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“The thing that really attracted me to Formula 1 is that it’s always been about data and technology,” says Graeme Hackland, Williams Group IT director and chief information officer of Williams Racing.
Since joining the motorsport racing team in 2014, Hackland has been putting that theory into practice. He is pursuing…
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While many utilities acknowledge the transformational power of data, leveraging it can be another story. You could have millions of data points on everything from the condition of utility poles to…
In this week’s top stories: Apple officially unveils the new Beats Studio Buds, more iOS 15 tidbits emerge, Apple Watch Series 7 rumors, and more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories and more.
Beats Studio Buds
After several weeks of rumors, the Beats Studio…
Google’s staple advertising format is having people enter queries into the iconic Search homepage. The latest Google Search ad is timed for Father’s Day and tells the story of communication.
The opening search is “Why won’t my teenager talk to me” with a dad proceeding to text (or chat in Google Messages) their son only to get no response. They then look up a YouTube video and create a…
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It is possible for artificial intelligence to create a video game. Contrary to popular opinion and hopes for humanity, an AI came up with the basic design for a video game called Candy Shop…
Australia’s New South Wales puts neighboring Victoria to shame with huge new EV incentive package
June 20, 2021
New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state and home to Sydney, has announced a massive new EV policy package with $500 million worth of tax exemptions, rebates, and new spending on chargers, along with traffic-avoidance perks.
In contrast, earlier this year…
Here’s a funny bug: a security researcher has found that a carefully crafted network name causes a bug in the networking stack of iOS and can completely disable your iPhone’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi.
On Twitter, Carl Schou showed that after joining a Wi-Fi network with a specific name (“%p%s%s%s%s%n”), all Wi-Fi functionality on the iPhone was disabled from that point on.
Once an…
Massachusetts ‘MassNotify’ Android app auto-installed for some, but COVID exposure alerts were not enabled
June 20, 2021
According to many user reports over the past day, MassNotify — the Massachusetts exposure notifications app — was automatically installed on Android phones without warning. It’s not clear if this was an intentional decision or a bug, but exposure notifications did…
How to build a unicorn AI team without unicorns
June 19, 2021
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How do you start assembling an AI team? Well, hire unicorns who can understand the business problem, can translate it into the “right” AI building blocks, and can deliver on the implementation and…
Located east of the Horn of Africa, Socotra was famously described by English anthropologist George Wynn Brereton Huntingford in 1980 as “the most alien-looking place on Earth.” Photographer Daniel Kordan visited the island and captured the otherworldly beauty of the landscapes, from the dragon blood trees to the white sand dunes.
Socotra is the largest of the remote Socotra islands in the…
