Tag: Dangerous

Walmart Employees Complain Its Anti-Shoplifting AI Is Buggy, Inaccurate, and Dangerous

Walmart uses “Everseen” AI technology in thousands of its stores “to prevent shoplifting at registers and self-checkout kiosks,” reports Wired. But some Walmart workers claim that instead it’s often failed to stop actual instances of stealing, misidentified innocuous behavior as theft — and made it harder for them to social distance: The workers said they had been upset about Walmart’s use…

Proxima Centauri b confirmed as nearest exoworld

Researchers at the University of Geneva have confirmed the existence of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/exoplanet-proxima-centauri-b-confirmed…

Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS Over ‘Phishing’

Chrome and Firefox are blocking direct access to the movie download pages of popular torrent site YTS. According to Google’s safe browsing report, YTS.mx is a “deceptive site” that may trick visitors into doing dangerous things. The warning is likely the result of malicious advertisements. TorrentFreak reports: While the site’s homepage can be visited just fine, navigating to a torrent detail…

SpaceX readies for blast-off with NASA astronauts aboard

Gray skies loomed over Florida’s Atlantic coast Tuesday, just one day before two astronauts were set to blast off aboard a SpaceX capsule on the most dangerous and prestigious mission NASA has ever entrusted to a private company. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-spacex-readies-blast-off-nasa-astronauts.html…

Ask Slashdot: Did Fear and Groupthink Drive Unnecessary Global Lockdowns?

An anonymous reader writes: There’s an interesting analysis, which looks at several data points, to conclude that media may have flamed fears that drove the world to enforce lockdowns. From the story: “To put things in perspective, the virus is now known to have an infection fatality rate for most people under 65 that is no more dangerous than driving 13…

As Russia Stalks US Satellites, a Space Arms Race May Be Heating Up

Russia “is now challenging the United States’ long-standing supremacy in space and working to exploit the U.S. military’s dependence on space systems for communications, navigation, intelligence, and targeting.” That’s the argument made in The Bulletin by a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer who writes about technology and military strategy, Cold War history, and European security affairs (in an article shared…

One of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids has a comet-like tail

Trojan asteroids orbit 60 degrees ahead of and behind Jupiter, in its wide orbit at 5 times Earth’s distance from the sun. Now the 1st Trojan asteroid has been found with a comet-like tail. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/jupiter-trojan-asteroid-2019-ld2-comet-like-tail…

Tropical Cyclone Amphan

Tropical Cyclone Amphan on May 19, 2020, on approach to eastern India and Bangladesh. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/may-19-2020-satellite-image-tropical-cyclone-amphan…

Zuckerberg Urges the West To Counter China’s ‘Dangerous’ Approach To Internet Regulation

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg has again sounded the alarm on China, calling out the country’s approach to regulating internet services. The Facebook CEO on Monday said that he was worried about other countries that are looking to replicate the Chinese model, which he labeled “really dangerous.” “What I worry about is, right now I think…