Pokémon Sword & Shield feels bigger, more interactive, and exciting than previous titles and — nostalgia aside — I think it can quite easily claim to be the best ever Pokémon game. But, if I’m being completely honest, I’m slightly disappointed. The Pokémon series can be so much more. Why? Before we go on, some disclaimers. Firstly, Pokémon Sword & Shield are a fantastic pair of games. Just because I think they can be improved doesn’t mean I’m not having a great time playing them....

Sorry, but SUVs are popular First, let’s address the elephant in the room. It’s an uncomfortable truth for environmentalists, but SUV sales are increasing. In 2021, SUV sales accounted for approximately 48% of the passenger car market in China. Also, in Europe, car buyers are shifting from hatchbacks and sedans to SUVs, representing 45.5% of the cars purchased in 2021. Of course, the US is the king of this market, with the vehicles accounting for 52....

The site announced today that it’s only going to allow uploads from verified users and partners, that it’s banning downloads (except for paid content from verified uploaders), and that it’s expanding its moderation practices — more measures will follow in the new year. The moves follow a scathing New York Times piece by columnist Nicholas Kristof from last week, in which he highlighted the tragedy and long-trailing trauma that haunts the people exploited in non-consensual content and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) hosted on the platform....

The Southern Co-op chain has installed the tech in more than 18 of its stores in England, according to Wired. The software, which is supplied by UK startup Facewatch, alerts staff when someone with a record of “theft or anti-social behavior” enters the shop. “It gives our teams time to decide on the best action which is incredibly important,” wrote Gareth Lewis, loss prevention officer at the Southern Co-op, in a blog post on the Facewatch website....

The rocket uses liquid oxygen-methane propellants, and its primary stage can be used again for other launches. The company claims this reusability reduces the cost of rocket production by 70 percent. It has a payload capacity of 1.9 ton, and it can contain small and medium-sized satellites. The Hyperbola-2 is 28 meters long and has a takeoff weight of 90 tons. It is designed to launch satellites into the Lower Earth Orbit (LEO)....

CodeNet is a follow-up to ImageNet, a large-scale dataset of images and their descriptions; the images are free for non-commercial uses. ImageNet is now central to the progress of deep learning computer vision. CodeNet is an attempt to do for Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding what ImageNet did for computer vision: it is a dataset of over 14 million code samples, covering 50 programming languages, intended to solve 4,000 coding problems....

All reports indicate that the French police arrested the climate activist fighting against gentrification. However, ProtonMail is not under obligation to provide any details to the French authorities. So how did they get the IP address details? — Etienne – Tek (@tenacioustek) September 5, 2021 As TechCrunch noted, ProtonMail is obliged to comply with Swiss law, as they’re based out of Geneva. To get information about the activist, the French police sent a request to the Swiss authorities through Europol....

Just getting started down the path of learning programming and how basic information technology works can be intimidating enough. But when you really step back and realize how much an IT professional needs to know just to do their job the right way, it takes intimidating to a whole new level. Rather than freaking out about everything you don’t know, you can start methodically working your way to knowledgeable about things you’ll absolutely need to know with the training in The All-in-One Microsoft, Cybersecurity and Python Exam Prep Training Bundle ($17....

The company’s new Active line of speakers, however, certainly try to break the mold. The line contains the company’s first active, DSP-powered wireless speakers, the Active 200 bookshelf and the Active 400 floorstanders. But what makes them unique is Q Acoustics’ choice of drivers: instead of the usual woofer covering the lows and and tweeter covering the highs, the majority of the frequency range is covered by a pair of Balanced Mode Radiators or BMRs for short....

Holography is the photographic process of recording light that is scattered by an object and presenting it in a three-dimensional way. Invented in the early 1950s by the Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor, the discovery later earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. Beyond banknotes, passports, and controversial rappers, holography has become an essential tool for other practical applications including data storage, biological microscopy, medical imaging, and medical diagnosis....

