December 21, 2020 Octopuses Like to Punch Fish, New Research Suggests Upsetting but strangely satisfying new research documents octopuses punching fish during collaborative feeding sessions. The octopuses primarily do it for practical reasons, but sometimes…
December 21, 2020 AI and Satellite Data Could Help End Slavery on the High Seas Slavery is rampant on fishing vessels around the world. Just how rampant, though, is an open question, given the challenges of cataloging what happens…
December 21, 2020 DeepMind researchers claim neural networks can outperform neurosymbolic models Researchers at DeepMind claim that neural networks can outperform models with hardcoded rules and symbolic knowledge.Read More via VentureBeat Check out the Finding Your…
December 21, 2020 AT&T Can’t Seem to Get Rid of DirecTV AT&T is having a hard time trying to find a buyer to take DirecTV off its hands. Ars Technica (via the New York Post)…
December 21, 2020 Play Dozens of Classics on the Sega Genesis Mini, Now Down to $50 Sega Genesis Mini | $50 | Amazon Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
December 21, 2020 Report: Chinese Hack of Federal Employment Database, Disclosed in 2015, Was a Disaster for the CIA China’s efforts to purge its government of CIA moles has been aided significantly by a massive database of personnel information stolen from the U.S….
December 21, 2020 Apple wants to build its first car in 2024, Reuters says Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple once again appears to be seriously looking at making a car. Reuters reports that Apple is…
December 21, 2020 Steve Wozniak’s Apple II Sketches Go for $630,272 at Auction How much would the first schematics of the printing press be worth today? What would you pay to own the original designs for the…
December 21, 2020 ‘Stardew Valley’ adds couch co-op in its biggest update ever With less than two months before its fifth anniversary, farming sim Stardew Valley has just received its biggest content update ever. As Polygon points…
December 21, 2020 What We Know About the New Coronavirus Mutations and the Vaccines Scientists in the UK and elsewhere are reporting the discovery of new, potentially important mutations found in local strains of the coronavirus. These mutations…