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Disclaimer: nothing in this article should be constituted as mental health advice. This is anecdotal evidence from a technology journalist. Ive been a gamer since the early 1980s. I cut my teeth onTempestandDonkey Kongin the local arcade. Gaming is my solace. This is how Ive alwaysblown off mental steam(for lack of a better way to put it). But something happened in 2020 that changed everything: video games stopped working for me....

Withalmost 1,500of these small satellites launched so far, adding another ten might seem trivial. But this was no ordinary launch. The plane carried them to a height of 11 km (6.8 miles) before launching the rocket. This was thefirst successful launchof Virgin Orbits LauncherOne rocket, marking the start of its commercial ventures. But how does launching a rocket from a plane actually work? 40% off TNW Conference! The first stage is the part that ignites at launch, powering the rocket from the ground....

Theyve been hailed as amoney saver, anessential featurefor EVs, and in some cases:a game changer. What am I talking about? Heat pumps of course! The name sounds simple enough, but what exactly do they do? And why are they important for electric vehicles? Lets dive in and answer some of those questions. What is it? Put simply, a heat pump is a rig used to move heat around an electric vehicle....

This article was originally published by Michiel Mulderson.cult by Honeypot, a Berlin-based community platform for developers. For the latest updates, follow .cult by Honeypot onTwitter,Facebook,Instagram,Linkedin,andYouTube. Youve just landed a job interview for a technical role. Therefore, different situations can occur when negotiating your salary during a tech interview. But first, what do you negotiate during a salary negotiation? What is a salary negotiation? Lets make the following clear before we dive into different salary negotiation scenarios....

A Long Journey to an Uncertain Endis an upcoming strategy management game from recently-founded studio Crispy Creative. Whats interesting aboutALJis that its essentially a queer video game. Crispy Creative describes it as radically inclusive. I say itsessentiallya queer video game because I think calling it that relegates it to undeserved nichedom. Calling it a queer game is like callingHaloa game that makes good use of the color green. Youre not wrong, but its not necessarily the most important takeaway....

CES went digital for obvious reasons this year. I missed the serendipity associated with strolling up and down alleys of startups and wandering around corporate booths. However, I did not miss having achy feet at the end of the day! All in all, I missed the live version. The unique format attracted fewer than half of last years exhibitors, i.e. The digital venue will remain accessible until February 15 for content viewing....

Saying good morning, in person, to a coworker you dont know is perfectly normal. Sending a private message to a coworker you dont know to say good morning is…weird. If not downright creepy. Look, thats just how it is. I dont make the rules. All of this makes it hard to connect with coworkers, let alone make friends with them. But thats not to say its impossible. Ive been working from home for over a decade....

Water scarcity is among the top five global risksaffecting peoples wellbeing. In water-scarce areas, the situation is grim. In these countries, water is acritical challenge to sustainable developmentand a potential cause of social unrest and conflict. Water-scarce countries need a fundamental change in planning and management. We are looking at how to do this, through the creative exploitation ofunconventional water resources. From Earths seabed to its upper atmosphere, we have a variety of water resources that can be tapped....

For decades, weve been trying to develop artificial intelligence in our own image. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. He also discusses whats missing in different approaches to creating AI. Here are some key takeaways from the book. InThe Alignment Problem, Christian goes through many examples where machine learning algorithms have caused embarrassing and damaging failures. A popular example is a Google Photos classification algorithm thattagged dark-skinned people as gorillas....

These works are noisy, dirty and cause a lot of inconveniences. They also cost around 5.5 billion a year. It doesnt have to be this way. We are developing small robots to work in underground pipe networks, in both clean water and sewers. If we cannot communicate with them, we cannot stay in control. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The underground pipe networks are complex, varied, and difficult to work in....

40% off TNW Conference! Ultimately, they decided to establish a subsidiary in Amsterdam with a one-to-one relationship. Their staff is now split between these two offices. Bottomline, Ive now doubled my work on the admin side. But, on the upside, commercially and thats what we wanted to optimize for there was no question. If its just an administrative problem youre trying to solve, any part of Europe will work. Is there access to talent?...

Recently, for example, Googles artificial intelligence subsidiaryDeepMind developed AlphaFold2, a program that solved theprotein-folding problem. This is a problem that has had baffled scientists for 50 years. It would then alert the crew with suggestions for inspection. Eventually, Cimon will be used to reduce astronauts stress by performing tasks they ask them to do. New space missions traditionally rely on knowledge gathered by previous studies. However, this information can often be limited or not fully accessible....

40% off TNW Conference! As weve seen inprevious yearsthough, there are significant differences between countries. GWIs data tells a similar story. However, as well see below, mobile devices still only account for abouthalfof our daily internet time. The figures also show that people are spending more time online each day than they did in previous years. Filipinos report spending the greatest amount of time online, at an average of almost 11 hours per day....