General Motors played into that trope with its latest commercial by showing off how much better Norway is at doing EVs than the US is. It comes across more as a call to arms for the US to take the electric vehicle fight to Norway, but really, it’s just a cleverly disguised advert showing off key GM EVs, that are still some years away from sale. It also had Will Ferrell in it, people seemed pretty pumped about that....
And there was much rejoicing. Details: Well, there aren’t many. Here’s what we do know, per Paradox: Victoria 3 will feature: Deep Societal Simulation: Cultural, economic and ideological divisions compete for power and resources in one of Paradox’s most detailed historical worlds. Tend Your National Garden: Nurture your population, educating it and preparing it for the future, guaranteeing their prosperity and improving their happiness. Wonders of the Industrial Age: Scientific and social progress give you the chance to improve the lives of your citizens....
According to a report from Bloomberg, the French government is going to gradually phase out the EV incentives over the next few years. The incentive will drop from €7,000 ($8,160) this year, to €6,000 ($7,025) next year. It will drop another €1,000 in 2022, to €5,000. Plug-in hybrid cash handouts are being cut in half from €2,000 to €1,000 next year, too. [Read: Google Maps is getting a UI for driving — and it looks a lot like Android Auto] The information was revealed as part of a budget plan unveiled yesterday by Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire....
I know I don’t just speak for myself when I say that for many teams and their management, working from home represents a new and unknown situation that bears various challenges. To successfully navigate through this new way of work, it’s more important than ever to master the rules of the goal management method OKR and to have implemented it within the company. Main challenges of remote work The adaptation of communication across team members can be quite a hurdle when switching to remote work....
However, this might change next year. A bunch of renders published by 91mobiles in partnership with OnLeaks suggest the company will release a OnePlus 8 ‘lite’ in 2020. The renders indicate the phone will have a punch-hole display – 6.4-inch or 6.5-inch – on the front, and a dual-camera setup with a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor on the back. The report remarks the phone will have a USB-C port for charging, in-display fingerprint sensor to unlock the device, and no headphone jack....
If there’s anything the last few years have taught us, it’s the importance of protecting the privacy of our personal information online. Coupled with the global pandemic, the privacy landscape has undergone a rapid change as contact tracing and remote practices have increasingly become the norm. Apple — which has ruffled feathers by adopting a strong anti-tracking stance with iOS — marked the occasion by releasing “A Day in the Life of Your Data” report, explaining how third-party companies track user data across websites and apps....
The big idea: What if the universe were a physical object? Current thinking says the Big Bang exploded the universe into existence and it’s been expanding ever since. But the Waterloo team’s work imagines the universe as a space in which the Big Bang occurred. It disputes the long-held scientific notion that the Big Bang was immediately followed by a period of rapid inflation. If instead, our universe were paired with an anti-universe, a period of rapid inflation wouldn’t have been required after the Big Bang, as particles would have formed naturally over time....
Yesterday, on international World Mental Health Day, Pinterest announced in a blogpost that for the past year, it’s been using machine learning techniques to identify and automatically hide content that displays, rationalizes, or encourages self-injury. Using this technology, the social networking company says it has achieved an 88 percent reduction in reports of self-harm content by users, and it’s now able to remove harmful content three times faster than ever before....
Planned Parenthood, a sexual and reproductive healthcare organization, found that the most-searched phrase on its website was “abortion near me,” and in response, it launched a new tool called the ‘Abortion Care Finder’ on Tuesday. The tool sets out to provide more information for women and to help them find a nearby clinic. Available on both mobile and desktop, the tool works by asking users their location, age, zip code, and how far developed their pregnancy is....
There is a consensus that plastics are an unsustainable material. And yes, plastics are certainly an enormous problem, but they don’t necessarily have to be. The main issue is with our linear economic model: goods are produced, consumed, then disposed of. This model assumes endless economic growth and doesn’t consider the planet’s exhaustible resources. Most people believe that plastics recycling is severely restricted: only a few types can be recycled at all....
The motorsport’s governing body, the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) is launching the eRX2 series next year, which will see drivers battle it out around a multi-surface track (mud included) in a specially developed all-electric rallycross car. Race drivers will all use the same type of vehicle which is being developed by Spanish electric mobility company QEV Technologies and component maker OSM Olsberg. It’ll have a 32 kWh battery that’s capable of producing 335 bhp of power that gets sent to all four wheels with a motor at the front and one at the back....
Between TV like Mr. Robot or 24, movies as diverse as Blackhat or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and videogames like Cyberpunk 2077 or Watch Dogs, it probably feels like hacking is pretty simple. All you’ve gotta do is slide around a couple firewalls and crack a whozawhatsit with your thingamajigger and bam — you’ve got U.S. Civil Command computers on their knees. The obvious reality is that it isn’t nearly that easy....
To increase retention, human resource departments invest incredible time and resources into their onboarding strategies. But, in my opinion, these strategies require a fresh perspective. 2020 might be gone, but remote hiring is here to stay as the new norm. So here’s what I think needs to change. First, take some time to consider what remote employees don’t experience when they start a new job. They don’t walk into a room where new colleagues clap and celebrate their arrival....
The majority of the bogus listings are found in categories that Google calls ‘duress verticals’ – electricians, plumbers, and towing and car repair services. The WSJ noted that scammers often hijack the names of legit businesses through these listings, carry out shoddy jobs, and demand exorbitant fees. When reporters at the Journal searched for ‘Plumbers’ in New York, they found that 13 out of 20 top listings were bogus. In order to show up on Google Maps, businesses need to actually have a presence at the listed addresses – only two out of 20 did that....
It’s named Autolycos — from the homonymous Greek mythological figure, known for his mastery in thievery and deceit. And that’s exactly what the malware does. Since June 2021, Ingrao has identified eight infected apps on Play Store — downloaded over three million times. How does Autolycos work? According to Evina’s report, the main goals of Autolycos is to subscribe users to premium Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) services, without their knowledge or consent....
There is some great advice out there about how to stay connected at such times. But why is the act of social distancing so hard for so many of us? The answer probably has more to do with our evolutionary history than people might think. Humans are part of a very sociable group, the primates. Primates are distinguished from other animals by their grasping hands and various ways of moving around, and because they show a high level of social interaction....
I love VR. And the thought of making my own glorious, fully immersive, 180-degree family vacation videos that we can watch on our headsets – like the VR videos on YouTube – fills me with joy. But I’m neither a filmmaker nor a professional photographer. There’s only a handful of consumer-geared VR cameras out there (that don’t cost thousands) and none of them have struck me as particularly approachable for the average person....
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) October 21, 2020 The news was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal and was later confirmed in a company blog post. To refresh your memory if you never bothered to try the app, Quibi is — was — a service that allowed you to watch short-form shows in either landscape or portrait mode. The shows it put together were roughly 10 minutes long — the name of the app is short for Quick Bites....
Available for PS4 and Xbox One, the game is set in an ultra-stylized take on 18th-century Japan, with each character detailed in hard black lines and gorgeous, comic book colors. The characters are mostly the kind you’d expect for the time period (or rather, a fantasy version of same) — samurai, ninja, men with big muscles and big swords, women with delicate hands and wicked kicks. There are a few oddities thrown in, though....
Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Machiavelli used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding! Bitcoin price We closed the day, April 22 2020, at a price of $7,117. That’s a respectable 3.45 percent increase in 24 hours, or $237. It was the highest closing price in two days....
