While some companies have offered subscription services before — Jaguar Land Rover announced its own earlier this month as it happens — few companies have built their whole business around the idea. [Read: UK’s Royal Mail has a new ‘green’ delivery van — but it’s really an ‘electric’ London taxi] Enter Canoo; the electric vehicle startup based in Los Angeles that wants you to have 24/7 access to the car, but on a no commitment, month-to-month basis....

Over the weekend, a fake website surfaced that, on first look, is the same as Facebook’s legitimate Calibra.com website. On closer inspection though, it becomes fairly obvious that the fake website, Calìbra.com, isn’t associated with the digital asset or the social media giant. The fake website is exploiting a strategy that uses unicode characters, that look similar to regular characters, to trick people into thinking the URL is correct. Scammers will usually embed this fake URL into hyperlinks to further obscure its true nature....

It’s called “Dreaming while awake: a journey into ourselves.” The description on Silva’s YouTube channel describes the video as: Personally, I’d describe it as a surrealistic experience that seems equal parts Ted Talk and Burning Man. And, I’d add, it makes me want to eat a bunch of psychedelic mushrooms and think about the future. Take a look: The video comes to us from Silva’s “Shots of Awe” channel which features inspirational videos....

In China, face recognition cameras have widely replaced ID checks, and are in public use to catch not only serious criminals but jaywalkers, and to shame people spotted walking down the street in pajamas by broadcasting their names and images. Soon such phenomena will extend far beyond China, it seems likely. Several US states have banned police use of facial recognition tech, and some EU states may follow — but it seems improbable that these bans will last....

Packaging alone was responsible for 46% out of 340 million tonnes of plastic waste generated globally in 2018. Although plastic recycling has increased significantly in recent years, most plastics used today are single-use, non-recyclable and non-biodegradable. The demand for food will double by 2050. This will probably increase the amount of waste from food and its plastic packaging, putting poorer countries under tremendous pressure to manage waste disposal. To tackle the issues of environmental damage, we need more sustainable materials that we can recycle or that biodegrade....

The real estate company had achieved a private valuation of $47 billion back in January, but that’s since been cut down to $10 billion. As if it isn’t alarming enough that it’s now estimated to be worth close to a mere fifth of its January figure, it’s worth noting the $10 billion valuation is less than the $12 billion it raised over the years. WeWork is expected to postpone its pre-offering roadshow to at least next month, according to WSJ’s sources....

EVA capabilities blossomed during the era of NASA’s space shuttle. Astronauts rode robotic arms, floated tetherless through the void using jetpacks to steer, corralled satellites by hand, and built the International Space Station (ISS). They’ve done it all while wearing spacesuits based on the design first developed for the Apollo missions in the 1960s. Each suit is a human-shaped spacecraft, featuring a backpack that houses a primary life support system; a layered, pressurized outer garment to protect astronauts from the space environment; and a “long john” undergarment that circulates chilled water via tubes over the body to stop the astronauts getting too hot inside their suit....

Mormonism is a famously proselytizing faith. A common rite of passage for young Mormon men (and women, albeit to a lesser extent) is to embark upon a mission, where they dedicate as much as two years of their life to spread their faith, often thousands of miles from home. But what happens when their mission ends and they return to secular life? In many cases, they’re finding success in Utah’s burgeoning technology sector, either working on the front-line of sales or software development, or even founding innovative companies themselves....

Though new to space exploration, the UAE has set high goals for the probe, named Hope. The mission aims to further study the climate of Mars, but Omran Sharaf, mission lead, also says, “It’s a means for a bigger goal: to expedite the development in our educational sector, academic sector.” With space exploration usually pursued by actors like the United States, Russia, China, the European Space Agency and more recently, India, Hope will be the first mission to the red planet from a Middle Eastern country....

