Apple just sent the strongest hint yet that it’s working on a self-driving car

Apple just sent the strongest hint yet that it’s working on a self-driving car

Monday, December 5, 2016 /

Apple, which has been infuriatingly secretive about it’s efforts to build a self-driving car, has sent the strongest hint yet about its so-called Project Titan. In a letter submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the tech giant states that it is “investing heavily in the study of machine learning and automation, and is excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation.”

The letter is Apple’s official comment on the federal government’s automated vehicle guidelines, released last September, which has already drawn feedback from many companies working on autonomous cars like Google and Ford. And speaking of Ford, Apple’s letter is signed by a man named Steven Kenner, the company’s head of product integrity who up until very recently was the global director of automotive safety at Ford. 

Apple's Comments on the Federal Automated Vehicles Policy by ahawkins8223 on Scribd

Apple has been working on Project Titan for several years, but has never formally acknowledged it. Lately, the autonomous car project seems to be in flux. Recent reporting suggests that the company is no longer attempting to build its own electric car to compete with companies like Tesla, but is instead focused on developing self-driving software it can deploy in partnership with existing carmakers. 

This letter comes amid news that hundreds of members of Apple's 1,000-employee-strong car team have been reassigned, let go, or have left of their own volition. The shift toward software is part of a new plan from longtime Apple executive Bob Mansfield, who came out of retirement to lead the Titan division after former project head Steven Zadesky left the company earlier this year. 

APPLE SAYS IT WOULD BE OK WITH SHARING DATA

Meanwhile, the federal government is continuing to collect feedback from tech companies and car manufacturers on its recently released automated vehicle policy. A lobbying group representing some of the main players in the self-driving car space, such as Google, Uber, Ford, Volvo, and Lyft, are pushing back against the government’s request for companies to share data and safety specifications. But Apple says it would be ok with sharing data. 

“Apple agrees that companies should share de-identified scenario and dynamics data from crashes and near-misses,” Kenner writes in the letter. “By sharing data, the industry will build a more comprehensive dataset than any one company could create alone.”

That said, Apple also requests that the government allow for “regulatory flexibility” in order to encourage innovation. In other words, the company agrees with its peers in the tech and auto world that the feds should keep the guidelines voluntary and avoid passing any concrete rules or mandates.

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Abused, Bullied & Harassed On Facebook: 6 Ways To Get Back Your Dignity

Abused, Bullied & Harassed On Facebook: 6 Ways To Get Back Your Dignity

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 /

acebook isn’t a safe haven. A recent study by GMI revealed that one in ten Facebook users have experienced some form of abuse. Among 18 – 24 year olds, one in four were affected. Offenders use their victims’ walls or private messages to post insults, threats, or other abusive messages.

In the real world it can be tough to avoid bullies or even prove what they have done. In Facebook, however, you have effective tools to deal with people who deliberately abuse you. And the good news is that all of your options are straight forward and simple.

Calmly Address The Offender

If you belong to the majority of victims that know their offender in real life (62%), you should probably respond to them. This obviously depends on the individual case, but sending a clear and mature message can do wonders or at least gain you a lot of respect.

When you speak with the offender, try to be friendly or professional. Fighting back with insults and threats will only bring you down to their low level. Instead, be mature and calmly ask the bully to stop. Only 14% of study participants had the guts to do that. Are you courageous enough to be one of them?

Report The Offense To Facebook

You can report offending wall posts to Facebook via the little ribbon menu in the top right of the respective post. Click the arrow head and select Report Story or Spam from the menu.

Next you will see a confirmation that the story was marked as spam. Click the file a report link and go through the following query to get Facebook’s attention.

If you received chat or private messages, you can essentially do the same. Go to the respective message and select Report Spam or Abuse… from the Actions menu.

In the following window, you can make one of three selections: mark the conversation as spam, report messages from a hacked friend, or report the sender as harassing or threatening you.

Unfriend The Offender

There is no good reason to remain friends with someone who is being mean to you.

