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It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Theright to repairrefers to consumers ability to have their products repaired at a competitive price. But it seems Apple doesnt want its customers to fix theiriPhonesorMacbooksthemselves. Oppositionagainst the right to repair from tech companies is to be expected. Cornering consumers into using their service centers increases their revenue and extends their market domination. In its defense, Apple has saidthird-party repairerscould use lower quality parts and also make devices vulnerable to hackers....

A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and northern France at 21:54 GMT. It was recorded by many doorbell webcams, so it was a verywell-observed fireball. More importantly, it was also captured by the automated cameras of theUK Meteor Observation Networkand similar networks. King asked Open University researcherRichard Greenwood(who lived closest) to check out the sample. The UK had got lucky we had anew member to add to our meteorite collection....

The Netherlands, despite its small size, is rich in culture, history, and beautiful sights. The Netherlands is also one of the leading electric vehicle markets, both in Europe and globally. This is especially true for BEVs, which are the focus ofthe governments zero-emission transport strategy. Individuals purchasing or leasing a new battery electric passenger car canclaim back 4,000from the government. In the case of a second-hand battery electric car, the amount is 2,000....

Welcome to Adventures with AI, a column exploring what happens when artificial intelligence takes control of everyday tasks. Eating out is one of my great pleasures; cooking is not. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. [Read:How do you build apet-friendly gadget? With so many recipes now online, GPT-3 must have learned its way around the kitchen. I put my stomach on the line to find out. For my starter, I whipped up a plate of honey and soy-glazed vegetables....

Yann LeCun, Facebooks world-renowned AI guru, had some problems with an article written about his company yesterday. So he did what any of us would do, he went on social media to air his grievances. Only, he didnt take the fight to Facebook as youd expect. Instead, over a period of hours, he engaged in a back-and-forth with numerous people on Twitter. Hao wrotean incredible long-form featureon Facebooks content moderation problem....

Reconstruction of a 16m megalodon. Illustration by Oliver Demuth/Jack Cooper Over the years,severalresearchpapers have estimated megs size. Its teeth are shaped like large, flat triangles with serrated edges much like the teeth of livingwhite sharks. White sharks, along withmako sharksand theporbeagle sharkall belong in the family Lamnidae and are referred to as lamnids. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. These models, while both outstanding, dont depict entirely the same shark....

Thats what a good friend of minetold me hed instructed his investment broker todolast March. I was impressed and irked. Why had I lacked the foresight and why had he not tipped me off? A stronger contact lens prescription, his… well, best not think about it. Zoom is the ultimate overnight success, a victor of circumstance. Imagine Facebooks 2006-08 growth charts, then concertina them into a single week. Friday, March 20th, 2020: a handful of us had Zoomd....

In software development, speed has become the defining characteristic of product launches. It sets the standard we cant really escape anymore. Meet the deadline or lose a vitally important partner/client. 40% off TNW Conference! The pitch is: why choose between quality and speed when automated testing can ensure quality at high speed? I know thats quite the mouthful, but its essentially true. Is it worth it? Will I spend more than I get back?...

Because someone (hopefully us!) thinks each of those things is objectively good. And if each thing is good, then collectively, they are all… perfect? Unfortunately, the math doesnt work out that way. Theres no such thing as perfection. Overlapping costs outweigh benefits, and interactions between solutions start to feel weird and painful. This isnt a terribly original thought, granted, but its something Im thinking about a lot lately. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

Do I consume social media or is it slowly consuming me? Yet many of us have our reasons for staying in the game. I find these platforms consistently distract from my most important work. Its a huge cost that I just cant ignore anymore. Ive attempted on several occasions to rise above the addiction, placing heavy restrictions on my daily usage. Good intentions only got me so far. That is, until a few weeks ago....

I didnt want to have to do this, but we need to talk. The levels of automation thought up by theSociety of Automotive Engineers(SAE) are not what you think. Its probably time that we let them go. Human-machine interaction researcher Liza Dixon summed up the reason why quite clearly in a Tweet yesterday. The narrative pits each carmaker, startup, and developer against each other in a sprint to the finish....

Sometimes you get the subtitles (subs) but not the voicing (dubs). So what are you supposed to do? Translation is a careful art that cant be automated and requires the loving touch of a human hand. I mean, who would want to listen to machine voices for an entire season? Only a real sicko would want that. Well start by transcribing audio to text using Google CloudsSpeech-to-Text API. Next, well translate that text with theTranslate API....

I realized today after googling for a bit that a few others were also unable to reproduce the results. Is there a list of such papers? It will save people a lot of time and effort. Easier to compile a list of reproducible ones…, one user responded. Probably 50%-75% of all papers are unreproducible. Its sad, but its true, another user wrote. Think about it, most papers are optimized to get into a conference....