A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world
What happens when a major city allows the coronavirus to rage unchecked? If the Brazilian city of Manaus is any answer, it means about two-thirds of the population could get infected and one person in 500 could die before the epidemic winds down. During May, as the virus spread rapidly in Manaus, the equatorial capital […]
JetBrains looks at state of Java community in new analysis
To celebrate Java’s 25th anniversary this year and the latest release of Java 15, JetBrains has compiled data from multiple sources to look at what the current state of the language is. First, it looked at where most Java developers are based. According to the Developer Estimation Model by the Market Research and Analytics Team, […]
The future of rideshare is a remote control rental car
In rideshare, the single largest cost per trip is the driver. It turns out the vast majority of trips have a second driver in every car: a rider with a license. Imagine a future in which a rental car is as convenient as an Uber at half the price. More specifically, imagine an on-demand, door-to-door […]
Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis
University of Washington language researchers and legal professionals recently created a labeled dataset for detection of interruptions and competitive turn-taking in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. They then used the corpus of “turn changes” to train AI models to experiment with ways to automatically classify turn changes as competitive or cooperative as a way to […]
Kobiton 3.6 brings new device management and test automation features for Android 11 and iOS 14
Kobiton today announced version 3.6 of its mobile device testing platform with new device management and intelligent test automation features. The new version can be used now for testing on Android 11 while the iOS 14 version is in beta pending completion. Another iOS feature is the ability to monitor app performance including session metrics […]
Ways in Which Organizations are Using Blockchain and AI to Save Endangered Species
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a household term for most, even if said household may not have a deep grasp on what it is. Blockchain, on the other hand, is an emerging technology revolving around data storage and data analytics and though it’s a bit less mainstream, it is starting to be used quite widely […]
How Intel is aiming for a PC processor comeback
Intel has had a few hard years as rival Advanced Micro Devices made gains because of its Zen-based architecture for x86 processors. In the second quarter, AMD’s share of the overall x86 central processing unit (CPU) market was 18.3%, up from 10.6% in the third quarter of 2018, according to market researcher Mercury Research. But […]
Xbox’s Bethesda acquisition is evidence of blockbuster gaming’s volatility
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is acquiring The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim publisher Bethesda for $7.5 billion. And it’s difficult to overstate how much this changes gaming. The easiest way for me to think about this is that Xbox just bought one of the only other companies that actually has a major media presentation during E3 […]
179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown
It’s one of the largest global dark web takedowns to date: 179 arrests spread across six countries; 500 kilograms of drugs seized; $6.5 million in cash and cryptocurrency confiscated. And while it was announced this morning, Operation Disruptor traces its roots back to May 3, 2019. That’s the day that German police seized Wall Street […]
Vue 3 now available with new APIs for scaling
Vue 3, also named One Piece, is now available. Vue is an open-source JavaScript framework. According to Vue creator Evan You, this release “represents over 2 years of development efforts, featuring 30+ RFCs, 2,600+ commits, 628 pull requests from 99 contributors, plus tremendous amount of development and documentation work outside of the core repo.” New […]