Apex Clearing’s recent analysis of 734,000 portfolios presents the top 100 most-popular stocks with US-based investors with an average age of 31. Computing manufacturers Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and NVIDIA placed decently, in the top 12. AMD just reported a record quarterly revenue of $2.13 billion, up 50 percent from the previous quarter. Apex Clearing noted that young investors were increasingly backing young companies, with more than 30 in the top 100 opened public trade within the last decade, such as Tesla, Alibaba, Shopify....

For starters, this is a price I can actually stomach. I’m not a fan of subscription gaming, per se. But with a price as reasonable as Arcade’s ($4.99/month), and as many games as there are (i.e. more than I’ll be able to play in several months, if not a year), I don’t feel the pecuniary sting quite so keenly. Maybe it’s a byproduct of being an adult and having to balance one’s own budget, but games seem to be so expensive — three-figure consoles and every new release drains at least $60 from the bank....

Our original report follows. Apple said today that it’s closing all stores outside China till March 27 due to the coronavirus epidemic. In a statement, the company’s CEO, Tim Cook, asked customers to visit online stores and websites for sales and support. — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) March 14, 2020 Cook also said that the company is allowing all workers outside China to work remotely if possible. Plus, it is making sure that there’s continuous deep cleaning on sites to keep the floor workers safe....

Apple revealed something interesting last week. No, not the products themselves (although I found those totally acceptable), but how they presented one of them. What I’m saying is Apple finally figured out what the fuck its Watch is for. A task, friends, that only took it five years. Let’s think about that for a moment. Five years. That’s longer than the World Cup cycle (that reference is for all you ‘football’ people out there, hope you enjoyed it)....

The findings — disclosed by cybersecurity firm Morphisec — come as Apple killed iTunes for macOS, replacing it with Music, Podcasts, and TV apps in macOS Catalina. The app, however, will continue to function as usual on Windows. The Cupertino-based tech giant fixed the zero-day vulnerability on October 7 with its release of iTunes 12.10.1 for Windows and iCloud for Windows 7.14 immediately after it was responsibly disclosed. According to Morphisec, adversaries exploited an unquoted path vulnerability in Bonjour helper utility packaged along with iTunes to install the ransomware on computers of an unidentified enterprise in the automotive industry....

The new rules have a whole section devoted to streaming games and how they’ll fit into the App Store ecosystem. They permit services to have App Store catalog apps, and access to Apple’s payment apparatus, but every game has to pass an individual review process. Here are the new sections in full: The problem is that every single game available through Stadia and xCloud will need to be submitted to the App Store as a separate app....

So who’s fault is it? Setting aside intentionally malicious uses of AI software, such as facial recognition and crime prediction systems for law enforcement, we can assume the problem is with bias. But, we already new facial recognition was inherently biased against Black faces. And we know that cops in the US and other nations still use it, which means our governments are funding the research on the front end and purchasing it on the back end....

These images are usually produced when other identification methods have failed. It’s usually a last resort with very high stakes. This is perhaps why, when forensic depictions lead to recognition in spite of their own technical limitations, it can feel like a miracle, providing an essential, often long-awaited, piece of an investigative puzzle. Facial reconstruction becomes most culturally visible when it is applied to archaeological research. Depicting past people enables viewers to imagine them as individuals rather than specimens....

On Earth, plate tectonics drives earthquakes and builds mighty mountains, and it ferries materials from beneath the surface of the Earth, expelling material to the crust and atmosphere. This movement of the crustal plates of Earth also plays a crucial role in the return of these materials back underground, completing the geological process. This tectonic cycle, essential to driving climatic conditions on Earth, has never been observed in a world outside our solar system — until now....

Earlier this month, Recode reported the existence of a document that details various Googlers’ experiences of working for Google — and more specifically, how they were retaliated against for reporting abuse. Until yesterday, the internal campaign wasn’t published in full but Motherboard obtained a version of it dated May 8 which includes 45 different Google employees alleging they’ve experienced various forms of harassment in the workplace. According to Motherboard, the documented stories were collected after the Google Walkout organizers, Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton, published an open letter about facing retaliation from Google management after speaking out about alleged abuse and harassment....