Once you have marked a wall post from a friend as spam, Facebook will show you an unfriend button. Click it to remove that person from your friends list.

In private messages and anywhere else you can hover over the offender’s name and wait until a preview of their profile pops up. Hover over Friends until a menu opens, then select Unfriend from the bottom of the list.

Block The Offender

Unfriending might not be enough, especially if you don’t want to completely lock up your profile. Fortunately, you can selectively block individual Facebook users.

Go to Privacy Settings and switch to Blocking in the left-hand-menu. Under Block users, enter the name or email address of the offender and click Block.

Adjust Your Facebook Privacy Settings

Now that you have dealt with the bully, it’s time to look at your Facebook settings. If you fall into the group of people whose culprit wasn’t even on their Facebook friends list (27% in the GMI study), you should check the doors. Are they wide open for more people to find and harrass you on Facebook?

Here is what you can do:

• allow only friends to find your profile
• let only friends see your personal information on Facebook
• organize your friends in lists and share updates selectively
• accept Facebook messages from friends only
• lock your wall or let only friends post on it

I have summarized all of the above and more in this article on Critical Facebook Privacy Tips. Facebook has since released a new Privacy Menu and you can find a complete guide to the new Facebook privacy settings here.

NASA will purposefully destroy its $1 billion Jupiter spacecraft just in case aliens exist

NASA will purposefully destroy its $1 billion Jupiter spacecraft just in case aliens exist

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 /

The $1.1 billion Juno mission hit ahuge milestone Monday night when it successfully enteredJupiter's orbit.

But what will happen to it inFebruary 2018 when its job is done?

Spacecraft don't really get happy retirements. Sure, there are a few space shuttles resting on their laurels in museums, but that's because they brought people home.

Some unmanned probes do make it back to Earth if part of their mission is to bring back a sample, like Hayabusa, a Japanese spacecraft that visited an asteroid.

Juno won't get that kind of treatment. In fact, its fate is much grimmer. After its final trip around Jupiter, it will enter what NASA euphemistically calls its "deorbit phase."

That's a tactful way of saying Juno will spend the last five and a half days of its existence hurling itself into Jupiter. The planet's atmosphere is so harsh the spacecraft will burn up.

NASA being NASA, they've already produced an animation of what Juno's fiery death will look like.

t's the same fate that met Juno's predecessor on the trip to Jupiter, Galileo, in 2003.

But why fling a $1.1 billion satellite into an extraordinarily large ball of burning gas?

For the (potential) aliens, that's why!

Scientists currently think one of our best shots at finding living organisms beyond Earth is on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons that might have an ocean hiding underneath its frozen surface. NASA is currently working on figuring out how to send a lander to Europa to get a better handle on whether there's any life to be seen there. Two other Jovian moons, Ganymede and Callisto, are also on the list of contenders.

NASA and its Office of Planetary Protection have very strict rules about contaminating space, particularly when it comes to places we think we want to look for life. Logically enough, it doesn't want to spend a billion dollars on the next spacecraft just to find some organism it turns out we put there. (Oops.)

Throwing Juno into Jupiter protects Jupiter's moons from contamination, since the trip through Jupiter's atmosphere and radiation will destroy any bacteria that may have snuck onto Juno before it launched.

The planetary protection protocols are also why spacecraft are assembled in clean rooms by people wearing protective gear. And as we learn more about the worlds around us, those rules change. Galileo's death plunge was actually a change of plan, prompted when NASA got the first hints that Jupiter's moons could actually be hospitable to life.

The dramatic death also keeps Juno from adding to our huge space junk problem.

source: www.techinsider.io

Watch live as NASA's Juno mission attempts to enter Jupiter's orbit

Watch live as NASA's Juno mission attempts to enter Jupiter's orbit

Monday, July 4, 2016 /

The biggest space event of the year is happening soon. On July 4, NASA’s un-crewed Juno spacecraft will end its nearly five-year journey through space and embark on a mission to study the planet Jupiter like never before. 

