Apple is introducing Automatic Verifications to allow websites to verify that you are not a human without having to make a lot of work. The system is similar to that of Google's system to replace password and is being developed by Fast and Cloud Flare, which are also working on the system to prevent spam.
Gothenburg-headquartered Volvo Trucks says refueling of the vehicles will take under 15 minutes. While there is excitement in some quarters about the potential of hydrogen powered vehicles, there are hurdles when it comes to expanding the sector. Competition to develop low and zero emission options within the trucking sector has increased in recent years.
U.S. chipmaker Intel has filed a claim for 593 million euros ($624 million) in interest from the European Commission, five months after it convinced Europe's second-top court to scrap a 1.06-billion-euro EU antitrust fine, an EU filing showed on Monday.
Some of the world’s biggest companies are starting to set up shop in the so-called metaverse, sketching out an early blueprint for how people might eventually make real money in the much-hyped digital realm. For fashion brands, toy makers and others, this online world where users interact in their digital guise of avatars, not unlike in the movie “Ready Player One” or the online game “Second Life,” is emerging as a new frontier for commerce.
Natalie Brunell, host of Coin Stories podcast, thinks regulatory action will favor Bitcoin over the rest of cryptocurrency. Brunell defines herself as a Bitcoin maximalist and therefore sees Bitcoin as a fundamentally different asset class. She believes other cryptocurrencies are much more vulnerable to third-party risks.
ProShares announced its latest crypto exchange traded fund (ETF) on Monday. The short ETF will give investors the opportunity to profit from declines in the price of bitcoin. The firm previously launched the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF in October 2021.
Embattled cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius has asked users to give it more time to stabilize liquidity and operations. Celsius halted withdrawals for customers last week due to “extreme market conditions.” The cryptocurrency market has seen billions of dollars of value wiped off in the last few weeks, with bitcoin falling below the $20,000 mark over the weekend, hitting a number of companies.
Meta's Reality Labs division has revealed new prototypes for its virtual reality headsets. The company is working on lightweight, hyper-realistic graphics for its headsets. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company plans to ship a high-end headset in 2022. The headsets will be cheap and consumer-focused, with a professional-grade version aimed at the professional market.
Facebook's Meta has developed a new approach to speech-to-speech translation. The social media giant's approach is called Direct S2ST, which eliminates the text-generation step in spoken language conversion. It is being tested using the University of Pennsylvania’s Spanish-English speech translation corpus.
Let’s take a look at a bit of a puzzling conundrum. It is said that great minds think alike.You’ve undoubtedly heard that handy catchphrase many times. During some idle conversations, if you and a colleague or friend manage to land on the same idea at the same precise moment, one of you is bound to exclaim with glee that great minds think alike. This is indubitably a flattering statement about you and your fellow human being.