Over the years, several research papers have estimated meg’s size. Its teeth are shaped like large, flat triangles with serrated edges — much like the teeth of living white sharks. White sharks, along with mako sharks and the porbeagle shark all belong in the family Lamnidae and are referred to as “lamnids.” The close similarities between meg teeth and those of living lamnid sharks are strong evidence meg was indeed an ancient kind of lamnid shark....

There is an issue, though. It seems that battery degradation is so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that the power packs will outlive the rest of the car. So what to do with all those surplus cells? Use them to power boats, of course! It was maritime week in the UK recently after all. [Read: What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US presidential election] A collaboration between boatyard Voyager Marine, Cornwall and South coast-based ferry tour operator Plymouth Boat Trips has seen a bunch of used Nissan Leaf batteries get repurposed to power what they say is the UK’s first all-electric sea going ferry....

Using back-dated market rates, cryptocurrency enthusiast Jameson Lopp built a handy portal to estimate the amount of money those sales have generated since 2014. — Jameson Lopp (@lopp) February 9, 2020 US authorities have seized 185,230 BTC through criminal investigations between 2014 and now, including an auction for 3,813 BTC that runs throughout February. Let’s say, though, that the US Marshals held onto all of the Bitcoin seized over the past six years....

The project — called CLAWS — is being led by the Office of Naval Research, which is responsible for the science and technology programs of the US Navy and Marine Corps. Budget documents uncovered by New Scientist, describe CLAWS as an “autonomous unmanned undersea weapon system” that could be installed on robot submarines such as the Orca underseas vehicle being developed by Boeing. [Read: Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war] These boats will be armed with 12 torpedo tubes that could be controlled by CLAWS without any input from a human....

By frequently crawling and caching pages for the archive, the Wayback Machine has amassed over 366 billion web pages, 20 million books and texts, 4 million videos, and tons of software programs. Now the Internet Archive, the San Francisco-based nonprofit behind the tool, is making it easier to track changes between two snapshots. The new feature, called “Changes,” lets you compare two different archives of a given URL. It gives a side-by-side comparison, with changes highlighted in blue (added content) and yellow (deleted content)....

UK-based consumer reviews magazine Which? has surveyed over 1,000 EV owners to find out just how much the average EV battery degrades over the first few years of its life. By the looks of things, EV batteries don’t degrade as much as some skeptics would claim. According to the 1,016 electric car owners surveyed between December 2019 and February 2020, EVs that are up to three years old showed only a 2% decline in battery capacity....

World economies are revving back up, but the interesting point is that many of the world’s workers are taking a different view of whether getting back to normal is a good thing. For many, a collection of low wage jobs with few benefits and little upward mobility aren’t working anymore. If you feel like it’s time to launch a new way of life, regardless of your new direction, it’s probably worth taking a look at some of the online training opportunities available now as part of the summer July 4th sale....

Everybody loves the convenience of earbuds. The tiny little powerhouses don’t have all the heft of lugging around over-ear headphones while still dishing up premium sound. But they still suffer from the same concern held by over-ear users — how do you enjoy the full scope of your music uninterrupted while still remaining safe to all the dangers of the world when you can’t hear what’s happening around you? One answer appears to be artificial intelligence, which is at the heart of some cool innovations included as part of the xFyro ANC Pro AI-Powered Wireless Earbuds....

That is, until you check out some of the specs. You can find out why all the audiophiles are throwing money at xFyro right now at 60 percent off their retail price, only $99, from TNW Deals. The xFyro ARIA earbuds were designed by some of audio’s finest award-winning engineers, leading to a product that’s a true passion project for fidelity addicts. And when you look at what the ARIA earbuds can do, a pair of numbers jump out....

Remember back in March when you packed up stuff from your office and thought you’d be back in a few weeks? Many of us still haven’t seen the office since. And the reality is that for many, it could still be a while before the days of bustling, communal office space happens again. And in some cases, those days may be gone forever. For many, home is your office now and for the foreseeable future....

