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Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:00AM from the bold-claims dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Now a
startup developing all solid-state batteries (ASSB) secured
backing from several high-profile investors, including several
automakers, as it claims a breakthrough for the technology that Slashdot Deals
will enable better electric cars. Solid Power is a Colorado-based
startup that spun out of a battery research program at the
University of Colorado Boulder. The company claims to have
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Solid Power plans to use the funds from its Series A investment to
"scale-up production via a multi-MWh roll-to-roll facility, which
will be fully constructed and installed by the end of 2018 and fully
operational in 2019." The battery cells produced at this new
facility "will be utilized for preliminary qualification of the
company's solid-state cells for multiple markets including
automotive, aerospace and defense." Slashdot Poll
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Retirees To Try To Fix Delays At
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Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:30PM from the aging-workforce dept.
I respond to only urgent matters
Boeing is trying to fix delays at its 737 jetliner plant near Seattle,
so it's turning to its retired workers. "Boeing started hiring retired I don't work after office hours
mechanics and inspectors on a temporary basis after reaching an
agreement with the International Association of Machinists and Other (specify in comments)
Aerospace Workers on August 15," reports CNBC. From the
report: The snarl at its plant in Renton, Washington, triggered by
shortages of engines and fuselages as Boeing sped production to vote now
record levels in June, is likely to hurt third-quarter results and
threatens its goal to boost build rates again in 2019, some Read the 138 comments | 11188 votes
analysts said after meetings in the Seattle area last week.
Investors will get a peek on Tuesday at how far behind Boeing is
when it releases its order and delivery tallies for August, a month
after deliveries fell to the lowest level in years. Deliveries are
crucial to planemakers because that is when airlines pay most of
what they owe for the aircraft. Boeing has already deployed about
600 employees and new hires to Renton in recent weeks to help fix
delays, analysts said. It was not clear how many retired workers
Boeing intends to hire.
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Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:05PM from the not-on-my-watch dept.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning the Republic
of the Marshall Islands to "seriously reconsider" the idea of
adopting a digital currency as a second form of legal tender. As it
stands, the U.S. dollar is the only legal tender in the islands. The
BBC reports: A law to adopt a digital currency named
"Sovereign" alongside the dollar was passed in February. The first
virtual coins are due to be issued to members of the public via an
initial coin offering (ICO) later this year. However, IMF directors
said the potential benefits of the move were much smaller than the
potential costs of "economic, reputational and governance risks."
"[Marshall Island] authorities should seriously reconsider the
issuance of the digital currency as legal tender," wrote the
directors in their report, which was first spotted by Coindesk.
Cultural Intelligence
(techcrunch.com)
Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:25PM from the words-of-wisdom dept.
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report written by
Gillian Hadfield via TechCrunch. Hadfield is a professor of law
and strategic management at the the University of Toronto; a
faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for AI; and a senior policy
advisor at OpenAI. From the report: Building machines that can
perform any cognitive task means figuring out how to build AI that
can not only learn about things like the biology of tomatoes but
also about our highly variable and changing systems of norms
about things like what we do with tomatoes. [...] For AI to be truly
powerful will require machines to comprehend that norms can
vary tremendously from group to group, making them seem
unnecessary, yet it can be critical to follow them in a given
community. [...] Norms concern things not only as apparently
minor as what foods to combine but also things that communities
consider tremendously consequential: who can marry whom, how
children are to be treated, who is entitled to hold power, how
businesses make and price their goods and services, when and
how criticism can be shared publicly. Successful and safe AI that
achieves our goals within the limits of socially accepted norms
requires an understanding of not only how our physical systems
behave, but also how human normative systems behave.
Norms are not just fixed features of the environment, like the
biology of a plant. They are dynamic and responsive structures
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or when to let someone know that "this" is the way "we" do things
around here. These normative systems are the systems on which
we rely to solve the challenge of ensuring that people behave the
way we want them to in our communities, workplaces and social
environments. Only with confidence about how everyone around
us is likely to behave are we all willing to trust and live and invest
with one another. Ensuring that powerful AIs behave the way we
want them to will not be so terribly different. Just as we need to
raise our children to be competent participants in our systems of
norms, we will need to train our machines to be similarly
competent. It is not enough to be extremely knowledgeable about
the facts of the universe; extreme competence also requires
wisdom enough to know that there may be a rule here, in this
group but not in that group. And that ignoring that rule may not
just annoy the group; it may lead them to fear or reject the
machine in their midst.
