People use period tracking apps to predict their next period, talk to their doctor about their cycle and identify when they are fertile. Users log everything from cravings to period flow, and apps provide predictions based on these inputs. The app predictions help with simple decisions, like when to buy tampons next, and provide life-changing observations, like whether you’re pregnant. The argument for submitting junk data is that doing so will trip up the apps’ algorithms, making it difficult or impossible for authorities or vigilantes to use the data to violate people’s privacy....

Markström denied responsibility claiming he had not seen the comments on the group before. Despite this, yesterday the Eskilstuna District Court found him guilty after agreeing with the prosecutor that the comments were clearly discriminatory against ethnic minority groups. In a press release published by the court, it outlined: “The district court found that the man must have seen six of these comments and that he therefore had intentions not to remove them....

Fast-forward from December 2019 to May 2020 and the region’s startup ecosystem momentum has, like elsewhere in the world, been significantly impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19. Last month the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Latin America the new epicenter for the virus, and Brazil, the region’s strongest startup ecosystem in terms of investment in 2019, today counts the world’s second highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases behind the United States....

According to an email sent to an owner of an affected Tesla vehicle, seen by Electrek, the EV maker is voluntarily recalling Model S and Model X vehicles with potentially defective infotainment systems and screens. I say voluntarily, but in reality it had no other option. The email declares that Tesla is recalling Model S and Model X vehicles made before 2018 that use the 8GB eMMC memory chip. These chips are used by critical vehicle systems, and because of heavy use are prone to wearing out as the flash memory reaches its maximum number of read/write cycles....

The Orlando division of Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) tweeted the following: — FHP Orlando (@FHPOrlando) August 28, 2021 According to FHP’s report, at the time of the incident, a trooper had stopped to help another driver whose 2012 Mercedes GLK 350 was disabled at the side of the Interstate 4 in Orlando. The highway officer had already stepped out of the police vehicle, a 2018 Dodge Charger, when the Tesla run into it....

Human language is full of ambiguity and double meanings. For instance, consider the potential meaning of this phrase: “I went to project class”. Without context, it’s an ambiguous statement. Computer scientists and linguists have spent decades trying to program computers to understand the nuances of human language. And in certain ways, computers are fast approaching humans’ ability to understand and generate text. Through the very act of suggesting some words and not others, the predictive text and auto-complete features in our devices change the way we think....

At Neural, we aspire to be like Fox News in its prime: fair and balanced. In this equitable spirit, we’ve compiled an even mix of AI’s best and worst of 2021. Without further ado, here are five stories that made us cherish our robot overlords — and five that had us reaching for the off switch. 10. Bad: Slaughterbots coming to your neighborhood It was another busy year for AI weaponry....

In March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the European Union committed to entirely phase out its dependency on Russian gas, oil, and coal imports. It asked the European Commission to develop a plan on how to do so by the end of May 2022. The REPowerEU plan is the result. An intensive commitment to renewables The plan commits to partnerships with renewable businesses and a rapid rollout of solar and wind energy projects, combined with renewable hydrogen deployment in the short term....

— HBO PR (@HBOPR) November 20, 2020 It shouldn’t come as a big surprise — mostly because they were rumored to be attached to the project months ago — but Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann is pairing with Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin on the writing. Both will also be executive producers, alongside HBO’s Carolyn Strauss (who also worked on Chernobyl and Game of Thrones), Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells, and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan....

If the marijuana industry isn’t careful, it could follow the same pattern. Fortunately, individual companies in the industry (and individual investors) can avoid a financially grim fate with one simple change to their approach: favoring innovation. The dotcom bubble It’s easiest to see this pattern through the lens of incidents past, so let’s take a look at a reasonable counterpart: the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s....

That’s why, earlier this year, when we heard rumors about Moto’s iconic clamshell Razr making comeback as a foldable, we were excited. Last month, a report from CNET said the phone is slotted to launch in November – this month. But, before that, thanks to various leaks last night, we now have our first proper look at the full device. These images from Evleaks and Mobiekopen suggest the phone will retain its legendary design....

— Assassin’s Creed (@assassinscreed) April 29, 2020 The company teased the reveal with an art stream. The person streaming is artist BossLogic, who’s best known for his kickass fanart — he revealed on Twitter he’d been working with Ubisoft on the new game. The entire stream consisted of a timelapse of the game’s promotional poster being created, with the gaps slowing being filled in. I’m guessing the point of this exercise was to give the amateur historians in the crowd the chance to flex by identifying the landmarks and armor on the characters in the background....

But the idea that letting the virus run wild would protect us is unlikely to be valid. The antibody results coming in suggest that only a small proportion of people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2. In the UK, only an estimated 6.8% of people have had the virus; for France, the figure is just 4.4%. This means that we are far away from achieving herd immunity. It also suggests that the virus does indeed have the relatively high fatality rate that we’ve estimated....

Called a pulsar for its twinkle, the star’s scant the size of a large city. What makes it special is, as NASA describes it, the fact that it’s apparently spewing a “gargantuan stream of matter and antimatter” into our galaxy. Annihilation Here’s where we run into problems. Matter and antimatter don’t get along. When, for example, a quark or a particle collides with their respective antiquark or antiparticle, a process called annihilation occurs....

A recent report by the Rapid Research Information Forum found the pandemic has left women facing disproportionate increases in caring responsibilities and disruptions to working hours and job security. The hard-won gains made by women in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) are at risk, especially if employers of people with STEM skills do not closely monitor and mitigate the gender impact of their decisions. The pre-pandemic impact of caring for children and the uptake of flexible working arrangements are just two of the issues considered in the second edition of the STEM Workforce Report, released this week by the Office of the Chief Scientist....

Hamburg has seen a 33% rise in cycling during 2020, according to data from the German city’s new bicycle counting network HaRaZäN. The network, which launched earlier this year, uses data from 55 thermal imaging cameras to anonymously record the number of cyclists at a number of key points across the city. Data was previously collated using manual counts, and the city says the new cameras will provide a more comprehensive overview given that they monitor cyclists 365 days a year....

From co-workers to neighbors to all those other casual acquaintances you see every day, there are probably plenty of people in your life who you’d like to gift with a little something this holiday season. Of course, once you’re buying presents for workmates, your kid’s teacher and the mailman, all that holiday good cheer really starts to add up. That’s why TNW is looking out for you with this list of 10 fun Black Friday deals you can score right now, each for less than $20....

Most of that time has been spent riding a Juiced Bikes CrossCurrent X, although many were tested on a litany of other e-bikes as well. Over time, I’ve adopted several accessories to improve the riding experience, livability, and practicality of these bikes – many upgrades which I now can’t imagine living without. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite accessories below. I intend for this to be a living list to be updated with new accessories over time....

Collaborating with roboticists and computer scientists, my team and I have been working on just such a set of robots. Produced via 3D printer – and assembled autonomously – the robots we’re creating continually evolve in order to rapidly optimize for the conditions they find themselves in. Our work represents the latest progress towards the kind of autonomous robot ecosystems that could help build humanity’s future homes, far away from Earth and far away from human oversight....

Photoshop is an undeniable first-ballot Hall of Fame app. Its power and reach are…well, undeniable. But if you’ve never used the world’s most popular image editing software before, then opening that dashboard and seeing more controls than a 747 cockpit is enough to send nervous newbies scurrying back to their rudimentary paint app. While it may take a little more work than point-and-click, Photoshop doesn’t have to illicit terror. The Photoshop Master: From Beginning to Photoshop Pro training, now $11....