Новости за 20.08.2021

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 own gaming business for a cool $140 million. The Crank Dat songwriter said Atari was “real proud” of his work with the SouljaGame consoles: I just signed two deals with Atari. I’m the owner. The first rapper to ever own a video game company. It looked like a match made in heaven. A struggling gaming... Читать дальше...

Let’s just dive right in. Tesla held its much-ballyhooed “AI Day” yesterday which, as Shift’s Cate Lawrence pointed out earlier, was little more than a job fair. There were, however, a couple of interesting reveals. The good news was the company’s new AI chips. According to the supposed specifications and obligatory hyperbole, Tesla’s AI chips will be the world’s most powerful. It’s at least plausible that the AI team at Tesla could pull off such a feat. The race to develop a better AI chip – currently dominated by Intel... Читать дальше...

Facebook’s “special announcement” of a new VR meeting app was curiously timed. It arrived on the same day that the Federal Trade Commission made a fresh attempt to force the company to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC filed an antitrust complaint on Thursday that alleges Facebook used an illegal buy-or-bury scheme to maintain its market dominance. The US competition regulator argues that Facebook repeatedly failed to develop meaningful innovations on its mobile app. Instead, it acquired competitors... Читать дальше...

Smartphones always seem to run out of juice at the worst time. Luckily though, there’s an easy fix: use an age-old body modification scarring ritual to sear a permanent information conduit into your soft skin. Or at least that’s what one young Italian dude seems to believe. Earlier this week, tattoo artist Gabriele Pellerone tattooed a QR code of the client’s official EU covid certificate on their upper arm, Il Reggino reports. Unfortunately, the original story doesn’t share the name of the brave pioneer who got the tattoo ... Читать дальше...

TLDR: The Piano, Guitar, and Ukulele for Beginners Software Bundle can help even first time players pick up and master three instruments through insightful video lessons led by experts. Imagine walking out on stage and sliding behind a piano to start playing your favorite song to an enthusiastic crowd. When the song reaches your first chorus, you get active, moving out from behind the piano to grab a guitar and take the performance to the next level. Then, when you want to go intimate and a bit more whimsical... Читать дальше...

Running your own small business means the responsibility of taking care of the finances usually falls on you. That can be a time-consuming venture unless you learn bookkeeping skills with a trusted program like QuickBooks. Now you can get lifetime access to the program with a QuickBooks Self-Employed Bookkeeping Training Bundle. You’ll get five different classes and 30 hours of instruction to help you get comfortable with you company’s finances. Whether it’s tracking revenue and expenses, forecasting taxes or any other financial question... Читать дальше...

Remember that time when you wanted to share a tweet with two people and accidentally created a group? Yep. To share a tweet with two people, you had to share with one of them first, and repeat the process again. It was annoying. Thankfully, the social network is fixing it with a new DM feature. The firm said last night that it’s rolling out a new feature to its iOS and Android app that lets you send a tweet to up to 20 conversations separately. No more (awkward) accidental group chats when you DM a Tweet to multiple people. Читать дальше...

Over the past year, we’ve seen how dramatically misinformation can impact the lives of people, communities and entire countries. In a bid to better understand how misinformation spreads online, Twitter has started an experimental trial in Australia, the United States and South Korea, allowing users to flag content they deem misleading. Users in these countries can now flag tweets as misinformation through the same process by which other harmful content is reported. When reporting a post there is an option to choose “it’s misleading” ... Читать дальше...

On Thursday Tesla held Tesla AI day. If you were looking for a great big product showcase by the automaker, you’d be left disappointed. Beyond anything else, it was a job fair.  Remember those days where you turn up to some event, put on a nametag, and talk to people sitting at tables about why you should work for their company? Well, Tesla did just this following a bunch of presentations.  Elon Musk admitted last month on Twitter: “Convincing the best AI talent to join Tesla is the sole goal.” Convincing... Читать дальше...

Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these digits were printed out they would fill every book in the British Library ten times over. The researchers’ feat of arithmetic took 108 days and 9 hours to complete, and dwarfs the previous record of 50 trillion figures set in January 2020. But why do we care? The mathematical constant pi (π)... Читать дальше...

One of the hottest trends in the startup ecosystem is product-led growth (PLG). The PLG approach to introducing a solution to the market is focused on the end-user. Initially, many B2B founders viewed PLG as more of a go-to-market motion where providing a freemium offering would enable a company to be product-led. However, this is not enough. End-users aren’t simply the people who use the product and decide whether to recommend it to the organization. They often hold the position of ‘buyer’ as getting... Читать дальше...

Elon Musk has done it again! The “Technoking” of Tesla has announced another product that billionaires fantasize about: humanoids. At the company‘s AI day, he revealed that the car-making firm is making a prototype humanoid, and it’ll be called Tesla Bot — the internal codename of the bot will be Optimus. Shocking.  Musk claimed that Tesla is “arguably the biggest robotics company” because its cars are “semi-sentient robots on wheels.” Weird flex, but okay. Credit: TeslaBasic specifications of a... Читать дальше...

A team of scientists in Beijing have discovered novel inferences concerning the learned fear response in humans. Relax, this is a good thing. Learned fear is a condition that scientists don’t know a whole lot about. The human brain is mysterious and the fear response is believed to occur in parts of if that are incredibly difficult to scan with non-invasive measuring devices. Up front: You can’t just slap an EEG helmet on someone’s head and measure their brainwaves to determine how they respond to fear. Читать дальше...

As with Tumblr, I’ve never really used OnlyFans. But you don’t have to be on the platforms to recognize the obvious: in both cases, banning porn is a dumb idea. OnlyFans today announced (via Bloomberg) that it will bar creators from posting sexually explicit content starting in October. While some nude photos and videos will still be allowed, the move comes off as misguided at best and an affront to the sex workers who were crucial to building the platform at worst. Whether or not you use the app, OnlyFans is synonymous with porn. Читать дальше...