Google is rolling out Google Photos 3.0, which features an AI-powered Suggested Sharing feature along with Shared Libraries, “both of which are designed to make the Google Photos app a more social experience, rather than just a personal collection of…
$7.5 Billion Kemper Power Plant Suspends Coal Gasification
romanval writes: A coal gasification plant in Mississippi is iswitching to natural gas after 5 years of delays and $4 billion cost overrun. Megan Geuss writes via Ars Technica: “The Kemper County plant was supposed to be a cutting-edge demonstration…
There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid
Michael J. Coren reports via Quartz: More than 1 million U.S. homes have solar systems installed on their rooftops. Batteries are set to join many of them, giving homeowners the ability to not only generate but also store their electricity…
New Study Finds How Much Sleep Fitbit Users Really Get
Fitbit has published the results of a study that uses their longitudinal sleep database to analyze millions of nights of Sleep Stages data to determine how age, gender, and duration affect sleep quality. (Sleep Stages is a relatively new Fitbit…
Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art
Dthief shares a report from New Scientist: Now and then, a painter like Claude Monet or Pablo Picasso comes along and turns the art world on its head. They invent new aesthetic styles, forging movements such as impressionism or abstract…
Linux Systemd Bug Could Have Led to Crash, Code Execution
Ubuntu fixed a Linux bug that could have let an attacker cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with a TCP payload this week.
ExPetr Called a Wiper Attack, Not Ransomware
The global outbreak of the Petya/ExPetr malware wasn’t a ransomware attack, it was wiper malware aimed to sabotage, according to experts.
This Retail Website Considers Password Security Optional
The glaring privacy issues tied to an online health and beauty retailer allows customers to log-in to their users accounts with just their email address – no password needed.
Who was to blame for what looked like a DDoS attack on the AA? That would be … the AA
AA members not unreasonably complied when they received an email warning them to change their passwords … but the AA’s servers couldn’t cope
Who’s watching? Face recognition means goodbye to hiding in crowds
From dating apps to scanning faces in a football crowd, the AI-driven technology is increasingly ubiquitous – but it’s not without its problems