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Ring, a company best known for smart doorbells and home security cameras, has a massive network of these cameras installed, some of which are being used for surveillance purposes by police in certain cities. Shreyas Gandlur, a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign put together a map of these locations. Gandlur started out with a map created by Fight For The Future (FFTF), a nonprofit advocacy group. The map had its limitations....

You’ll get five different classes and 30 hours of instruction to help you get comfortable with you company’s finances. Whether it’s tracking revenue and expenses, forecasting taxes or any other financial question, QuickBooks can help. And with 270 separate lessons, your questions are bound to be answered in this bundle. You’ll start with three one-hour courses to get you on the right page. You’ll learn the basics of bookkeeping and QuickBooks, and how to create....

The Cisco Talos Intelligence Group noted that while Panda isn’t exactly sophisticated, it has persisted as one of the internet’s most active attackers in recent years. Talos researchers highlighted the group’s willingness to continuously exploit vulnerable web applications worldwide as key to its success. By October last year, a configuration file featured in Panda malware had been downloaded more than 300,000 times. “They also frequently update their targeting, using a variety of exploits to target multiple vulnerabilities, and is quick to start exploiting known vulnerabilities shortly after public POCs become available, becoming a menace to anyone slow to patch,” said the firm....

The company has already shown off some concepts and research projects in this area, and some of them are fascinating. Here’s a list of what we’ve seen so far: Haptic gloves In its series of prototype devices, gloves with haptic feedback for VR. These gloves are meant to make you ‘feel’ grabbing an object or running your hand along a surface in the virtual world. To achieve this, Meta’s engineers have placed newly designed soft actuators....

It’s been six years since the last release in the series — fourteen if you don’t count the Steam release of Flight Simulator X. In case you’ve missed any of the pre-release info, the flight sim is the most detailed we’ve ever seen, with every major airport in the world lovingly recreated. It’s every fussy thing you’ve ever wanted from a sim game, with a day/night cycle, real-time weather, and animals roaming the world....

As its eternal frenemy Sony sat out E3 this year, Microsoft basically had free rein to show off Scarlett. It didn’t reveal its next-gen console per se, opting for a dreamy hype video in which developers talked up the new system. It emphasized the power of the hardware, including the new SSD and 8K-ready graphics. But it also slipped the phrase “four generations of content” in towards the end of the trailer, and later confirmed via the Project Scarlett site that, “Thousands of games across four console generations will look and play best on Project Scarlett....

The only problem is that brewing good espresso can be pretty tricky for beginners, as you need to get the grind just right to build the requisite pressure level, often requiring a fancy grinder for the best results. The Flair gives you more control than most machines thanks to the lever’s variable pressure, but you might still go through a few attempts before you find the right grind. The upcoming Flair Neo – retailing for $120, but currently on Kickstarter for $89 – makes the whole process substantially easier....

Raju’s appeal said that the series will paint him in a bad light and invade his privacy in an illicit way. He was convicted of a notorious scam in 2007, where he misappropriated ₹14,162 crores ($1.63 billion) from Satyam Computers’ accounts. Along with Raju, Netflix’s docuseries captures the journey of Vijay Mallya, former chairman of United Spirits known for Kingfisher beer, jeweler Nirav Modi, and Subrata Roy, the chairman of Sahara Pariwar group....

The project was initiated by Jacquelyn Brown, a staff scientist at Vanderbilt University and avid equestrian, after she learned that dogs and cats could be infected with COVID-19: Brown and her team began their work by applying a mix of genetic sequence alignment and structural analysis of the receptor protein for the virus –ACE2 — to a range of species known to be either susceptible or resistant to COVID-19. This revealed five amino acid sites within the protein that affect an animal’s level of vulnerability....

Up front: Physicists have long suspected that dark matter has either existed for as long as the universe or that it was created as a byproduct of the Big Bang event. We’re not quite sure, but that’s because nobody’s ever directly observed dark matter. We assume it exists because we can see objects and events we can observe reacting to something mysterious. Scientists who believe in the dark matter theory (arguably, most physicists) tend to agree that the universe is probably mostly dark matter....

