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 Kant used to say: Prepare to open the imaginary money chest… Bitcoin price We closed the day, September 07 2020, at a price of $10,369. That’s a minor 0.86 percent increase in 24 hours, or $88. It was the highest closing price in two days....
Luckily, ApisProtect today announced its entry into the US market where it will provide its unique AI-powered hive monitoring system to beekeepers and farmers. If you’re unfamiliar, ApisProtect is a European startup that uses simple proprietary devices and a unique stack of AI and software to, essentially, give beekeepers a spy on the inside. This means ‘keepers can get ahead of health issues that otherwise could remain hidden. According to ApisProtect: Quick take: While specific projections may vary, it’s safe to say that honeybees are endangered to the point where solutions like this should be considered environmental safety efforts....
Our air, water, land, and wildlife are tainted with thousands of chemicals that we cannot see, smell or touch. It may not come as a surprise then, that this unnoticed pollution isn’t considered an important threat to wildlife that it should be. The planet has entered the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals, according to scientists, and Canada is not immune. More than half of Canada’s grassland birds and aerial insectivores have been lost in only 50 years, and between 1970 and 2014, the more than 500 mammal populations monitored in Canada shrank by an average of 43 percent....
This has been a problem since the advent of optical lenses, but it’s fair to say it reached a peak during the pandemic when everyone wearing glasses found out the hard way that most face masks vent your breath up towards your eyes. You’d think someone would have fixed this by now, but it’s harder than you might guess. The difficulty of the problem is evident by the lack of current solutions....
The system will help doctors identify the symptoms that seriously ill patients have in common. Hospitals could use the insights provided by the AI to work how many patients will need a ventilator at specific times in the future, and plan their resources accordingly. “We are aware of certain things that increase risk, such as age, smoking, asthma and heart problems, but there are other factors involved,” said Espen Solem, the chief physician of Denmark’s Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals....
— TrueAchievements (@TrueAchievement) January 17, 2020 Earlier this month, PlayStation debuted the 2019 Wrap-Up tool, which allowed you to see what kind of a gamer you were over the last year, with stats such as time spent gaming, number of games play, rarest trophies earned, etc. In previous years, Xbox has done something similar, but so far we’ve not seen it for 2019. Luckily, TrueAchievements is here to remedy that with #MyDecadeOnXbox, which covers your stats not just for 2019 but for the entire 2010-2019 period....
If there was one positive to come out of the pandemic, it was the realization that watching shows and movies remotely with friends is actually Very Good™. And with the launch of iOS 15.1, Apple’s getting involved. So say hello to SharePlay. The feature was announced as a part of iOS 15 back in June at the company’s WWDC developer conference, but its roll out was delayed. SharePlay is upping the ante compared with other apps that allow remote viewing....
While there haven’t been any controversial features like anti-tracking, Apple made some notable announcements. Here’s a summary of it: iCloud+ This was probably the most eye-catching announcement in the privacy section. Apple’s debuting a new free service for iCloud users that provides an extra layer of security to existing users. First, there’s Private Relay, which encrypts traffic between Safari and your DNS-resolver when you look up websites. Apple will maintain its own server where it’ll separate your IP from your request and send a new one to the DNS resolver which will only reveal your region....
One way to enable evidence-based decision-making by cities is to integrate physical and digital urban infrastructure and identify usage patterns and emerging trends. However, as cities become increasingly digitized, as more technologies are integrated and more data is gathered, the way this process is managed becomes of increasing importance. The use of urban data requires coordinated thinking. Over the past five years, a consortium of city authorities, businesses, and academic partners have tested a range of smart technologies in cities across Europe, integrating a range of e-mobility solutions, deep energy building retrofits, smart street lighting, and sustainable energy management systems, underpinned by urban data platforms....
But what is the cost of such a city? Not just the price tag, or even the value such investments promise to deliver, but the actual human cost? Will anybody be left behind by smart cities, including the elderly or the disabled? Urban development is already a challenge for the disabled Just precisely what constitutes a “smart city” will vary depending on that city’s goals. But one thing that doesn’t change from place to place is that technology should provide the means to realize one’s independence....
