The U.S. government’s most comprehensive climate report to date is at odds with the statements made by President Trump and his Cabinet.
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The U.S. government’s most comprehensive climate report to date is at odds with the statements made by President Trump and his Cabinet.
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More than a dozen tourists have told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that posts about attacks at Mexican resorts were deleted. In one case, warnings about the same resort — years apart — were pulled.
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The car subscription service Canvas is expanding from its founding city, San Francisco, down south to Los Angeles. It’s the first new area for the company, which was bought by Ford late last year.
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Specifically, Canvas has expanded its delivery options to West Los Angeles in a small area from Santa Monica east to Culver City, according to its website. The subscription car company essentially offers super-lightweight leases: Users rent vehicles on a month-to-month basis with a single payment that includes maintenance, insurance and features like roadside assistance.
Canvas isn’t the only car subscription service, but at $400 to $500 per month to rent various Ford models, it’s much more affordable than similar monthly-rental options that Cadillac ($1500) and Porsche ($2000) have recently announced. Canvas claims that it has ‘hundreds’ of customers in the Bay, according to TechCrunch. Obviously, LA has more of a car culture than San Francisco, and could be fertile ground for the service. Regardless, Canvas is planning more California expansions.
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We’re relying increasingly on AI to be able to detect things, from exotic states of matter to recognizing specific faces, but how easy is it to fool these mechanisms? That’s what researchers wanted to find out. A group of students took on the task of figuring out how exactly to reliably and consistently trick a neural network into consistently misidentifying an object.
They used what’s called an "adversarial image," which is a picture that’s designed to trick this kind of intelligent computer program. It uses specific patterns to fool the AI. It’s not about what the image looks like; it’s about the pattern that’s in, or overlayed on, the image. It can be added as an almost invisible layer over an existing image. But these adversarial images don’t always work properly; properties like zoom, cropping, angle and other transformations can often corrupt or weaken the adversarial image, and result in a positive detection. The students were interested in figuring out how to create an adversarial image that would fool an AI every time.
The MIT-based team was able to generate an algorithm that would reliably fool an AI using adversarial images and could be applied to both two-dimensional images and 3D printing. These images will trick an AI, regardless of the angle of the object. The team fooled Google’s Inception v3 AI into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a rifle. You can read the full paper on their results at arXiv.org.
It’s important because this issue isn’t limited to Google — it’s a problem in all neural networks. By figuring out how people can fool these systems (and demonstrating that it can be relatively easily and reliably done), researchers can devise new ways to make AI recognition systems more accurate.
Via: The Verge
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IKEA launched the TRÅDFRI smart lighting system back in March of this year, allowing many to get into the LED home lighting game with its affordable pricing. Today, TRÅDFRI now supports Amazon Alexa and Apple’s HomeKit, with Google Home support still to come.
In May, it was noted that Alexa support was indeed coming, with Google Home support also mentioned. With Alexa and Siri support now here, we have to assume support for the Google Assistant-powered hub is on the way.
According to one of our readers, the setup process is incredibly simple. You open up the TRÅDFRI app on your phone, go into your settings, then choose either Amazon Alexa or Apple HomeKit to begin the connection process. Painless and straightforward, just how we like it.
Do you have these in your home yet? If so, how do you like them? If you don’t, you can shop for them right here.
Cheers Chris!
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North Korea always seems to be in the news right now thanks to their aggressive threats and missile tests. The latter being the subject of many people’s doomsday fears. But where could they potentially strike with the missiles they have?
This rundown from the Interactive Digital Storytelling team at the Australian Broadcasting Company shows you exactly how far each of North Korea’s missiles can travel, and where there are possible targets. The most concerning of these weapons is the ER Scud short-range ballistic missile. North Korea has tested these missiles at least 50 times with only one failure, which means they’re pretty much ready to go. They can hit targets up to 1,000 kilometers away (621.371 miles), including all of South Korea and parts of Southern Japan, including the large city of Osaka.
So what about us here in the U.S.? North Korea’s Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missiles have a maximum range of 4,500 kilometers (2796.17 miles), which puts the U.S. military base on Guam in danger. However, only three out of 14 tests have been successful. The Hwasong-14, on the other hand, is estimated to travel about 8,500 kilometers (5281.655 miles), which puts Alaska in range, as well as parts of northern Washington state.
That said, the most recent test suggests it may be able to travel as far as 10,000 kilometers (6213.712 miles), which would put Los Angeles in range (gulp), along with the rest of the western coast. And if the missiles are fired in an easterly direction, the rotation of the Earth may allow these missiles to reach as far as New York City or Washington D.C. Keep in mind, these missiles are still in the early stages of being tested. If you’re really worried about it, though, the safest place on Earth from these missiles is Mar del Plata, Argentina, so pack your bags. You can check out the entire interactive globe at the link below.
Where can North Korea’s missiles reach? | ABC News
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