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I have a confession to make, I’m terrible at picking something to watch on Netflix. I’m getting better at using other tools to find something that tickles my taste buds, but I still fall into the old trap of watching whatever is suggested. Often, after five minutes, I realize that I’ve chosen to watch a steaming hot pile of visual garbage. The problem is that my Netflix account is now awash with suggestions based on all these shows that I only watch the opening scenes to....

Discord is home to many, many servers that have nothing to do with gaming. So if you’re not a gamer and are looking for a place where you can meet new friends and find people to talk to (something we could all use right now), here’s how to go about doing it. Discord makes no secret of the fact that it started out as a gamer’s voice chat app. Gaming iconography and memes have been baked into Discord since it launched....

Alice and Bob are holed up in a meeting room, participating in a relentless dance of back and forth, driven by the tone of individual wishes and desires. They both have a goal in mind and they’re motivated to reach it. The problem is that neither are willing to back down, nor do they know when to walk away. You might think it’s crazy that hostage negotiation techniques are worlds away from those used in business, but in actual fact, there’s plenty you can learn from those with experience in crisis negotiations....

What’s concerning is the implications these modifications can have for AI algorithms. Malicious actors can use this image-scaling technique as a launchpad for adversarial attacks against machine learning models, the artificial intelligence algorithms used in computer vision tasks such as facial recognition and object detection. Adversarial machine learning is a class of data manipulation techniques that cause changes in the behavior of AI algorithms while going unnoticed to humans. In a paper presented at this year’s Usenix Security Symposium, the TU Braunschweig researchers provide an in-depth review of staging and preventing adversarial image-scaling attacks against machine learning systems....

I decided to investigate. Notably, there’s no online booking system. Instead, you have to make a reservation via email or telephone. It’s one of several hints that the venture isn’t currently focused on revenue generation. Another is the pricing. It’s more expensive than the £0 I usually pay for a cut (shout out London School of Barbering), but the fees are pretty reasonable for an upmarket salon in east London....

But the release of the M1 did more than get public attention, it also shook up the whole computing industry. The chip helped Apple’s Macbooks deliver incredible performance and battery life — outstripping its competitors along the way. That latter point may not be true any longer, because Intel just announced its new 12th-generation Core mobile processor range, one of which it claims to be the fastest example of this technology ever....

Powered by IBM’s AI, the ship was designed and built by non-profit maritime research organization Promare. Its purpose is to boldly go where no robot has gone before, and collect oodles of data from our oceans. Up front: IBM isn’t exactly in the autonomous boating business. We’re probably not going to see Big Blue selling robo-yachts anytime soon. Instead, IBM’s involvement is more about showcasing the robust nature of its machine learning tools....

For those looking to turn their video game ideas into an actual playable game, there may be no more important question to answer than if you’re an Unreal type or a Unity user. The two most powerful game creation engines on the planet, both Unity and Unreal have been responsible for helping launch scores of great games. And while either could be the platform to bring your specific game to life, each as their own distinct strengths and weaknesses....

For decades, snoring has been played for laughs. From Popeye to Fred Flintstone, a sleeper loudly sawing logs has been a comedy staple for film, TV, cartoons, and beyond forever. But the reality is that snoring isn’t really all that funny. Just ask anyone who snores — or those that try to live with them. Medically speaking, snoring is usually a sign of a type of sleep apnea, a form of abnormal breathing during sleep that can actually be deadly....

Developers don’t often have the luxury of time. They not only need to deploy their work fast, they need to be constantly updating and refining that work even after it’s been set forth into the world. Cloud native tools have made it easier and quicker for developers to run those apps in virtually any environment using concepts like containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and more. That refinement of cloud-based development led directly to the creation of GitOps, a process for building, testing, and releasing apps with greater speed and reliability all though the use of Git, one of the most popular systems anywhere for tracking software development changes during creation....

The move comes as part of a national push to promote electric vehicles and reduce fossil fuel dependency. As India isn’t a large oil producing country per capita — most of its fossil fuel is imported — switching to electric vehicles could save it a sizeable sum. A proposal drafted by a federal think tank chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, estimates the nation could save as much as $40 billion over the next 10 years if EVs are used widely....

The feature — dubbed “Emails from Instagram” — is accessible via the app settings, and allows you to check all the legitimate emails Instagram has sent over the last 14 days. The new feature can be found at Settings > Security > Emails From Instagram. So, if you’ve received an email claiming to be from Instagram asking you to reset your password, you can simply fire up the app and check if it’s in the list of security-related emails....

Hours later, mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted a screenshot of how that feature might look on the Instagram interface. The UI looks simple to use: when you’re doing forming your story, hit the exit button, and the app will ask you to save it as a draft. When you’re posting a new story, you will see a “Drafts” button on the bottom-left corner from where you can access your previously saved stories....

Organizers of AI conferences face the mounting challenge of having many more submissions than they have space for. As a result, a small percentage of submitted papers make it to mainstream AI conferences. The question is, are AI conferences choosing the best research for presentation? A new paper published on OpenReview and submitted to ICLR 2021 investigates the quality of the AI conference review process. Titled “An Open Review of OpenReview,” the document reveals some of the flaws of the review process for machine learning conferences, including inconsistent scoring, institutional bias, and lower acceptance rates for female researchers....

The announcement sent traders flocking to Intel’s rivals. Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker by market cap, grew by $33.8 billion on Friday, while AMD added $11.5 billion. According to Bloomberg, TSMC’s 10% rally sent its stock to its highest point since 1990, ranking it the 12th most valuable stock in the world, tech or otherwise. TSMC produces chipsets for AMD, among others. Remarkably, AMD’s stock surge mirrored Intel’s losses; $AMD closed the day up 16%, $INTC down 16%....

There was an issue I bumped into quite quickly though — it’s tough as hell to find something you watched earlier. There have been plenty of times where I scrolled past a video that somehow lodged in my brain, but, when I tried to find it again, I was lost. It was gone. Thankfully, it appears the solution to this problem may be close at hand: — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) March 26, 2022 Shared by social media consultant and ex-TNW’er Matt Navvarra (who was retweeting Hammond Oh), it appears TikTok is working on a feature that will allow users to look through their previously watched videos....

Then a less familiar selling point: This framing of human input as a kind of quality standard isn’t new — in this case, the online article was posted in 2017 — but it is becoming increasingly prevalent. The company magazine website explains further, “Babbel’s lessons aren’t the result of an algorithm or computer program; they’re designed by real humans. Babbel’s Didactics Team, made up of more than 100 linguists and language experts, puts a lot of time and care into creating lessons that will actually work for you....

Kurt Cobain got his first guitar as a 14th birthday present from an uncle, then took a month of guitar lessons to figure it all out. Jimi Hendrix was 15 when his dad bought him an acoustic guitar for $5, which the instantly smitten kid learned to play by ear. Learning to play guitar isn’t just a pursuit. It’s a passion. Now, rather than waiting for a gift or a cheap throwaway or having to build one yourself, anyone can chase their guitar god dreams without even needing to own a real guitar....

You will discover that the ratios of the circumference to the diameter in both cases are remarkably close to each other. If you decide to experiment with other circular shapes, you will find that no matter how large or small the objects are, as long as they are round, the ratios will all be very close to 3.14. You just stumbled upon a universal law of circular objects. The Greek letter pi (π) was introduced in 1706 to denote that constant ratio between the circumference of a circle to its diameter....

The timing of the transition is interesting — that is to say, when you take into account the quickly-shifting political climate as the US moves from the Trump-era of Twitter beef between the POTUS and the richest man in the world to the more traditional presidency of Joe Biden.