Hybrid work is not great for you but even worse for the planet

Just 5% of employed people in the UK worked from homein 2019. But thatmay notbe the case. Not everyone canafforda home office, nor the additional heating or internet bills. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A sense of quiet and privacy tends to be lost when multiple people share a room. Since the first lockdown house sales haveshot up, with June seeing themost sales since records began. This, sadly, is bad news for sustainability....

October 11, 2021 · 1 min · 168 words · Renee Kelly

Instagram will warn kids if they consume too much ‘sensitive’ content

After accusations of ignoringmental health impact on teensusing Instagram, Facebook will roll out new measures to make amends. He didnt provide any detail on when this warning will be triggered. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. In March, it put machine learning to work for stoppingunknown adults from messaging teens. Plus, in July, it put restrictions onthe throw in of ads served to kids. That’s one heck of a mixed bag....

October 11, 2021 · 1 min · 92 words · Denise Powers

These startups are making the smart cities of the future safer

Theres also a wave of new startups and scaleups working to make the cities of the future safer. 40% off TNW Conference! The authorities can then be deployed instantly. The team is also working on knife detection and pose estimation to detect attack movements. In 2019, the UK had roughly 46,000 knife attacks, Levy said. You have to ensure that the data is safe and that citizens feel safe. Were not trying to use face recognition to pull your data....

October 11, 2021 · 2 min · 335 words · Sharon Lynch

This $20 training package can boost your coding skills and get you working as a developer

They call web development its own world. But in reality, its really more of an entire universe. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Finally, the package even includes a pair of courses in game development. Regularly, the courses in The Premium Coding Skills Bundle would retail for $1,800. Jump on this offer now before it ends in just a few days.

October 11, 2021 · 1 min · 62 words · James Wolf

This memory foam bamboo covered pillow can be a nighttime game-changer

Every sleeper is different. Some need big, fluffy, soft comfort. Others need firm, body-cradling support. Some are constantly trying to stay cool. Others find themselves shivering. Through the wonders of body-conforming memory foam, this pillow adjusts to the comfort of each user. 40% off TNW Conference! Their morphing support can also bring improved sleep to those suffering from nagging neck and shoulder pain. Those benefits are also augmented by the supreme comfort this pillow affords your wallet at the same time....

October 11, 2021 · 1 min · 81 words · Jonathan Cook

What is ‘the ick’? — we got an expert to explain the TikTok trend

So what might be behind the ick? Are you letting the ick undermine your chances in love? 40% off TNW Conference! Different meanings can be assigned to these characteristics as the relationship progresses and depending on life circumstances. For instance, someone you initially found to be carefree can turn out to be irresponsible in important situations. Someone you originally found to be decisive might seem controlling later on. Reactions that may seem out of the blue often have an explanation that runs deeper....

October 11, 2021 · 1 min · 124 words · Regina Kaufman

Why can’t Google’s algorithms find any good news for queer people?

If youre interested in reading about the global suffering of queer people Ive got just the place for you. Its called Google News. Todays actually an off day for the product. 40% off TNW Conference! And its a really simple problem to solve. But Google has no interest in doing so because the solution is to replace the algorithm with human curators. But this news wasnt useful to the LGBTQ+ community at large....

October 11, 2021 · 2 min · 302 words · Cameron Anderson

Why companies are choosing not to be listed on the stock market

Thats more than double the previous six months and the strongest half year since the first half of 2007. Yet the lure of private equity is not the only explanation for companies walking away from thestock market. So whats going on, and are they doing the right thing? The current rate of money-supply expansion isfaster thanthe growthof economies. With lending rates so low, all this money is chasing investments. A stock-market listing begins to seem tedious when you could just borrow money very cheaply instead....

October 11, 2021 · 2 min · 248 words · David Powers

How to protect your machine learning models against adversarial attacks

Machine learning has become an important component of many applications we use today. And adding machine learning capabilities to applications is becoming increasingly easy. Many ML libraries and online services dont even require a thorough knowledge of machine learning. However, even easy-to-use machine learning systems come with their own challenges. Among them is the threat ofadversarial attacks, which has become one of the important concerns of ML applications. Adversarial attacks aredifferent from other types of security threatsthat programmers are used to dealing with....

October 10, 2021 · 4 min · 735 words · Brandon Thompson

Programming in ‘natural’ language is coming sooner than you think

Sometimes major shifts happen virtually unnoticed. On May 5,IBMannounced Project CodeNetto very little media or academic attention. ImageNet is now central to theprogress of deep learning computer vision. 40% off TNW Conference! These are machine learning-driven programs designed to better understand and mimic natural human language and translate between different languages. Training machine learning systems require access to a large dataset with texts written in the desired human languages. NLC applies all this to coding too....

October 10, 2021 · 2 min · 269 words · Renee Rodriguez MD

This portable power station and solar panel keep everything running when the power goes out

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October 10, 2021 · 1 min · 7 words · Lori Jones

All Pythonistas should switch to Go… or okay, maybe just half

Your average software engineer is still in love with Python. But not those at Google, Uber, Dropbox, Soundcloud, Slack, and Medium. The programmers at top corporations have long fallen for the language withthe cute mascot. Thats not to say that Python is no good. Rob Pike co-developed the Unix environment and co-created the Limbo programming language. A language that would eliminate, or at least ease, these all-too-common problems in software engineering....

October 9, 2021 · 2 min · 399 words · Jacqueline Lewis

This 4K drone with GPS tracking and a host of flight features is now on sale for under $70

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October 9, 2021 · 1 min · 7 words · Amy Hoffman