As some holiday tree sellers fear they’ll sell out by Thanksgiving and parcel shipping companies worry about November gridlock, a growing number of people on a quest for joy have bucked tradition and gone full-on Christmas weeks earlier than they normally would.
It's dark. It's cold. It's 2020. Ho ho ho.
In a scenario presented by the researchers in an explanatory video, they described how a sensitive Zoom conversation could vibrate nearby objects such as a trashcan.
A compromised robot vacuum cleaner might then target the trashcan, and record its vibrations via its LiDAR sensors.
…shouldn't they at least mention who the researchers are? Seems only fair.
…the U.S. does not have an official language but it seems only fair to require the U.S. freaking Senate to communicate in some language, and not in unintelligible pap like this.
“Specifically, the NSF must support research on manipulated or synthesized content and information authenticity and NIST must support research for the development of measurements and standards necessary to accelerate the development of the technological tools to examine the function and outputs of generative adversarial networks or other technologies that synthesize or manipulate content.”
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“I’ve never seen, in my 28 years’ experience, the amount of fraud that I’ve seen currently,” Roy Dotson, an assistant to the special agent in charge of the Secret Service, told CNBC. “And I think that’s just based sheerly on the amount of money the CARES Act allocated into Covid-related fraud and stimulus.”
…whether the current pandemic has broken so many things or simply revealed so many things broken already. Or whether this is just the way things always were and always will be (I prefer not to believe that one, but still).
Even so, we will need more of it: I am told 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits on December 26.
Five other Army reservists have also died from the coronavirus this year, as well as two Army National Guard members. An active-duty sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt also died from the virus. Chief Petty Officer Charles Robert Thacker Jr., 41, died April 13 at a naval hospital on Guam.
"Service member" here refers to serving Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and now Space Force personnel, as well as Army Reserve and National Guard members. That's a whole lot of people. Ten have died.
Granted, these folks are, overall, younger than the general population (although not all of them are 20 anymore, or even 30). And possibly, overall, somewhat more fit. But they are also, as a group, trained to "go by the book." (You can say "follow orders," if you like. Or, "work together.")
Pretty clearly, it seems to me, an organized approach to this pandemic works.
"A bust of the ancient god Hermes, in good condition, was discovered in central Athens during sewage work, authorities said Sunday.…
The head is in the style of famed Greek sculpture Alcamenes, who flourished in the second half of fifth century B.C., the ministry said."
