The attack was confirmed in a statement posted to the cryptocurrency exchange’s website by Upbit’s CEO Lee Seok-woo earlier today. “At 1:06 PM on November 27, 2019, 342,000 ETH (approximately 58 billion won) were transferred from the Upbeat Ethereum Hot Wallet to an unknown wallet,” the statement reads, before providing the apparent hacker’s wallet address. At pixel time, the hacker’s wallet still contains all of the stolen Ethereum. Upbit says it will fund the replacement of the stolen Ethereum so as to not leave any users out of pocket....

We’ve had our hands on the new phones for a couple of days now, and while we’re not able to share a full review yet, it’s evident that this is the most exciting phone from Google in years. And it certainly doesn’t hurt that the Pixel 6 is starting at just $599, undercutting the vast majority of flagship phones, with the larger Pixel 6 Pro going for $899. The Pixel 6 is even cheaper than last year’s Pixel 5 with its relatively wimpy specs....

And you know what? You’ve never let me down since. Thank you, VLC. I love you. Dearly. Forever and forever, you and me, running through the fields into Valhalla. Together. Yes — on February 1, one of the internet’s finest institutions turned 20. Clap. Cheer. I SAID CLAP AND CHEER. Stand up. Louder. LOUDER. A tiny bit of history. VLC — run by the VideoLAN non-profit — was founded in France all the way back in 2001, a time when the majority of Americans didn’t even have internet access....

In a new report titled Environmental Social Governance, the streaming giant revealed that over the years it has received takedown requests from the governments of New Zealand, Vietnam, Germany, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. The first ever takedown notice came from New Zealand in 2015, but Singapore is by far the most active. [Read: How to opt out of Netflix’s autoplay previews] Here are the nine titles Netflix removed over the years:...

The level of insight that major technology entities have into the average internet user’s lifestyle and preferences is frightening at times. Back in 2012, Target used buying data to determine that a teen was pregnant before even her own father knew, in a story that has come to represent corporate overreach. They would routinely send coupons for diapers and cribs to women they expected to be pregnant, despite never being told by the customer explicitly....

I am an astronomer and the principal investigator for the Near Infrared Camera – or NIRCam for short – aboard the Webb telescope. I have participated in the development and testing for both my camera and the telescope as a whole. To see deep into the universe, the telescope has a very large mirror and must be kept extremely cold. But getting a fragile piece of equipment like this to space is no simple task....

But what if they didn’t? What if all cars switched to electric overnight? We recently published a peer-reviewed conference paper looking at the emissions impact for such a switch in Scotland alone, and have now extended our analysis to the whole of the UK for a forthcoming publication. We found that if the UK’s cars went entirely electric its total carbon emissions would be cut by almost 12%. It’s a hypothetical scenario, but not total fantasy....

On March 31st, 2020 Microsoft Teams recorded a record-breaking 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one single day. Zoom downloads increased by 1330% from February to March. On Slack the average number of messages sent per user per day is up 20%. ‘Zoom fatigue’ is now a trending search topic. This phenomenon is alive and well and it’s eating away at both our sanity and our ability to actually get shit done....

Last week, technology analysis firm CB Insights published an update on the status of its list of top 100 AI startups of 2020 (in case you don’t know, CB Insight publishes a list of 100 most promising AI startups every year). Out of the hundred startups, four have made exits, with three going public and one being acquired by Facebook. A closer look at these startups provides some good hints at what it takes to create a successful business that makes use of AI....

If you’re regularly working with data, but lack the interest, financial means, or need for a fancy data management platform, there’s no need to panic. As we’ve shown throughout this series of articles, good old Google Sheets is capable of a lot more than you might realize. However, knowing all of Google Sheets’ neat formulas is one thing. Using it on scale is another. That’s where macros come in. A macro is a sequence of instructions that can be repeated all at once....

