Uk Offers 130K For Software That Can Trace Bitcoin Ethereum And Hopefully Monero

In particular, HMRC is seeking the ability to cluster cryptocurrency transactions, identifying those linked to service providers such as mixing, gambling, and dark market services. The contract, posted on January 17, notes the tool must track and trace Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Tether, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic — the latter two it unfortunately misspelled as “Ethereium.” Preferential treatment is pledged to those seeking to develop additional functionality to analyze more private cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Zcash, and Dash....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 294 words · Michael Jones

Uk Takes Next Step Toward World Of E Scooters Self Driving Cars And Autonomous Drones

Earlier this week, the UK government announced that it will be launching a consultation period in four specific zones, where e-scooters and self-driving vehicles will be trialed. [Read: Ugh, the UK cuts electric vehicle grant for the third time in 10 years] The zones, more formally called “Future Transport Zones,” will each receive a cut of £90 million ($109 million) in funding to help support the trials of the new tech....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 554 words · Dan Bisono

Uk To Combat Air Pollution With Ai Powered Traffic Lights

The system collects data on local pollution and traffic flows through roadside sensors, weather forecasts, and Bluetooth devices in cars. An algorithm then analyzes both live and historical data to predict where air pollution will spike within the next hour. When the system forecasts a sharp rise in toxic pollutants, the traffic light timings will automatically change. Drivers on their way to pollution hotspots will be held at red lights for up to 20 seconds longer than usual....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 275 words · Carmine Cook

Un Experts Don T Go To North Korean Crypto Conference Duh

The conference, which is allegedly taking place in February, is being flagged as a potential sanctions violation, Reuters reports. Experts have laid out their advice in a confidential report that is to be submitted to the UN Security Council later this month. The UN has been keeping a close eye on the Asian nation and its use of blockchain and cryptocurrency. In November last year, a UN report claimed that North Korea had laundered money through a shell company posing as a “shipping and logistics firm run on a blockchain platform....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 335 words · Gary Little

Video Burn In Hell Twitter A Guide On Deleting Or Deactivating Your Account

Were you on old Twitter? Back before the brand proliferation, before the Nazis, before the President of the USA was doing his best to kick off a global confrontation? When people just chatted on the social network? And the design was better? It was good, right? These days, things are different. And whether you’re concerned with the anger and vitriol on the platform — or just want to stop wasting so much time scrolling through that endless feed — there’s never a better time than right now to quit or take a break....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 329 words · Shon Perry

Wanna Buy An Ebike Here Are Our Top Picks From 2021

This year, we’ve reviewed a whole bunch of electric two-wheelers, and three of them have really stuck in our minds. The Brompton Electric Why we love it: The Brompton Electric is the smallest folding electric bike out there. It weighs 14.5kg (excluding the 2.2kg battery) and measures just 565 x 585 x 270mm when folded, which means that you can bring it along almost everywhere! So yes, it’s the ebike you almost never have to worry about getting stolen....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 519 words · Penny Doty

Want To Be An Entrepreneur Start By Visualizing Your Success

When it does, it inflicts pain on your soul and paints your days a darker shade. We’re told to make changes and dream anew. But changing is hard unless you master the art of hacking your brain and visualizing a better path. Your ‘True North.’ Hack your neurons and actualize your dreams Resetting your journey and leading your best life starts with a vision. In my early 20s, I was a graduate student living in a studio apartment in San Francisco....

December 11, 2022 · 5 min · 1044 words · Tamara Jernigan

Want To Improve Your E Commerce Metrics Focus On Your Qa Score

That is to say, even in the online retail space, there’s no doubt that the customer remains a focal point in all things business. When customers are able to Google everything, customer experience can be a way to differentiate your business and stand out. Businesses are continually morphing and evolving the various elements of how they operate. Things like managing remote workers, orchestrating complex e-commerce customer service, and scaling along with the steady increase in online shopping are rewriting what the customer experience is in the first place....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 832 words · Maria Griffin

Watch This Ai Cop Car Fight An Ai Jeep

The networks, represented as a police cruiser and a green Jeep in a video game world, were created in Unity3D. Shuchmann, in a response to the video on his YouTube page, said: Each neural network was built to use reinforcement learning to complete a specific task. In this case, the police car has to stop the Jeep from crossing a white line. If it succeeds it’s rewarded, if it fails it’s punished....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 231 words · Matthew Taylor

We Can T Recycle Black Plastic But Now We Can Use Its Carbon For Renewable Energy

Only a small proportion of the hundreds of types of plastics can be recycled by conventional technology. But there are other things we can do to reuse plastics after they’ve served their original purpose. My research, for example, focuses on chemical recycling, and I’ve been looking into how food packaging can be used to create new materials like wires for electricity. In chemical recycling you use the constituent elements to make new materials....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 805 words · Rosemary Minter

