U.S. companies have been snoozing at 5G — and are losing to international counterparts. But they can regain the lead by playing to their strengths, says a director at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), speaking unofficially.
Astronomers are working with Google Cloud to build AI models that detect asteroids, identifying nearly 30,000 candidates in a few weeks. The research has implications for pure science, of course, and to detect potential hazards to space navigation and threats to Earth.
> There is a herding effect in tech…. The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop.
Layoffs “are contagious.... when one major tech company downsizes staff, the board of a competing company may start to question why their executives are not doing the same.”
Downworthy: A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean
- "Literally" becomes "Figuratively"
- "Will Blow Your Mind" becomes "Might Perhaps Mildly Entertain You For a Moment"
- "One Weird Trick" becomes "One Piece of Completely Anecdotal Horseshit"
- "Go Viral" becomes "Be Overused So Much That You'll Silently Pray for the Sweet Release of Death to Make it Stop"
- "Can't Even Handle" becomes "Can Totally Handle Without Any Significant Issue"
- "Incredible" becomes "Painfully Ordinary"
- "You Won't Believe" becomes "In All Likelihood, You'll Believe"
Security is a looming issue for deployments based on open-source software, Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie said. Maintainers of key foundational projects are aging out, leaving the software unattended.
