While rewards programs that offer perks such as free items or cash back can be effective, it seems that almost every retailer has adopted this type of loyalty program in one form or another. This means that these loyalty programs start to blur together in the eyes of the customer. Today’s consumers expect more from brands. Rather than trying to be everything to everybody, they expect brands to build an identity that appeals to the specific values and interests of niche groups....

Xbox Game Pass is one of the best bargains in gaming, offering hundreds of games for a fairly low monthly price. But what do you play when you have so many options? We’ll help you narrow down your options, and give you some recommendations of what to play during your trial month. With subscriptions starting at around $10, and with a library of over 200 games, there’s really no downside to getting Game Pass....

Moments of epiphany tend to come in the unlikeliest of circumstances. For Ian Goodfellow, PhD in machine learning, it came while discussing artificial intelligence with friends at a Montreal pub one late night in 2014. What came out of that fateful meeting was “generative adversarial network” or (GAN), an innovation that AI experts have described as the “coolest idea in deep learning in the last 20 years.” Goodfellow’s friends were discussing how to use AI to create photos that looked realistic....

What do we know? Anti-satellite weapons, commonly referred to as ASATs, are any weapon that can temporarily impair or permanently destroy an orbiting satellite. The one that Russia just tested is known as a direct ascent kinetic anti-satellite weapon. Russia launched an anti-satellite test that destroyed one of its older satellites. The satellite broke up and created thousands of pieces of debris in orbit, ranging in size from tiny specks up to pieces a few feet across....

Apple introduced the sensor in its high-end iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max flagships to enhance photography. This is not the first time the company is using LiDAR sensor in its products. In March 2020, the Cupertino-based company included the sensor in its new iPad. However, the primary purpose of the sensor in that device was to aid augmented reality. With the new iPhone, Apple claims that it’ll help you with three things: photo and video effects, precise placement of AR objects, and object and room scanning....

As is the customary tradition, the company is expected to unveil a number of products at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Apple Park campus tomorrow. While iPhones are de rigueur, the “By innovation only” event is much more than that. With iPhone sales hitting a plateau, the company has been steadily diversifying into services and wearables over the past couple of years. We’re most likely to hear some updates on that front as well....

That’s why experiments in space are so valuable. They have revealed a new perspective into biological sciences, including insights into making human tissues. Gravity influences cellular behavior by impacting how protein and genes interact inside the cells, creating tissue that is polarized, a fundamental step for natural organ development. Unfortunately, gravity is against us when we try to reproduce complex three dimensional tissues in the lab for medical transplantation. This is difficult because of the intrinsic limitations of bio-reactors used on Earth....

In this story, we’ll break down what AMP is, and why Brave and DuckDuckGo are going on an offensive against it. First, the basics. What’s AMP? Google first introduced AMP in 2015 with an aim to make pages and articles load faster on mobile. The company said it’ll “dramatically improve the performance of the mobile web.” It used cached copies of pages stored on CDNs (Content Delivery Network) to quickly bring up the page when a user tries to access it....

Can we have a grown-up conversation about those “gender swap” filters you can find in photo apps? I bring it up because this image is going viral today: Credit: Reddit Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. It’s just an image of Elon Musk wearing lipstick and a wig. We can clearly see that it was made using FaceApp – a selfie editor that, among other features, has a filter that uses AI to “swap” the “gender” of a photo’s subject....

But Nissan, like most traditional automakers, has a long way to go if it wants to catch Tesla. Elon Musk’s company is easily the biggest seller of EVs in the world, with the Model 3 and Model Y shifting around 230,000 vehicles per quarter between them worldwide. China’s SAIC is in second place thanks to its Wuling Hingguang Mini, which is the best selling EV in China. After that come Volkswagen, BYD and Hyundai....

Why do companies need to appoint a grievance officer? In February, the Indian government passed a set of new social media policing rules. As per these new guidelines, significant social media intermediaries — platforms with more than 5 million users — need to appoint a nodal officer, a chief compliance officer, and a resident grievance officer. These rules came into effect on May 21, 2021, so all these now need to have officers residing in India for these positions....

Thousands of companies around the world rely on outside businesses to provide so-called intelligent hiring solutions. These AI-powered packages are advertised as a way to narrow job applicants down to a ‘cream of the crop’ for humans to consider. On the surface, this seems like a good idea. Anyone who’s ever been responsible for the hiring at a decent-sized operation wishes they had a magic button that would save them from wasting their time interviewing the worst candidates....

As I’ve written before, Tesla’s Full Self Driving software is not a full self driving system. It only works under certain circumstances to perform specific tasks related to driving: it cannot safely perform an end-to-end traversal that requires it to navigate city streets, highways, and parking lots in unknown territory. Background FSD is a beta software in every sense of the term. It’s a strong enough AI system to demonstrate the core concepts and it’s functional enough to make it desirable for consumers....

The Big Bang theory first appeared in a scientific paper in 1931. Physicist Georges Lemaitre is credited with its creation. And the bulk of our assumptions about the universe and its rate of expansion are based on his ideas. In 2019 that rate of expansion, called the Hubble Constant, was put into question by various teams that determined either the rate of expansion had been incorrectly calculated or something was seriously wrong with the universe....

Open floor plans. A spacious kitchen. Floor to ceiling windows. Walk-in closets. Set someone down and ask them to start listing the features that make up their dream house and before you know it, you’ve got a veritable laundry list of ideas. The beauty is that no matter how long that list eventually runs, there’s actually a way to bring it all to life right in front of your eyes....

Imagine walking out on stage and sliding behind a piano to start playing your favorite song to an enthusiastic crowd. When the song reaches your first chorus, you get active, moving out from behind the piano to grab a guitar and take the performance to the next level. Then, when you want to go intimate and a bit more whimsical, you throw your audience a curve by switching to the ukulele....

Unfortunately, the day has finally arrived. Despite the numerous pleas from founder Christian Reber and the fans who love it, Wunderlist is, as of today, no longer supported by Microsoft. If you want to save your lists, you can still import them to the Microsoft To Do app. Read: How to create (and switch between) multiple Gmail signatures With that in mind, here’s how to move your Wunderlist lists to a few other to-do apps, including Microsoft To Do — which has most of Wunderlist’s features and is worth a try if nothing else....

I’m sure many of you are in a similar position, and we’re not alone — we’re not even in the minority. Almost 60% of people haven’t taken a single day off yet in 2021. UK statutory leave is 28 days a year, which is on par with many countries, so in the last year and a half-ish (from 1st Jan 2020 to date early June 2021) theoretically, the average person should’ve taken about 41 days off....

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 16, 2022 However, there’s no detail available about how developers can apply these labels, and how Twitter will verify these applications. We’ve asked the company for more information, and we’ll update the story if we hear back. While this is a good step in clearly marking automated accounts, this is largely developer-dependant. So you might see a lot of rouge bot accounts without any labels....

Now, that’s set to change. The company has silently updated the Apple TV+ terms to reduce the trial to three months when you buy a new Apple gadget. Here’s what the full text says: This means that any device activated till the end of this month will get one year of the free trial. After that, you’ll get only three months free, and subsequent service will cost you $4.99 per month....