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Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:45PM from the behind-the-scenes dept.
The next update to Windows 10, due to be released in October,
will be smarter about how it frees up disk space and cleans up
temporary files. Ars Technica reports: As part of its Storage Sense
feature, Windows will be able to automatically remove the local
copies of OneDrive files (unless they've been set as always
available offline). The operating system will determine which files
to remove based on when they were opened: files used more
recently than a certain number of days will be retained locally,
while those that haven't been used will be replaced with
placeholders. The system will remove files until the operating
system reckons it has enough free space for normal operation.
Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:22PM from the nickel-and-dime dept.
Google is now selling an updated headphone adapter that's
supposed to be more responsive and drain less of your phone's
battery. But these minor improvements come at a cost. The new
dongle costs $12, whereas the old dongle sold for just $9. "That
also means Google's headphone adapter now costs more than
Apple's equivalent adapter for the iPhone," The Verge notes. From
the report: Physically, though, the dongle is nearly identical to the Privacy settings
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USB-C to 3.5mm adapter that Google has been selling since last
October: this new version is just a hair smaller in almost every
dimension. Google says the new dongle will connect to your phone
ever so slightly faster, and, more importantly, it's supposed to
draw less power, translating to 38 percent more playback time.
Android Police first spotted the update.
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Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:03PM from the time-is-money dept.
The FCC says it needs more time to review the proposed Sprint-T-
Mobile deal, the agency said in a letter to the companies Tuesday.
According to CNBC, "The agency has paused an 'informal' 180-
day transaction clock 'to allow for thorough staff and third-party
review' of recently submitted materials." From the report: Sprint
and T-Mobile have gone down a rocky road to a merger, calling
off and resuming talks. The companies announced that they would
merge last April in a bid to cut costs and combine forces to
develop a next-generation network called 5G, which would
provide faster speeds, more capacity and lower response times.
But the companies could encounter hurdles to gaining regulatory
approval for the tie-up. A deal between T-Mobile and Sprint, who
are the third largest and fourth largest wireless carriers in the
United States by subscribers, previously faced opposition from
antitrust regulators under President Barack Obama's
administration.
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Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:20PM from the worth-a-shot dept.
A village in Switzerland has decided to go ahead with an
experiment on basic income, with a payout of 2,500 francs
($2,570) per month. The next step is to raise money to finance the
plan via crowdfunding. From a report: More than 50 percent of the
inhabitants of Rheinau, close to the German border, signed up for
the project, according to the organizers website. At least half the
1,300 inhabitants needed to say 'yes,' and the count stood at 692
on Monday. The submitted ballots still have to be checked against
government data to ensure eligibility. The decision comes two
years after a proposal for a nationwide unconditional state
stipend failed to pass in a national vote. Rheinau, on the banks of
the river Rhine an hour by train from the banking hub of Zurich,
was selected by filmmaker Rebecca Panian for the basic income
trial. She says she became fascinated by the notion during the
national debate before up the 2016 vote, decided to select a
village as a guinea pig, and make a documentary.
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Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:40PM from the other-side dept.
Many YouTubers are finding themselves stressed, lonely and
exhausted. The Guardian: For years, YouTubers have believed that
they are loved most by their audience when they project a chirpy,
grateful image. But what happens when the mask slips? This year
there has been a wave of videos by prominent YouTubers talking
about their burnout, chronic fatigue and depression. "This is all I
ever wanted," said Elle Mills, a 20-year-old Filipino-Canadian
YouTuber in a (monetised) video entitled Burnt Out At 19, posted
in May. "And why the fuck am I so unfucking unhappy? It doesn't
make any sense. You know what I mean? Because, like, this is
literally my fucking dream. And I'm fucking so un-fucking-happy."
