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Users will then have to enter a meter number and the amount of time they need to be parked. If for any reason you need to be in that spot for longer you ll be able to top up your parking ticket with just a few taps.
This parking feature is rolling out to over 400 cities in the US including Boston, LA, New York and Washington DC.
Android users will be getting the feature first with iOS not too much longer after that. Unfortunately, Google hasn t said whether this feature will end up in other countries. Hopefully, it will as it sounds like an incredibly handy tool to have at your disposal.
Geographical Magazine HUMAN COMPATIBLE: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell book review Written by Jacob Dykes by Stuart Russell • allen lane
If a human baby, in its first year of life, became the world Chess or Go champion, pandemonium would erupt. Theories would include demonic possession, an alien visitation, or a genetic engineering experiment let loose on the world. That baby did exist however: its name was AlphaGo, and the proud parents at Google trained it in 2016 through ‘reinforcement learning’ and 1.5 million iterations of ‘self-play’.
It’s this relationship between the human and machine mind that is at the centre of Stuart Russell’s Human Compatible. Russell knows that many of us don’t really understand the cognitive framework behind algorithms. To explain, he holds up a mirror to the human brain to demonstrate what algorithms are being programmed to do.
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Researchers create ‘beautiful marriage’ of quantum enemies
Cornell scientists have identified a new contender when it comes to quantum materials for computing and low-temperature electronics.
Using nitride-based materials, the researchers created a material structure that simultaneously exhibits superconductivity – in which electrical resistance vanishes completely – and the quantum Hall effect, which produces resistance with extreme precision when a magnetic field is applied.
“This is a beautiful marriage of the two things we know, at the microscale, that give electrons the most startling quantum properties,” said Debdeep Jena, the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Jena led the research, published Feb. 19 in Science Advances, with doctoral student Phillip Dang and research associate Guru Khalsa, the paper’s senior authors.
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If you miss the days when you could easily use your phone with just one hand then Android 12 may have the ticket for you. It s been reported that the open-sourced version of Android could be getting a new One-Handed mode. This feature can be switched on in the Settings area of Android, and will be ideal for taller phones that typically require two hands to operate.
Since Google are adding this feature to the open-sourced version of Android, it means other OEMs who haven t developed their own version of the feature will be able to take advantage of it.