Новости за 31.03.2021

Date night, for my fiancée and I, is all about closeness and intimacy. Sometimes that looks like cooking our favorite meal together, having a few cocktails after dinner, and talking the night away. Other times, however, it looks like us playing a video game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where she’s a laser-gun-wielding punk rock goddess and I’m a machete-toting psychopath who collects teddy bears. Variety, they say, is the spice of life. It’s ironic then, that when I wrote the first edition... Читать дальше...

Spotify has launched a trio of new personalized playlists that evolve alongside your tastes in music. The streaming service today announced that it’s introducing an artist mix, genre mix, and decade mix. The feature is already rolling out to Free and Premium users around the world. The mixes use Spotify’s vaunted recommendation algorithms to curate playlists based on your listening habits. They’ll include your favorite songs from artists, genres, and decades you listen to most often, as well as new tunes that the app infers you’ll like. Читать дальше...

Scientists have successfully measured brain waves through an ear implant for the first time, a breakthrough that could improve smart hearing aids. Researchers from KU Leuven, a university in Belgium, used an experimental cochlear implant to record neural signals that arise in response to sounds. These signals could be used to measure and monitor hearing quality. “In the future, it should even be possible for the hearing implant to adjust itself autonomously based on the recorded brain waves,” said study co-author Tom Francart. Читать дальше...

Facebook today posted a blog post detailing a three-year-old solution to its modern AI problems: an algorithm inspector that only works on some of the company’s systems. Up front: Called Fairness Flow, the new diagnostic tool allows machine learning developers at Facebook to determine whether certain kinds of machine learning systems contain bias against or towards specific groups of people. It works by inspecting the data flow for a given model. Per a company blog post: To measure the performance... Читать дальше...

Online translation tools have helped us learn new languages, communicate across linguistic borders, and view foreign websites in our native tongue. But the artificial intelligence (AI) behind them is far from perfect, often replicating rather than rejecting the biases that exist within a language or a society. Such tools are especially vulnerable to gender stereotyping because some languages (such as English) don’t tend to gender nouns, while others (such as German) do. When translating from English to German... Читать дальше...

TLDR: MSTRMND Academy is home to hundreds of courses, e-books and more to help you train up in business, marketing, personal growth and more, all for less than $30. There’s a lot to consider when you’re starting a business. In fact, there’s too much to consider. And when you take into account the impact that all those early decisions across a whole swath of disciplines can have, it’s pretty intimidating. And no matter how learned or seasoned you are, there’s a good chance you’ll eventually stray into some uncharted waters. Читать дальше...

TLDR: The Coassemble Learning Management System lets you easily create online training for any-sized business. Every founder wants to grow their business from a one-man band into the next big thing. Of course, the more a business expands and hires on new people, the less each of those newbies are connected to the founding principles. Messages get watered down, procedures shift when no one is looking, and before you know it, ideas that were company cornerstones at the start can become forgotten. Or boil it down to something even more basic... Читать дальше...

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans to invest £3 billion (US$4.18 billion) in bus services across England, including the roll-out of 4,000 new British-built electric or hydrogen buses. Читать дальше...

TLDR: Donate to the Playing for Change Foundation and one lucky donor will then be rewarded with $5,000 for their good work. There’s nothing better than being rewarded for doing the right thing for the right reasons. You don’t need the grateful little old lady to give you $20 for finding and returning her lost purse. But that $20 definitely feels sweeter because you put good karma out into the universe — and that good deed found its way back to you. That being said…how does $5,000 worth of good karma sound to ya? Читать дальше...

Google Maps is getting a new feature that encourages drivers to make more eco-friendly journeys. The app will soon default to showing the route with the lowest carbon footprint, as long it’s got roughly the same ETA as the fastest path. The new routing model analyzes data such as road incline and traffic congestion to optimize for lower fuel consumption. When the eco-friendly route significantly increases the travel time, you’ll be able to compare the CO2 impact between the different routes. If you’d rather prioritize speed... Читать дальше...

An international team of researchers recently developed an AI system that pieces together bits of information from dark web cryptomarkets, Twitter, and Reddit in order to better understand substance abusers. Don’t worry, it doesn’t track sales or expose users. It helps scientists better understand how substance abusers feel and what terms they’re using to describe their experiences. The relationship between mental health and substance abuse is well-studied in clinical environments, but how users... Читать дальше...

TLDR: These 10 devices will keep your Apple MacBook, iPhone, or iPad running in tip-top shape, all at up to 40 percent off. No device is an island. At its most independent, most devices are more like a peninsula, appearing to be surrounded by water and out on their own, but actually, it stretches back to a solid motherland foundation of support and accessories. While Apple devices can happily plug away on their own for a while, eventually your device is going to need some helpful extras to live its very best Apple life. Читать дальше...