Over the past 10-20 years, and particularly in recent years, the computer vision research community has produced an abundance of frameworks capable of taking a single image and using it to perform 'deepfake puppetry' – the use of the facial and body movements…

Contrary to his original intentions, cryptocurrencies and DeFi platforms are now more vulnerable to privacy breaches and hacking than…

Live counter of Uber's net losses. $30B and counting.

New research provides evidence that narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism -- maladaptive personality traits known as the "Dark Triad" -- are ...

Kanye West was recently locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts for making antisemitic comments. Parler says the acquisition will help create an “uncancelable ecosystem.”

Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …

American Airlines is using sophisticated ‘bot detection’ software to stop the developer of an iPhone app that has become popular amongst the airline’s flight attendants from accessing vital data that is needed to keep the app working. The ‘Sequence Decoder’…

Two of the largest U.S. supermarket chains hope to join forces as inflation pushes food prices higher and as Amazon and Walmart become more powerful.

The games are a bonanza for the companies that states hire to administer them. But what about the rest of us?

US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented

This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to include conscious and unconscious decisions that…

Scientists found that the fish’s unusual broad-mouthed display is reserved only for fighting with other members of its species.

This wicked little electric beast looks like a ton of fun to drive, but it's even more impressive than it looks. The Blackbird is a visual effects stand-in for car commercials and filmmaking. Its width, wheelbase, suspension action and engine response can…

An 85-minute block interval left more than 13,000 transactions stuck in a pending state on Monday.

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