More details and images: https://t.co/SuaUVDkyvD pic.twitter.com/ot5R1u5hsz — PlayStation (@PlayStation) April 7, 2020 According to Sony, the PS5 controller is called the DualSense — which I’m okay with, because “DualShock” is a little 90s in retrospect. It has those adaptive triggers we’ve heard so much about, which allegedly give you more complex feedback. The company’s ditched the “Share” button in favor of a “Create” button, though the company’s description of its function sounds fairly similar: “With Create, we’re once again pioneering new ways for players to create epic gameplay content to share with the world....
The rocket launched in 2015, carrying Nasa’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) probe into a position 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth, facing the Sun. But the expended upper stage of the rocket had insufficient speed to escape into an independent orbit around the Sun, and was abandoned without an option to steer back into the Earth’s atmosphere. That would be normal practice, allowing stages to burn up on re-entry, thus reducing the clutter in near-Earth space caused by dangerous junk....
The upright riding position is something I appreciate for commuting in a city, making it easy to both see and be seen in traffic, and the bike is equipped with chunky 650B, 2.3″ tires. Because of their high air volume, the tires themselves can act as a suspension system at lower pressures — in my experience often better (and lighter) than the cheap suspension forks on many ebikes. Unlike the more beefy non-SL Como, the bike comes with an integrated front rack and basket....
Sixteen years of studying this rare object found it to be a ring of hydrogen gas, surrounding what looks like an ordinary star. However, the properties of this object suggest the star at the center of this object is, itself, the product of the merger of a pair of stars. This discovery of TYC 2597–735-1 could open up a new era of understanding the nature of binary star systems. “We were in the middle of observing one night, with a new spectrograph that we had recently built, when we received a message from our colleagues about a peculiar object composed of a nebulous gas expanding rapidly away from a central star....
I have always been proud of our culture at Density, and for many team members it’s one of the key reasons for working for the company. After five years and dozens of drafts, we boiled down our core company values to the following: be humble, seek feedback, and always solve the fundamental problem. These three tenets are the foundation of Density and guide all our decision-making. I wanted to share why we landed on these three and how you can apply them to your own company....
TNW obtained a copy of a memorandum sent to “Stylists” at the company and confirmed its veracity with independent sources familiar with the situation: According to the memo, the company is laying off stylists in two waves beginning on 5 June and ending on 18 September: Stitch Fix employs 1,424 people as Stylists in California. It’s unclear how many will remain after the culling phases but the company says it will create a “small, full-time staff” to support its “HQ initiatives....
After reading a dozen different takes on the topic, I have to say that the media has become (a bit) disillusioned with the hype surrounding current AI technology. A lot of the articles discussed why deep neural networks are not “sentient” or “conscious.” This is an improvement in comparison to a few years ago, when news outlets were creating sensational stories about AI systems inventing their own language, taking over every job, and accelerating toward artificial general intelligence....
The problem seems to be one of time, the Universe is 14 billion years old, and recent observations seem to confirm that such black holes were already present when it was just 800 million years old — thus in its relative infancy. How could these black holes have accrued so much matter to supermassive status in such a, relatively, short space of time? This lingering question poses a problem for our very understanding of the evolution of such spacetime events....
Turns out they might be right. Many of the studies claiming AI outperforms doctors when interpreting medical images are poor quality and “arguably exaggerated,” according to new research. The researchers warn that overhyping the power of these systems could lead to “inappropriate care” that poses a risk to “millions of people.” [Read: Facebook wants to get into healthcare. What could possibly go wrong?] Led by intensive care doctor Myura Nagendran, the team reviewed 10 years of research comparing deep learning algorithms with expert clinicians....
The monthly pricing is determined by which Autopilot system a car by Tesla is running. Vehicles featuring Basic Autopilot can subscribe to FSD for $199 per month, while vehicles featuring Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) can subscribe for $99 per month. Owners who wish to subscribe can do so through the “Upgrades” menu in their Tesla app or their Tesla Account. What’s the catch? At first glance, this seems like a pretty good deal because you don’t need to make a $10,000 commitment on the spot....
