Mirroring Apple, Google now too updated its Play Store policies to ban cryptocurrency-mining apps explicitly. Google says: “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices”. We permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency.”
Apple, however, went further than Google by also banning apps that use coin giveaways as an incentive to get social media engagement or app downloads.
A study from MIT Media Lab has published findings that show facial recognition algorithms designed by IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ had error rates of up to 35 percent higher when detecting the gender of darker-skinned women compared to lighter-skinned men. This bias has the potential to reinforce prejudice within the society and negatively affect women and minorities.
Even though the problem within has been identified, the tech industry has no plans nor ideas about how to fix it. Individual firms have begun dealing with the bias in their own software, however, there are no benchmarks that would allow the public to track improvement on an industry-wide scale.
The three-dimensional applications with elements that can interact with your environment, on the other hand, are called “immersive apps. Magic Leap will start shipping its mixed reality headsets this summer.
The surfboard comes in black and red and matches the company’s vehicle aesthetic, mixing of the same high-quality matte and gloss finishes used on all their cars.
There were only 200 made which makes them limited edition. As of now all of them have sadly been already sold out! However, a small number made their way onto eBay attached with an amended price tag of $2000-$5000.
Leaves us to wonder what other extravagant new additions to Tesla’s “lifestyle” accessories there will be?!