The prospect might not be as fanciful as it sounds. Researchers from UC Berkeley, Intel, and Google Brain recently taught an AI model to operate by imitating videos of eight human surgeons at work. The algorithm — known as Motion2Vec — was trained on footage of medics using da Vinci surgical robots to perform suturing tasks such as needle-passing and knot-tying. The da Vinci system has been operating on patients — including James Bond on one occasion — since the early 2000s....

From reinvented shopping malls to pedestrianized suburban neighborhoods and a growing role for technology, ‘microcities’ are changing. A new study from ABI research has identified at least 13,000 microcities around the world. It is the first time the analyst firm has quantified these dense urban developments, which include the areas in and around large airports, ports, international rail stations, venues, office parks, malls, and corporate and university campuses. They also incorporate industrial zones and the mini-cities which are emerging such as Tencent’s internet-inspired employee campus in Shenzhen, Toyota’s Woven City , and Sidewalk Labs’ now-abandoned plan for smart city development in Toronto....

But EV uptake brings its own set of challenges. While the UK’s national energy provider has assured consumers that there is “definitely enough energy” to facilitate mass EV adoption, the problem lies in how to sustainably and cheaply supply cars with power. Our local networks were not designed to charge millions of cars with energy simultaneously and, as we move towards a zero-carbon electricity system with variable wind and solar generation, the energy may not be there when we need it most....

Hot Jupiters are not found in our solar system, but astronomers have detected evidence showing large populations of these massive worlds in other star systems, huddling close to their parent suns. For five years, papers showed an unusual trend showing up in studies of these exoplanets— temperatures of these worlds were consistently lower than predictions suggested. Even temperatures on worlds of molten rock were seen to be significantly lower than predictions predicted....

On Earth, where our atmosphere is rather dense compared to many planets, we’re able to send aloft objects that are massive enough to be anchored to the ground through gravity via engineering based on simple physical science principles. As MIT puts it: But the atmosphere on Mars is some 100 times thinner than Earth’s. If you tried to send a traditional Earth-bound jet aloft on the red planet it’d likely just peter along the planet’s surface until it smacked into something ground-level....

Fermi wasn’t a troll. You can believe in aliens and also recognize that science requires actionable data. But what if both Fermi’s paradox and the alien enthusiasts are correct? What if we posit a sort of Fermi’s Alien where, like Schrodinger’s Cat, the creature exists in two paradoxical states that are simultaneously true. Fermi’s Alien, which is something I just made up, tells us that aliens can both exist in the universe and not exist in the universe at the same time....

Move fast and fail often Innovation hubs are often created by a startup, established company, or a group of companies. The goal is to apply the startup “move fast and fail often” approach to deliver new innovations that can spin back to the company. In other words, how can big companies launch great new ideas, faster? Innovation hubs aim to discover or create innovative technology solutions for companies to help them in a variety of ways, such as competing in a new market, acquiring customers at lower costs, or developing new tools to do work more efficiently....

We can talk about the importance of a meaningful message forever, but the reality is that the way you present your message can often be as critical as the message itself. In other words, companies who market with emails and ad templates that look less like professional grade art and more like a ransom note are shooting themselves in the foot big time. You can make sure you’re putting that best foot forward with customers through clean, attractive email layouts and top-notch design elements like those found with a one-year subscription to a Postcards Business Plan....

Slack recently made a minor change to the way it handles links that’s been driving me insane. I’m talking about expandable hyperlinks. [Read: How to use Chrome’s media controls to easily switch between videos and podcasts] You might’ve noticed that if you copy-paste a snippet of text with a hyperlink, Slack now keeps the formatting, and you can actually click on the hyperlink once you post. The problem is that along with the hyperlink, you’ll also get a link preview — and if you copy-paste a lot of paragraphs with hyperlinks, those expansions get annoying real quick....

Spotify today rolled out a small update for its Premium users. Now you can hide songs you don’t like that are in playlists you didn’t create, effectively letting you customize the playlists to your liking. It’s a small move, but as someone who listens to a heckuva lot of playlists, I can tell you I’ll be using it, as there’s usually at least one song that doesn’t work with the rest of the playlist....