Yep, you heard it right. A resourceful developer has built a generative adversarial network that spits out an infinite feed of portraits of non-existent furry personas (or fursonas). To acquire this skill, Thisfursonadoesnotexist.com was fed about 55,000 furry images gleaned from mature image board e621.com and trained to come up with its own unique iterations for 33 days. Don’t worry though: Thirsfursonadoesnotexist.com is totally SFW. The final images were then scaled up to twice the original resolution and denoised with this algorithm....

Sure, learning is great. But when you barely have time to keep all your professional and personal responsibilities straight during waking hours, time spent digesting a new skill or brushing up on old ones starts to feel like a luxury few of us enjoy. So, if you want to advance your career with some serious training, it’s best to focus on learning with a direct payoff. For the IT industry, it doesn’t get any more direct than earning CompTIA certification....

On Wednesday, Electrify America announced a new design vision for some of its public charging stations, aiming to make charging as comfortable and seamless as possible. The redesigned stations will feature customer lounges, electric vehicle showcase areas, and dedicated events spaces. They will also come with overhead solar canopies that have a dual effect: offering protection from the sun and inclement weather, and supplying power for the station’s operations. A number of them will be installed at selected locations with nearby shopping and dining areas....

This means we need to start thinking about what it will be like to live in space – but also what will happen if someone dies there. After death here on Earth, the human body progresses through a number of stages of decomposition. These were described as early as 1247 in Song Ci’s The Washing Away of Wrongs, essentially the first forensic science handbook. First, the blood stops flowing and begins to pool as a result of gravity, a process known as livor mortis....

In 2019, the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas ran a weeklong pilot program with the facial recognition firm AnyVision in its school hallways. With more than 5,000 student photos uploaded for the test run, AnyVision called the results “impressive” and expressed excitement at the results to school administrators. “Overall, we had over 164,000 detections the last 7 days running the pilot. We were able to detect students on multiple cameras and even detected one student 1100 times!...

LA startup Nanotech Energy claims to have found a way to eliminate this concern once and for all: a fireproof, graphene-based lithium-ion battery. And if this battery can do what it’s promised, we’re talking about a true game changer. What is graphene? Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms, with a bunch of remarkable physical properties: it’s ultrathin, incredibly strong, superconductive, and cheap. It was first discovered by in 2004 by two researchers at the University of Manchester, who managed to extract and isolate it from graphite....

The potential risks of such attacks are vast and can have a serious impact on both organizations and individuals. But protecting ourselves against cyber security threats can be extremely complicated. Not only is the technology we use on a daily basis getting more complex, but attackers are constantly finding new ways to bypass security measures. Yet staying up to date with safety measures and new devices is not always practical....

There’s an issue though: previous owners of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remaster are getting shafted — especially on Xbox. But let’s start with the good news. All this was announced in a Tweet from Activision: — Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 (@TonyHawkTheGame) February 23, 2021 Of all the titles released last year, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remastered was probably my favorite. It was simply a joy to play, something you could either pick up and play for ten minutes or hours-on-end and have an amazing time regardless....

Plus… it will invest $18 billion (¥2 trillion) in battery development. And wait for it: Toyota will fully electrify its luxury sub-brand Lexus by 2035. In fact, Lexus wants its EVs to account for 100% of the total sales in Europe, North America, and China already by 2030. Why are the new numbers so impressive? Compared to other automakers, Toyota’s new pledges aren’t really striking, as the company still remains a latecomer in the EV game....

However, at the launch, the app had a major bug that let hackers take full control over users’ accounts. Security researcher Anand Prakash, who found the vulnerability, informed Truecaller on Thursday, and it was fixed the same day. Truecaller launched the Guardians app with the intent to share your information with family members and friends for staying safe while traveling. Through the app, you could share your live location,and your phone’s battery life and network status with your trusted contacts....

The edited video, originally tweeted by White House social media director Dan Scavino on Saturday, shows Biden talking about re-electing Trump in at an event in Missouri. “We can only re-elect @realDonaldTrump.”#KAG2020LandslideVictory?? pic.twitter.com/FT4q2MWfcD — Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) March 8, 2020 For context, this is the full video. It has been edited in a way to trick the viewer into believing Biden is endorsing Trump. You’d think snowflakes who whine about fake news would be more careful before spreading… fake news....

This is very similar to Instagram’s Close Friends feature that allows you to share a Story to a select number of people. Prior to this feature’s announcement, you had to lock your account to share your tweets with just your followers. But now, you can ‘tune’ your audience for certain tweets. This feature was due for a long time; there was no way to share your thoughts with a limited number of people....

The algorithm estimated whom a person would want to see first in a picture so the image could be cropped to a suitable size on Twitter. But it was ditched after users found it chose white faces over Black ones. Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia — Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri ? (@bascule) September 19, 2020 Twitter sought to identify further potential harms in the model by launching the industry’s first algorithmic bias bounty content....

Once you choose these topics, Twitter’s machine learning algorithm will curate tweets for you and show it on your timeline. Right now, the company’s testing this on Android with a select number of users and only sports-based interests. With this, Twitter wants to make it easier for you to follow your interests, and receive updates on those topics without having to switch to the Discover tab to skim through the news....

The NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) is today unveiling the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing (or AV TEST), Reuters reports. (The AV TEST website is currently live, but a cached version can be accessed.) [Read: Demand for scooters trebles as Brits look to avoid public transport] According to the report, the initiative aims to provide “an online, public-facing platform for sharing automated driving system on-road testing activities....

Aiming to shake up how people think of electric vehicle ownership, designer Chang Joong Lee has created a concept portable charger called the “A-monite.” The inspiration came from the shape of ammonites, as the name reveals, and the charger takes a roundish form with a cable coiled up within the body. What I really like about the idea, is that the A-monite would have both the charger and the cable built-in, which would make the overall process very easy....

The cities of Liverpool and Hull in the UK will trial new pedestrian crosswalks, informed by behavioral insights, to reduce road accidents and deaths. This includes a ‘blinged-up’ crosswalks and an airport-style speedy-boarding system. Liverpool has the highest rate of adult deaths or serious injuries (KSIs) for pedestrian collisions in the UK outside of London, at 99 per 100,000 people. As part of a wider strategy to bring this number down, the council is working with So-Mo, a local behavioral science company that has designed the new crosswalks following a study into pedestrian behavior....

Specifically, the DfT is offering a £200,000 ($283,400) contract to a design team that can develop an “iconic, functional public electric vehicle charge point.” The government believes that, by making charging points more appealing to the eye, it can accelerate the expansion of the country’s charging network and, ultimately, the transition to EVs. As a matter of fact, a 2020 survey conducted by Seat found that a third of UK drivers consider EV charging points as “eyesores....

The army has issued funding for a wearable device that analyzes how the brain disposes of waste during sleep. The system will be developed by researchers at Rice University, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Baylor College of Medicine. Ultimately, the team wants to create a headset that can treat sleep disorders in real-time. But first, they aim to track and adjust the flow of cerebrospinal fluid as it flushes waste out of the brain....

Blake Harrison Kantor and Nathan Mullins, both from New York — and corporate entities Blue Bit Banc, (UK); Blue Bit Analytics, (Turks and Caicos); and Mercury Cove Inc and G. Thomas Client Services, (New York) — are accused of committing fraud and misappropriating customer funds. According to the court, Kantor, Blue Bit Analytics, and G. Thomas Client Services, took customer funds and illegally acted as Futures Commission Merchants without having registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)....