Google Meet, a popular video conferencing platform, is now offering users the ability to touch up their appearance with new portrait filters. This feature was previously available on the mobile app and has now been rolled out to the web app version of Google Meet. Users can choose from two different filters: subtle and smoothing.
Reddit, the popular online platform, has recently come under scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its data-licensing business. According to an updated initial public offering (IPO) prospectus, Reddit received a letter from the FTC on March 14, 2024, informing the company that the FTC’s staff is conducting a non-public inquiry into Reddit’s sale,
A recent study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing in February 2024 introduced a novel approach to estimating both direct and diffuse solar radiation. Researchers incorporated data augmentation techniques with the LightGBM machine learning model to analyze sunshine duration data from a vast network of 2,453 weather stations across China. This method effectively addresses
Tesla, the well-known electric vehicle maker, recently settled a racist discrimination lawsuit in which a federal jury awarded $3.2 million in damages to Owen Diaz, a Black man who worked as an elevator operator at its Fremont, California factory in 2015. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but the attorney representing Diaz, Lawrence Organ,
A recent case involving electric vehicle maker Tesla and one of its employees has resulted in a troubling verdict. An Indiana jury found Tesla and the employee, Kyle Kaszuba, partially liable in a 2017 crash that involved a company-owned Ford truck and a motorcycle. The victim, Christopher Dugan, suffered a partial amputation, permanent disfigurement, and
LED technology has come a long way since Thomas Edison’s invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879. While the first red LEDs were introduced in 1969, it wasn’t until 1998 that white LEDs were successfully commercialized by Japan’s Nakamura Shoji. This marked a significant milestone in the lighting industry and paved the way for LEDs
When it comes to fried eggs, I must admit that I am not their biggest fan. However, my opinions took a turn when I stumbled upon the intriguing sci-fi cooking simulation game, Arctic Eggs. The game’s unique concept and mesmerizing visuals immediately caught my attention, despite my usual aversion to fried eggs. The sparse description
The development of flexible sensors with exotic sensing capabilities has been a significant advancement in the field of technology in recent years. However, the challenge lies in accurately measuring complex deformations resulting from forces or strains from multi-axes due to the Poisson’s effect of sensing materials, hindering the independent perception of biaxial stimuli. Researchers have
Recent research has unveiled a groundbreaking new design for high-efficiency blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), promising longer-lasting and higher definition television screens. The study, published in Nature Materials, presents a simplified structure that could potentially address the existing drawbacks of OLED displays, such as high costs and short lifespans. The potential implications of this new
In a groundbreaking collaboration between Prof. Cui Linsong’s research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Prof. Samuel D. Stranks’ team from the University of Cambridge, a novel strategy has been developed to improve the efficiency and stability of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on perovskite materials. This research, recently