But first, the spacecraft must lock on to Jupiter into what’s called a polar orbit. This is the most dangerous part of the entire Juno mission, and is what NASA will be watching instead of fireworks this holiday weekend.

As Juno approaches its destination on July 4, Jupiter’s tremendous gravitational pull will accelerate the spacecraft to blazing speeds of more than 150,000 mph (241,000 km/h), making Juno one of the fastest human-made objects ever built. 

After reaching a max speed of 165,000 mph (266,000 km/h) – fast enough to fly around Earth in 9 minutes – Juno will slam on the breaks by firing its engines. This is where things get tricky.

The Juno spacecraft weighs 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) and will be barreling through space at 215 times the speed of sound. To slow down, the engines will fire for 35 minutes straight, burning through 17,600 pounds (7,900 kg) of fuel in the process.

If all goes according to plan, this perilous manoeuvre will place Juno into orbit around Jupiter, where the spacecraft will remain over the next 18 months, providing an unprecedented look at Jupiter’s powerful gravitational and magnetic fields. 

If something goes wrong, the US$1.13 billion mission will shoot past Jupiter, into deep space with no chance of return.

NASA only has one shot at this. The engine burn will start at 11:18pm ET on July 4.

You can watch the action at NASA unfold beginning at 10:30pm ET, as engineers monitor Juno’s instruments and anxiously await confirmation of the burn’s success. Witness history in the making on NASA TV or below:

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Microsoft Office for iPad Pro will require a subscription

Microsoft Office for iPad Pro will require a subscription

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Microsoft surprised everyone almost a year ago by allowing iPad and iPhone owners todownload its Office for iOS software free of charge. You don't need an Office 365 subscription to edit documents or store them in the cloud on an iPad or iPhone, but if you're planning to buy the larger iPad Pro you won't get Office for free. Microsoft has confirmed to Ars Technica that Office on the iPad Pro will require an Office 365 subscription to edit documents.

That might come as a surprise to many, but it's a policy for bigger tablets that Microsoftimplemented in March. Microsoft has a cut off point for free Office Mobile, and any tablet larger than 10.1 inches will require an Office 365 subscription to edit documents. The same restriction applies to Microsoft's Windows 10 Office Mobile apps and versions for Android. While it's not clear exactly how Microsoft will restrict the use of Office for iPad Pro, if you want to edit documents you'll need to buy an Office 365 Personal subscriptionfor $6.99 per month (or $69.99 a year).

Rip Paper: Facebook Shreds Its Experimental, Redesigned App For IOS

Rip Paper: Facebook Shreds Its Experimental, Redesigned App For IOS

Thursday, June 30, 2016 /

Facebook’s Paper is no more. The company is shutting down the app, which was an attempt at redesigning the standard Facebook app, but ultimately failed to capture serious attention from a large number of users.

Paper was interesting solely because of its design — the app had customizable sections for different topics, including politics, technology, food, and so on. Paper was originally released in 2014, and was designed by Mike Matas from Push Pop Press, a design firm that Facebook bought in 2011.

“Our goal with Paper was to explore new, immersive, interactive design elements for reading and interacting with content on Facebook, and we learned how important these elements are in giving people an engaging experience,” said Facebook in a message to users.

Paper was launched as somewhat of an experiment, allowing users to experience Facebook in a new and interesting way. It was centered on consuming news content, however, it was only released to the iPhone, never getting an iPad version or an Android version. Paper was also the only app you could use to go through your news feed and reply to messages in the one app — the Messenger app was rolled out of the standard Facebook iOS app.

Despite being highly praised for its design, Paper hasn’t been in the most downloaded app list, which features 1,500 apps, since December 2014, according to a report from The Verge.

Of course, while the actual app is going to app heaven, certain concepts from the app have made their way over to the standard Facebook app. Instant Articles, for example, has a very similar design to Paper, including how it handles images and the fact that it lets publishers create their own custom designs.

