The most recent effort is by Car IQ. The company has developed the first payment network to allow connected cars and trucks to pay machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions. Vehicles can pay for fuel, tolls, parking, and more without a credit card. Why use blockchain technology for in-car transactions? Existing transactions using credit cards, debit cards, and electronic fund transactions require customer action. They are costly, difficult to reconcile, and prone to fraud....

Wright, lead brain behind alternative cryptocurrency Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, caused controversy earlier this year after suing community members who refused to acknowledge that he created Bitcoin under the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym. An eagle-eyed Twitter user shared a clip from Wright’s presentation, in which Wright (hilariously) says the following as part of a “bit.” I remember reading it… probably when I wrote it… and there was this different way of doing things … “I remember reading about it” Is not what you say when you wrote it…....

The team is using a bunch of parts out of Tesla Model 3, such as the infotainment system and the vehicle controllers to regulate the airflow in the ventilator, and the touch screen panel to control the system. [Read: How to disinfect your laptop screen and keyboard] Last month, Elon Musk said the company planned to deliver FDA-approved ventilators to hospitals for free to regions where Tesla delivers its cars....

Last week, Hugging Face announced a new product in collaboration with Microsoft called Hugging Face Endpoints on Azure, which allows users to set up and run thousands of machine learning models on Microsoft’s cloud platform. Having started as a chatbot application, Hugging Face made its fame as a hub for transformer models, a type of deep learning architecture that has been behind many recent advances in artificial intelligence, including large language models like OpenAI GPT-3 and DeepMind’s protein-folding model AlphaFold....

Whether developers know it or not, their companies likely already have a multi-cloud environment. Multi-cloud is a strategy where a business selects different services from different cloud providers because some are better for certain tasks than others. So company X could use cloud A for infrastructure, cloud B for app dev and testing, and cloud C for data localization in a region. While traditionally considered multi-cloud, this setup really only scratches the surface of what’s possible today....

WhatsApp is finally getting dark mode on mobile — but only for Android for the time being, so iPhone users will have to wait a little longer. There’s another catch: the feature works solely through the app’s latest beta version, which is already available on Google Play. Those signed up for the beta program should actually get the update automatically. If not, you can always enter the program to get the dark theme....

I am, of course, talking about the Zune. Okay, I might not be able to objectively argue that the Zune was better than the iPod, but I do think it holds up better in 2021. I may be in the minority here, but from where I’m standing, the Zune was just the better music player — one ahead of its time. Its matte, soft-touch hardware was weird but unique Brown....

The report is 165 pages cover-to-cover and it provides a summary assessment of the current state of AI in healthcare while also laying out several opportunities and challenges. Most of what the report covers boils down to six “guiding principles for [AI’s] design and use.” Per a WHO blog post, these include: Protecting human autonomy Promoting human well-being and safety and the public interest Ensuring transparency, explainability and intelligibility Fostering responsibility and accountability Ensuring inclusiveness and equity Promoting AI that is responsive and sustainable...

After being reported by female colleagues who witnessed his actions, Parish admitted that he had twice looked at pornographic content on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. As Parish found, using porn at work can be career-ending. It is almost universally deemed unacceptable and is typically viewed as gross misconduct. And not only can getting caught cost you your job, it can also have severe repercussions for your personal relationships....

At the heart of the debate is the most fundamental question: what does it mean to be human? Intuitively, we all think we know what this means – it almost goes without saying. And yet, as a society, we regularly dehumanize others, and cast them as animal or less than human – what philosopher Giorgio Agamben describes as “bare life.” Take the homeless for example. People who the authorities treat much like animalsor less than animals (like pests) who need to be guarded against with anti-homeless spikes and benches designed to prevent sleep....

There are two contrasting but equally disturbing images of artificial intelligence. One warns about a future in which runaway intelligence becomes smarter than humanity, creates mass unemployment, and enslaves humans in a Matrix-like world or destroys them a la Skynet. A more contemporary image is one in which dumb AI algorithms are entrusted with sensitive decisions that can cause severe harm when they do go wrong. What both visions have in common is the absence of human control....

