It might not be possible to know all the trending songs on the platform. But now there might be a little help on the way. This new site called Tiktometer shows the top 30 trending tracks on the short video app for the week. Credit: TikTometer You can also check out the top 100 hits of past months starting from 2018. The site says that it now has data points for more than 25 million top videos and 2....
The freely available tool is powered by an AI engine, which was fed more than 2,000 papers and articles sourced from the medical library PubMed. It allows doctors and researchers to devise a score from various symptoms to decide if a patient is at high risk of moving to a critical stage. [Read: Chinese security guards use smart glasses to find people with coronavirus] Kahun’s research team trained the AI model to analyze these papers and give a score of probability as an output....
Up front: TikTok has been testing the expanded format since late last year. Over the coming weeks, the company will start rolling out the option around the world. Product manager Drew Kirchhoff said the change would pave the way for richer storytelling and entertainment on the app: The company has shared some examples of how creators have been experimenting with longer videos: Quick take: TikTok videos were initially restricted to a maximum of 15 seconds, but the limit was later extended to one minute....
Job hunting is seldom fun under the best of circumstances. And as we’d all agree, right now is clearly nowhere close to the best of circumstances. U.S. unemployment has skyrocketed the past several weeks to around 13 percent — with projections it could reach as high as 30 percent by this summer. If you’re going to be looking for a job anytime soon, you need a resume that is capable of muscling its way to the top of a hiring manager’s stack against an absurd amount of competition....
Apart from this, the company acquired at least seven startups this year — the most in the last five years. These firms can be key to how Twitter will shape up as a social network in the next year. Before we take a look at how the acquired startups will play a role in Twitter’s growth, let’s see what they do. What startups has Twitter acquired this year? Breaker: A social podcasting app for discovering podcasts by following people....
Last month, Facebook released its own set of rules to crack down on deepfakes. Yesterday, Twitter followed the suit and released their own guidelines and course of action for manipulated content. These sets of rules are based upon an open survey result and feedback the company asked its users for last November. This new practice includes a framework on how Twitter will label tweets with manipulated content. However, some rules leave a lot of gray areas and put the onus on the company’s AI models and moderators....
The UK government has pledged £20 million (US$27.4 million) to help local authorities install 4,000 on-street electric chargers over the next two years. The funding, provided through its On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme, will double the amount of government-supported electric chargers to nearly 8,000. Since the inception of the scheme in 2017, more than 140 local authority projects providing 4,000 charge points have been implemented. UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Drivers across the country should benefit from the electric vehicle revolution we’re seeing right now....
The report’s findings are similar to those of another report released by the National Academies in 2020. In that report, a committee of 19 experts in medicine and other fields concluded that directed, pulsed radio-frequency energy is the “most plausible mechanism” to explain the illness, dubbed “Havana syndrome.” Neither report is definitive, and their authors don’t address who targeted the embassies or why they were targeted. But the technology behind the suspected weapons is well understood and dates back to the Cold War arms race between the U....
“Enable best-of-breed convergence,” and “synthesize distributed users,” are just two of my favorite jargon-fuelled phrases — even if I don’t understand what they mean. Why, oh, why do people feel the need to spout these meaningless, empty words? Well, according to one specific study, insecurity in the workplace may play a part. The study, titled ‘Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use,’ found a correlation between aspiring business professionals, who experienced low status (aka being at the bottom of the chain at work), would use more acronyms in their written communication....
The country has one of the fastest-growing startup scenes in the MENA region and is becoming a global competitor. According to a report from Startup Genome, Egypt is in the top ten global ecosystems with affordable talentand has a total ecosystem value of $1.2 billion. There are multiple factors for why Egypt is worth keeping an eye on. It has a youthful population with around 50% below the age of 30....
5G is much faster, more responsive, and more customizable than 4G and is expected to be fundamental to the advancement of new technologies such as IoT, AI, VR, and self-driving cars. To match human-like reflexes, autonomous vehicles need to be able to read their environment and sift through enormous amount of sensor data in real-time — which 5G makes possible with its reduced latency and ultra-fast network speed. But when will all of this actually happen?...
Sounds AMAZING but… you shouldn’t trust it too much. As a matter of fact, the company itself warned that the software update “may do the wrong thing at the worst time.” While some Tesla lovers might turn a blind eye to the dangers of complacency, the video above shows that the software does have a number of serious limitations. YouTube user AI Addict took his Tesla for a ride in downtown San Francisco to test the Beta 9 upgrade....
Participants would provide this feedback either on the same computer (No. 1) they had just been working on or on another computer (No. 2) across the room. The study found that participants responding on computer No. 2 were far more critical of computer No. 1 than those responding on the same machine they’d worked on. People responding on the first computer seemed to not want to hurt the computer’s feelings to its face, but had no problem talking about it behind its back....
While many researchers and computer experts aren’t worried, new technologies need risk-assessment. So what’s the risk of AI breaking bad and turning into an episode of Westworld? The consensus is mixed. But, some high profile scientists like Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking sounded the alarm years ago, and there is some reason for concern. Deaths have already occurred and will continue to occur from both robots and artificial intelligence, but these are accidental....
The device uses a combination of biosensors and AI software to identify the hand gestures a person intends to make by analyzing electrical signals from their arm. It’s far from the first gesture recognition system designed for human-computer interaction (HCI), but the new system offers some unique benefits. Most notably, it uses a neuro-inspired hyperdimensional computing algorithm to update itself as it receives new information, such as changes to electrical signals when an arm gets sweaty....
The US In the US, unsurprisingly, there’s no national approach. Instead, there are two different approaches to setting speed limits, and several states don’t recognize ebikes at all. You can take a look at the different states in detail here, but here are the main distinctions: 26 states follow a three class system: Class 1: pedal assist only; maximum assisted speed of 20 mph (32 kmph). Pedal assist bicycles give you extra power while you’re already pedaling....
Last year, while reporting a story about how the digital advertising industry burrowed its tracking technology into scores of websites serving vulnerable and marginalized communities, I did something counterintuitive, especially for a reporter who writes about tech for a living: I surrendered to the surveillance economy. This decision to inject pure, uncut internet directly into my veins came as I was using and helping to create The Markup’s Blacklight tool, which opened my eyes even further to the plethora of companies that sought to grab my data from the websites I used on a daily basis....
You might be familiar with the following scenario. You’ve been a developer for a while and you’ve learned quite a lot along the way. Travelled to a couple of tech conferences, saw a number of tech talks and one day you think, “I can probably do that.” This is what I personally thought at the beginning of 2017. The good news is that this is true – you CAN do that....
Not enough info? Want to dig a little deeper? Don’t worry — I’ve got you covered. In this piece we’re going to explore what a phono preamp is, and why you, an audio fan, should add an external one to your setup. First things first… What’s a phono preamp? Let’s get simple. A phono preamp (or phono stage) amplifies the sound of your record player so it can be played through your sound system....
Users participating in the app’s TestFlight beta program have spotted the feature in the latest testing notes, MacRumors reports. This confirms the setting should soon appear on iPhone and iPad devices. Credit: MacRumors [Read: Instagram now supports dark mode on iOS 13 — here’s how to enable it] Considering WhatsApp had already pushed dark mode in beta versions of Android, it was only a matter of time before the setting arrived for iOS users too....