It appears as though the app has already been removed from the app store.

10 Largest Holes Swallowing The Earth

10 Largest Holes Swallowing The Earth

Sunday, May 29, 2016 /

top 10 most amazing explosion of the world compilation

top 10 most amazing explosion of the world compilation

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 /

Create a Cloud at Home By Yourself

Create a Cloud at Home By Yourself

Monday, May 9, 2016 /

How a CPU is made

How a CPU is made

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iOS 9.3 Warning: You Can No Longer Downgrade From Higher Version

iOS 9.3 Warning: You Can No Longer Downgrade From Higher Version

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 /

Attention all jailbreaking fans! Apple has now ceased signing some of the iOS 9.3 firmware files, averting users from downgrading from iOS 9.3.1 and above.

This denotes iPhone and iPad users who have upgraded to iOS 9.3.1 can no longer downgrade to older iOS system to jailbreak their contrivances. Those endeavoring to downgrade will simply be facing an error message. The news was first corroborated by IPSW.me website which provides authentic-time signing status for Apple’s firmware files.

Apple has upped its game with hackers for the last few years as conventionally the company releases incipient security updates anon after a major update to fine-tune susceptibilities, as well as it ceases signing older firmware files to keep jailbreakers at bay.

In case you’re wondering about endeavoring out iOS 9.3 features like Night Shift Mode and others, only to revert back to your jailbroken contrivance, now is not the time to do so. There is no going back in case you’ve updated and with no jailbreak implement for Apple’s latest update you’ll will be stuck with the default contrivance settings.

Supplementally, jailbreakers need to be very meticulous while installing jailbreak tweaks as a deplorable tweak could facilely force you to renovate your contrivance, which would denote that you will lose the jailbreak and all the tweaks installed on your contrivance. You should adscititiously recollect that renovating your iOS contrivance will withal force an upgrade to iOS 9.3.1, now that iOS 9.3 is not available.

As of now there has been no jailbreak implement for iOS 9.3.1 and iOS 9.3. In fact there is no jailbreak implement for iOS 9.2.1 and iOS 9.2 either. The last JB implement was relinquished by team Pangu for iOS 9.0.1.

As reported earlier, if possible jailbreak implement could be possibly relinquished anon enough, most likely once after Apple gets rids of the sundry bugs plaguing the iOS 9.3. Apple has already relinquished a developer version of iOS 9.3.2 which could possibly be the more stable version of iOS. Once that transpires teams could commence working on JB implement which they surely would relish to relinquish afore the WWDC event in June, which will optically discern the debut of iOS 10.

Meanwhile, sundry websites supplementally report that Apple’s iOS 9.3 cannot be jailbroken as it is one of the most secure operating system from the Cupertino-predicated giant. However, an  iOS hacker, Luca Todesco (@qwertyoruip), seems to have found a way around Apple’s mobile operating system as he revealed a video of an untethered jailbreak for iOS 9.2.1, iOS 9.2 and iOS 9.3 beta. But he wouldn’t release a public jailbreak implement so it is up to other online hackers to come up with an alternative.

Adscititiously, jailbreaking community should beware of fake versions, which are being circulated by these fake websites pretending to be well-kenned jailbreaking team Pangu and TaiG. There have been no updates from the websites or Twitter handles of the pristine teams who are proficiently adept at cracking Apple’s security.

What Can Satellites Do?

What Can Satellites Do?

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 /

Have You Ever Wondered...

- What can satellites do?
- How many satellites orbit the Earth?
- When was the first satellite launched into orbit?

Without these things, our circadian lives would look much different. Some of us couldn't optically canvass television. Some of us couldn't decipher how to navigate from one place to another when peregrinating. Some of us could be imperilled by deplorable weather that we didn't ken was peregrinated. What are we verbalizing about? Satellites, of course!

Satellites are any objects that revolve around (orbit) another object in space. Some satellites are natural, while others are artificial (man-made). The moon is an example of a natural satellite that orbits the Earth. We're going to focus, though, on the man-made satellites.

