With the Tenways C-Go 600 ebike, it was the latter case. And I’m really glad I did get to try it because this ebike is fantastic — no gimmicks necessary. At $1,000-1,500 (Tenways has not settled on a final price yet), the bike offers a Gates Carbon belt drive, a stealthy appearance that doesn’t betray its electric nature, a weight of 15 kg (33 lbs), and one of the smoothest pedaling experiences of any ebike I’ve ridden....
Over the last few weeks, I’ve test driven all three types of battery-powered electric cars—full electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid. Frankly, with the pandemic and my decision to no longer test gas-only vehicles, I’ve had few chances to drive test cars since March. However, I sampled a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid in the middle of November, spent 45 minutes on the last day of November driving the all-new, all-electric Volkswagen ID....
Ai-Da’s works are based on photos taken by cameras in the droid’s eyes. Algorithms then transform the images into a set of coordinates, which guide the robot’s drawing hand. Ai-Da’s co-inventor, Aiden Meller, describes Ai-Da’s fragmented style as “shattered.” However, not everyone is convinced that robots are capable of true creativity. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] Philosophers have argued that AI can’t produce real art, as it will never be an “autonomous creative agent” like a free-willed human....
If a writer knows their stuff, there’s plenty of opportunity to turn that gift for words into a productive career as a freelance writer. And according to a freelance database, there are some decent paychecks attached to that pursuit as well. Ad copywriters can charge around $92 an hour, while general speechwriters bill about $81. Whitepaper writers charge an average of $107 per hour, as magazine ghostwriters could make about $100 per hour....
Samsung is clearly addressing some of the biggest complaints about the original. The device now includes a much larger exterior display, sized at 6.2-inches rather than the awkwardly small and skinny 4.6-inch display on the original; this means you can use it more like a normal flagship phone with one hand. The actual folding screen has of course gotten some attention as well, now taking up a 7.6-inch diagonal (up from the 7....
Yet the magnetic field is constantly changing in both its strength and direction and has undergone some dramatic shifts in the past. This includes enigmatic reversals of the magnetic poles, with the south pole becoming the north pole and vice versa. A long-standing question has been how fast the field can change. Our new study, published in Nature Communications, has uncovered some answers. Rapid changes of the magnetic field are of great interest because they represent the most extreme behaviour of the ocean of molten iron in the liquid core....
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: Yolo! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 04 2020, at a price of $8,755. That’s a minor 0.37 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$33.29. It was the lowest closing price in two days. We’re still 56 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....
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 Schopenhauer used to say: I got the horses in the back. Bitcoin price We closed the day, May 07 2020, at a price of $9,951. That’s a decent 7.44 percent increase in 24 hours, or $689. It was the highest closing price in seventy-eight days....
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 Satoshi Nakamoto used to say: The long and winding road awaits! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, October 4 2019, at a price of $8,205. That’s a minor 0.64 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$53.54. It was the lowest closing price in four days....
The only problem is that she doesn’t exist. And she helped me uncover an online scam operation involved in shady activities, including extorting backlinks from bloggers and website owners. I’ve spent a good part of the past week investigating Arthur Davidson, the so-called “law firm” Nicole works for. What I found was unsettling, a testament to how advances in technology have made it easy for scammers to set up legitimate-looking outfits to prey on their victims....
Last year, Google built a dataset called “GoEmotions.” It was billed as a “fine-grained emotion dataset” — basically a ready-to-train-on dataset for building AI that can recognize emotional sentiment in text. Per a Google blog post: Here’s another way of putting it: Google scraped 58,000 Reddit comments and then sent those files to a third-party company for labeling. More on that later. The study Surge AI took a look at a sample of 1,000 labeled comments from the GoEmotions dataset and found that a significant portion of them were mislabeled....
These photos don’t just relay attractiveness; a recent study suggested that 43% of people think they can get a sense of someone’s personality by their picture. You might guess that someone who has included a photo of themselves hiking is an outdoorsy type of person. But as scientists who study human-animal interactions, we wanted to know what this meant for pet owners – in particular, male cat owners. If you’re a guy who owns a cat, what kind of effect does it have on suitors if you post a picture posing with your favorite feline?...
But what if you could literally turn all the walls in your home into one giant speaker? That might just be possible in the coming years. Researchers at MIT have developed a new type of paper-thin loudspeaker that is lightweight and durable enough to attach to all sorts of surfaces. All that sounds neat, but fanciful technologies don’t mean much if they’re too complicated and expensive to commercialize. But this newfangled speaker promises the opposite: MIT News says the speaker-paper can be built with a three-step process that’s seemingly simpler than traditional speakers....
A team of data scientists has made a 44.8 gigapixel digital copy of The Night Watch. The researchers created the ultra-detailed photograph of Rembrandt’s painting from a total of 528 exposures — or 24 rows of 22 pictures each. They then used the help of neural networks to digitally stitch together the images. The result is 44,804,687,500 pixels — that’s 44 billion pixels if you’re getting puzzled by all these digits — of glory in one single image....
As the universe expanded and the density decreased enough, photons could finally escape and light started traveling freely. This event, happening 380,000 years after the Big Bang, dubbed “recombination”, gave rise to the first snapshot of the universe’s origin – the cosmic microwave background – which we observe with telescopes. Most of what we know about the early universe is based on this leftover radiation from the Big Bang. But recombination acts like a wall: we cannot directly probe earlier epochs with telescopes, as light was trapped at that time....
While the goal of well-intentioned governments is clear — to mitigate spread with minimal economic and social impact — it is very difficult to decide on the best policy to achieve this. In Australia, public health authorities have been consistent in encouraging testing for the virus. The major driver behind this has been the desire to find positive cases and track their contacts. A by-product is information about how the virus is spreading in the general population, which can be used to inform decisions about measures such as mask-wearing and restrictions on movement....
Wrap-Up tallies the total number of games you’ve played, the hours you’ve wasted, the genres you prefer, and all the trophies you’ve won. The service is available starting from today, and you’ll have until February 14 to check it out. For this edition, Sony is also giving out free PlayStation themes, along with seven avatars that supposedly reflect your gaming personality. Of course, there are a few requirements you need to have satisfied....
They are typically middle-aged, male sexual predators who go online to find impressionable young people to exploit under the guise of providing weight-loss “coaching”. I have been researching how anacoaches operate. I’ve found they are facilitated by flaws within social media algorithms, as well as large numbers of young people seeking weight-loss help online. My ongoing research, coupled with other media reports, indicates an opportunity for anacoaches has risen in the past few years....
In an attempt to scratch his latest patent filing fetish itch, the Satoshi Nakamoto impersonator tried to put his name against the Bitcoin white paper and code by filing a registration with the US Copyright Office, CoinDesk reported yesterday. Naturally, the cryptocurrency community hasn’t taken this lying down. One enterprising individual took it upon themselves to make a Change.org petition to remove Wright’s name from any copyright documents associated to Bitcoin....
Set to a background of the Pan-African flag, the filter prompted users to ‘smile,’ — already looking dicey here — after which virtual chains would are broken. The company was called out for the tactless design after digital strategist Mark S. Luckie showed off the ‘feature’ in the tweet below: Smile to break the chains? Okay then. pic.twitter.com/Wyob3kT3ew — Mark S. Luckie (@marksluckie) June 19, 2020 Smile for freedom, folks....
