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A lot of research has gone into preparing for In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) that could help to build and sustain a lunar base. Now, similar ideas for Mars are catching up, with a new study, published in PNAS, suggesting a way to use the brine (salty water) found on Mars to make breathable air and fuel. “Living off the land” will be even more important on Mars than on the Moon, because Mars is much further away – making transport costs (and time) correspondingly greater....

Simply put, they are not needed anymore. In today’s uncertain world of plagues and lockdowns, self-guidance and creativity are going to lead to every dimension of our economy. In this new world of “work-from-home”, creatives feel free from antagonisms of the old, and the creators of new. Getting people to perform competitively in environments where remote work relies on individual resourcefulness, the in-your-face old school management has died. No more interactions like: “Where are you today?...

It’s a job that routinely pays a six-figure salary. It’s also Glassdoor’s Best Job in America — for the fourth straight year. And as for hungry companies, the market continues to gobble up more of these trained professionals to bolster their ranks every year. That most coveted of jobs is that of the data scientist. With the right knowledge of scientific method, algorithms and data structuring, the enterprising job seeker can virtually pick their destination....

Robots typically struggle to replicate this sense, restricting their ability to manipulate objects. But researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) might have found a solution: pairing artificial skin with a neuromorphic “brain.” The system was developed by a team led by Assistant Professors Benjamin Tee, an electronic skin expert, and Harold Soh, an AI specialist. Together, the duo has created a robotic perception system that combines touch and sight....

Our study, published in Science Advances, suggests this planet could have a mass about half that of the planet Neptune. Dubbed Proxima Centauri c (abbreviated to Proxima c), it has an orbit about 1.5 times greater than the Earth’s orbit around the sun. The star Proxima Centauri is the smallest star in a triple system in the constellation of Centaurus. Since it is the star in closest proximity to our sun, it is usually referred to as Proxima....

Andy Lurling, Founding Partner of impact-driven VC firm, LUMO Labs believes this shift will pave the way for us to find new and better solutions to some of society’s biggest problems. “If you want to create social impact fast, technology is the way. For example, with AI and data, you can find patterns so much faster and come up with a thousand alternatives that would take people years to work on....

This article was originally published on .cult by Tomasz Lakomy. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. Imagine that you’re a developer at Scqber – it’s like Uber, but for squirrels. Scqber is a huge company (that still prefers to call itself ‘a startup,’ for some reason), with hundreds of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers all contributing to the same project....

If you’re a solopreneur or an influencer, social media will likely be one of the first touchpoints your audience will have with your brand and it will be the key to expanding your reach to new audiences in the future. Of course, when you’re running a company of one, time is in short supply. If there’s a choice between client work and working on your business, I reckon you’ll choose the former....

I’m usually a Mac user, but since I’m currently testing the Razer Blade laptop, I’ve been forced to temporarily switch to Windows. Somehow, Chrome for Windows figured out my mother tongue is Bulgarian, and automatically set the browser’s default translation language to Bulgarian — even though I prefer to translate pages to English. Fortunately, changing the default translation language is pretty simple. Here’s how to do it: Once you open any page in a foreign language, you will see the Translate icon at the right side of the URL bar....

Whether home schooling or working from home, our mobile phones have never been far from our side. We’ve even embraced video communication technology for keeping in touch with friends and loved ones, whether they live locally or thousands of miles away. To be frank, it can be very hard to imagine how we can just decide to cut it off. And the constant pressure to always be available – and reply immediately – can be overwhelming....

There is no one single formula that makes you better at work. However, if you find out what works for you, you’ll be able to get more done in less time. Here are a few tips you can try to boost your focus. Just ignore people to keep the focus. There is a time for work and there is a time for socializing. To keep focused, you need to block out distraction free time....

Facebook ads used to fill me with a mixture of fear and skepticism. That might have been down to the fact I didn’t want to give Facebook my money to just show ads on its newsfeed, or even more so the fact I never had incredibly positive experiences with my own ads (or the ones I set up for clients, for what matters). Until I got a new client, helping her to launch her first online program, and she asked me whether we could also set up some Facebook ads....

This article was originally published by Built In. Why do some new products fly off the shelves while others have sales cycles that extend out for months? Selling any product is a mixture of art and science, but selling a new product with no track record from a company with no reputation — that requires a science all its own. Every new product is different, of course, but one commonality I see among successful startups is an unwillingness to market and sell to people who aren’t buying....

In this post, I will look at Python Machine Learning, Third Edition by Packt, an excellent resource for developers who already have basic knowledge of ML and data science. Bring your math and programming skills Off the bat, Python Machine Learning is not for amateurs. The authors assume you have a solid command of Python. The book uses some of the advanced list and collection functions. There’s also (thankfully) a fair bit of object-oriented programming techniques that enable you to use reusable components for your machine learning programs....

Update (October 16, 2020): Sony has now released its Imaging Edge Webcam software for macOS, so we’ve updated this article to reflect that. For better or worse (mostly worse, if you ask me), the pandemic has turned Zoom calls into the norm. And if you’re going to have video meetings, you may as well look good doing it — but that’s tough to pull off when most webcams are pretty shitty....

The Chinese tech giant told Reuters Sunday, it plans to release a bunch of devices powered by the new operating system in 2020. However, it said it’ll continue to bank on Android to power phones and has no plans to release HarmonyOS-based phones, tablets, and computers just yet. Wang Chenglu, the president of the Huawei consumer business group’s software division, told reporters at an event in China it’ll release smart TVs, smartwatches, speakers, and virtual reality solutions based on the new software....

I had settled on the couch of my living room, ready for a video call with someone I had never met in person. I had a business idea and a team to pull it off. He had the money and interest in early-stage startups. Fingers crossed it’s a match! The call was short and to the point. We spoke about my idea, the team behind it, and why we needed the money....

While it is tempting to dismiss “flat Earthers” as mildly amusing, we ignore their arguments at our peril. Polling shows that there is an overlap between conspiracy theories, some of which can act as gateways for radicalization. QAnon and the great replacement theory, for example, have proved deadly more than once. By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online....

Saaf Water is the first team from India to take the grand prize and their amazing story represents everything that’s good and necessary about the Call for Code challenge. Per an IBM press release: This year’s winners join a prestigious lineup of past victors including Project Owl and Promoteo, and Agrolly, whose winning solutions have gone on to inspire future participants and help mitigate the impact of natural disasters, climate change, and other challenges through a combination of open-source and community-driven corporate support....

Today the government announced that Samsung and Apple’s partners Foxconn, Winston, and Pegatron have won a five-year approval to gain benefits from this scheme. Under the Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI), phone-makers will get 4-6% benefit on devices that are worth ₹15,000 ($205) or above. [Read: Facebook and Instagram ban all QAnon accounts, violent content or not] The government expects international players to produce mobile phones worth ₹900,000 crores ($122....