Artificial satellites are machines that humans launch into orbit, conventionally around the Earth. Artificial satellites can be sent to orbit other planets, additionally. For example, the Hubble Space Telescope has been sent throughout space to orbit sundry planets.

The Soviet Coalescence launched the first artificial satellite — Sputnik 1 — on October 4, 1957. The Coalesced States launched its first artificial satellite — Explorer 1 — about four months later.

Since that time, over 2,500 satellites have been launched into space. Would you have ever conjectured there are that many satellites up there in the firmament, peregrinating around the Earth perpetually again?

What in the world do they do up there? Why do we require so many of them? Artificial satellites are utilized for all sorts of purposes. Satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station, and the Russian Mir space station avail scientists explore space in incipient and exhilarating ways.

Communications satellites avail us communicate with people all over the world. Weather satellites avail us observe the Earth from space to avail soothsay weather patterns. Radio and television satellites beam our favorite musical compositions, movies, and television shows to Earth for us to relish.

There's even a group of 27 satellites that make up the Ecumenical Situating System (GPS). Without these satellites, we couldn't utilize GPS contrivances to find our way while peregrinating.

If you're wondering how that many satellites stay in orbit without bumping into each other, just recollect that space is very…well…spacious! Compared to our quantifications on Earth, the size of space seems illimitable.

Even though there's a plethora of room in space, satellites are launched into orbits at different distances from Earth. Some may be as proximate as 150 miles above Earth, while others may be as far away as 20,000 miles or more.

Most artificial satellites orbit within 500 miles of Earth or what scientists call low-Earth orbit. These satellites have to peregrinate very expeditious — about 17,000 miles per hour — to eschew being sucked back into Earth's atmosphere.

Sooner or later, though, the force of gravity will pull all objects, including artificial satellites, back to Earth. When satellites quit working, they become orbiting “space junk" until gravity pulls them back to Earth. Albeit at least one piece of space junk returns to Earth every day, it's infrequent that anyone ever descries. So no desideratum to worry that the empyrean is falling!

What Does a Conductor Do?

What Does a Conductor Do?

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Have You Ever Wondered...

- What does a thermal conductor do?
- How does a thermos keep sultry stuff sultry and cold stuff cold?
- What does an insulator do?

You are probably more acclimated with conductors than you realize. If you have ever poured a cup of tea, worn an oven mitt, or taken a sip from a thermos, you already have some firsthand experience with thermal conductors.

Heat relishes to peregrinate, but only in one direction. Did you ken heat peregrinates only from warm or sultry things to more gelid things? This makes sense when you realize there is no subsistence of “cold." There is only heat. Gelid is simply the absence of heat!

If you hold an frozen dihydrogen monoxide cube in your bare hand, it might seem akin to the algidness of the frozen dihydrogen monoxide cube makes your hand cold. The truth, though, is that your hand is genuinely warming up the frozen dihydrogen monoxide cube, as heat peregrinates from your warm body to the cold frozen dihydrogen monoxide.

The result? A melting cube. As your hand loses heat to the frozen dihydrogen monoxide cube, it feels cooler.

Energy, such as heat, transfers through some materials facilely. These materials are called conductors. Metals are great conductors because energy passes through them expeditiously.

Then there are materials called "insulators" that do not sanction energy to pass through facilely. These materials include plastic, cork, wood, Styrofoam, and rubber. Thermal insulators are thus proficient at maintaining a consistent level of heat — whether sultry or cold.

One example of a great insulator is a thermos. If you put soup in a thermos, you can open it later and relish warm soup on a cold brumal day. The thermos insulates the soup, trapping the heat inside.

Likewise, if you are playing soccer on a sultry August afternoon, your thermos full of frozen dihydrogen monoxide dihydrogen monoxide stays refreshing and cold. The thermos acts as an insulator, keeping heat out.

