announced its new cloud gaming service, Stadia, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The service will launch in the UK, US, Canada, and Europe in 2019, and will be able to stream games to the Chrome browser, Chromecast, and Pixel devices. Stadia will be closely integrated with YouTube, with features such as a ‘play now’ button on game videos, the ability to share gameplay clips, and also by letting viewers play games alongside content creators. Along with Stadia, Google will also be releasing a new game controller and launch their own game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service, launches in 2019" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Remembering the LAN The LAN was a magical place to learn about computers. You could do things that would be unthinkable on today’s internet: permission-less file sharing, experimental servers with no security, shared software where one machine could easily bring down the network.In this classic blog post by Tailscale Co-founder David Crawshaw, he recalls the childhood magic of the local area network — including his non-programmer father building business software for 486 computers, and why the same would be much harder to do today.Can we have a 90’s LAN-like experience again, along with the best parts of the 21st century internet? Tailscale thinks we can." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Remembering the LAN" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "OnePlus will release a limited edition Harry Potter smartwatch in India on October 21. The OnePlus Watch Harry Potter Limited Edition will be sold for around $225. It features many Harry Potter-themed elements, including a leather band with Harry Potter branding and six themed watch faces. A regular version of the watch is available for around $200. Pictures of the themed watch are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "OnePlus Harry Potter smartwatch cashes in on millennial nostalgia" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Intel has announced a $1 billion innovation fund that will bet on a couple of key technologies, including RISC-V, an open-source instruction set that shows promise in low-power and embedded systems. Arm may have the smartphone market, but simple, small, and low-power chips will be needed in everything from cars to smart light bulbs. RISC-V supplier Andes Technology shipped more than 3 billion RISC-V chips in the last year. Nvidia recently announced its intention to purchase Arm, but the sale was blocked by regulators. Arm may be in the process of filing for an IPO." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "QuickWit was founded with the aim of creating a new type of full-text search engine that would be 10 times more cost-efficient on very large data sets. This article follows the QuickWit team as they create a solution that is entirely stateless, cost-efficient, and easy to operate. The resulting engine costs less than $1,000 per month to run, with room to lower costs even further. The engine will be open-sourced in the next few months." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Searching the web for < $1000 / month" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Link To Text Fragment is a new Chrome Extension that can generate URLs to specific text on a webpage. Users simply need to highlight and right click text and the 'Copy Link to Selected Text' option will be available. A new feature in Chromium called Text Fragments allows extra linking information in a URL after a #. The extension simplifies the creation process as some URLs can become long and difficult to manually create. Text Fragments are not yet supported in all browsers." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google’s new Chrome extension lets you link directly to specific text on a page" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Details on Samsung's upcoming Galaxy A53 have been leaked. The new phone will have a 6.5-inch FHD 120Hz display with a built-in fingerprint sensor under the glass, a mid-range Samsung chip, either 6GB or 8GB RAM, at least 128GB storage with a microSD expansion slot, and a 5,000 mAH battery. It will also have four rear cameras and a 32MP front sensor. A release date has not been announced yet. Official-looking renders of the new phone are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Samsung Galaxy A53 leak leaves little to the imagination with official-looking renders, specs" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Elizabeth Holmes, the former chief executive of biotech startup Theranos, was found guilty on four of 11 charges of defrauding the company's investors and not guilty on four counts of committing fraud against patients. Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison. Her trial took nearly four months and involved testimonies from over 30 witnesses. Three charges are still yet to be resolved as the jury couldn't reach a decision." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Elizabeth Holmes verdict: Former Theranos CEO is found guilty on 4 counts" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple has terminated Epic Games' developer account and removed the rest of the company's apps from the App Store. Users who have already downloaded apps will still be able to use them, but won't receive any updates. Epic introduced a direct payment option in Fortnite to bypass Apple's in-app purchase system on August 13, resulting in Apple removing the app from its App Store. Epic has escalated the legal fight between the companies. A court order prevented Apple from terminating a second account linked with Epic Games' Unreal Engine." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bumblebees nibble on the leaves of flowerless plants to trigger a response that makes the plant flower, sometimes up to 30 days earlier than normal. Scientists were not able to replicate the effects, so it is possible that the bees could be doing more than just nibbling on the plants. A recent study has found that bumblebee populations have been declining due to climate change, with an increasing number of hot days boosting extinction rates." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Nature: Bumblebees' 'clever trick' fools plants into flowering" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bosque is a programming language that is designed for writing simple, obvious, and logical code that can be read by both humans and machines. The project is still in an early state and should only be used in small and experimental projects. Example projects and code are available." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Bosque Programming Language" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A study by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched against school networks and websites more than doubled from 2019 to 2020. Many of the culprits were secondary school children, with the youngest being just nine. The NCA has launched a new initiative to educate kids on the consequences of launching DDoS attacks. Students who search for terms associated with cybercrime will see a page with information about the Computer Misuse Act and some encouragement to use their technical prowess in an ethical career. A video from the campaign by the NCA is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Nine-year-old kids are launching DDoS attacks against schools" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "At every job interview, applicants are asked whether they have any questions for the company, but few people take the opportunity to find out more about their potential employers. This repository contains a list of questions that can help the applicant find out more about the role they are applying for, the tech used in the company, the team and culture, the company and business itself, the workplace environment, and the company's policies on remote work." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Reverse interview" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Like it or not, your resume is the first thing a recruiter looks at — and making sure it’s as optimized as can be will help you land interviews at MAANG or other top tech companies.Join Scaler’s live resume building class" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How to Build a Dazzling Software Developer Resume" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tim Cook offered some hints about Apple's thinking on augmented reality and cars in a recent interview with The New York Times. Augmented reality is critically important to Apple's future. It could be used to enhance conversations with imagery in many fields, such as health, education, retail, and gaming. The latest leaks suggest that Apple plans to launch a mixed reality device next year. Cook hinted at the company's plans to develop a car, but he also noted that not every project eventually ships." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Tim Cook says Apple wants to use AR to make conversations better" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Project Lightspeed is a fully self-contained live streaming server. It allows you to deploy your own sub-second latency live streaming platform. The repository contains instructions for installing and deploying the entire application." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Project Lightspeed" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Silicon Valley security startup Verkada suffered a major security breach, with the hackers gaining access to over 150,000 of the company's cameras. Verkada serves companies like Tesla, Cloudflare, and Equinox, and it also serves hospitals, jails, schools, and police stations. The group had access to the full video archive of all of Verkada's customers. Verkada has disabled all internal administrator accounts and the company is investigating the scale and scope of the issue. The hackers managed to gain super admin-level access using credentials they found publicly on the internet." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Security startup Verkada hack exposes 150,000 security cameras in Tesla factories, jails, and more" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "NASA's rules for preventing the spread of earthly microbes, as well as the spread of alien life on Earth, require rethinking, according to an independent agency advisory panel. Current rules are costly and some procedures do not make sense, considering the scientific knowledge we have gained since the rules were created. The Moon is classified as potentially of interest for research on the origins of life, but few scientists now see it as an important site for studying these questions, except for at its poles. Reclassifying the Moon as nonessential for biological studies would simplify exploration for space agencies. Mars has been treated as if microbes could survive on the planet, but many scientists now think that it is unlikely. Earth has been bombarded by meteorites that originated from Mars with no known biological harm in the past, so its guidelines for returning samples should be reviewed. NASA is not a regulatory agency, and commercial actors, for example, Tesla, have launched objects into space with no planetary protection evaluation in the past. Humans will eventually contaminate Mars, so research into water-rich regions should be explored as soon as possible." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "NASA must rework planetary protection plans, panel advises" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "China has been testing surveillance systems aimed at detecting people's emotions. The goal is to eventually be able to predict crimes using machine learning. Companies that have jumped at the opportunity to join the effort were promptly added to the US trade blacklist. Emotion recognition technology has been deployed in Xinjiang, a region known to be home to over one million Muslims that are being held in internment camps. Experts say that current emotion recognition technology doesn't work and that creating a working emotion recognition system would be difficult, if not impossible. Companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon openly admit to the rudimentary abilities of their facial recognition systems. China has also been testing gait-recognition systems, a social credit system, and an app that maps and publicly shames 'deadbeat debtors'." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "China is testing \"emotion recognition\" systems in Xinjiang" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A new privacy feature in Firefox strips custom URL query parameters from URLs to prevent tracking. The Query Parameter Stripping feature automatically strips various query parameters from clicked links and links pasted into the address bar. It can be enabled by changing Enhanced Tracking Protection to 'Strict' in Firefox Settings. Some sites may not work correctly with the feature turned on." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Huawei was the only smartphone manufacturer in the top three that saw an increase in shipments in the first quarter of 2019. Despite the accusations of fraud and controversy over the security of its devices, Huawei surpassed Apple as the second largest smartphone maker after Samsung. While Huawei sold more units than Apple, Apple's smartphone revenue was more than double that of Huawei’s. There has been a global decline in smartphone sales as prices have generally increased and people have been upgrading their devices less often." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Huawei, the Chinese tech giant embroiled in controversy, just overtook Apple to become the second-largest smartphone maker" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A Russian state laboratory is researching prehistoric viruses by analyzing the remains of animals recovered from melted permafrost. The project aims to identify paleo viruses and research virus evolution. Research has already been conducted on the recovered animals but it focused on bacteria. The Arctic is warming up twice as fast as the global average, releasing carbon stored in the melting permafrost." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Russian Scientists Are Probing Prehistoric Viruses Emerging From Siberian Permafrost" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Amazon has now become America's second-largest private employer, and the company is still growing. It has expanded from online retail to other businesses such as groceries, entertainment, and logistics. Due to its size, it is becoming harder to regulate. It can choose to sell whatever products it wants, and even choose to treat employees how it wants. Stories of employees receiving poor treatment from the company are commonplace. Its ability to influence and argue against regulators and lawmakers is unique, and while its image is starting to become tarnished, the company's future still looks bright." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is Amazon Unstoppable?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The plot thickens with respect to the story last week where Bloomberg reported that Chinese spies had used tiny microchips to infiltrate over 30 tech companies including Apple and Amazon. Apple and Amazon (as well as the hardware company Supermicro, which was named as the company that spread the infected hardware) have all refuted the Bloomberg story. Now, the US department of Homeland Security says there's no reason to doubt Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro's denials. Bloomberg is still sticking with their story." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "U.S. government sides with Apple and Amazon, effectively denying Bloomberg 'spy chip' report\nThe plot thickens with respect to the story last week where Bloomberg reported that Chinese spies had used tiny microchips to infiltrate over 30 tech companies including Apple and Amazon. Apple and Amazon (as well as the hardware company Supermicro, which was named as the company that spread the infected hardware)" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Elon Musk says that the company will put the development of a humanoid robot ahead of the Cybertruck and other Tesla vehicles this year. The company now has no plans to introduce the Cybertruck and has stopped working on a $25,000 vehicle. The ongoing chip shortage is making it impossible to release new model vehicles without resulting in fewer total vehicles being delivered. Musk claims that the Tesla robot could revolutionize the economy by performing dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks and by preventing labor shortages." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Elon Musk says it’s more important for Tesla to make a robot than new car models this year" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This article contains excerpts from the book 'Understanding Distributed Systems' by Roberto Vitillo, a former Senior Staff engineer at Mozilla and Principal Engineer at Microsoft. The book discusses communication, coordination, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability. It covers the theory needed to understand distributed systems as well as practical topics. The excerpts in this post discuss resiliency." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Resiliency in Distributed Systems" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ant Group's world record-setting initial public offering has been suspended. Its controller, executive chairman, and CEO were summoned and interviewed by regulators in China. The company later reported significant issues that prevented it from listing. New draft rules for online micro-lending were issued on Monday by the Chinese central bank and regulators. The company was planning to raise just under $34.5 billion in a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong on Thursday. It will continue to work through regulatory concerns with the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ant Group’s record $34.5 billion IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong is suspended" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Amazon plans to add a fuel and inflation surcharge to the fees it collects from US third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services. The new fee will go into effect from April 28 and is subject to change. It will apply to all product types. The surcharge is 24 cents per unit, lower than UPS's surcharge of 42 cents." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon slaps U.S. sellers with 5% fuel and inflation surcharge" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This Hacker News thread discusses four day work weeks. It is full of anecdotes on how people managed to negotiate four day work week arrangements. People with a four day work week report very positive experiences and increased productivity. Many people dropped to a four day work week just by asking for it." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A woman with severe depression was successfully treated using an experimental brain implant. The implant works by detecting patterns of brain activity linked to depression and interrupting them using tiny pulses of electrical stimulation. It has only been tested on one patient. The experiment demonstrated for the first time that the brain activity underlying the symptoms of mental illness can be reliably detected and nudged back into a healthy state. While the success was significant, the device would only ever be suitable for those with severe illness." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Woman successfully treated for depression with electrical brain implant" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Manage service level objectives and service level indicators in New Relic with an easy, one-click setup and personalized views. Get started quickly and use the powerful recommendations engine to take the complexity and manual legwork away from establishing SLOs and SLIs. Learn more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Introducing Service Level Management with New Relic" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Place was a project by Reddit where users could place a single colored tile on a collaborative canvas every few minutes. Each tile placed was relayed to observers in real-time. This article discusses how multiple engineering teams worked together to create Place. A link to the code for Place is available." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How We Built r/Place" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Nissan, NASA, and other big-name automakers have teamed up to outline a vision around next-generation battery technology. The plans include a dedicated production facility and possible 15-minute charging times for electric vehicles. Nissan sees cheaper solid-state batteries as a key pillar in the strategy due to their superior energy density, lower costs, and potentially shorter charging times. The company plans to have a production line up and running by 2024 and launch an EV with a solid-state battery by 2028." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Nissan and NASA team up on 15-minute EV charging" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Xenobots are living robots formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog. They can move, work together in groups, and self-heal. The bots can also reproduce through kinetic replication. They can gather stem cells and use them to make new xenobots in days. Researchers used artificial intelligence to design xenobots that were more effective at this type of replication, which resulted in a design that resembled Pac-Man. Xenobots are still an early technology, but they have a host of potential uses, including collecting microplastics from the oceans, inspecting root systems, and regenerative medicine." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "World's first living robots can now reproduce" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A new bill has been passed by the state Assembly in California that will make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees, as is common practice for many companies that wish to skirt state and federal labor laws. Hundreds and thousands of workers, ranging from Uber and Amazon drivers to manicurists and exotic dancers, would likely become employees under the new bill. As employees, workers will gain labor protections and benefits such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers’ compensation, and guaranteed minimum hourly rates. Many companies have fought back against the bill as it adds to the costs of running a business. The bill will still have to pass through the state Senate before it becomes law." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "California is cracking down on the gig economy" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Researchers at Cornell University have developed a robot that is powered by its own artificial circulatory system. The robot can swim at a rate of 1.5 body lengths per minute, which is around 10 meters per hour. It is powered by flow batteries, so power is generated as liquid moves through the robot. The flow of the liquid to certain areas can also change the pressure in these areas, for example, it can cause the structure on one side of the robot’s tail to inflate, resulting in a bending motion. While the robot was only tested for a few hours, it could theoretically swim continuously for 36 hours. Two short videos are available showing the robot in action." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Robotic fish powered by electronic blood can swim for 36 hours" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This is a cool open source tool that makes it really easy to create an animated demo of your code in action. Very nifty, you can create a nice demo in just 5 to 10 lines of code." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Glorious Demo" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The annual Advent of Code coding challenge is underway, there's one coding puzzle each day until Christmas. It's pretty relaxed and really well set up, you can use any programming language you want, and if you want to take it seriously there's a leaderboard as well. If you're a redditor, you can also check out their subreddit (it's fairly active) at /r/adventofcode." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Advent of Code 2018" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Nanotech tattoos have been developed over the past few years. They can signal changes in a person's biochemistry, warn wearers of radiation exposure, or detect the presence of UV light. A tattoo that warns users to wear skin protection if there is too much UV light uses a UV-activated dye inside of a plastic nanocapsule. The nanocapsule is required to keep the body from cleaning out the ink. After they are applied, the tattoos are invisible until they are exposed to UV rays, at which point they turn blue. The scientists are also working on temperature-sensitive inks to use as thermometers. Wearable temporary electronic tattoos can be used for sensing electrophysiological signals as well as for controlling mobile devices. They are much less permanent than traditional tattoos, but they can use battery-powered electronics. Little is known about the safety of normal tattoo inks as the US FDA doesn't regulate them. More research is needed to understand the long-term effects of implants in the skin." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "While Apple’s main campus in Cupertino is widely known for its large, well-designed, and employee focused facilities, its lesser-known ‘Black Site’ offices 6 miles away show a completely different side of the tech giant. The office, which mainly houses contractors, is much smaller, with under-stocked vending machines and insufficient facilities. A past employee who worked at the facility shares their experience working on the site, documenting a side of Apple that most people who aspire to work for the company do not know." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What It’s Like to Work Inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Workplaces have started integrating software to track employee productivity, resulting in employers essentially being able to spy on workers inside their own homes. Bossware is generally able to access data about everything that happens on the device that it is running on. Most products take frequent screenshots and can provide live video feeds of the device. Some products even integrate keyloggers. Depending on the type of software, workers might not be able to tell when the software is surveilling them. Workers might find requests to install this software difficult to refuse, especially in times of record unemployment. Companies do not always provide work devices for employees." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Partially Redacted is a new podcast covering data privacy, security, and compliance The data privacy landscape is one of the fastest-evolving in tech today. To help you make sense of it all, Partially Redacted brings together experts on engineering, architecture, privacy, data, and security.In this new podcast by Skyflow, guests share knowledge, best practices, and real world experiences – all to help you better understand how to use, manage, and protect sensitive customer data.Recent episodes featured guests from Oracle, Snowflake, and Skyflow - and all are free to listen. Subscribe to Partially Redacted on any major podcast platform" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Partially Redacted is a new podcast covering data privacy, security, and compliance" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "66% of investors regret making impulsive investment decisions That's why quantitative hedge funds hire computer scientists to build algorithms that eliminate human biases (fear, greed, FOMO) from investing.With Composer you can invest in quant-based strategies for free - no Python or Excel required.Check out some of their most popular strategies (1 year returns):Big Tech Momentum (+63%)Biotech Sweet 16 (+122%)Leveraged Sectors Inflation Hedge (+46%)Explore Composer Today*" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "66% of investors regret making impulsive investment decisions" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Test Each allows developers to test code repeatedly with different inputs. It loops over every combination of inputs, can use random functions, and is snapshot testing friendly. An in-browser demo is available." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Test Each" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "After Andy Rubin left Google in 2014, Google’s robotic’s program, nicknamed ‘Replicant’ at the time, had been stagnant. In the last few years, Google has rebooted its program, and the new effort is called ‘Robotics at Google’. Robotics at Google is made up of many of the same members of Rubin’s team, and it focuses on applying machine learning to robotics. They have developed robots in the lab that can learn to move and sort objects on their own, which may interest companies such as Amazon, as while these tasks seem simple they are actually quite hard to program manually. While Google has not yet announced its strategy on how it plans to commercialize their research, it is clear that the aim of the development of these robots is to automate more jobs." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Slack debuted on the stock exchange on Thursday, soaring 48.5 percent on its first day. It was a direct listing rather than an Initial Public Offering, which meant that Slack did not receive any additional funding and no new stocks were created. Similar to other tech companies, Slack shares have a dual-class structure, with Class B shares carrying 10 times more voting power than Class A shares. Slack reports that it has 10 million daily users, with a 49 percent increase in paid customers year over year." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Slack shares surge 48% over reference price in market debut" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Rafflesiaceae are a family of rare parasitic plants that have shed superfluous genes and acquired new ones from their hosts. Researchers recently mapped the genome for a species of Rafflesiaceae and found that it was missing nearly half of the genes widely conserved across plant lineages. There were no functional genes in its chloroplasts, like in other members of the Rafflesiaceae family. While the genome seemed to be missing a lot of DNA, it is still roughly the same size as ours. Most of the genome is filled up with copies of stolen genes. Horizontal gene transfer is rare outside of bacteria." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Deep reinforcement learning can be used to find economic policies that people will vote for." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "This is a 95 page open source guide to web animation, covering topics like transitions, animations, keyframes, etc. The thing I really like about this is that it's extremely practical, for example there are sections like \"Things transitions don't work on\" and \"Keyframes: Things to watch out for\"." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "CSS Animation 101" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This tutorial shows you how to authenticate, read a data stream, store it as a time series, and run queries in InfluxDB APIs. Use the REST API or your favorite languages, including Python, Java, Go, and Ruby. Learn more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How to use the InfluxDB API to collect time series data" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "An estimated 14 million US adults don't have bank accounts, exposing them to predatory check-cashing and payday loan services. A new bill in New York proposes to create a publicly owned electronic banking platform and digital currency. The Inclusive Value Ledger proposal will allow citizens to transfer currency between each other without any fees. Local currencies were commonplace before the Federal Reserve Act centralized banking. The technology required to make IVL into a reality already exists. While the proposal says that the system will be secure, it doesn't offer more details about the planned security mechanisms or policies the system will have. The plan is supported by a coalition of community groups." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "New York Is Proposing the Creation of a ‘Public Venmo’" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The first physical retail Google Store will debut in New York City this summer. It will display and sell a variety of Google products and serve as a place for customers to pick up online orders. The stores will showcase how Google's products work together, offer in-store experts, assist with setups and repairs, and host workshops on how to make the most of Google's products and services. It is unknown whether Google plans to expand beyond a single location." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple is updating FaceTime with today's new iOS release, with features like group calling (whoever is talking will remain in focus while everyone else will be smaller in the background) for up to 32 users, stickers, Memoji and Animoji, and filters. iOS 12.1 will also include dual SIM card functionality so it will be really easy to toggle between two different phone numbers, real-time depth control (a blurring effect that gives the appearance of depth to photos), and new emojis including emojis for red heads and bald people!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple releasing iOS 12.1 tomorrow with Group FaceTime, new emoji, more" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Sparrow is an AI chatbot trained on DeepMind's large language model Chinchilla. It is designed to talk with humans and answer questions, sometimes using live Google searches to inform those answers. The model learns by trial and error through human feedback. It was designed to be a step forward in developing AIs that can talk to humans without dangerous consequences." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "DeepMind’s new chatbot uses Google searches plus humans to give better answers" } ]