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What Is a Supply Chain Attack?

From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.

Russia , Russian , Uc-berkeley-international-computer-science-institute , Department-of-justice , Department-of-defense , Nick-weaver , International-computer-science , State-department , Security , Security-news , Hacking

It's True. Everyone IS Multitasking on Their Video Calls

A Microsoft study finds just how often remote workers multitask during videoconferences—especially when the group is large and the meeting runs long.

Hancheng-cao , Jaime-teevan , University-college-london , Microsoft-research , Microsoft , Microsoft-teams , Business , Tech-culture , Artificial-intelligence , Work , Textaboveleftgridwidth , Web

Does a Robot Get to Be the Boss of Me?

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on policing, degrees of freedom, and dancing in the streets.

Boston , Massachusetts , United-states , Hollywood , California , Boston-dynamics , Black-lives-matter , Ideas , Cloud-support , Ethics , Algorithms

This app helps keep Rio's residents safe from gun crime

On March 14, 2018, Rio de Janeiro councillor Marielle Franco was murdered â shot multiple times in a crime that remains unsolved.
Franco's death caused commotion throughout Brazil, and even internationally as she was a politician with a strong social commitment who had been denouncing the growth of armed militias in the city. But some of the first people to find out about the incident werenât the police or the media, but users of an app called Fogo Cruzado, which alerts people to potential shooting incidents across Rio de Janeiro so that they can avoid the area.
âI was the person who gave the shooting alert in downtown Rio â only later I found out it was Marielle,â says the appâs founder Cecilia Oliveira, a journalist and specialist in public security and drug policy.

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The Brain 'Rotates' Memories to Save Them From New Sensations

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During every waking moment, we humans and other animals have to balance on the edge of our awareness of past and present. We must absorb new sensory information about the world around us while holding on to short-term memories of earlier observations or events. Our ability to make sense of our surroundings, to learn, to act, and to think all depend on constant, nimble interactions between perception and memory.
Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developÂments and trends in matheÂmatics and the physical and lifeÂ sciences.

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Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy

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You’ve probably never heard of Acxiom, but it likely knows you: The Arkansas firm claims to have data on 2.5 billion people around the world. And in the US, if someone’s interested in that information, there are virtually no restrictions on their ability to buy and then use it.
Enter the data brokerage industry, the multibillion dollar economy of selling consumers’ and citizens’ intimate details. Much of the privacy discourse has rightly pointed fingers at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, which collect users’ information directly. But a far broader ecosystem of buying up, licensing, selling, and sharing data exists around those platforms. Data brokerage firms are middlemen of surveillance capitalism—purchasing, aggregating, and repackaging data from a variety of other companies, all with the aim of selling or further distributing it.

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TikTok Duets Are Reviving the Exquisite Corpse

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Last September, Daniel Mertzlufft was holed up in his Manhattan apartment avoiding Covid-19 when he decided to rework someone else’s song. Specifically, Louisa Melcher’s “New York Summer,” a plaintive but funny pop ballad. TikTok users had already turned the bridge (
We’re fighting in the grocery store /
and I love you, but I don’t know if I like you anymore) into a meme, but to Mertzlufft’s ear, it needed more drama. The 27-year-old composer and arranger wrote some new lyrics and added some strings and guitar. He recorded himself singing the new arrangement with full theater kid gusto, using TikTok’s greenscreen tool to set the scene in a generic supermarket aisle. The entire process took about an hour. When Mertzlufft posted the video to TikTok, he included a caption as he hits the last note: “This is 100% the end of Act 1.”

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This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not Electrons

Lightmatter says the computing and power demands of complex neural networks need new technologies like these to keep up.

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Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality

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Mathematicians were disturbed, centuries ago, to find that calculating the properties of certain curves demanded the seemingly impossible: numbers that, when multiplied by themselves, turn negative.
All the numbers on the number line, when squared, yield a positive number; 2
2 = 4, and (-2)
2 = 4. Mathematicians started calling those familiar numbers “real” and the apparently impossible breed of numbers “imaginary.”
Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences.

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The Best Gmail Settings You Might Not Have Used Yet

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Gmail is one of the most powerful and most popular email services available, and there’s a reason why. However, many of its best features are buried in the app’s dense settings pages. You’d be forgiven for missing some of the many powerful tools that are sitting right under the surface. We’ve got some of the best ones here to save you time and help you get back to the work you need to do.
Change Undo Send Time Limit
By default, Gmail will wait five seconds after you hit Send to actually send your email. This gives you a moment to realize that you forgot to add an attachment and recall the email. However, five seconds isn’t very much time to catch a mistake. To make this window last a little longer, head to

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