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Lunar Ark Boldly Goes

[Sebastian and Karl-Johan] are two award-winning Danish Space Architects who are subjecting themselves to harsh, seemingly uninhabitable conditions, for science. The pair set out to build a lunar base that could land with the manned Moon missions in 2024. Like any good engineering problem, what good is a solution without testing? So the pair have

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How to protect your AI systems against adversarial machine learning

With machine learning becoming increasingly popular, one thing that has been worrying experts is the security threats the technology will entail. We are still exploring the possibilities: The breakdown of autonomous driving systems? Inconspicuous theft of sensitive data from deep neural networks? Failure of deep learning–based biometric authentication? Subtle bypass of content moderation algorithms? Meanwhile, machine

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Twitter removed a student's tweets critical of Proctorio, which makes an exam monitoring tool used by many US schools, for reproducing Proctorio's code (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Twitter removed a student’s tweets critical of Proctorio, which makes an exam monitoring tool used by many US schools, for reproducing Proctorio’s code  —  A series of tweets by one Miami University student that were critical of a proctoring software company have been hidden by Twitter … Twitter removed a student's

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A Super UPS for the Pi

One of the problems with using a Raspberry Pi or most other systems in a production environment is dealing with sudden shutdowns due to power loss. Modern operating systems often keep data in memory that should be on disk, and a sudden power cycle can create problems. One answer is an uninterruptible power supply, but

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EA reports Q2 revenue of $1.15B, down 14% YoY, outperforming expectations, but forecasts a weak next quarter due to a possible waning pandemic gaming bump (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: EA reports Q2 revenue of $1.15B, down 14% YoY, outperforming expectations, but forecasts a weak next quarter due to a possible waning pandemic gaming bump  —  Electronic Arts reported financial results today that beat Wall Street’s expectations with revenue falling 14% to $1.15 billion … EA reports Q2 revenue of .15B,

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