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The lawsuit, which Apple filed in a California court, alleges that Gerard Williams III breached an intellectual property agreement that prohibited him from doing anything to compete with the company. Williams, formerly the top architect of Apple’s mobile chips, started Nuvia in February, which manufactures chips for data centers. It sounds like a dry case, but the juicy picture the two parties are painting makes me want to grab some popcorn and watch....

He’s accused of lying about “nearly all aspects of the business” to increase stock sales of the electric vehicle startup, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. Specifically, prosecutors charged him with two counts of securities fraud, including making false statements about the electric truck company, and wire fraud. In a separate complaint filed the same day, the Securities and Exchange Commission commented the following: “Trevor Milton is innocent,” his lawyers said in a statement....

Well, hell, I’d say: sign me up! Give me 10 Freedom phones and a side of making shit great again. First though, let’s take a look at what we’re getting into. I love Freedom© as much as the next person but I’m also a technology journalist. And that means I can tell you how awesome this is! Behold the the badass Freedom phone! Specs: CPU: Connects directly to James Woods’ brain via the cloud Screen: 4K is for liberals and nerds OS: Whatever the cheapest Android clone we could smash together was RAM: No thanks, I prefer Ford trucks....

The whole debate has brought the Adobe-haters out of the woodwork. If you were not a developer before the iPad, Flash was just somethign that you used. Now for everyone it is something much, much more. In the spirit of the debate, a comical blog called “ADOBE UI GRIPES” is tracking the most annoying bits of Adobe’s software. What have they found? 33 pages of things, it turns out. Posted below are three of our favorites, be sure to check out their blog for more....

It isn’t Ghost Recon’s first foray into open world territory; 2017’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands was Ubisoft’s previous attempt to apply this format to the tactical shooter series. Unfortunately I’ve never played it, I was led to believe Wildlands was best enjoyed in co-op with a couple of friends, and my little gaming crew never got around to it. This time around, I convinced the boys to start playing Breakpoint with me....

Over the coming months, the Mircosoft-owned company ll build teams across the community, engineering, sales, support, marketing, and services to enable developers to adopt best DevOps practices. In a blog post, Erica Brescia, COO of GitHub said that with of growing number of public repositories in India, the company aims to support open-source development by creating a local team: GitHub already has existing enterprise customers in the country including food delivery service Swiggy and pharma cloud solutions company ArisGlobal....

Yesterday, Google’s AI team released a new model that’s more scalable — meaning it can be applied to translate phrases in other languages. This new rollout brings support for gender-specific translations from English to Spanish and from Finnish, Hungarian, and Persian to English. In a blog post, the company explained when it applied the old approach of translating Turkish-to-English to other languages, it found errors in end results. The team said while using a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) the system failed to show gender-specific translations for more than 40% of queries, as two translations were not comparative except for gender-related phenomena....

Where ads used to be highlighted in green at the top of search results, the change made it so they were only differentiated by a little “Ad” icon. It’s easy to confuse an ad for something else when skimming through search results – which one has to assume was the goal. As noted by Alex Hern of the Guardian, SearchEngineLand has a great synopsis of the changes Google has implemented over years....

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, you can adjust your preferences in Settings to show the fastest route as default (just know Mother Earth will be disappointed)....

The “Cinematics photos” will be added to the service’s Memories collection of your old images and videos. “Cinematic photos help you relive your memories in a way that feels more vivid and realistic — so you feel like you’re transported back to that moment,” Google Photos product manager Jamie Aspinall wrote in a Tuesday blog post. The feature uses machine learning to predict an image’s depth and create a 3D representation of the scene....

Once it becomes available to all Android users (Google expects the process will “take several days”), developers will be able to download the SDK using the Android SDK manager and get started with the new APIs. The biggest addition they’ll likely want to play with is in the Google Maps Android API: Street View support. Developers can embed Street View imagery into an activity, letting their users explore the world through panoramic 360-degree views....

Earlier this year, the security firm Check Point Research, found that an app named FlixOnline was assuming the look of Netflix, and promising two months of free subscription through WhatsApp messages. However, a link attached to these messages would redirect you to a site to just capture your details, including your credit card. Here’s how the malware worked. Once you installed the FlixOnline app from the Play Store, it asked for mainly three types of permissions: screen overlay, battery optimization ignore, and notification....

In other words, they’re teaching AI how to ‘hear’ and ‘see’ at the same time. Up front: You’ve probably heard about transformer AI systems such as GPT-3. At their core, they process and categorize data from a specific kind of media stream. Under the current SOTA paradigm, if you wanted to parse the data from a video you’d need several AI models running concurrently. You’d need a model that’s been trained on videos and another model that’s been trained on audio clips....

Researchers from Stanford and McMaster universities probed the neural network on tasks including prompt completion, analogical reasoning, and story generation. They discovered that a Muslim-violence bias appears consistently — and creatively — in various uses of the model: [Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data] The investigation used OpenAI’s programmatic API for the model and GPT-3 Playground, which allow users to enter a prompt that generates subsequent words....

If companies had faces, the months of lockdown would show a decade’s worth of age. Not only has the pandemic completely upended how we work; it’s forced us to re-examine our roles as employers and employees, our goals, our values, and how we merge work and home life. But as they say, with age (and wrinkles) comes wisdom. We’ve written at length about how businesses have responded to the global crisis....

You’ve got to be smart about this Black Friday thing. If you wait too long, all the best deals are gone and you spend the rest of December looking for a similar bargain. Or even worse, you can’t find one and pay full price because…well, you’ve got a ticking clock. You can take the stress out of holiday shopping by just picking up a bunch of great offers right now at Black Friday prices....

In animals, the central clock that keeps track of night and day is in the brain where it receives light from the retina to keep synchronized with the light or dark. But all cells in the body have their own clocks. Because these biological clocks have a cycle that is close to 24 hours they are termed circadian (“circa” meaning “about” and dian, meaning day, from the Latin “dies”.) We now live with cheap, bright, artificial light, shift-work, sleep-deprivation, and jet-lag – all major challenges to the ancient circadian control mechanisms in our bodies....

We will touch briefly on the lithium issue, but focus mainly on the carbon footprint of electric cars. The increasing use of lithium-ion batteries as a major power source in electronic devices, including mobile phones, laptops, and electric cars has contributed to a 58% increase in lithium mining in the past decade worldwide. There seems little near-term risk of lithium being mined out, but there is an environmental downside. The mining process requires extensive amounts of water, which can cause aquifer depletion and adversely affect ecosystems in the Atacama Salt Flat, in Chile, the world’s largest lithium extraction site....

Fiona Clement, a health-policy researcher at the University of Calgary’s Cummings School of Medicine, led the group in its study of studies on the subject of human cannabis consumption. Their job wasn’t to determine whether the studies were right, wrong, or conducted properly, it was to get the data from the papers and present it to the government as aggregated findings. A recent Nature article written by Emily Sohn breaks down the team’s findings as follows: That’s pretty scary stuff, but Canada ended up legalizing cannabis for adult recreational use anyway....

This speaks to one of the eternal questions for managers in deciding who to hire: do you choose the candidate who has objectively higher ability or the one whose values are more in common with your own? While some would unambiguously select the higher ability candidate, others like Zuckerberg might weigh differences in candidates’ abilities against the extent to which they share the values of the employer. Some would go further and hire family or friends....