There’s a snap conclusion we all reach when we look for a company online, only to find they didn’t have a website. We immediately question whether the company is legitimate. Hey, everybody is on the web these days, so when we stumble across a business that hasn’t made that leap, we start to wonder how serious they are — and whether we should trust them with our business. A digital presence is brand currency, so even if you’ve never built a marketing page before and have no idea what to do, Launchrock ($49....

Of course, you know I’m talking about Longcat. Named for its unusually protracted torso, Longcat inspired a myriad of clever photoshops. My favorite depicts the domestic shorthair blasting through the planet’s stratosphere, like some kind of dander-spreading NASA rocket. Someone even created a Longcat song. This peppy anthem was a thumping dance tune largely derived from ‘Wind’s Nocturne,’ a moving ballad taken from the late 1990’s role-playing game Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete....

But what’s on offer, and how does it compare to the halcyon glamour days of flying before you had to take your shoes off at the airport? I’ve had a look, and I have to say, I think earlier generations of rich people had it better for all its tech bells and whistles. Lufthansa’s EXPLORER flying hotel Lufthansa has created your very own personal “flying hotel” to provide you with all comforts and amenities that you can expect from a five-star hotel on the ground....

Their tests suggest the models can accurately predict attacks in regions that are already affected by terrorism. However, they found that “black swan events,” which occur sporadically, are almost impossible to predict. The researchers, led by Dr Andre Python from Zhejiang University in China, used publicly available data to analyze the location and data of attacks that occurred between 2002 and 2016 in 13 regions of the world. “We define terrorism as politically motivated attacks outside legitimate warfare (i....

Admit it — most of you are just fine with working from home. Sure, the current circumstances are certainly not ideal, but for the Americans who can do a vast majority of their job anywhere with a internet connection, they’re more than happy not to pile into the car every morning, battle traffic and go through the daily hassles of office life. They will, however, miss some of the creature comforts....

Gentler Streak is the first product of Gentler Stories, a Slovenian-based mobile app studio that specializes in solutions for a sustainable lifestyle. The women-led company was founded in February 2021 by three Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni and one alumnus of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator. The app was launched in September 2021, and although it’s been out for a little over a year, it has been steadily gaining popularity. In essence, Gentler Streak is a fitness app, which means it helps users track workout activities, distance, heart rate zones, and activity stats, among others....

— Xbox (@Xbox) December 13, 2019 Dubbed the fastest, most powerful console yet (and will remain so until we see have the PlayStation 5 to compare it with), the Series X purportedly has “four times the processing power of Xbox One X.” It supports 4K graphics at 60fps, though we didn’t hear exactly what kind of hardware would be under the hood, beyond the custom CPU and SSD we already knew about....

It has a custom Microsoft SQ1 chip that has ‘Qualcomm Snapdragon DNA’ and custom AI processing as per the company. We don’t have details on what these terms actually mean at the moment. We’ll update the story once we learn more. The laptop has integrated LTE support, USB-C, and fast charging to the boot. — Microsoft Surface (@surface) October 2, 2019 The company’s chief product officer, Panos Panay, said ARM chips normally runs at two watts, but Microsoft has pushed the SQ1 chip to run at seven watts by redesigning it with Qualcomm....

According to Electric Cars Report, bus operator ATM has ordered 100 electric buses from Solaris. The city already has a bunch of electric buses in operation after taking delivery over the past two years. Solaris is expected to fulfil the order in the first half of 2021. At this point there will be 275 zero-emission Solaris vehicles carrying passengers around the streets of the Italian city. [Read: UK expected to bring diesel ban forward by another 5 years!...

The training set — called 80 Million Tiny Images, as that’s how many labeled images it’s scraped from Google Images — was created in 2008 to develop advanced object detection techniques. It has been used to teach machine-learning models to identify the people and objects in still images. As The Register’s Katyanna Quach wrote: “Thanks to MIT’s cavalier approach when assembling its training set, though, these systems may also label women as whores or bitches, and Black and Asian people with derogatory language....

“While our sense of touch gives us a channel to feel the physical world, our eyes help us immediately understand the full picture of these tactile signals,” writes Rachel Gordon, of MIT CSAIL. In robots, this connection doesn’t exist. In an effort to bridge the gap, researchers developed a predictive AI capable of learning to “see by touching” and “feel by seeing,” a means of linking senses of sight and touch in future robots....

It seems like everyone is obsessed with Mars these days. Three space missions were sent to the planet last year. More than 10 million people asked their names to be etched onto a NASA rover currently driving across its terrain. The US and China both aim to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. Elon Musk even wants to build a city there “in our lifetimes.” The planet has a unique allure, but its charms can lead us to overlook our nearest celestial neighbor: the Moon....

Hot Neptunes are — theoretically — worlds the size of Neptune or slightly larger than Neptune, orbiting close to their parent stars. However, such planets were thought to be unstable, as the atmospheres would be driven off by heat from the local star. “This planet is so intensely irradiated by its star that its temperature is over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit and its atmosphere could have evaporated entirely. Yet, our Spitzer observations show us its atmosphere via the infrared light the planet emits,” Ian Crossfield, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas stated....

With their millions and billions of numerical parameters, deep learning models can do many things: detect objects in photos, recognize speech, generate text—and hide malware. Neural networks can embed malicious payloads without triggering anti-malware software, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois have found. Their malware-hiding technique, EvilModel, sheds light on the security concerns of deep learning, which has become a hot topic of discussion in machine learning and cybersecurity conferences....

The system uses Bluetooth signals to find nearby phones and creates a record of all the numbers. When someone tests positive for COVID-19, they can use the app to send an alert to all those people. The government plans to release the app within weeks. Sky News reports that it will only use smartphone location data, but scientists advising the government say adding GPS data and QR codes in places where the GPS signal is weak would improve the tracking....

Researchers from the University of California (and partners) published a paper this week on the reliability of open EV Direct Current Fast Chargers (DCFCs) in the Greater Bay Area. The research found that only 72.5% of the 657 EVSEs were functional. That means 22.7%, or more than 1 in 5, were non-functioning, were unresponsive or unavailable, had broken screens, payment system failures, charge initiation failures, network failures, or broken connectors....

As medical facilities test their breaking points under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic — many offering little more than a bed in a hallway to house the influx of new COVID-19 patients — most find themselves hardening visitation protocols, or suspending them altogether, in an effort to protect their most vulnerable patients. For the sick and the elderly, FaceTime is a lifeline to the outside world. For new mothers and fathers, it’s a chance to bond with hours or days-old babies from afar....

The original Poolside.FM packed a lot of stuff in a site, including an Instagram launcher, a video player, a music player. As compared to that, the new iPhone app acts mostly as a music player. I don’t have many complaints though. This app can act as my work or chill time playlist without having to sift through multiple Spotify playlist to settle on one. I’ve already found a few tunes that I might be adding to my own playlists....

A number of IB users had bought oil contracts on margin, the firm explained in a press release, a term for investing with borrowed money. [Read: Coronavirus leads to global decrease in oil demand, air quality is on the up] Investing on margin is risky, as the asset purchased becomes the collateral for the loan. Sure, the profits are faster, but losing them is just as quick — and you can also end up owing money if your bets don’t pan out....

This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for making a new lifeform called xenobots from stem cells. The term “xeno” comes from the frog cells (Xenopus laevis) used to make them. One of the researchers described the creation as “neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal”, but a “new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.” Xenobots are less than 1mm long and made of 500-1000 living cells....