The impacts of climate change – in particular, the consequences of the increasing frequency of extreme weather events on all life should be abundantly clear. People finally seem to be taking this seriously, but there is an undercurrent of opinion about the “naturalness” of wildfires. Some are still questioning the role of climate change in driving the Australian bushfires. It is true that wildfires naturally occur in many parts of the world, and benefit plants and animals in ecosystems that have been uniquely shaped by fire over evolutionary time....

Last month, Epic Games blew the doors off the video game world when they unveiled a sneak peak at the latest version of their much anticipated, industry-leading game engine technology, Game Engine 5. Coming in 2021, the environments are, as pointed out by our own Rachel Kaser, “almost photorealistic” and “beautiful,” offering just a taste of the next step in video game creation that will further blur the line between digital fantasy and reality....

Yet that deliciously vintage clip actually shows Gates failing miserably at presenting the Internet as something more than a frivolous fad. You would have thought that for someone who had become the world’s wealthiest man by developing and peddling technology, this would be an easy sell – even if pitched against a clever talk show host intent on scoring a gag or two. Contrast that to a different 1990s interview, where David Bowie explains pretty much the same thing to an equally skeptical Jeremy Paxman (readers in the UK will be familiar with this journalist’s legendary reputation for cutting sarcasm) and it is a thing of beauty....

Black holes helped to explain new astronomical discoveries, becoming essential ingredients of astrophysics. Science regarded black holes as abstractions until the 1960s. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves has changed our understanding of what black holes are. In 2016, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detected gravitational waves generated by two merging black holes, opening a new era of astronomy celebrated by the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released an image of the supermassive black hole in the nearby galaxy M87....

True to its iconic design, the new handset is slated to feature a physical keyboard. It’ll also support 5G connectivity and run on Android, similarly to other more recent BlackBerry reboots. But let me hit you with the disclaimer before you rush to any conclusions: BlackBerry won’t actually be making the phone. Instead the company has licensed the manufacturing rights to Texas-based OnwardMobility. The startup will also collaborate with Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile, which will help design and manufacture the device....

Security researchers advised the Komodo Platform of a ‘backdoor’ in Agama, one of its older wallet apps, that would have allowed hackers to siphon any and all digital assets held inside. Before that could happen, devs made use of the the flaw themselves to extract at-risk cryptocurrency to wallets under their control. In total, Komodo’s team says it ‘saved’ 96 BTC ($742K) and 8 million Komodo ($11.92M) from potential theft....

The company revealed details about its Bitcoin mining data centers in Quebec, Canada and Adel, Georgia earlier this week. Currently, Blockstream is working with customers including Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. However, it is looking to open up the facilities to smaller-scale miners sometime in the future. “We began our Bitcoin mining operations back in 2017 motivated by widespread concern that mining decentralization was declining....

This question might sound irrelevant when considering today’s AI systems, which are only capable of accomplishing very narrow tasks. But as science continues to break new grounds, artificial intelligence is gradually finding its way into broader domains. We’re already seeing AI algorithms applied to areas where the boundaries of good and bad decisions are not clearly defined, such as criminal justice and job application processing. In the future, we expect AI to care for the elderly, teach our children, and perform many other tasks that require moral human judgement....

In an industry-first pilot in Rome and Milan, Dott is launching a scheme where bad riders who repeatedly park escooters badly (outside a permitted area or violating the Highway Code) are sent to a driving course. Specifically, second-time offenders receive a fine from Dott and a guide to parking and local rules. A third violation invites them to attend “a compulsory and free driving course in Autumn 2022.” I spoke to Rob Haycocks, Head of PR Communications at Dott....

But, by far, the most interesting news we heard at I/O has to be the announcement that Google intends to build a new quantum AI center in Santa Barbara where the company says it will produce a “useful, error-corrected quantum computer” by 2029. Pause for applause, amirite? It would certainly be amazing, but is it actually feasible? Quantum computers are ludicrously complex, but they can be explained with relative ease....