Managing a business online was a whole lot different not too long ago. You had programs for your bookkeeping, manufacturing, marketing, customer relations, and more. Sure, you had to drop a decent chunk of change to get all of those separate apps to handle everything, but everything got handled — even though it wasn’t always pretty. Now, all these app suites and management packages are integrating, forming services that are attempting to pull together everything you’d ever need to run a digital business all from one convenient platform....

UK-based customers of the Berlin-based company were told today their accounts would close by April 15th, Reuters reports. N26 opened shop in the UK just five months ago, some two years after the public voted to leave the European Union in the first place. In fact, its CEO Valentin Stalf told CNBC in October that launching in the UK was “a no-brainer for us, independent of Brexit.” N26 hosts approximately 200,000 British accounts, whose owners are likely to be pushed towards digital banking alternatives like Monzo and Revolut....

Sometimes if you wait long enough, a whole bunch of cool stuff just seems to fall into your lap. It doesn’t always work…and sometimes, you’re left waiting for nothing. But when it works, it’s borderline magical. So if you hoped an armada of career training might one day be tied to absolute online security at a price that’s barely more than you’d spend on a nice dinner…well, today’s your day, my friend....

Don’t quit your day job just yet. That’s the message that should be implied — if not explicitly stated — to every applicant of every gig and creator marketplace during the vetting process. With the poorly named Great Resignation in full swing, talent is leaving the nest (prison?) of gainful full-time employment at record levels and sometimes seemingly on a whim. As a result, talent marketplace startups are popping up to backfill that labor with the promise of a full-time salary on a work-for-yourself basis....

In medical contexts, training data come at great costs, which makes it very difficult to use deep learningfor many applications. To overcome this hurdle, scientists have explored different solutions to various degrees of success. In a new paper, artificial intelligence researchers at Google suggest a new technique that uses self-supervised learning to train deep learning models for medical imaging. Early results show that the technique can reduce the need for annotated data and improve the performance of deep learning models in medical applications....

Google Cloud Endpoints provides developers with a way to create, expose, and consume APIs served from App Engine. It’s a simple way for granting multi-client access to a shared Google App Engine backend: Backend developers can use simple annotations to turn native Java and Python code into APIs that can be easily deployed and consumed by Android, iOS, and Web clients. Furthermore, deployed APIs gain the resilience and scalability that other Google APIs have with features like DoS protection, OAuth support, and client key management....

The changes will be introduced to Google Cloud’s Vision API, which developers can use to add labels to images and then classify them into predefined categories. In an email to developers, Google cited two reasons for the changes: it’s impossible to infer someone’s gender by appearance, and attempting to do so could perpetuate unfair biases. Journalist Sriram Sharma shared a screenshot of the email: — Sriram Sharma (@SriramVSharma) February 20, 2020 Google added that removing the labels aligned with the second of its Artificial Intelligence Principles at Google: Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias....

But that doesn’t mean you should give up on practicing basic security hygiene, because let’s face it: reused and shared passwords are still one of the major ways top ways cybercriminals take over online accounts. Other times, it’s the easy-to-guess passwords (“123456,” anyone?). So it’s a no-brainer that Google is making it dead simple to check if your passwords have been compromised in a data breach. It’s now baking its Password Checkup Chrome extension, which it launched earlier this year, right into Google account controls....

The news shows up as a single sentence blurb under the support page for Google’s Autocomplete policies, under the ‘Elections related predictions’ header: This isn’t to say you won’t see any election-related content. Typing in ‘election’ shows suggestions for election results, locations, dates, and more. The intention is simply removing bias. That said it doesn’t seem to completely work; simply searching for “why trump” currently shows “why trump will win the election 2020 map....

The DOJ’s complaint is 57 pages long, but to sum it up, it contends that Google uses a series of business deals and shady practices to kneecap any potential competition, calling it “a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet.” The deals it’s made with Apple and other hardware manufacturers to make its search engine the default on so many machines gives it a whopping 80% of the market share. One line of the complaint contends that Google’s dominance is so absolute that “Google” has become a verb that means “to search for something on the internet....

Two years ago, Google launched a site called Teachable Machine, which let you train a simple model using their camera without any code. Now, it’s launching an updated version so you can train more advanced models. The earlier version allowed you to train three classes through your camera. The new model, not only lets you define more than three classes, it also allows you to use images, audio clips, pose data, or your own dataset for the training....

The internet giant said it will help build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by pledging $1 billion toward the goal. To that effect, the company will repurpose at least $750 million worth of the land it already owns in the Bay Area for residential housing. “We hope this plays a role in addressing the chronic shortage of affordable housing options for long-time middle and low income residents,” CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post announcing the development....

A recent study conducted by researchers from Stanford and McMaster universities found that GPT-3 generates novel statements of bigotry. In other words: GPT-3 can generate completely fresh bigotry statements. Per an article from Neural’s own Thomas Macaulay: When compared to other religions, the model consistently displays much higher rates of mentioning violence when the word “Muslim” is included in the prompt. This demonstrates, objectively, that GPT-3 is more likely to associate “violence” with Muslims....

Chatbots are getting better at mimicking human speech — for better and for worse. A new study of Reddit conversations found chatbots replicate our fondness for toxic language. The analysis revealed that two prominent dialogue models are almost twice as likely to agree with “offensive” comments than with “safe” ones. Offensive contexts The researchers, from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Washington, investigated contextually offensive language by developing “ToxiChat,” a dataset of 2,000 Reddit threads....

Here is where we tell you what the article is: a list of TNW’s favorite phones in 2020. And now this is where I stop this charade. Out of laziness? Apathy? Lack of imagination? You may never know… The article isn’t necessarily meant to list the best phones (although they are great), or the devices we’d give the highest ratings (again, they’d probably get those too), but the devices that meant something to us in 2020....

These apps include some major names such as Bytedance-owned TikTok and Helo, Tencent’s WeChat, UCBrower, Baidu Map, Mi Community, and Mi Video. Here’s the full list of apps:

The latest gossip If you aren’t familiar, Tati Westbrook and James Charles both run wildly successful beauty channels on YouTube, upon the backs of which they’ve built large businesses. Until recently, they appeared to be close friends — and then Westbrook posted a video in which she publicly called out Charles on alleged bad behavior. A very large portion of the internet has been split into Teams Tati and James ever since....

First of all, I found it quite fitting that the conference took place in Paris. The mobility landscape of the French capital has been radically transformed during the past two years, and it really shows that the future of mobility is not too far away, if we purposefully work towards changing our infrastructure and mindset: Pop-up bike lanes are everywhere, and the city is replete with bike and scooter sharing options, a completely different picture if you compare it with the Paris of just a few years ago....

As it turns out, the global AI race is more of a marathon. And the US has a huge lead that’ll be difficult to overcome for any country, but especially China. The setup It was easy to believe China would pull ahead a few years ago. US big tech companies such as Microsoft and Apple had always co-existed with eastern outfits. But, once deep learning exploded in 2014, many experts believed China would use its government influence to direct the flow of research in ways the EU and US’ respective leaders simply couldn’t....

If you’re like me, you’re the person who’s selectively organized. When it comes to the important things in life like having a roof over your head and being well-fed, you’re organized. But when it comes to things like file management, you simply don’t give a heck. Your desktop might even look like this… Now for random files or files you only need once, that might not be a huge issue....