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How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1 (New York Times)

New York Times: How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong’s annual pro-democracy protest on July 1 — Crowd estimates for Hong Kong’s large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates. How

An Arduino Sickbay Display Worthy Of The Enterprise

The various displays and interfaces in Star Trek, especially The Original Series, were intentionally designed to be obtuse and overly complex so they would appear futuristic to the audience. If you can figure out how Sulu was able to fly the Enterprise with an array of unlabeled buttons and rocker switches, we’d love to hear

Inside Facebook's elite "info ops" team, created in 2017 to respond to worst co-ordinated disinformation campaigns that state actors like Russian IRA can launch (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Inside Facebook’s elite “info ops” team, created in 2017 to respond to worst co-ordinated disinformation campaigns that state actors like Russian IRA can launch — Among the thousands of staff at Facebook, there is one group that talks about the company not as a social network, but as a battlefield.

Bringing FPGA Development To The Masses

The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is one of the most exciting tools in the modern hacker’s arsenal. If you can master the FPGA, you can create hardware devices that not only morph and change based on your current needs, but can power through repetitive tasks at phenomenal rates. The only problem is, working with

TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M — San Jose-based cybersecurity company TrapX has secured $18 million in a round led by Ibex Investors, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million. TrapX,

Nintendo president: ‘we must keep up’ with cloud gaming tech

In some ways, the Nintendo Switch can already provide one of the biggest benefits of cloud gaming: the ability to sling a game from a big TV to a portable device and carry it anywhere you go. But Nintendo isn’t pretending that capability is enough to weather what could be a sea change in how

Google Play app called "Updates for Samsung", with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google Play app called “Updates for Samsung”, with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates — “Updates for Samsung” app promises firmware updates but only shows ads and wants money for (working) downloads. Google Play app called "Updates for Samsung", with 10M+

New Hampshire-based Appcast, which makes programmatic job advertising tech, has sold an 85% stake of itself to Axel Springer's StepStone job portal for ~$79M (John Lippman/Valley News)

John Lippman / Valley News: New Hampshire-based Appcast, which makes programmatic job advertising tech, has sold an 85% stake of itself to Axel Springer’s StepStone job portal for ~$79M — LEBANON — A 5½-year-old Upper Valley digital startup that has become a major player in helping national employers find job candidates … New Hampshire-based Appcast,

How To Turn A Chainsaw Into A Chopsaw

If you’re doing a lot of metal working, a chop saw is a great tool to have. It’s an easy and quick way to do a lot of neat, clean accurate cuts. [Making Stuff] wanted to do just that, but didn’t have a chop saw lying around. Instead, an old Stihl chainsaw was placed on

You Can Opt Out Using Facial Recognition to Board a Flight

A few months ago during a layover in Atlanta, I came across an unusual sight: facial recognition being used in the boarding process. Read more… You Can Opt Out Using Facial Recognition to Board a Flight Source: Life Hacker

AMD cuts Radeon 5700 GPU prices just two days before their release

When AMD announced its next-gen Navi-based Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT graphics cards last month, the news was just slightly underwhelming because the prices didn’t necessarily make them the obvious alternative to Nvidia’s rival chips. But just two days before their July 7th launch date, AMD has taken the drastic step of dropping the

Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables drone tracking and management alongside commercial aviation traffic (Mary Loritz/EU-Startups)

Mary Loritz / EU-Startups: Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables drone tracking and management alongside commercial aviation traffic — By 2020, there will be about 20 million drones in circulation – compared to around 30,000 planes today. Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables

LA’s earthquake warning system worked — just not how people expected

After a recent earthquake in Los Angeles, some residents were left wondering why their ShakeAlert LA app hadn’t notified them. After all, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Ridgecrest, California, about 150 miles away, and that quake was the first test of ShakeAlert since the app was released in 2018. The system was working exactly as

The US Army has released its first audiobooks

The US Army wants its soldiers to begin listening to its training materials, which, surprisingly, has never been an option before. In recent weeks, the Training and Doctrine Command’s Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate (CADD) has released audiobook versions of a pair of training manuals for the first time as part of an experiment to see

Now You Can Return Unwanted Amazon Items to Kohl's

Next time you want to return something to Amazon, you don’t necessarily have to pack everything up again and head to the post office. Starting this month, Amazon is allowing items to be returned via the mail as well as in person at any Kohl’s location, with the exception of stores in Anchorage, Alaska. Read

Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M (Benjamin Pimentel/Business Insider)

{$inline_image} Benjamin Pimentel / Business Insider: Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M — – Dynatrace filed papers for an IPO on Friday. The company aims to raise $300 million with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan

Why does Amazon have so many clothing brands?

Today, BuzzFeed News posted a reminder of exactly how enormous and inescapable Amazon is. In a single list, reporter Leticia Miranda went through all of Amazon’s various subsidiaries and sub-brands, many of which you probably haven’t heard of. The usual suspects are all there — Mechanical Turk, Twitch, Audible — but there are also dozens

Actual flight makes the Lego Apollo 11 lander set even better

Lego’s official Apollo 11 anniversary set is pretty slick already, but aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth has made it even cooler by adding a set of propellers so that the lunar lander can actually fly, as spotted by Gizmodo. Woodworth detailed the build in an Imgur gallery, and it’s seriously impressive. He hollowed out the inside

Midsommar horror movie is so scary it's keeping people up at night – CNET

One New York viewer tried to buy cocaine at the theater to get her through the movie. Midsommar horror movie is so scary it's keeping people up at night – CNET Source: CNet

Hulu adds a 'Yada, yada' button so you can shuffle Seinfeld as show turns 30 – CNET

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Hulu adds a 'Yada, yada' button so you can shuffle Seinfeld as show turns 30 – CNET Source: CNet

Building A Smart Speaker From Scratch

Smart speakers have proliferated since their initial launch earlier this decade. The devices combine voice recognition and assistant functionality with a foreboding sense that paying corporations for the privilege of having your conversations eavesdropped upon could come back to bite one day. For this reason, [Yihui] is attempting to build an open-source smart speaker from

The Pentagon’s new heartbeat detection laser could save us from our surveillance horror

The Pentagon last week unveiled a long-range laser device capable of detecting a person’s unique heart-signature. It was designed to thwart terrorism, but could lead to the Holy Grail of civilian surveillance: an ethical, non-invasive method of conducting biometric identification from afar. Science fiction has long told us that wars in the future would be

Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0 — yes, from 1985 — for a mystery Stranger Things tie-in

If you’ve been watching Microsoft’s social media accounts on Twitter and Instagram this week, you probably noticed a teaser campaign for Microsoft’s original Windows 1.0 operating system, which was first released in 1985. It starts out like a one-off joke or maybe a poor attempt at a nostalgic throwback for an OS that never really

Train Yourself to Read Faster (And Comprehend What You Read) With This Site

Being able to read things quickly is great, but only if you’re able to comprehend what you’re reading. Blazing through 200 pages of reading in an hour or two is certainly impressive, but if you don’t remember anything you’ve read then it’s also kind of pointless. Read more… Train Yourself to Read Faster (And Comprehend

The Best Password Managers

Last week, we asked you to fill us in on your favorite password managers. After combing through your responses, testing out a few new ones, and getting a sense for what other popular picks may be out there, we’ve come up with a list of the five best password managers available. Read more… The Best