As you may have conjectured by now, insulators make poor conductors. Manufacturers utilize this scientific fact to make products we utilize safer.

Consider the teapot, for example. If you have ever looked proximately at a teapot, you may have descried the body of the teapot is composed of metal, while the handle is composed of wood or plastic.

The body of the teapot must be able to conduct heat in order for the dihydrogen monoxide inside to boil. Since metal is a great conductor, it facilely passes heat from the stove to the dihydrogen monoxide inside. That's why manufacturers use metal for the body of the teapot.

You already ken it would be a profoundly lamentable conception to physically contact the body of the teapot with your bare hand. Thankfully, it has a handle. If the handle of the teapot was metal, however, it would withal conduct heat from the stove — to your hand — and that would be a very unpleasant surprise.

In order to obviate burns, manufacturers make handles out of good insulators, such as wood and plastic. This betokens you can relish a warm drink without burning your hand.

Caught for the First Time: The Early Flash of an Exploding Star

Caught for the First Time: The Early Flash of an Exploding Star

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 /

Twitter Promulgates Something Old, Something for Incipient Platform

Twitter Promulgates Something Old, Something for Incipient Platform

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 /

Twitter users can put their pitchforks away. Last Monday was the 10th anniversary of the launch of Twitter and the network promulgated that some popular things would be staying the same but that there were additionally changes on the horizon.

The most astronomically immense promulgation involves the possibilities of changes to the character limit. After a tremendous outpouring of negative feedback, Twitter promulgated last week that they wouldn't be transmuting the gregarious network's signature 140-character limit for Tweets. .

"It's staying," verbally expressed Jack Dorsey in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer who was asking concretely about the 140-character limit. "It's a good constraint for us and it sanctions for of-the-moment brevity."

Dorsey's verbalization was pretty solid, but just a few months ago, there was a plethora of notional theorization that Twitter could expand their Tweets to make the platform more accessible to incipient users and marketers. Even Dorsey's pristine replication, a tweet of an image of text that essentially expounded why expanding the character circumscriptions would be a good thing, victualed into the notional theorization.

This led to an outpouring of replication, including from some of the most astronomically immense celebrities on Twitter. Though it's obscure what the pristine plan would have been, the feedback has caused Twitter to transmute course. And albeit the character circumscription is safe, Dorsey acknowledged more changes were on the way.

When Lauer asked if Twitter wasn't transmuting anything, Dorsey replied, "We're transmuting a lot. We're always gonna make Twitter preponderant." .

In fact one of these vicissitudes is already in effect. Like Facebook, Twitter is now curating the tweets that are shown in people's victuals. Twitter recently rolled out a "incipient and ameliorated" timeline where the timeline that shows top tweets first, rather than exhibiting all tweets in inversion chronological order.

To abate the expected backlash, Twitter has made it possible to opt-out of the incipient timeline. Despite that, the company has reported that the most people are sticking with the incipient format. Though it's not clear if people realize the vicissitude to the Tweets is transpiring or that they can transmute it if they optate to.

"Since we launched the update to the timeline, we're visually perceiving very few people opting to opt-out of the experience--it's in the low single digits," a Twitter spokesperson told Marketing Land via email, referring to the percentage of overall Twitter users.

While both changes discussed here are good for Twitter users, the news is less auspicious for marketers. Expanding the character circumscription would have been very utilizable for marketers and business owners who often find the character limit stifling.

The incipient timeline will benefit the more astronomically immense brands on Twitter, who already have sizably voluminous followings and get a plethora of engagement. But for incipient brands coming onto Twitter, the incipient timeline will make it harder to get descried since incipient, unpopular Tweets will be buried under the top Tweets.