The most important change here is the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP), that’s on by default. It’s meant to prevent trackers from gathering your browsing pattern and data and using it for ads. While the browser lets these tracker load when you visit a site, it stops them from actually accessing your cookies — snippets of data that gather your browsing habits. When you start using the new Firefox browser, your ETP is set at the Standard level....

Super Mario 3D All-Stars is a compilation of three extremely popular Mario titles from the fifth, sixth, and seventh console generations: namely, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. The name recalls Super Mario All-Stars, a SNES-era compilation of the first three Super Mario Bros games and The Lost Levels. Given that compilation contained four games, I’m surprised 3D All-Stars couldn’t slip Super Mario Galaxy 2 in there, too....

China, Denmark and France recommend social distancing of one meter; Australia, Germany and Italy recommend 1.5 meters, and the US recommends six feet, or 1.8 meters. The UK, meanwhile, is reconsidering its relatively large two-meter distancing rule, but has attracted criticism from top scientists for doing so. The truth is, we don’t yet know how far is far enough when it comes to coronavirus. A recent study found the virus in air as far as four meters away from infected patients in a COVID-19 ward....

The 55 Q1 Pro features a 4K HDR-capable QLED VA panel, framed by a narrow bezel on three sides. At the bottom, you’ll find an eight-speaker module that runs along nearly the entire length of the TV and slides down from behind the display to position itself just beneath it. OnePlus has also put together Connect, an Android app that connects to the TV over Wi-Fi, and serves as a remote....

According to a report by Android Central, the phone will don a 6.52-inch 720p screen and a massive 6,000 mAh battery. The device will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 — a processor for budget phones — and 4GB RAM. Sources told the publication that it’ll have 64GB internal memory with a microSD card slot for expansion. The phone will support 18W fast charging and yes, it’ll have a headphone jack....

Yesterday, Holligan posted a video on Twitter to bring us the daily news update from the Netherlands as she cycled along. Check it out below. Early edition. pic.twitter.com/7ShdDaTzLk — anna holligan ? (@annaholligan) May 3, 2021 I had just one question: Why? For Holligan, the idea came in a moment of serendipitous inspiration. After seeing her colleague Adam Fleming shoot the political headlines from Westminster on his phone, “it occurred to me I could do exactly the same from my bike as I cycle,” she tells me....

While even the most traditional industries from big banks to agriculture have experienced a technological boom with the help of fintech and agritech startups, government bodies have largely been left behind. But the push to develop more open APIs is set to change all that — and it’s not just citizens who will benefit. Companies and entrepreneurs with the foresight to jump on publicly available government data will be able to develop sticky solutions for their users’ everyday needs....

Here’s why, in a nutshell: it’s giving law enforcement a clear and defensible point from which to compel you to unlock your phone. One that will sound good to juries and give prosecutors who like to pretend the Fifth Amendment doesn’t exist a leg to stand on. Sir, I just need to see your driver’s license. I need you to unlock your phone and pull your documents up and then hand it to me so that I can scan it back in my cruiser....

Politicians and healthcare leaders are in the unenviable position of having to make impossible decisions about how best to tackle this fast-moving situation. Yet they are missing the one thing that would help them the most: data. Waiting for data on people going to intensive-care units and sometimes sadly dying is like being in a war waiting for bombs to fall without radar. One of the key pieces of information that we are lacking is a handle on how many people in the UK are infected with coronavirus and where they are living....

Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay tweeted a look at the new Paint. While at first glance the UI looks quite different from the version of Paint in Windows 10, a closer look shows very little has really changed: — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) August 18, 2021 Depending on who you ask, that’s a good thing. For reference, here’s what Paint looks like in Windows 10: As far as I can tell, the only new features are a dark mode and the ability to change text alignment....