We Summarized Lifehacker S Summary Of Blinkist S Book Summaries

If you believe its advertising, the company condenses down entire non-fiction books into 15 minute, easily consumable chunks that you can use to expand your brain box. If you’re more realistic? It’s a subscription service where you pay for book summaries. Specifically, works they probably haven’t given the authors any money for. With that idea in mind, Nick Douglas over at Lifehacker decided to save us all some time (and money) by summarizing some of Blinkist’s book summaries....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 469 words · Brandon Evans

What Owning An Alpaca Farm Has Taught Me About Running A Tech Startup

Actually, the truth is that the two are very similar, at least in my experience. While from the outside, the alpaca industry might look like a relaxed affair between a few enthusiasts, launching and running a successful alpaca farm taught me valuable lessons which I could then apply to running the tech startups I also lead. Running an alpaca business requires just as much organization, productivity, and “smart work” as needed to build a successful startup....

December 11, 2022 · 5 min · 1058 words · Meredith Harris

What The World S Biggest Tech Companies Are Doing To Fight Coronavirus

As social distancing becomes a primary way of protecting oneself, social media has become even more important as a way of disseminating news and promoting contact between friends. Several social media companies are taking steps to help limit the spread of harmful misinformation and outright falsehoods about the disease. Facebook recently revealed it’s banning ads that guarantee a “cure” for the virus, and is trying to link people to reputable sources such as the World Health Organization and local resources....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 628 words · Damien Cowley

Whatsapp Fined 267M For Breaking Eu Data Privacy Rules

The €225m ($267m) fine was issued by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The body is Europe’s lead authority for WhatsApp owner Facebook, which has its EU headquarters in Ireland. The DPC said that WhatsApp had infringed the EU’s transparency rules: The watchdog also ordered the company to take “remedial actions” to ensure its data processing complies with the rules. WhatsApp said it would appeal the “entirely disproportionate” fine. Regardless of the final decision, the EU may finally be turning its tough talk on data protection into action....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 130 words · Tammi Mayes

Whatsapp Might Soon Let You Log Into Its Web App With Your Fingerprint

WABetaInfo reached out to let us know that you’ll still need to use the QR code system to log into WhatsApp’s desktop app. The fingerprint feature simply reinforces the security for the Web app. We apologize for the mistake. You might soon be able to log into WhatsApp’s desktop version with your fingerprint. Serial WhatsApp leaker WABetaInfo has spotted the Facebook-owned company is experimenting with a fingerprint login system in the app’s latest beta build for Android (2....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 292 words · Harry Mccrae

Whatsapp Might Soon Let You Make Calls From Its Desktop App

According to renowned WhatsApp sleuth WABetaInfo, the company has started creating the feature in one of its test builds. The under-development feature includes support for voice and video calls for both individual contacts and groups. [Read: Google Assistant displays get a new UI, a dark theme, and more features] Screenshots posted by WABetaInfo suggest that when you’ll call someone through the WhatsApp desktop app, a new window will open up with controls to manage the call....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 150 words · John Ash

Whatsapp S Dark Mode Is A Fucking Bummer

Since this week, WhatsApp now supports dark mode on both Android and iOS, and it looks like something out of a badly designed 80’s sci-fi movie. Have a look: It hurts my eyes and it bums me out, especially when I think about how I’ll be stuck staring at this dogshit theme a couple of times per hour every day. WhatsApp is my main mode of communication, and they made it ugly....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 367 words · Joseph Foster

When You Google Your Company S Name Do You Like What You See

Reputations are hard won, and easily lost. They are an asset as valuable as any that appears on a balance sheet, and should be fiercely protected. And nowhere is that more true than online. Now, more than ever, a company’s reputation is shaped by what people see online – and specifically what they see on the first page of Google search results. Why Google and not other search engines? Well, Google has an 88 percent share of search in the US, so even if you use Bing, nine out of 10 people do not....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 672 words · Ronald Barnes

Why Ai Systems Should Be Recognized As Inventors

Current legislation only allows humans to be recognized as inventors, which could make AI-generated innovations unpatentable. This would deprive the owners of the AI of the legal protections they need for the inventions that their systems create. The Artificial Inventor Project team has been testing the limitations of these rules by filing patent applications that designate a machine as the inventor— the first time that an AI’s role as an inventor had ever been disclosed in a patent application....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 709 words · Lynn Leray

Why The Uk Was Dumb To Use Microsoft Excel To Count Coronavirus Cases

Not only does it lead to underestimating the scale of coronavirus in the UK, but perhaps more important is the subsequent delay in entering the details of positive cases into the NHS Test and Trace system which is used by a team of contact tracers. Although all those who tested positive had been informed of their results, other people in close contact with them and potentially at risk of exposure were not immediately followed up (ideally within 48 hours)....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 844 words · Melissa Patel