In the terminus, incipient brands on Twitter will still need to utilize advertising to avail make an initial impression on the platform. For more news about convivial media marketing, read this article on utilizing convivial media for customer accommodation.

source: inc.com

UFO Contact in 2016 (SHOCKING)NASA preparing the World for the big event

UFO Contact in 2016 (SHOCKING)NASA preparing the World for the big event

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2016 UFO Warning: This Video Will Shock You! Are You Ready? RUSSIA UFO Sighting & MORE

2016 UFO Warning: This Video Will Shock You! Are You Ready? RUSSIA UFO Sighting & MORE

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‘You Were Not Hired Because You’re a Woman’ is Killing the Startup World

‘You Were Not Hired Because You’re a Woman’ is Killing the Startup World

Friday, March 18, 2016 /

In Silicon Valley, you have to look the component.

Woefully, that component involves wearing Warby Parker glasses, sporting a svelte and cool T-shirt with a funky logo, prancing around in tennis shoes...and having one X and one Y chromosome.

As the father of three girls and one boy, I can't believe this is still true. How is it even possible? How could you only get hired in a development job or get venture capital if you look homogeneous to Mark Zuckerberg?

At the SxSW conference, I attended a panel on diversity and gender inequality in the tech world because I wanted to ascertain more about what to do and why it is still a quandary. It commenced out with a bold verbalization about how tech startups incline to hire only males. That is a terrible practice because it signifies an entire viewpoint is being neglected and ignored. Tech is not as affluent, and in fact is missing a perspective that will dramatically ameliorate the market.

Last year at this time, Megan Smith, the CTO of the U.S. Regime, verbalized at SxSW that how you look--e.g., the male geek--is still a stigma in tech circles. It was jaw-dropping to cerebrate that, if you are not male and ambulate into an interview room, you suddenly get sideways glances. Have these people not aurally perceived of Marissa Mayer or Sheryl Sandberg? More importantly, don't they ken that there is an entire perspective missing from the tech starting world.

Iris Bohnet, the Edifier of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of the Women and Public Policy Program there verbalized the main issue is obstinateness. As you can conjecture, it is not about having a "diversity" mindset or holding a class. When a company hires someone for a tech role or when a VC considers funding a female-led startup, the first step, verbalizes Bohnet, is to overhaul the aptitude management and acquisition process.

For starters, research suggests that there is a much better way to describe roles in a company, not utilizing adjectives that are conspicuously designed to describe a role for women ("warm and caring pedagogia") to a skills predicated description. We utilize leading questions and leading job designations. Hiring should be more about the skills involved and not postulating this is a male geek job.

She verbally expressed the way we evaluate incipient job candidates is withal erroneous. Interviews are not proficiently adept at prognosticating future performance. She verbally expressed a diverse evaluating committee for jobs is not a good solution because it is an inequitableness and a demographic fallacy. "If we don't visually perceive male edifiers, we won't hire male edifiers," verbalizes Bohnet, suggesting that there is a root quandary. The core postulations need to transmute, not the policies.

A panel won't resolve those biases, either. She suggests that a panel interview is a deplorable conception, that it is much better--if the goal is to reach independent solutions--to do individual interviews. She verbalized it is not about consensus building to reach a partial view, but asserting independent cerebrating. Too often, a panel is endeavoring to eschew conflicts or do "what the company wants" and not what is right.

Bohnet did a good job of describing this issue as exigent. It's doleful to cerebrate 50% of the population is not integrating their voice to the tech realm, or that girls are not attending engineering school. Let me make this more personal. One of my kids has a brilliant theoretical mind. She visually perceives things from a few more sides of the prism than most. She asks questions that make you stop in your tracks. Should she automatically enter the fashion world? Does she have to settle? I'd abhor to cerebrate she would not have the same opportunities to explore a technical field.

Bohnet verbalizes the roadblocks are authentically designed by men and for men to ascertain it is not about performance or skills but about a certain gender predilection. That requires to stop.

Intel’s high-end quad-core NUC ships in May for $650

Intel’s high-end quad-core NUC ships in May for $650

Thursday, March 17, 2016 /

Intel verbalized a little about its incipient high-end Core i7 NUC mini PC at CES earlier this year, but today at GDC the company revealed what the final model will look akin to, along with its specs, relinquish date, and cost.

