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NASAs Perseverance rover may be hogging the headlines, but its predecessor is also capturing new insights about Mars. 40% off TNW Conference! The mountains layers in this region may reveal how the environment lost its water over time. The panorama was created by stitching together 129 photos captured by Curiositys Mast Camera. The colors were then white-balanced to replicate how the landscape would appear under daylight on Earth. it’s possible for you to check it out by clicking on the video atop this article....

The growing use of emotion recognition AI is causing alarm among ethicists. Some argue that AIisnt even capableof accurately detecting emotions. A new studypublished in Nature Communicationshas shone further light on these shortcomings. The researchers analyzed photos of actors to examine whether facial movements reliably express emotional states. They found that people use different facial movements to communicate similar emotions. 40% off TNW Conference! Its important not to confuse the description of a facial configuration with inferences about its emotional meaning....

Data nerds, computer geeks, science morons, Im speaking to you. The freaks that push the frontiers of tech every day but still cant keep up with the Kardashians. The cliche goes further. And dont even think of appointing such people as a CEO. Of course, this is a stereotype. Most techies I know including myself are interesting, multi-faceted people with exciting hobbies and beautiful personalities. Most techies I know score as high in human skills as they do in their area of technical expertise....

Youll get 12 different courses to get you on the way to becoming a Microsoft Excel expert. Classes begin with hands-on demos to help you master 75 different formulas and functions associated with the program. Youll learn how to build tools and dashboards to make your data make sense to you and others. Youll learn how to pull real-time data into your program so your spreadsheets are correct up to the minute....

With this bundle, youll start with certification training for Google Cloud Platform. By the end, youll be ready to be certified in the subject. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Youll be ready to pass the certification exam for Certified Cloud Security Platform on your first try.

Audius was not the obvious choice for partnering with the short video giant. And, even more unusual, Audius is one of the first and only streaming platforms run on blockchain. Remind me, what is blockchain? Blockchain is a technology that stores data records and transfers values with no centralized ownership. It can also mean more streamlined and transparent payments. Platforms like Spotify and Apple Music use a pro-rata model to pay artists....

We rely on experts all the time. If you need financial advice, you ask an expert. In the future, however, artificial intelligence (AI) might replace many of these people. In forensic science, the expert witness plays a vital role. Lawyers seek them out for their analysis and opinion on specialist evidence. Weve been investigating the potential for AI to study evidence in forensic science. Whats in a footprint? Bloody footprints are common at violent crime scenes....

It seems like every website you sign on to these days requires a complicated password. You just have to remember a single master password known only by you. You never have to remember any of your complicated passwords again. Did this one need a capital letter and a number, or just a special character? Put those thoughts away. 40% off TNW Conference! You will automatically sign in to recognized sites without struggling with the sign-in page....

Thats technology for you. And apparently, its been around sinceApriland somehow Nintendo has not managed to take it down yet. It seems to work with a variety of modern browsers both desktop and mobile. 40% off TNW Conference! Or, you know, find a Nintendo 64. Also tagged with

Lets just dive right in. There were, however, a couple of interesting reveals. The good news was the companys new AI chips. According to the supposed specifications and obligatory hyperbole, Teslas AI chips will be the worlds most powerful. Its at least plausible that the AI team at Tesla could pull off such a feat. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. But lets talk about the Tesla robot. TNWs Ivan Mehtacovered the announcement and all the machines specificationsearlier today....

Soulja Boy made a stunning announcement to his legions of adoring fans on Wednesday. I am now the owner of Atari, the rapper revealed on Instagram. He also disclosed that the company was set to buy his owngamingbusiness for a cool $140 million. The first rapper to ever own a video game company. It looked like a match made in heaven. A struggling gaming firm had found a celebrated entrepreneur with the industry credentials to return it to past glories....

But why do we care? What use, then, are the other 62.79 trillion digits? What makes pi so fascinating? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. But it takes a long time after 500,000 terms, it produces only five correct decimal places of pi! The first is the development and testing of supercomputers and new high-precision multiplication algorithms. The second is the exploration of the very nature of pi. Despite centuries of research, there are still fundamental unanswered questions about the way its digits behave....

Facebooks special announcement ofa new VR meeting appwas curiously timed. The US competition regulator argues that Facebook repeatedly failed to develop meaningful innovations on its mobile app. 40% off TNW Conference! A second attempt The complaint is the FTCs second antitrust salvo against Facebook. The court argued that the FTC had failed to prove its central claim. The amended complaintincludes new data that the FTC says supports its contention. Facebook described the lawsuit as meritless....