Is this a regular occurrence for you? Do you realize that you are in this rut but can’t seem to find the willpower to overcome it? You’re definitely not alone in this situation. This is called ego-depletion. Ego-depletion is a theory that willpower is connected to a limited reserve of mental energy, and once you run out of that energy, you’re more likely to lose self-control. This theory would seem to explain your post-work defeat....

This reality is that, even from a young age, girls are discouraged from pursuing a career in STEM, and instead are told to look pretty and be “princesses.” It’s also a time when women who have carved out their career in science are struggling to get acknowledgement for their work and discoveries as Wikipedia is removing the biographies of women scientists. Currently, just 17 percent of the English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women, and women scientists in particular are poorly represented....

Also known as the Siri remote, the old version of this device is one of the most harrowing things I’ve contended with. I’ve gone into detail about this before, but it’s scarred me so much I think it’s worth repeating. First though, let’s understand what we’re talking about. Have a look at the old Apple TV remotes: A little context. The device on the left was the most recent Siri remote, which was an “upgraded” version of the hardware on the right....

The non-hormonal contraceptive app has donations from various Catholic-Church associated groups. Launched in 2015, Femm now has over 400,000 downloads and claims to “empower women” by giving them control over their menstrual cycle — while encouraging them to avoid hormonal birth control. The report revealed that over the last three years the fertility app was funded almost $1.8 million by The Chiaroscuro Foundation, a Catholic Charity, which has a history of donating to pro-life campaigns....

What would happen if AI systems had to make independent decisions, and ones that could mean life or death for humans? Pop culture has long portrayed our general distrust of AI. In the 2004 sci-fi movie I, Robot, detective Del Spooner (played by Will Smith) is suspicious of robots after being rescued by one from a car crash, while a 12-year-old girl was left to drown. He says: — Richard Hay (@WinObs) July 17, 2019 Unlike humans, robots lack a moral conscience and follow the “ethics” programmed into them....

We sincerely regret the error. Last May, Tesla stuck the middle finger to the entire auto industry, deeming the use of multiple sensors for autonomous driving functionalities… unnecessary. It ditched radars and initiated a camera-only approach, dubbed “Tesla Vision.” The decision cost the company the safety recognition by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and led to multiple owner complaints over possibly related “phantom breaking” issues. Now, Woven Planet, Toyota’s self-driving subsidiary, will be the second company to adopt a vision-based strategy in pursuit of fully autonomous driving — but its approach differs significantly from Tesla’s....

According to TorrentFreak, Github removed a repository at the request of AMD, which filed an official DMCA takedown notice. AMD also identified four other repositories containing the information, all of which have apparently been removed. The notices (which you can read here) explicitly state that the content was “stolen from AMD.” It doesn’t say exactly what the content is, but rumor has it that the repositories included the source code for an Arden GPU....

As part of the agreement, Firework will show its catalog of 30-second videos across 38 categories such as travel, beauty, and fitness. The company officially launched the short video app last year, with a marquee feature that lets people shoot full-screen videos that can seamlessly switch between portrait and landscape mode. [Read: Xiaomi packed a massive 5,020mAh battery into its new $200 phone] Sunil Nair, CEO of Firework India, told me that unlike TikTok, the platform discourages lip-sync styled videos, and asks its creators to make high-quality original content....

Cycling is dangerous. In Britain more than 100 cyclists are killed and more than 3,000 are seriously injured each year. Reducing these numbers is no small task. But one plucky startup from Britain, backed by ex-pro and Australian national road cycling champion Simon Gerrans, thinks it can make cycling safer with its 3D-printed fully-custom bicycle helmet. Earlier this year, I got to see how the company — called HEXR — was manufacturing its first production run ready for shipping....