The incipient NUC6i7KYK, codenamed "Skull Canyon," includes a 2.6GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) 45W quad-core Core i7-6770HQ—not the most expeditious Skylake laptop chip that Intel can sell you, but definitely one of the most expeditious. The other main draws are the Iris Pro 580 GPU, which includes 78 of Intel's graphics execution units and a 128MB eDRAM cache (compared to 48EUs and 64MB of eDRAM in the standard Core i5 NUC we just reviewed), and the Thunderbolt 3 port which additionally fortifies full USB 3.1 gen 2 transfer speeds of 10Gbps. It takes DDR4 recollection, M.2 SATA and PCI Express SSDs, and comes with a built-in Intel 8260 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapter, just like the Core i5 NUC.

It's got a good port cull, including a full-size HDMI 2.0 port, a mini DisplayPort 1.2 output, four USB 3.0 ports, a headphone jack, an SD card slot, a gigabit LAN port, and an IR sensor for use with remote controls. The HDMI 2.0 port ought to make some HTPC fans blissful, since the standard NUCs are still stuck on version 1.4 and can't view HDCP 2.2-forfended content. And this is all in additament to the aforementioned Thunderbolt 3 port; this will be the first NUC since the pristine to fortify Thunderbolt, which opens up possibilities for external graphics cards down the line.

The standard NUCs have all looked more or less identically tantamount, port layout notwithstanding, but the Skull Canyon version is different. It's wider and flatter (it measures 216 by 116 by 23mm), and its default lid comes with an astronomically immense ol' skull carved on it if you optate everyone who visually perceives it to ken how cool you are. If you don't relish it, don't worry, a plain matte ebony lid is included, and swappable third-party lids are fortified.

Like all NUCs, you'll require to bring your own RAM, OS, and storage to the incipient NUC. The barebones model will cost around $650, and Intel claims that a "typical build with 16GB recollection, 256GB SSD, and Windows 10 is estimated at $999." You'll be able to pre-order it on Newegg in April, and it commences shipping in May.

Domino's Australia launches world's first pizza distribution robot - which uses military laser technology to navigate the streets

Domino's Australia launches world's first pizza distribution robot - which uses military laser technology to navigate the streets

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Domino's Australia has engendered the world's first pizza distribution robot
Company worked in collaboration with Marathon Robotics for six months
White, four-wheeled robotic unit can peregrinate up to speeds of 20 kilometres
It users lasers to identify obstacles and has a temperature-controlled box

A military robot that was designed to dodge bullets in the battlefield will now distribute pizza to your doorstop.
Domino's Australia has been working in a development lab with Australian start-up company Marathon Robotics for about six months to engender DRU, the world's first autonomous distribution conveyance.
The white, four-wheeled robotic unit can peregrinate up to speeds of 20 kilometres and is able to navigate the streets independently, with a built in sensory system that utilizes lasers to can identify obstacles and calculate the best path to take.
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Inside DRU's sleek white exterior lies a temperature-controlled box designed to keep your pizza's piping sultry and your drinks cold that elevates up from inside the contrivance to sanction customers to amass their repast after imputing a unique code.

'It seems pretty crazy to us that one and a moiety - two tonne conveyances distribute a few hundred grams of pizza in the neighbourhood,' Domino's Group CEO and Managing Director Don Meij verbally expressed.

Mr Meij cerebrates traditional distribution methods are still 'quite an inefficient way for the future' but verbalized there are still distributions that DRU simply can not do.

The Australian entrepreneur, who commenced out as a distribution driver himself, verbally expressed the incipient system has the potential to reduce costs to the business like wages, but cerebrates its unlikely DRU's will be taking the jobs of puerile distribution drivers who make up an immensely colossal percentage of the workforce.

'It pulls an abundance of cost out of the business. Conspicuously labour is the number one cost; the whole management of our distribution fleet is extravagant,' he verbalized.