There are currently two titles available in the series, “Successful Studio Set Up” and “Creation and Translation.” The first deals with many of the decisions engineers are faced with when building a studio – such as whether to use acoustic treatments and what kind of studio monitors you should use – while the second focuses on helping artists and engineers translate the sound they want listeners to hear into the one they actually do....

You’ll never hear us say anything derogatory about elite headphone brands like Sennheiser or Bose or HiFiMan. For the most part, their headphones belong on the Mount Olympus of quality audio equipment. But seriously…are you really going to spend $3,000 or more on a pair of headphones? Unless you’re Elon Musk or Bill Gates, probably not. But the truth is, for every high end brand crafting headphones selling for four figures, there are plenty of amazing manufacturers also producing brilliant headphones at a fraction of that price....

The tech-focused fund, launched by billionaire Philippe Laffont just over one year ago, joins a growing list of “quant funds” to have failed to turn a profit due to 2020’s unpredictable nature. Quant funds use complex algorithms to find hidden trade signals in a hyperconnected web of data. While Coatue’s quant fund mixes old-school stock picking with quantitative analysis (a method dubbed “quantamental”), execs were reportedly concerned that data farmed in the midst of COVID-19 would confuse its in-house trading program....

Yep, that’s right: it’s an AI-powered vocabulary tool that makes up words and definitions you won’t find in any regular dictionary like Merriam-Webster or the Oxford English Dictionary — and it’s absolutely marvelous. My favorite so far has to be helicopterygium, or as thisworddoesnotexist.com defines it: Example: “helicopterygiums range from tiny pupates to complete bivalve mollusks.” The unusual dictionary follows a long tradition of AI-generated non-existent things like feet, memes, food, cats, Airbnb listings, furry portraits, and even people....

Named Eva, the droid uses deep learning to analyze human facial gestures captured by a camera. Cables and motors then pull on different points of the robot’s soft skin to mimic the expressions of nearby people in real-time. The effect is pretty creepy, but the researchers say that giving androids this ability can facilitate more natural and engaging human-robot interactions. Eva produces different expressions by utilizing one or more of six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise....

For all the emerging entrepreneurs out there, there’s actually a detailed 13-step guide to creating an impactful startup business plan from scratch. You can pick up that game plan for yourself, all with an award-winning professor as your guide, in The Complete Business Plan in One Course ft. Chris Haroun. It’s on sale now for over 90 percent off, just $14. If you don’t know Chris Haroun, his resume speaks for itself....

Jigsaw, its side-arm devoted to fighting extremism, censorship, and other forms of cyberattacks, has revealed it bought a Russian troll campaign as an experiment. It assigned it to attack a political activism website the company had specifically created for this purpose, something it did for as cheap as $250. The details, revealed by Wired’s Andy Greenberg, shows it’s not just cheap to fund such campaigns, but that it’s super easy for private individuals to buy one in order to engage in organized, online disinformation....

This makes it ideal for building small media servers, pet monitors, or any number of similar development projects. Before we talk about how it compares with the Zero W, let’s take a look at its specifications. Specifications Broadcom BCM2710A1, quad-core 64-bit SoC (Arm Cortex-A53 @ 1GHz) 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE 1 × USB 2.0 interface with OTG HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header footprint MicroSD card slot Mini HDMI port Composite video and reset pin solder points CSI-2 camera connector H....

If you’re one of those folks living in a home without any great air circulation answers as the summer bears down, it’s probably worth considering your options. Installing central air conditioning ductwork and a unit will cost you anywhere from $3,000 to $7,000, depending on variables. And of course, if you don’t own the home, you could even do it if you wanted to. Buying and installing a window-mounted air conditioner is obviously a lot cheaper (from about $200 to $1,000), but then, you’re buying a unit that will only work most effectively in one room of your home....

If you thought cybercriminals were throttling back in the age of COVID-19, economic disaster and civil unrest, then you don’t know cybercriminals. In the face of uncertainty and new avenues of exploitation, online crooks have seized the moment, launching a wave of ransomware attacks last month against more than 30 large organizations to extort huge multi-million dollar payouts. Lining up against opponents like that, your security needs to be equally on point....