The home security firm has since fired four individuals for such transgressions, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. In a letter to US Senators, Ring said although the employees in question were authorized to access video data, they viewed footage which beyond what the company considers necessary to perform their tasks. “In each instance, once Ring was made aware of the alleged conduct, Ring promptly investigated the incident, and after determining that the individual violated company policy, terminated the individual,” he continues....

“The world has changed a lot over the past several months and we’re adapting with it,” said the Robinhood UK team in an email shared by The Guardian. “On a company level, we’ve come to recognize that our efforts are currently best spent on strengthening our core business in the US and making further investments in our foundational systems.” Late last year, Robinhood said it expected to roll out in the UK during the first quarter of 2020....

— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) June 4, 2020 The memorial for Floyd was held in Minneapolis, and featured a call to action from Reverend Al Sharpton, the president of the National Action Network. It’s the first in a series of memorials to be held around the city honoring Floyd’s life. Read: Tim Cook addresses George Floyd’s killing with a statement on racism Access to the games remained offline for the duration of the memorial....

Power surges happen all the time. And while there are a number of factors that can lead to an unexpected surge of power in your home electrical system, the most common source of power spikes is the most obvious one: lightning strikes. Every year, the planet is struck by bolts of cloud-to-ground lightning about 20 million times. All that energy has to go somewhere — and often, it can be redistributed through your nearby power grid and send surges into your home, putting a charge through your finely calibrated electronics....

“Russia is bombarding our cities every day and night and so many civilians are in danger,” Fedorov wrote in a letter shared on Twitter. “We badly need the opportunity to watch the movement of Russian troops, especially at night when our technologies are blind in fact!” Fedorov urged the companies to provide satellite imagery to Ukraine’s armed forces. He asked them to collaborate with EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA), a satellite imagery firm that will help process the data....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Pasteur used to say: Fight the power! Bitcoin price We closed the day, July 26 2020, at a price of $9,905. That’s a respectable 2.32 percent increase in 24 hours, or $224. It was the highest closing price in fifty-four days. We’re still 50 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Faraday used to say: Money makes the world go around! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 16 2020, at a price of $8,723. That’s a minor 1.00 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$88.68. It was the lowest closing price in two days. We’re still 56 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Albert Einstein used to say: Buy low, sell high! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 25 2019, at a price of $10,138. That’s a minor 0.21 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$22.21. It was the lowest closing price in two days. We’re still 49 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nikola Tesla used to say: Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 07 2020, at a price of $8,163. That’s a decent 5.08 percent increase in 24 hours, or $395. It was the highest closing price in forty-eight days....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Planck used to say: Yolo! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 21 2019, at a price of $8,243. That’s a minor 0.22 percent increase in 24 hours, or $18. It was the highest closing price in six days. We’re still 58 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nietzsche used to say: Time is money! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, November 04 2019, at a price of $9,412. That’s a minor 1.91 percent increase in 24 hours, or $177. It was the highest closing price in five days. We’re still 53 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Jane Didion used to say: Whip it, whip it, whip it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, May 19 2020, at a price of $9,729. That’s a minor 0.02 percent increase in 24 hours, or $1. It was the highest closing price in four days....

Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been noticeably absent for most of its existence. There’s been many attempts to reveal their true identity, but the reason for their sudden disappearance in 2011 is just as curious. While Nakamoto was still active in Bitcoin development, they mostly kept contact with the outside world with forum posts, emails, and IRC channels. Archives of Nakamoto’s communications can be found here. The thing is, whoever maintained the Nakamoto moniker never directly signalled they were going to leave....

Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in Butte, thinks that could be because UFOs are piloted by humans from the future, not aliens from another planet. For countless people, the existence of UFOs is undeniable. Many experts, including those who’ve analyzed recently released footage from the US Navy, are convinced that at least some reports of flying objects of unknown origin throughout history are true....

Computer-generated beauty truly is in the AI of the beholder. The big idea: Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the University of Copenhagen today published a paper detailing a system by which a brain-computer-interface is used to transmit data to an AI system which then interprets that data and uses it to train an image generator. According to a press release from the University of Helsinki: Once the user’s preferences were interpreted, the machine then generated a new series of images, tweaked to be more attractive to the individual whose data it was trained on....

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tweeted Thursday it was suspending trade for Zoom Technologies — a relatively tiny holding company supposedly headquartered in Beijing — due to the confusion. [Read: People are skipping Zoom meetings by looping videos of themselves paying attention] Zoom Technologies’ subsidiaries reportedly develop games and electronic components for mobile phones, among other things, but the SEC shared concerns that it hadn’t filed a public disclosure statement since 2015....

The first ever Canadian-led large project on one of the world’s leading telescopes is hoping to do just that. The new program, called the Virgo Environment Traced in Carbon Monoxide survey (VERTICO), is investigating, in brilliant detail, how galaxies are killed by their environment. As VERTICO’s principal investigator, I lead a team of 30 experts that are using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to map the molecular hydrogen gas, the fuel from which new stars are made, at high resolution across 51 galaxies in our nearest galaxy cluster, called the Virgo Cluster....

The devices use a new processing method that Sony calls “cognitive intelligence.” The company says it goes beyond standard AI to create an immersive visual and sound experience: The processor divides the screen into zones and detects the focal point in the picture. It also analyzes sound positions in the signal to match the audio to the images on the screen. [Read: Meet the 4 scale-ups using data to save the planet] In a video demo, Sony said the expanding size of TVs has made viewers focus on parts of the screens rather than the entire image — like we do when viewing the real world....

The experience will be brokered by Space Adventures, the same company that sent a handful of ultra-rich people into orbit between 2001 and 2009. We don’t know exactly how much the experience will cost, but as noted by Quartz, the last space tourism flight by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte cost about $30 million. SpaceX also previously held a deal with Bigelow Aerospace to fly private tourists for $52 million, but the latter eventually withdrew from the deal....

Long story short, Spotify had an event. There were lots of things announced at that event, but one stood above them all: Spotify HiFi. This is a new service the company will offer, allowing its users to listen to lossless files. Let’s talk about what that means. Currently, Spotify only plays MP3s, with the maximum quality available being 320kbps. These files are known as lossy. The reason for this is that parts of the original track are literally lost in the compression process....