Deno 1.8, released on March 2, offers preliminary support for an API to bring enhanced machine learning to the secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.Experimental backing for the WebGPU API, for performing operations such as rendering and computation on a GPU, provides...
Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media website Gab and downloaded 70 gigabytes of data by exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection. A quick review of Gab’s open source code...
Next, this sensory input gets taken up by tens of thousands of cortical columns, each with a partial picture of the world. They compete and combine via a sort of voting system to build up an overall viewpoint. That’s...
Catch.com.au has gained a new chief product and technology officer as Tomas Varsavsky leaves REA Group to join the Wesfarmers Group-owned retail website. Varsavsky left his role as chief technology and data officer after over 10 years with...
In the private space industry, it can seem that there’s SpaceX and then there’s everyone else. Only Blue Origin, backed by its own billionaire founder in the person of Jeff Bezos, seems able to command the same degree of...
Microsoft has introduced Mesh, a collaboration platform offering mixed-reality capabilities on the Azure cloud.Microsoft Mesh enables persons in different locations to share collaborative holographic experiences on many kinds of devices. Over time, users will be able to use holoportation...
Break up the digital data thieves. —Frank D. Monaco, via FacebookDigital Guy Fawkes to the rescue! —Kevin Jerome Hinders, via FacebookEncryption is poison to a dictator. —Marko Berg, via FacebookPlug exhaust pipe with a potato. —@blume_lee, via TwitterNew feature...
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, flanked by former US President Bill Clinton and Google co-founder Larry Page, in September 2007. A year earlier, Google had bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via...
Despite the flashy ads, however, it’s still too early to tell how well Israel’s program will work in practice—or what that will mean for vaccine passports in general. Some ethicists argue that such programs may further entrench existing inequalities,...
Tools for the futureAlthough there’s a widespread move back to offices, remote working is here to stay. It’s predicted that many organisations will adopt a hybrid model of office-based and remote teams.One global study reports that 74 percent of...
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