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It’s understandable that banks could see this as a threat — drawing away customers and even potentially rendering their services obsolete. But, instead of feeling threatened, some are taking a very different approach: if you can’t beat them, join them. Unlike the world of big tech, rather than simply acquiring them, banks like ABN Amro are looking to form mutually beneficial strategic partnerships with fintechs offering key services for their customers....

The beginning will be marked with the Electro-luxe SUV, the carmaker’s first all electric car. Bentley’s EV will employ the Volkswagen Group’s Artemis platform, led by Audi. “With Artemis we’re right in there at the beginning, helping define it. We’re not leading it, but we’re going to be a beneficiary of it, ” CEO Adrian Hallmark told CAR Magazine. The cooperation with Audi, he added, is a good opportunity for the brand to accelerate its transition to EVs....

Honest question: who cares? I love space as much as the next person. And I think it’s amazing that humans have managed to ascend beyond the clouds and into the very stars we’ve gazed upon from the moment our ancestors slithered out of the primordial ooze and began developing the iPhone. It was super cool when the first primate went to space in 1949 (RIP Albert II). And even cooler (no offense to chimps) when the first human did it in 1961....

Have you ever played with LEGO? If you want to build a house, for example, you have to start with a sturdy foundation. Once you have the foundation, it’s easy to add and change each element, like removing a wall and adding a door instead, or attaching an entirely new level to the top. I think you can see where I’m going with this. My work is in payroll management and the legal system surrounding it is complex – there are a lot of differences between each country, so one standardized product won’t do....

The game, which came out on Thursday, is drawing widespread criticism due to a seemingly never-ending stream of awkward bugs and glitches. The Warsaw-listed studio first announced the title eight years ago in 2012, and originally scheduled its release for last spring. However, devs pushed Cyberpunk 2077’s release back three times in the past year, citing difficulties with building the game for release across nine separate platforms. [Read: Meanwhile, esports and gaming stocks are pumping to record highs] The company reportedly spent $130 million on its development....

With phone images getting sharper each year, most of us got a pretty decent camera in our pockets. But photography is about millisecond precision and responsiveness, and most phone cameras aren’t. So if you’re looking to step up your photography game, you might want to consider upgrading to a real camera — and we’ve got the just the thing to get you started. There’s currently a sweet deal on a Nikon D7500 with a 18-140mm lens included....

One of the best things to come from the smartphone revolution is the camera. If you were around before this period (read: old), you’ll remember having to lug around a dedicated device to snap weird pictures. But, today, you’ve got a top quality camera with you everywhere you go. And one of the best camera systems around today is on the Google Pixel 3XL – a phone we love for this and a myriad of other reasons, too....

A report from South China Morning Post suggests the subway system in the southern city of Shenzhen has started using facial recognition technology to let folks over 60 years of age register themselves for free subway rides. Other cities such as Jinan, Shanghai, Qingdao, Nanjing, and Nanning are currently experimenting with this system. The technology in Shenzen has been deployed to 18 stations with 28 automatic gate machines and 60 self-service ticket processors....

It’s a fair question. History has been shown that tools designed to generate random numbers — both physical and virtual — can be prone to failure. In this sense, failure means producing numbers that can be guessed or otherwise influenced in order to produce a certain outcome. Addressing this problem is Cloudflare, the Internet titan best known for its DDoS protection software. It’s teamed up with five other organisations — predominantly universities and security companies — to create The League of Entropy....

Yet while there is no doubt that external communications are important, I found that the most successful companies were, in fact, the ones which dedicated just as much time, effort, and resources (if not more) to get their internal communications right. Because it’s all well and good projecting the right image to the outside world, but if your messaging is not consistent internally, in other words, if your mission is not clear to your own team, you have very little chance of it ringing true to those outside it....

That’s according to new research from security firm Check Point, which found coronavirus-themed domains are 50% more likely to spread malicious activity than other domains. [Read: CIA agents have been hacking China for 11 years, security firm claims] There have been over 4,000 coronavirus-themed domains registered since January. Out of those, 3% were flagged as malicious, and another 5% as suspicious — that’s 50% higher than the malicious rate of all other domains registered in the same period, including Valentine’s Day scams....

While action on COVID-19 has lowered CO₂ emissions drastically, with flights suspended and factories closed in many parts of the world, it has also shown how damaging a rapid response can be, compared to a steady and planned transition that could have been adopted to phase out emissions decades ago. The urgent question now is how to maintain the environmental benefits once the COVID-19 epidemic wanes, and how to learn from one crisis response in the pursuit of another....

Coventry is set to host what has been dubbed “the world’s smallest electric airport” for autonomous aerial mobility. The project – which was awarded £1.2 million (US $1.64 million) through the UK government’s Future Flight Challenge – is being developed by tech startup Urban-Air Port with support from Hyundai, and will test how electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, such as air taxis and autonomous delivery drones, can be incorporated into the city’s mobility infrastructure....

Of course, that relationship never gets started if you can’t come up with content that speaks to your audience. Be it a picture, an article or even a single line of copy to engage and start that dialogue, The Complete Content Marketing Master Class Course (normally $49, 77 percent off, from TNW Deals) is all about learning to create those breakthrough opportunities; and it’s on sale for only $11. In all, the course features over 50 lectures, laying out a roadmap for a content pipeline that will continually resonate with potential customers....

In order to highlight some of the specific issues that can develop, and what can be done about them, I asked a panel of 13 entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: When creating software for multiple platforms and OSes, what is one problem beginning developers may not know about? What should they do to avoid or overcome the issue? Their best answers are below: Cross-Platform Shareability Be aware that 100 percent code sharing across platforms is a fairly unreachable goal....

My unease was the echo of a feeling I’d had during the early days of my PhD, when some fellow malaria researchers made a discovery that was reported on the news. I was thrilled for them, but I understood the incremental nature of the work they were doing. I knew that in a real-world, drugs-in-the-clinic sense, we were no closer to a breakthrough than we’d been the day before. I thought the reporters had communicated that clearly....

The malware takes advantage of a common vulnerability and exploit that was first identified in April 2019 by researchers from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro. It attacks Oracle WebLogic Servers to install a Monero cryptocurrency mining bot. Reports of the malware first surfaced on the SANS ISC InfoSec Forums last week. Trend Micro researchers verified that the exploit has been used to crypto-jack insecure Oracle servers. In order to remain hidden, the malicious code is obscured in certificate files....

Since the early days of artificial intelligence, computer scientists have been dreaming of creating machines that can see and understand the world as we do. The efforts have led to the emergence of computer vision, a vast subfield of AI and computer science that deals with processing the content of visual data. In recent years, computer vision has taken great leaps thanks to advances in deep learning and artificial neural networks....

DeepMind, an Alphabet research company based in London, published a fascinating research paper last year wherein it claimed to have solved the huge challenge of “simulating matter on the quantum scale with AI.” Now, nearly eight months later, a group of academic researchers from Russia and South Korea may have uncovered a problem with the original research that places the paper’s entire conclusion in doubt. The implications for this cutting-edge research could be huge, if the paper’s conclusions are true....

The system achieved this feat using deep reinforcement learning, a machine learning technique that helps an AI improve its decisions by trying out different approaches and learning from its mistakes. DeepMind used the same technique to beat professional players of Chinese board game Go and video game Starcraft II. But this time, it managed to master every game in the Atari57 collection, which was created to test AI systems against a broad range of gameplay styles and strategies....