schwit1 shares a report from VentureBeat: A team of Microsoft and Huazhong University researchers this week open-sourced an AI object detector — Fair Multi-Object Tracking (FairMOT) — they claim outperforms state-of-the-art models on public data sets at 30 frames per second. If productized, it could benefit industries ranging from elder care to security, and perhaps be used to track the spread…
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Amazon’s Covid Hiring Boom Has Applicants Packed Into Job Fairs With No Special Precautions
An anonymous reader shares a report: In March, a laid-off customer-service representative for one of the airline companies attended an Amazon.com employee orientation in Dallas. He found himself packed into a room with about 70 other applicants, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder to watch a PowerPoint presentation about what it’s like to work for the online retailer. The man, who provided a smartphone photo…
Moon in Winter Circle March 30 and 31
What a great time to identify many bright stars! Let the moon be your guide. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-shines-inside-of-winter-circle…
Ghosts and UFOs abound on the M5 motorway
Over the last 50 years, one of England’s major roads has had its fair share of mysterious occurrences. Constructed back in the 1960s, the M5 stretches… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/335738/ghosts-and-ufos-abound-on-the-m5-motorway…
Pentagon ‘Wishes To Reconsider’ $10 Billion JEDI Contract Given To Microsoft
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN Business: The U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday said it wishes to re-evaluate its decision to award the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar cloud contract with Microsoft, signaling a potential victory for Amazon in its protest of the award. The department “wishes to reconsider its award decision in response to the other technical challenges presented by…
IBM Takes Airbnb To Court Over Historic Patents
IBM is taking Airbnb to court over what it claims is the illegal use of four patents — the latest in a string of suits against online companies involving historic and arguably broad innovations — in a move that threatens to cast a shadow over the short-term rental company’s road to a proposed IPO. From a report: The computing giant has…
Politicians are mulling a global tax rate to tame the tech giants
Tech firms are making record profits but paying little tax. Now global leaders are discussing ways to make them pay their fair share Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235492-politicians-are-mulling-a-global-tax-rate-to-tame-the-tech-giants/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Apple Won’t Allow Villains To Use Its Products on Screen, Says Rian Johnson
Apple is trying really, really hard to always come off as the good guys. From a report: According to Rian Johnson, director of Knives Out, Apple won’t let villains use iPhones on-screen. Apple is so obsessed with how the public conceptualizes its products that the company has taken steps to ensure none of the bad guys ever use its phones in…
New $300 Kitchen Playset For Children Includes Amazon’s Alexa
“Kids can play with Alexa in their very own $300 pretend kitchen and grocery store,” CNET reports, “with the Amazon voice assistant dishing out cooking advice, shopping help and plenty of goofy toddler humor.”
The Alexa 2-in-1 Kitchen and Market, from toymaker KidKraft, is making its debut at this weekend’s New York Toy Fair… It uses a mix of RFID sensors and…
Come to know orange Arcturus in Boötes
Orange Arcturus is more evolved than our sun and has swollen up to a larger size. It’s less than 37 light-years away and appears as the brightest star north of the celestial equator. The Big Dipper can help you find it. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/bright-orange-arcturus-use-the-big-dipper-to-find-it…