YouTube Premium’s loss is soon to be Netflix’s gain. The streaming giant has just poached the Karate Kid TV sequel spin-off, Cobra Kai, from Google’s paid-for TV platform. The first two seasons of the Karate Kid TV show will join Netflix this year, following their […]
Day: June 24, 2020
AI researchers condemn predictive crime software, citing racial bias and flawed methods
A collective of more than 1,000 researchers, academics and experts in artificial intelligence are speaking out against soon-to-be-published research claims to use neural networks to “predict criminality.” At the time of writing, more than 50 employees working on AI at companies like Facebook, Google and […]
Will New York follow New Jersey and legalize gambling?
Unfortunately, much like online sports betting, online poker is illegal in the state of New York at the time of writing and this leads to thousands of people …
Theragen Bio partners with university to explore genomic big dataBIG Data
Theragen Bio CEO Hwang Tae-soon, right, and Prof. Lim Si-keun of Sungkyunkwan University’s department of forensic science with the signed partnership agreement. Courtesy of Theragen Bio By Park Si-sooTheragen Bio has formed a strategic partnership with a prestigious university here to launch a joint study […]
How bitcoin became an industry without borders
When the mysterious and secretive Satoshi Nakamoto first created Bitcoin … But, where the cryptocurrency differs from the already well-established … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
5 Weird Concepts to (Theoretically) Supercharge Mask Fabrics
Zinc Zap Israeli startup Sonovia created tech—derived from research done at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University aimed at reducing disease spread in hospitals—that uses ultrasonic waves to mechanically insert nanoparticles of zinc oxide into textiles, including masks. The particles give off ions that the company says interact […]
Mercato : Le récap’ des transferts de ce 23 juin en France et à l’étranger
Nice officialise Schneiderlin Déjà annoncé au Gym, l'international français est définitivement Niçois. Le club n'a pas précisé la durée de son contrat … Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #wired
Oculus Go discontinued: Facebook will no longer offer its entry-level VR headset null
Facebook and Oculus announced today that it will discontinue its Oculus Go VR headset to allow the company more room to work “on the next chapter in VR”. The announcement came in a blog post on Oculus’ website as well as an email to Oculus […]
Hong Kong fintech Qupital partners with eBay to provide financing for sellers
Qupital, a trade financing platform, announced today that it will partner with eBay as one of its officially recommended Hong Kong financing service providers. In today’s announcement, Qupital said it will provide offshore financing services, including working capital, to eBay sellers in China through QiaoYiDai, […]
NASA plans to use private spacecraft for crewed suborbital flights
NASA’s private spaceflight plans extend well beyond launching people into orbit. The agency is forming a plan to fly astronauts, investigators and other staff aboard suborbital spacecraft. Once a Suborbital Crew office inside the Commercial Crew Program has qualified a suborbital system as safe to […]