Amperity, the stealth-mode enterprise software company from startup vets Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager, is now seeking a Site Reliability Engineer following a $ 9 million funding round earlier this year. Shahani and Slager are among the co-founders...
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Video: SpotMini robot will clean up your house — when it’s not slipping on banana peels
The latest robot dog-like thing from Boston Dynamics — that we would totally want but be totally afraid of — is called SpotMini and in the the last day or so you’ve probably seen a GIF...
Computational neuroscience: Species-specific motion detectors
A range of neuronal mechanisms can enable animals to detect the direction of visual motion. Computational models now indicate that a factor as simple as eye size might explain some of this diversity.
Nature doi: 10.1038/nature18454
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Following a period of turmoil, Wikimedia Foundation appoints new director
Earlier today, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees has appointed Katherine Maher as its new executive director.
Maher formerly served as communications officer for Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that governs the massive online encyclopedia. She became interim director in March following a period of turmoil during which a board member and former Executive Director Lila Tretikov both...
US Customs wants to ask visitors for ‘social media identifiers’ as they enter country
Visitors trying to enter the United States might want to pay closer attention to what they’re putting out into the world on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere. A proposed change to the forms used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection will ask for...
Independence Day: Resurgence: Like a high-budget porno, minus sex and fun
Heaven help us that we've reached this point: where the legacy of a blatant B-movie retread like 1996's Independence Day can be looked upon fondly, especially in light of a sequel. I have no interest in holding the original film up to some American Film Institute-level standard; the campy Roland Emmerich original is a classic because it knew its place as a piece of hyperbolic, chest-thumping...
NASA considers turning Curiosity rover into a scout for water on Mars mountain
Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer
Gauge theories are fundamental to our understanding of interactions between the elementary constituents of matter as mediated by gauge bosons. However, computing the real-time dynamics in gauge theories is a notorious challenge for classical computational methods. This has recently stimulated theoretical effort, using Feynman’s idea of a quantum simulator, to devise schemes for simulating such theories on engineered quantum-mechanical devices,...
Geek On The Street: iPhone users react to reports that Apple will axe headphone jack
The Wall Street Journal this week reported that the next iteration of the iPhone will not have a headphone jack, confirming rumors that have been swirling for a while. If the report turns out to be true,...