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The social network today revealed its latest method of finding the fakes: a new machine learning model it calls Deep Entity Classification (DEC). Facebook says the system has already detected hundreds of millions of violating accounts. DEC was designed to overcome the limitations of traditional methods of detecting fake accounts, which typically focus on the user profile. This can work pretty well when an account displays highly suspicious behavior, like posting hundreds of pictures of Rayban sunglasses....

The service reached this landmark through a two-step process. Firstly, staff worked with Google’s data operations team to manually trace common building outlines. They then trained machine learning models to recognize the edges and shapes of buildings. Another recent deployment of machine learning enabled Maps to recognize handwritten building numbers that were so unclear that even a passerby in a car couldn’t see them. “This is especially important when mapping areas where formal street signs and house numbers are uncommon,” Jen Fitzpatrick, senior vice president at Google Maps, explained in a blog post....

Currency markets have been particularly affected by the outbreak, with significant volatility seen in all major currencies. The pound, for example, dropped to thirty-five year lows against the US dollar in March, while the Aussie dollar and other commodity currencies have had a tough time due to close economic ties with China. As some markets begin to ease lockdown measures, certain currencies are starting to lurch back upwards. Things are changing rapidly, and just the slightest change in sentiment is having dramatic effects on the value of currency....

The user starts by entering a search query to find a background image, like “apple pie”. The system then checks for matching images in Wikimedia Commons and the OpenImages dataset. Both datasets have corresponding text descriptions of the images. I use the CLIP encoders from OpenAI to first perform a semantic search on the text descriptions. A semantic search looks for matching concepts, not just a word search. I then perform a semantic search on the images....

Last week we showed you how to see what kinds of ads Instagram was likely to serve you, based on data it gathered about your browsing preferences. Now it’s time to show you how it’s adoptive parent, Facebook, thinks of you. There’s one important difference between the two: you can actually adjust Facebook’s ad preferences. To see the list of topics Facebook thinks interest you, go to your settings. The exact listing is slightly different depending on your platform....

Pride Month is almost over, but that’s no reason to stick to non-rainbow-infused games for the next eleven months. Yes, LGTBQ-friendly games exist — there are dozens of them on the Steam store, provided you know how to look for them. Steam is often like a hybrid between a shopping mall and a battlefield. There are so many games being released onto the platform — AAA, indie, and everything in between — that finding what you’re looking for can be a matter of clawing your way through an army of irrelevant options....

List making and note taking have been digitized to help us keep track of shopping lists, to-do lists, and quick notes. But what if your ideas are more complicated than that? What if, like me, your mind is chaotic and messy, and needs more of a helping hand when formulating ideas? Then maybe, a mind map is what you need! And yes, those too can be done on smartphones and laptops thanks to a range of apps now available....

A few years earlier, he’d taken part in a security training event at Google. During an exercise at the event, he discovered a vulnerability that was wide open on his service. His heart started pounding as he raced to patch it. That pulse racing experience changed the way he thought about software. He wanted all of our developers to experience it. We looked at every training imaginable, from online courses to flying the entire department to a security conference as an offsite....

When I’m cooking, I often put something on the boil and forget it till I smell burning. That’s not an ideal situation. So, I set up short-timers on my iPhone or Apple Watch to save my food from burning the house down. These timers can also be useful for quick power naps or high-intensity workouts. It just takes a few seconds to set up a timer on both devices. Here’s how you can do it:...

One of the most important skills any discerning media consumer can have is the ability to comprehend a scientific research paper. Reading a paper won’t imbue you with the ability to understand all the science behind it, but it could help you debunk BS when you see it on the news or social media. There are numerous types of research papers, but we’ll just focus on primary research papers – the kind you’re most likely to encounter worth reading....

The Chinese manufacturer’s latest offering has a 6.53-inch full HD+ flex OLED ‘horizon’ display with curves at an 88-degrees angle. The device is powered by the company’s own Kirin 990 5G chipset launched earlier this month at IFA Berlin. Huawei has ditched the volume button. Instead, it uses invisible virtual keys on either side of the device to adjust the volume. Vivo’s new Nex 3 has also ditched physical volume buttons in favor of virtual buttons....

The gameplay looks about typical for Dynasty Warriors — or its predecessor, Hyrule Warriors. We’ll have multiple playable characters, including Link, Zelda, Mipha, Daruk, Urbosa, and Revali. Multiple enemy types show up, including the Guardians and Lynels. There’s not much gameplay footage to be had, but what there is is pretty great. I didn’t know I needed to see Mipha shishkebab a Guardian with her trident, but I’m so glad I have now....

GPT-3 can’t talk to dead people. It’s a bit ridiculous that I have to say that, but just in case you’re not entirely sure what the world’s most powerful AI-powered text generator can and can’t do, I thought I might prepare a handy guide to help you out. What GPT-3 can do: spit out meaningless text that often appears to have meaning by association, function as a pretty nifty calculator, write code (the last one is pretty cool)....

My Spotify playlists have become even more important to me now that I’m basically at home all the time — I’ve scored almost all aspects of my life just to make up for the fact that I’m seeing the same four or five rooms most days. And because a substantial amount of the population are now in the same boat as I am — sheltering in place, working from home — I imagine we’ll all be listening to more tunes....

The app was first launched at Wimbledon last year. As far as AR in sports it’s not quite as good as the Topps AR trading cards, but still, it’s a good start. You can check out a video of the the IBM app in action here.

But as I was leafing through the pages of famed luxury lifestyle magazine the Robb Report, doing my best to escape the reality of lockdown life, I stumbled across something that seemed at odds with norms of luxurious excess: a solar-powered yacht. Owning a yacht is peak rich-person lifestyle, I assume. I wouldn’t know, I don’t own one. But when the hoi polloi of the world come together to clink champagne glasses and wag chins there are often lots of very big, privately owned, and privately staffed boats nearby....

In the project management field, certification is important — and also a lot more complicated than you might think. And we don’t mean the testing itself. With so many schools of thought and practice around how to set up, run and oversee a successful project, it’s difficult for both young and old pros alike to know which one should be followed in any given situation. Each methodology has its own strengths and weaknesses....

The NeuroNation app provides customized, scientifically designed exercises that can strengthen your brain functions in multiple different ways. They can improve your memory and concentration, as well as increase your attention span, speed of thought and even your reaction time. You need just 15 minutes a day of training to begin adding momentum to your brain processes. NeuroNation was developed in cooperation with scientists. It is based on the research for the treatment of cognitive impairments that came out of the Free University of Berlin BRAIN project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research....

Sivan mentioned that India doesn’t plan to carry out research experiments from the Internation Space Station (ISS), and wants to build its own facility. He added that it’ll be a hub for microgravity research. The ISRO chief stressed upon the fact that the station’s not going to be too big: Engineers at the agency have also been quietly working on a space docking experiment (Spadex) for three years that allows astronauts to transfer from one spacecraft to another....

On January 5, a bunch of masked attackers entered the New Delhi-based university and attacked students with rods and destroyed property. The single person bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi asked for data of two particular groups: Unity Against Left and Friends of RSS. Screenshots of these groups — allegedly involved in organizing the attacks — started surfacing hours after the incident. According to Live Law, Google agreed to handover basic subscriber information and data stored on Google Drive....