Day: July 12, 2020

Disney World Reopened Today in Florida, Joining Sea World and Universal

“Cinderella Castle has sat silent for 116 days…” reported CNN Business. But no more — at least, not at Disney World, which today began its grand reopening: “It’s three times the size of Disneyland in terms of revenue,” Michael Nathanson, a media analyst and founding partner at MoffettNathanson, told CNN Business. Nathanson estimates that Disney…


Rust Programming Language To Use ‘Allowlist’ in Place of ‘Whitelist’

“Other terms are more inclusive and precise,” reads a merged Pull request for the Rust programming language titled “Avoid ‘whitelist’.” “This doesn’t look like it affects any ‘user visible’ flags or anything like that,” core developer Niko Matsakis had pointed out in a comment on the pull request, asking “It’s purely internal…?” The pull request…


UFC 251 Usman vs. Masvidal: Start time, how to watch online and full fight card – CNET

Masvidal finally gets his title fight against Usman at UFC 251. …read more Source:: CNet


Detect COVID-19 Symptoms Using Wearable Device and AI

A new study from West Virginia University (WVU) Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) uses a wearable device and artificial intelligence (AI) to predict COVID-19 up to 3 days before symptoms occur. The study has been an impressive undertaking involving over 1000 health care workers and frontline workers in hospitals across New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, and other…


The Linux Team Approves New Neutral Terminology

An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: Linus Torvalds approved on Friday a new and more inclusive terminology for the Linux kernel code and documentation. Going forward, Linux developers have been asked to use new terms for the master/slave and blacklist/whitelist terminologies… The Linux team did not recommend any specific terms but asked developers to choose as…


Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco?

The New York Times explains why Chris Larsen installed over a thousand surveillance cameras around San Francisco to monitor 135 city blocks: It sounds sinister. A soft-spoken cryptocurrency mogul is paying for a private network of high-definition security cameras around the city. Zoom in and you can see the finest details: the sticker on a…


Interactive CNC Foam Cutter Churns Out Abstract Art

Foam is certainly an indispensable raw material for various craft and construction projects. Any serious sculptor however, inevitably grows tired of grinding through a foam block using a simple preheated utensil. The next step up, is to assemble a simple but thoroughly effective hot wire cutting contraption, formed out of a thin guitar wire held…


Spintronics Researchers Demonstrate How to Process Magnetic Vortices for Data Storage

Research continues in a field which involves using the spin and magnetism of electrons in solid-state devices — spintronics. hackingbear shared this report from Nature: Electric control of magnetic vortex dynamics in a reproducible way on an ultrafast time scale is a key element in the quest for efficient spintronic devices with low-energy consumption. Researchers…