So now if you’re using the Twitter API, you’ll be automatically accessing the new version and taking advantage of its features. With this launch, the social media company is focusing on two primary areas: easy signups and access to more tweets per month. If you’re starting out using Twitter’s API, you’ll get Essential level access. With that, you can have one app environment, and access to 500,000 tweets per month....

Reliable WhatsApp leaker account WABetaInfo tweeted the company might be developing a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app along with a new multi-platform system that will work even when your phone’s off. — WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) July 26, 2019 This can be a big deal for the chat app that has more than 1.5 billion active users worldwide. It can help you stay in touch with the people on your contact list when you’re on the move, but your phone’s running out of juice....

For instance, if you have different groups related to your living complex, they can be clubbed under one community. WhatsApp says this new feature will also bring tools like cross-group announcement messages: “We think Communities will make it easier for a school principal to bring all the parents of the school together to share must-read updates and set up groups about specific classes, extracurricular activities, or volunteer needs. Communities will also contain powerful new tools for admins, including announcement messages that are sent to everyone and control over which groups can be included....

This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The New Urban Mobility alliance (NUMO) has launched a tool to help cities use data to evaluate micromobility services against policy goals related to equity, safety and sustainability....

WarnerMedia, the parent company behind the HBO Max streaming service, announced last week that it would release its entire slate of 2021 films — 17 in total, and including the likes of Godzilla vs Kong, Dune, and The Matrix 4 — onto the platform alongside their theatrical releases. The films will be available to watch on HBO Max at no additional cost for one month. When I originally wrote about this story, I called it a win for moviegoers, because it gives you the option to avoid crowded theaters while still allowing you to see upcoming movies....

The costs of deep learning are causing several challenges for the artificial intelligence community, including a large carbon footprint and the commercialization of AI research. And with more demand for AI capabilities away from cloud servers and on “edge devices,” there’s a growing need for neural networks that are cost-effective. While AI researchers have made progress in reducing the costs of running deep learning models, the larger problem of reducing the costs of training deep neural networks remains unsolved....

In the early days of space travel, scientists worked hard to figure out how to overcome the force of gravity so that a rocket could catapult free of Earth’s pull in order to land humans on the Moon. Today, gravity remains at the top of the science agenda, but this time we’re more interested in how reduced gravity affects the astronauts’ health – especially their brains. After all, we’ve evolved to exist within Earth’s gravity (1 g), not in the weightlessness of space (0 g) or the microgravity of Mars (0....

Ai-Da is touted as the “first robot to paint like an artist”, and an exhibition of her work called Leaping into the Metaverse opened at the Venice Biennale. Ai-Da produces portraits of sitting subjects using a robotic hand attached to her lifelike feminine figure. She’s also able to talk, giving detailed answers to questions about her artistic process and attitudes towards technology. She even gave a TEDx talk about “The Intersection of Art and AI” (artificial intelligence) in Oxford a few years ago....

Now, I’m not one to reinforce a stereotype, but there’s a reason why Spaniards, and many of their Southern European counterparts — like to have a nap. Sometimes it’s due to the fact that an early afternoon nap immediately solves the problem of having to work outside during the hottest time of the day, but ultimately, there’s a lot to be said in terms of how siesta can help boost your productivity....

In an update to its terms of service, YouTube said that although ads will now be displayed on “a limited number” of videos from smaller creators yet to make it into the Partner Program. But since they’re not part of the program, they won’t be entitled to any of those ad earnings, Gizmodo reports “You grant to YouTube the right to monetize your content […] (and such monetization may include displaying ads),” a company rep said in the announcement....

The firm’s founder and CEO Eric Yuan has personally sold $38 million worth of shares already in 2020. He unloaded $10.5 million in January, $12.5 million in February, and $15.5 million in March, according to related SEC filings. Zoom, the company’s video conferencing app, has seen booming popularity since coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks began in January. [Read: SEC halts $ZOOM after coronavirus traders confuse it for Zoom app] Not only has usage skyrocketed, but so has Zoom’s share price, having surged from $68 on January 1 to an all-time-high of $159....