In January, 25 autonomous delivery robots descended on George Mason University’in Northern Virginia. The company that manages the machines — Starship Technologies — has revealed how they have changed student behavior.
By Peter Holley, Washington Post: Business
Sun, 03/24/2019 - 11:48pm
In January, 25 autonomous delivery robots descended on George Mason University’in Northern Virginia. The company that manages the machines — Starship Technologies — has revealed how they have changed student behavior.
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Your upcoming vacation to Baja may seem to have nothing in common with your 401(k)—but you’ll get more out of your travel plans if you treat them like an investment. We often treat vacations as a kind of free time outside of our normal lives. When we’re traveling, we feel free to ignore finances, schedules, and the low cholesterol diet the doctor recommended.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu, The New York Times Company REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The modern office building near the harbor in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which displays 320 specimens of mammal penises. To those who track cyber mischief, however, the building also has a reputation as a virtual offshore haven for some of the world’s worst perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware, disinformation, fraud and other wrongdoing. That’s because the museum’s street address, Kalkofnsvegur 2, is also the registered address for Withheld for Privacy, a company that is part of a booming and largely unregulated industry in Iceland and elsewhere that allows people who operate online domains to shield their identities. While the practice has become commonplace for website owners seeking to protect themselves from harassment or spam, it has also helped others cover their tracks from prying regulators, law enforcement officials or victims. Withheld for Privacy and other so-called proxy services have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity far out of proportion to the country’s size. The company — created in 2021 by Namecheap, one of the world’s largest providers of websites — has effectively shielded tens of thousands of sketchy internet sites.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePeter Culshaw is one step closer to turning old offices into new bedrooms. The developer and executive with Shea Properties has been awarded over $4 million in federal and state tax credits needed to finance the firm’s office-to-residential conversion at 4340 S. Monaco St. near the Denver Tech Center. “There’s very few affordable projects in that immediate area … and they’re all full,” Culshaw said. The project is one of 10 income-restricted housing projects within the state that was awarded tax credits by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority last month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhen a city’s NFL mascot gets its own Super Bowl ring, you know you’ve got a champion on your hands. That was the case with Thunder, the Denver Broncos’ real-life mascot, after the team won the 2016 Super Bowl. Yes, it was a real ring, but also a symbolic gesture — just like Thunder.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLUCERNE, Switzerland — Would you trust an “AI Jesus” with your innermost thoughts and troubles? Researchers and religious leaders on Nov. 27 released findings from a two-month experiment through art in a Catholic chapel in Switzerland, where an avatar of “Jesus” on a computer screen — tucked into a confessional — took questions by visitors on faith, morality and modern-day woes, and offered responses based on Scripture. The idea, said the chapel’s theological assistant, was to recognize the growing importance of artificial intelligence in human lives, even when it comes to religion, and explore the limits of human trust in a machine. After the two-month run of the “Deus in Machina” exhibit at Peter’s Chapel starting in late August, some 900 conversations from visitors –- some came more than once –- were transcribed anonymously.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy SHAWN CHEN, Associated Press NEW YORK — It’s time for the holidays, which means robust family conversations and seemingly never-ending courses of food. But for the more tech-savvy among us, the journey home could also mean we’ll be called on to provide a backlog of tech support to parents, grandparents and other family members. And with generative AI being used to supercharge some major cyber scams this year, it’s also a good time to teach and not just fix. Here are some tips on how to manage your tech encounters this holiday season: Set devices up for automatic updates Whether it’s Windows, macOS, iOS or Android, simply keeping your operating system and apps up-to-date will help protect your family’s computers and devices against a surprising number of security threats, such as malware, viruses and exploits. Most operating systems, especially those for mobile devices and their app stores, typically have auto-updates turned on by default.
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