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The White House issued a policy memo asking NASA to establish a new time standard for the moon by 2026. Lunar Time Coordinated (LTC) will establish an official time reference to help guide future lunar missions. The United States, China, Japan, India and Russia have all planned or completed space missions to the moon.NASA (and the White House) aren’t the only ones trying. The European Space Agency is also trying to establish a time zone outside of Earth’s… area.Time moves slightly faster on the Moon, given its weaker gravity. “The same clock we use on Earth will move at a…
Last night, several well-known journalists and others release (complaining in many cases) about the unexpected return of verified blue checks on Elon Musk’s X platform. One of them, Peter Kafka, shared a message from X indicating that the upgrade was no accident.”As an influential member of the X community, we are offering you a free subscription to X Premium by opting into this notification in accordance with the X Premium terms,” it noted.A subsequent tweet from Get the ad-free Premium+ tier. free.Based on all the confusing tweets I’ve seen, it seems like Twitter/X is starting to really ramp up the…
After abandoning plans to develop its own electric car, Apple is still looking for the next revolutionary product to help it maintain market dominance and become a new revenue source.according to Bloomberg’s Chief executive Mark Gurman said one of the areas the company is exploring is personal robots. The company reportedly began researching robots and electric vehicles at the same time, hoping to develop a machine that would not require human intervention.While Apple’s robotics project is still in its early stages, Bloomberg The company said it has begun developing a mobile robot that can follow users around their homes and…
ReportApril 4, 2024Editorial DepartmentCyber Security/Vulnerabilities Ivanti has released security updates to address four security flaws affecting Connect Secure and policy security gateways that could lead to code execution and denial of service (DoS). The list of defects is as follows – CVE-2024-21894 (CVSS Rating: 8.2) – A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the IPSec component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure, allowing an unauthenticated malicious user to send specially crafted requests, resulting in a service crash DoS attack . In some cases, this may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2024-22052 (CVSS Rating: 7.5) -…
OnePlus is the latest company to jump on the artificial intelligence train. The phone maker is launching a new photo editing tool called AI Eraser that lets users remove extraneous objects from photos. The new feature will be rolled out across a range of OnePlus smartphones, including OnePlus 12 and 12R, OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Open.To use OnePlus AI Eraser, you must first highlight the portion of the image you want to delete. These could be random people or dirty trash cans, but they could also be “flaws” in the photo. Artificial intelligence then analyzes the area and creates a…
Stability AI, an updated version of its music generation platform. The system allows users to create up to three minutes of audio via text prompts. This is about the length of an actual song, so it also has an intro, a full chord progression, and an outro.First the good news. Three minutes is huge. Earlier versions of the software had a maximum limit of 90 seconds. Imagine you could make a fake birthday song in the style of a Rob Thomas/Santana song. Another boon? The tool is free and publicly available through the company’s website, so use it.Introducing Stable Audio…
Google says it’s deleting your Google Chrome private browsing data that it shouldn’t be collecting in the first place. Are Risk-Free Millionaire Bots Trustworthy? Which countries are prohibited from purchasing your sensitive information? All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the Smashing Security podcast from cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who this week is joined by Host Unknown’s Thom Langford. Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and crude language. organizer: Graham Crowley – @gcluleyCarol Serio – @caroletheriault guest: Maria Valmazis – @tomlangford Episode link: Sponsored by: Kiteworks – Step into the future…
Google (US) is one of the most recognized brands in the world. Its core products and platforms include Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Play, Search and YouTube, each of which has more than 1 billion monthly active users. Google has built a platform on the cloud and has been investing in infrastructure, security, data management, analytics and artificial intelligence. As more and more digital experiences are built on the cloud, its cloud products are helping businesses of all sizes take advantage of the latest technology and run their businesses more efficiently. The company’s global customer base spans…
Meta AI could never generate accurate images for seemingly simple prompts like “Asian man and white friend” or “Asian man and white wife” edge . Instead, the company’s image generator seemed biased toward creating images of people of the same race, even when explicitly prompted.Engadget confirmed these results in our own testing of the Meta image generator. The prompt “an Asian man and a white female friend” or “an Asian man and a white wife” will produce images of Asian couples. When asked about a “diverse population,” Meta AI produced a grid of nine white faces and one person of…
Ask any marketer and they will tell you – you are only as good as the data you have.