[...] The anxieties are tied up with the relentless nature of their
work. Tyler Blevins, AKA Ninja, makes an estimated $500,000
every month via live broadcasts of him playing the video game
Fortnite on Twitch, a service for livestreaming video games that is
owned by Amazon. Most of Blevins' revenue comes from Twitch
subscribers or viewers who provide one-off donations (often in the
hope that he will thank them by name "on air"). Blevins recently
took to Twitter to complain that he didn't feel he could stop
streaming. "Wanna know the struggles of streaming over other
jobs?" he wrote, perhaps ill-advisedly for someone with such a
stratospheric income. "I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000
subscribers on Twitch. I'll be back today... grinding again." There
was little sympathy on Twitter for the millionaire. But the pressure
he described is felt at every level of success, from the titans of the
content landscape all the way down to the people with channels
with just a few thousand subscribers, all of whom feel they must be
constantly creating, always available and responding to their fans.
Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:00PM from the end-of-road dept.
Plex has informed users that it will be shutting down cloud-based
media server Plex Cloud at the end of November. First launched in
2016, Plex Cloud offered users a way to easily access extra
storage. Initially, users had to subscribe to Amazon Drive, which
cost $59.99 a year for unlimited storage at the time and get a Plex
Pass in order to use Plex Cloud. Later on, Plex added support for
Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage. From
a report, which looks at the rationale behind the move: "We've
made the difficult decision to shut down the Plex Cloud service on Privacy settings
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Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:20PM from the actions-speak-louder-than-words
An anonymous reader shares an exclusive report from Reuters:
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order as soon
as Wednesday that will slap sanctions on any foreign companies
or people who interfere in U.S. elections, based on intelligence
agency findings, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Trump's decision to sign an executive order coincides with
intelligence agencies, military and law enforcement preparing to
defend the Nov. 6 congressional elections from predicted foreign
attacks even as Trump derides a special counsel investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
'Rosetta' System
Helps the Company Understand
Text Within Image, Which is
Crucial In Handling Memes,
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Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:40PM from the how-about-that dept.
Facebook announced on Tuesday a new AI system, codenamed
"Rosetta," which helps teams at the company as well as those at
Instagram identify text within images to better understand what
their subject is and more easily classify them for search or to flag
abusive content. From a report: It's not all memes; the tool scans
over a billion images and video frames daily across multiple
languages in real time, according to a company blog post. Rosetta
makes use of recent advances in optical character recognition
(OCR) to first scan an image and detect text that is present, at
which point the characters are placed inside a bounding box that
is then analyzed by convolutional neural nets that try to recognize
the characters and determine what's being communicated. This
technology has been in practice for a while -- Facebook has been
working with OCR since 2015 -- but implementing this across the
company's vast networks provides a crazy degree of scale that
motivated the company to develop some new strategies around
character detection and recognition.
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Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:00PM from the how-about-that dept.
Advances in technology mean that a four-day week working week
is a realistic goal for most people by the end of this century, the
leader of the UK's trade union movement has said. From a report:
Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union
Congress (TUC), used her speech to the organisation's 150th
annual gathering to insist that evolving technology and
communications should cut the number hours spent at work.
Speaking in Manchester on Monday, O'Grady said: "In the 19th
century, unions campaigned for an eight-hour day. In the 20th
century, we won the right to a two-day weekend and paid holidays.
So, for the 21st century, let's lift our ambition again. I believe that
in this century we can win a four-day working week, with decent
pay for everyone. It's time to share the wealth from new
technology, not allow those at the top to grab it for themselves."
Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:20PM from the betrayal dept.
Jason Koebler writes: The California Farm Bureau, a group that
lobbies on behalf of farmers, reached a "right to repair"
agreement with the Equipment Dealers Association (which
represents John Deere and other manufacturers) last week. But the
specifics of the agreement were written by the manufacturers, and
falls far short of providing the types of change that would be
needed to make repairing tractors easier. In fact, the agreement
makes the same concessions that the Equipment Dealers
Association announced in February it would voluntarily give to all
farmers. The agreement will not allow farmers to buy repair parts,
break firmware DRM, or otherwise alter software for the purposes
of repair.
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