The Brief, Expensive History of BMW’s Wild Collaboration with Lamborghini
It happens all too often: The minute you drive the car of your dreams, it loses the allure.
Often, it’s because of what’s under the hood. The fast-looking flared fenders and outré edges of plenty of vintage Porsches and Ferraris can conceal an anemic engine. Compared to the power and braking capabilities of modern cars, the classics end up feeling like tin cans to drive, rather than face-melting screamers. Never meet your heroes.
In Finland, prisoners are being taught crucial AI skills | WIRED UK
A prison in Turku, a city in the south of Finland, has become a testing ground for a new smart prisons project. In some wards of the prison, laptops and tablets are appearing in cells and libraries, allowing prisoners to read the news, practice arithmetic – and take a course in Artificial Intelligence.
Who tips best on Uber? Economists analyzed 40 million trips. Here’s what they found. - The Washington Post
Nearly 60 percent of Uber riders never tip, about 1 percent always tip, and those who tip leave an average of $3, according to a new analysis of the company’s rollout of in-app tipping in 2017. And if you loved those gratuity factoids, rest assured these are just the tip of the iceberg.
What is your unfair advantage? - AirTree - Medium
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Australia readies for cyber 'Pearl Harbour'Australian Financial ReviewAustralian Financial Review
The Morrison government is working on new powers to allow security agencies to defend critical private sector infrastructure from a "cyber Pearl Harbour" attack as concerns rise that Chinese hackers could launch an economic assault.
Bravo for Google’s ‘quantum supremacy.’ Here’s what needs to happen next. - The Washington Post
Google’s AI Quantum team announced Wednesday that it had reached an important milestone in quantum computing known as “quantum supremacy” — the point when quantum computers can perform a task that today’s supercomputers would be essentially incapable of handling.
15 Buzzworthy Consumer Tech Trends We'll See In The Near Future
Fall is officially here, which means the holidays are right around the corner. In the tech world, this means that announcements and advertisements for the latest gadgets will soon dominate media headlines and trends, and e-commerce companies are gearing up to handle the rush of traffic headed to their websites ...