It's a hardware accelerator for neural networks. It doesn't do anything on its own, but with software support it could enable non-cloud based consumer AI products running directly on your machine.
This is not the first attempt at Bluetooth mesh networking, I'm curious if they managed to solve the problems that made scatternets unviable. They need to get their tech a LOT better, because they may have a niche in point to point communication, but once they move into networking they will have to compete with ad hoc wifi, which already works pretty well.
He is not the first one to suggest using solar powers closer to the equator to power the northern hemisphere. The problem is that once you generated that power, you need some way transport it to where it's needed. There are some more detailed concepts based on HVDC, but that's still fairly new and unproven tech.
This might sound bad at first, but the username, full name and date of birth of most Myspace users only appear in a place where nobody sees them: on their Myspace page.
The first big problem with Ada is that its developers looked at the Pascal syntax and decided it would be a good challenge to make it even worse. In Ada variable, a pointer dereference (of any level) and a nullary function call look exactly the same. The second problem is that key language features have never been standardised. Some compilers support garbage collection, while in others you have to manage memory allocation by hand, which can easily leave you wondering why your code have suddenly started leaking memory after you switched compilers. Ada is not safer than C, it's just bad in different ways. The only people who like it are the language flagellants who believe the suffering will automatically lead to better code.
This is an old trick: sell goods/services below their cost until you drive out competition. You have to swallow some massive losses at first, but in the end you'll secure yourself a monopoly.
Except that most of the time manufacturers actually go out of their way to make products less repairable. They don't use weird screws because they're cheaper, but to fuck with costumers. If everybody was using the same set of standardized parts, that would simplify both design and manufacturing, while mass production of said parts would push their cost down. This is exactly a case where regulation can be useful for breaking the prisoner's dilemma scenario and helping everybody. PCs didn't become unaffordably expensive just because they are built out of interchangeable parts, quite the opposite.
They were trying to avoid their IP being associated with gambling. Now I'm not a fan of absurdly long copyright terms, but even less a fan of using children's books to get kids into gambling.
This sounds more like a skiddie modifying the source without understanding it and screwing up than a targeted attack. The code only damages the MFT, which is annoying but most of the time reversible. A nation state level attacker would've been much more thorough.
Actually, the number of Facebook users is not limited to the number of people with internet access, because Facebook is building its own network in third world countries that only has Facebook on it.
The aim of the test was to verify/dispel Microsoft's claims that browsing on Edge will make your battery last longer. Edge doesn't have an Android version, and the market share of Windows Phones is too small to be relevant.
Climate/weather control has always been a controversial field. Mostly because meteorology is one of the last frontiers of physics, a problem that's still as unpredictable as ever. And when you can't predict what the result should've been without intervention, it's hard to tell whether you made any difference. The Chinese have been experimenting with weather control for decades, and we're no smarter than before. Now climate control would take these methods that we can't even use in a reliable way locally, and take it to a planetary scale. Sure local tests might prove the methods that can get the materials in the athmosphere, but the actual effect of the method can only be seen after global deployment. Which means you need to commit to this idea completely blind, basically experimenting with the entire planet.
After the shitstorm VW got, it should've been obvious to other companies that this sort of BS really doesn't pay in the long run. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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It's a hardware accelerator for neural networks. It doesn't do anything on its own, but with software support it could enable non-cloud based consumer AI products running directly on your machine.
This is not the first attempt at Bluetooth mesh networking, I'm curious if they managed to solve the problems that made scatternets unviable. They need to get their tech a LOT better, because they may have a niche in point to point communication, but once they move into networking they will have to compete with ad hoc wifi, which already works pretty well.
He is not the first one to suggest using solar powers closer to the equator to power the northern hemisphere. The problem is that once you generated that power, you need some way transport it to where it's needed. There are some more detailed concepts based on HVDC, but that's still fairly new and unproven tech.
This might sound bad at first, but the username, full name and date of birth of most Myspace users only appear in a place where nobody sees them: on their Myspace page.
The first big problem with Ada is that its developers looked at the Pascal syntax and decided it would be a good challenge to make it even worse. In Ada variable, a pointer dereference (of any level) and a nullary function call look exactly the same. The second problem is that key language features have never been standardised. Some compilers support garbage collection, while in others you have to manage memory allocation by hand, which can easily leave you wondering why your code have suddenly started leaking memory after you switched compilers. Ada is not safer than C, it's just bad in different ways. The only people who like it are the language flagellants who believe the suffering will automatically lead to better code.
This is an old trick: sell goods/services below their cost until you drive out competition. You have to swallow some massive losses at first, but in the end you'll secure yourself a monopoly.
This is just an old fashioned pirate radio.
Compressed http will help you a lot more in terms of size than "minification" ever can.
Someone willing to sell bugs to criminals if they pay better is greyhat at best.
Except that most of the time manufacturers actually go out of their way to make products less repairable. They don't use weird screws because they're cheaper, but to fuck with costumers. If everybody was using the same set of standardized parts, that would simplify both design and manufacturing, while mass production of said parts would push their cost down. This is exactly a case where regulation can be useful for breaking the prisoner's dilemma scenario and helping everybody. PCs didn't become unaffordably expensive just because they are built out of interchangeable parts, quite the opposite.
True, but OP was talking about automated algorithms. Wouldn't have been the first time that stop loss orders cascaded into a flash crash.
The link is on the front page, I'm pretty sure it took less time to find than for you to type all that drivel.
They were trying to avoid their IP being associated with gambling. Now I'm not a fan of absurdly long copyright terms, but even less a fan of using children's books to get kids into gambling.
You do realise that Russia is already under economic sanctions by the US and EU. It hurts them, but doesn't cripple them.
You occupy the same amount of space lying down, but it's a lot more comfortable. I'd actually like to travel on a plane that has bunkbeds on it.
This sounds more like a skiddie modifying the source without understanding it and screwing up than a targeted attack. The code only damages the MFT, which is annoying but most of the time reversible. A nation state level attacker would've been much more thorough.
That's true, but the ones objecting to mayonnaise are not going to be of the pragmatic sort.
As far as I know this specific virus only encrypts the MFT.
Actually, the number of Facebook users is not limited to the number of people with internet access, because Facebook is building its own network in third world countries that only has Facebook on it.
The aim of the test was to verify/dispel Microsoft's claims that browsing on Edge will make your battery last longer. Edge doesn't have an Android version, and the market share of Windows Phones is too small to be relevant.
Because then the criminals would just move to a different area.
Climate/weather control has always been a controversial field. Mostly because meteorology is one of the last frontiers of physics, a problem that's still as unpredictable as ever. And when you can't predict what the result should've been without intervention, it's hard to tell whether you made any difference. The Chinese have been experimenting with weather control for decades, and we're no smarter than before. Now climate control would take these methods that we can't even use in a reliable way locally, and take it to a planetary scale. Sure local tests might prove the methods that can get the materials in the athmosphere, but the actual effect of the method can only be seen after global deployment. Which means you need to commit to this idea completely blind, basically experimenting with the entire planet.
So they managed to create a network requiring no persistent connections? They should claim their 2 mil prize!
They should be standard procedure by every authority dealing with security sensitive systems.
After the shitstorm VW got, it should've been obvious to other companies that this sort of BS really doesn't pay in the long run. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.