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Feb 15, 2022

Nigerian immigrant begins manufacturing first-ever Black-owned fleet of self-driving pods

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation

A Black-owned tech firm based in Miami, Florida, has begun manufacturing self-driving vehicles called JéGO Pods. The firm will start releasing the pods in late 2022 and will be used to mobilize healthcare services.

JéGO Technologies Inc is founded by Frederick Akphoghene, a Nigerian immigrant, who started his career in tech as early as 16. Since he started his journey, he has built and partnered with hundreds of companies and startups including Abovav Technologies and Oddio Tribe Holdings.

According to Akphoghene, the purpose of his company is to use its mobile platform to connect users with businesses that provide on-demand services like Flu Testing, COVID testing, IV therapy and other services which can be brought directly to customers using driverless JéGO pods.

Feb 14, 2022

Elon Musk — People Don’t Realize What’s Coming!

Posted by in categories: business, climatology, education, Elon Musk, law, space, sustainability

He’s absolutely right about birth rates and its implications for our species. OVER population is a disproven concept as far as our near and near-far future goes.


Elon Musk is the charismatic co-founder of PayPal and Tesla, as well as the founder of SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He serves as CEO of Tesla and CEO/lead designer of SpaceX. Watch along as he explains why earth doesn’t have a lot of time left.

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Feb 12, 2022

Married Couple Steals $4.5 Billion in Bitcoin Heist [Bitfinex]

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, business, media & arts

A video on what happened.


What a wild ride!

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Feb 12, 2022

How Remote Workers Are Secretly Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, employment, neuroscience

Work remotely, work more jobs.


With the pandemic’s turbocharged acceleration of remote work options, many employees have sought to capitalize on the lack of personal supervision by secretly working two (or more) full-time jobs at once. But while there’s more money to be made, the strategy brings with it significant tradeoffs, namely mental health.

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Feb 11, 2022

IBM Announces Quantum Computing Partnership With Quebec

Posted by in categories: business, government, quantum physics, robotics/AI

IBM has just announced a partnership with the Government of Quebec to create the Quebec-IBM Discovery Accelerator in Bromont, Quebec. The accelerator will focus on using quantum computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) to develop new projects, business/scientific/academia collaborations, and skills-building initiatives in research areas including energy, life sciences (genomics and drug discovery), new materials development, and sustainability. This is the fourth such center that IBM has announced. The three previously announced partnerships are with Cleveland Clinic, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council Hartree Centre. IBM’s formal mission statement for these Discovery Accelerators is: “Accelerate scientific discovery and societal impact with a convergence of AI, quantum, and hybrid cloud in a community of discovery with research, academic, industry, startup, and government organizations working together.” IBM’s formal mission statement for these Discovery Accelerators is:

“Accelerate scientific discovery and societal impact with a convergence of AI, quantum, and hybrid cloud in a community of discovery with research, academic, industry, startup, and government organizations working together.”

In addition, the company has developed individual mission statements for each of the four Discovery Accelerators:

Feb 9, 2022

Whistleblower Alleges NSO Offered To ‘Drop Off Bags Of Cash’ In Exchange To Access To US Cellular Networks

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, government, mobile phones

The endless parade of bad news for Israeli malware merchant NSO Group continues. While it appears someone might be willing to bail out the beleaguered company, it still has to do business as the poster boy for the furtherance of human rights violations around the world. That the Israeli government may have played a significant part in NSO’s sales to known human rights violators may ultimately be mitigating, but for now, NSO is stuck playing defense with each passing news cycle.

Late last month, the New York Times revealed some very interesting things about NSO Group. First, it revealed the company was able to undo its built-in ban on searching US phone numbers… provided it was asked to by a US government agency. The FBI took NSO’s powerful Pegasus malware for a spin in 2019, but under an assumed name: Phantom. With the permission of NSO and the Israeli government, the malware was able to target US numbers, albeit ones linked to dummy phones purchased by the FBI.

The report noted the FBI liked what it saw, but found the zero-click exploit provided by NSO’s bespoke “Phantom” (Pegasus, but able to target US numbers) might pose constitutional problems the agency couldn’t surmount. So, it walked away from NSO. But not before running some attack attempts through US servers — something that was inadvertently exposed by Facebook and WhatsApp in their lawsuit against NSO over the targeting of WhatsApp users. An exhibit declared NSO was using US servers to deliver malware, something that suggested NSO didn’t care about its self-imposed restrictions on US targeting. In reality, it was the FBI and NSO running some tests on local applications of zero-click malware that happened to be caught by Facebook techies.

Feb 9, 2022

European scientists in ‘landmark’ nuclear fusion breakthrough

Posted by in categories: business, nuclear energy

Experiment at UK’s JET facility boosts hope that clean power source could soon be harnessed commercially.


News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication.

Feb 9, 2022

Top resources to learn quantum machine learning

Posted by in categories: business, information science, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Quantum computing and machine learning are two of the most exciting technologies that can transform businesses. We can only imagine how powerful it can be if we can combine the power of both of these technologies. When we can integrate quantum algorithms in programs based on machine learning, that is called quantum machine learning. This fascinating area has been a major area of tech firms, and they have brought out tools and platforms to deploy such algorithms effectively. Some of these include TensorFlow Quantum from Google, Quantum Machine Learning (QML) library from Microsoft, QC Ware Forge built on Amazon Braket, etc.

Students skilled in working with quantum machine learning algorithms can be in great demand due to the opportunities the field holds. Let us have a look at a few online courses one can use to learn quantum machine learning.

In this course, the students will start with quantum computing and quantum machine learning basics. The course will also cover topics on building Qnodes and Customised Templates. It also teaches students to calculate Autograd and Loss Function with quantum computing using Pennylane and to develop with the Pennylane.ai API. The students will also learn how to build their own Pennylane Plugin and turn Quantum Nodes into Tensorflow Keras Layers.

Feb 7, 2022

Keren Haruvi — President, Sandoz US, Head Of North America — Global Generic Medicine Access For All

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, chemistry, economics, finance

Pioneering global generic medicine access to improve and extend people’s lives — keren haruvi snir-president, sandoz US, head of north america.


Keren Haruvi is President of Sandoz US and Head of their North America business (https://www.novartis.us/about-us/our-leadership/us-country-l…n-haruvi).

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Feb 4, 2022

This Huge Bet on Blockchain Could Change A $50 Trillion Industry

Posted by in categories: blockchains, business, energy

Blockchain may one day eliminate inefficiencies and lack of transparency in supply chains. While slow in coming, this revolution would benefit not only customers and brands, but the invisible” workers who power global trade.

#Blockchain #SystemShock #BloomberQuicktake.

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