BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A California man is behind bars for a deadly shooting that occurred early Wednesday morning at a Baton Rouge hotel. According to Baton Rouge Police Department, the suspect admitted to police that he killed the victim for ‘spiritual reasons,’ after receiving a message from Santa Muerte, a Mexican folk saint.Investigators said two men, David Mendez, 45, of San Bernardino, Calif., and Juan Enrique Reyes Lugos, 26, of San Antonio, Mexico, got into an argument around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at the Sleep Inn in the 10300 block of Plaza Americana Drive. They were…
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Parabon’s technology “doesn’t tell you the exact number of millimeters between the eyes or the ratio between the eyes, nose, and mouth,” Greytak says. Without that sort of precision, facial recognition algorithms cannot deliver accurate results—but deriving such precise measurements from DNA would require fundamentally new scientific discoveries, she says, and “the papers that have tried to do prediction at that level have not had a lot of success.” Greytak says Parabon only predicts the general shape of someone’s face (though the scientific feasibility of such prediction has also been questioned). Police have been known to run forensic sketches based…
Studytube, a Dutch online learning platform, has acquired Springest, a European training-booking marketplace. Simultaneously it’s closed a $30 million Series B investment round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP) and existing investor Verdane Capital. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Studytube offers mid-sized and large enterprises an online learning and development platform through a SaaS-enabled marketplace, providing courses from third-party providers. By adding Springest , Studytube will add over 30 clients including T-Mobile, Vattenfall, Aegon, NS, Eneco, and STORK, and wil now have over 300 mid-size to large enterprises across various industries, said the company. It also expands its presence…
Ben Egliston / Wired: Game companies are increasingly using big gameplay data sets to gain insight into what players like, how they play, what they’ll likely spend money on, and more — Players generate a wealth of revealing psychological data—and some companies are soaking it up. … APPLICATION — COMPANY
New years always bring about excitement, energy, and predictions for what will happen in the future. Of course, the last two years alone have significantly shaped what the next ten will bring, but a few things stick out to me from the trends I have been watching. So let’s get to it. 12 Predictions for 2022 and beyond 1/ Digital Transformation On Main Street. Certain technologies have only been available to the most prominent companies for the last few decades. Those technologies either cost too much money, or the company that ran them didn’t even care about small businesses. Tools…
Enlarge / The New York Times is buying Wordle. The New York Times announced today that its Games division would be purchasing Wordle—everyone’s favorite five-letter-word guessing game and emoji-square generator—for a number in the “low-seven figures.” The sale caps a meteoric rise for the simple game. It rode word-of-mouth recommendations and glowing media coverage to prominence, was subject to multiple copycat apps that Apple removed from its App Store, and inevitably generated backlash from people who don’t like it when other people have fun in public. “At the time it moves to The New York Times, Wordle will be free…
Future history The NSA’s Research Directorate is descended from the Black Chamber, the first group of civilian codebreakers in the United States who were tasked with spying on cutting-edge technology, like the telegraph. Existing only from 1919 to 1929, the group decoded over 10,000 messages from a dozen nations, according to James Bamford’s 2001 book Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency. In addition to groundbreaking cryptanalytic work, the group succeeded by securing surveillance help from American cable companies like Western Union that could supply the newly minted US spies with sensitive communications to examine. The Black…
Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. Now, hoping to tear down yet another financial barrier that she herself faced, Yahyaoui is expanding Mos into a challenger bank. It’s an evolution from Mos as an edtech business built to help students navigate their way through applying and attending college…
Reuters: Sources: Israeli surveillance company QuaDream used the zero-click ForcedEntry exploit to access iPhones in 2021; ForcedEntry was also used by NSO Group — A flaw in Apple’s software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was simultaneously abused …
iOS is a hardware-specific operating system developed by Apple Inc. The company released the first iOS version in 2007 for iPhone. Statistics indicate that there are more than 1 billion iPhone users today. Moreover, the number is growing every year, with iOS being the second most commonly used mobile operating system after Android. iOS for Barcode Scanning The iOS interface is pretty user-friendly and straightforward. Hence, you don’t have to struggle while using its features, even after a version upgrade. iOS is a powerful entity, and today, there are more than 3 million apps available on the Apple Store. You’ll…