According to an announcement by Ukrzaliznytsia, the country’s state-owned rail transport provider, the surreptitious cryptocurrency mining operation was reported by Oleg Nazaruk, the company‘s director of the department of economic and information security. “During the inspection of the premises where the so-called farm was located, more than 100 pieces of computer equipment were identified that were generating Bitcoins. The aforementioned equipment was connected to the Ukrzaliznytsia power grid. The estimated amount of losses since the beginning of the year is UAH 1 million [$40,000],” a loosely translated version of the statement reads....

The Indian railway network is one of the busiest transportation systems around the world, catering to over 24 million passengers daily. RailYatri is primarily designed for ticketing booking tickets and train information. The exposed server was found by a team of researchers led by Anurag Sen at Safety Detectives, a cybersecurity company. Sen and his team found the exposed Easticsearch server on August 10 with 43GB data. [Read: Why AI and human perception are too complex to be compared] However, on August 12, a Meow attack cut down most of the data, and the size was reduced to 1GB....

He apologized for not giving moderators enough notice about the rollout and not giving an opt-out option from the get-go. Le added that the company “will not roll the feature out within your community again without having a way for you to opt-out, and will provide you with ample notice and regular updates going forward.” Reddit has announced a new chatroom feature called “Start Chatting” for bored people confined to their homes during the coronavirus pandemic....

A report by The Information states Apple was working with Intel on the technology. It was codenamed Project OGRS (Off Grid Radio Service) at Apple and Project Shrek at Intel. Who says giant tech corporations don’t have a sense of humor? To be clear, this wasn’t like the WiFi and cellular walkie-talkie app on the Apple Watch. There are a myriad of apps that can turn the iPhone into a pseudo walkie-talkie using typical networks (and they’re subject to the same reliability issues as those networks)....

Your first instinct might be to turn the darn thing off to stop malicious snooping. Unfortunately, even that might not be enough. A new type of malware conceived by researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt would be able to run even when your phone’s power is off. And no, I’m not talking about an NSA-style fake power-off screen. “Baloney!” you shout. How can malware run without electricity? The simple answer is that these days, devices are rarely fully “off....

Designed as a proof-of-concept, the system takes real-time scoring data from football matches and generates news reports complete with photographs and a script. Synthesia and Reuters then use a neural network similar to Deepfakes and prerecorded footage of a real news anchor to turn the script into a “live” video of the news anchor giving up-to-the-second scoring updates. Credit: Reuters Credit: Reuters The big idea here is that you could have, for example, ten or twenty different “live” videos streaming that simultaneously showed the same “person” announcing real-time scoring updates for different sporting events....

The exception will initially apply to hospitals, with plans to extend it to political institutions too, Reuters reports. Medical providers and non-governmental organizations are also expected to get a pass to push coronavirus ads. The new rules are slated to be revealed over the coming days. [Read: YouTube throttles video quality in Europe due to coronavirus] “Currently we do not allow such ads to run under our Sensitive Events policy, which is designed to protect users by blocking ads that try to capitalize on short-term events like natural disasters,” read the memo sent by Google’s head of industry for elections, Mark Beatty, and first reported by Axios....

Here’s what we know about the phones so far based on numerous leaks leading up to Samsung’s reveal. When are they coming? You won’t have too long to wait — Samsung announced that its Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on Wednesday, February 9, at 10AM ET/ 7AM PT. Samsung normally opens up pre-orders immediately after the conclusion of Unpacked, and the phones ship and become available in stores a week or two after that....

Two leakers, Max Weinbach of XDA and @IceUniverse have so far mentioned Samsung using an ‘ultra-thin glass’ panel. As noted by The Verge, Samsung also applied for a trademark for the term. — Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) January 23, 2020 Curiously, the phone appears to have a built-in crease (as opposed to one that would presumably build overtime). It’s not clear why, but perhaps it helps with long-term durability. Weinbach also notes that the front 1-inch screen (0....

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 Bentham used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 21 2019, at a price of $10,138. That’s a worrying 5.82 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$626.52. It was the lowest closing price in six days....