After the Tea dating-advice app leaked information on its users, the BBC found two online maps “purporting to represent the locations of women who had signed up for Tea… showing 33,000 pins spread across the United States.” The maps were hosted on Google Maps. “Since the breach, more than 10 Read more…
Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models, so Nvidia announced a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for European languages. The new dataset, named Granary, is a massive open-source corpus of Read more…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades, two people familiar with the plans told CNN. This move — which comes as hurricane season ramps up with Erin Read more…
Denmark’s PostNord will end centuries of letter delivery as digitalization and high postage costs make physical mail nearly obsolete. The steep decline in letter volumes has been driven largely by digitalization, and PostNord announced in March that it will cease letter services at the end of the year. It will Read more…
Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than are reviewers who are not cited, according to an analysis of 18,400 articles from four open-access publications. The study, which is yet to be peer reviewed, was posted online as a preprint Read more…
Time and again, surveys and studies show that fears and concerns about charging are the main barriers standing in the way of someone switching from gas to EV. A new market research study by Telemetry Vice President Sam Abuelsamid confirms this, as it analyzes the charging infrastructure needs over the Read more…
Denmark is to stop charging VAT on books in an attempt to get more people reading. At 25%, the country’s tax rate on books is the highest in the world, a policy the government believes is contributing to a growing “reading crisis.” The culture minister, Jakob Engel-Schmidt, announced on Wednesday Read more…