Computer scientists have developed a card-playing bot, called Pluribus, capable of defeating some of the world’s best players at six-person no-limit Texas hold’em poker, in what’s considered an important breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
Or, in the case of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, the entire team.
Walmart has quickly been scaling up its pickup business as the company wants to offer this flexible option at all 3,100 stores across the country. Walmart-owned Sam’s Club is now making a similar move of its own. The retailer has announced that it’s now offering same-day Club Pickup to customers at almost all of its 600 locations in the United States.
Sam’s Club members who place their orders through the retailer’s website or the Sam’s Club app will be able to pick their orders on the same day. They will receive a text or email message when their order is ready for delivery. Items that are available for order as part of this initiative include paper goods, groceries, electronics, and even alcohol.
It will be possible for customers to pick up same day orders within four hours and often it takes even less than that. However, in order to qualify for same day pickup, the orders can’t exceed a total of 15 items. There’s also no minimum dollar amount to meet in order to use Same Day Club PIckup and this is offered free for all Sam’s Club members.
Orders can be picked up after 10 am Monday-Friday and after 9 am on Saturday, based on the customers’ selected pickup time through either a drive-through lane or designated curbside parking spots.
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You’d wonder why someone would need a Bluetooth-enabled hair straightener of all things but one does exist. Glamoriser, a company based in the United Kingdom, sells what it claims to be the “world’s first Bluetooth hair straightener.” Users can link the device to an app in order to set heat and style settings. It can also be used to switch off the straighteners within Bluetooth range remotely. Turns out, it’s pretty easy to hack as well.
That’s the thing about making every device “smart.” Once it becomes a connected device, the door is open just enough for hackers to try and force their way through. Pen Test Partners security researchers were able to do just that with the Bluetooth hair straightener. They could easily send malicious Bluetooth commands within range and thus remotely control someone’s straighteners.
The researchers showed how they could send a malicious command to set the temperature to either the upper or lower limit of the device which is 122°F and 455°F respectively. Since there’s no authentication option for the straighteners, this allows an attacker to remotely change and override the temperature and the duration for which the device is to stay on.
They point out that if a malicious command is sent to the device and it’s kept at the maximum temperature for 20 minutes, it could pose a serious fire hazard. The only upside here is that since the straighteners only allow one concurrent connection, a hacker will only be able to target the device as long as the owner hasn’t connected their phone to it.
The ‘World’s First’ Bluetooth Hair Straightener Is Pretty Easy To Hack , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Amazon today announced that it’s going to spend $700 million in order to retrain a third of its employees in the United States for in-demand jobs. The amount will be used to provide upskilling training programs for one in three of the company’s employees in the United States by 2025. It will help them move to more in-demand jobs within the company.
Amazon’s workforce is expected to hit 300,000 in the United States this year with the company employing some 600,000+ people across the globe. The pledge to retrain a third of its entire U.S. workforce will certainly be one of the largest corporate retraining programs in history.
Amazon has reviewed its workforce and analyzed its U.S. hiring to figure out that its fastest-growing highly skilled jobs over the last five years include data mapping specialist, data scientist, solutions architect and business analyst in addition to logistics coordinator, process improvement manager and transportation specialist within its customer fulfillment network.
So it pledges to upskill 100,000 of employees in its tech hubs, corporate offices, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network. They will be given access to training programs that will help them move into more highly skilled roles either within Amazon or outside the company.
Programs like the Amazon Technical Academy will give non-technical employees the skills to transition into software engineering while Associate2Tech will train fulfillment center workers for technical roles regardless of previous IT experience.
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There’s no escaping ads on Facebook and the company uses the immense data that it has on users to enable advertisers to reach the maximum number of people. However, in order to be transparent with users about the ads they see, the company introduced tools like “Why am I seeing this ad?” and Ad Preferences over four years ago. Since the answers users got with those tools were normally vague, Facebook is now saying that it will be more transparent about why users see a particular ad.
It will now show users more reasons why they’re seeing an ad on Facebook. Ad Preferences have been updated to show users more about the businesses that upload lists with their information like the email address or phone number.
“Why am I seeing this ad?” only highlighted one or two of the most relevant reasons in the past. This could either be the demographic information or because of the website that you visited.
Users will now see more detailed targeting information, broken down to interests or categories that they matched with a specific ad. The tool will also be more clear about where the information came from, such as the Page they liked or the website they visited. Facebook will be highlighting the controls so that users can easily adjust their ad experience.
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Waymo’s self-driving vehicles have driven some 10 million miles on actual roads and that’s an incredible milestone but it only represents a fraction of what the company’s autonomous driving system has driven in simulation. The company has revealed that the self-driving system has driven over 10 billion miles in simulation.
Highlighting the fact that the company has a solid engineering foundation with ample opportunity to innovate and accelerate the deployment of self-driving cars, Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov revealed that the company has put its autonomous driving system through 10 billion miles in simulation.
It was further revealed that Waymo runs the equivalent of 25,000 self-driving cars around the clock in simulation. Whenever one of them picks up something new from its experiences, it shares its findings with the other cars in the fleet.
Simulation driving is obviously not going to be enough and Waymo still needs to perform more real-world driving before it actually deploys self-driving cars on a massive commercial scale. Nevertheless, the simulation testing will certainly aid in that objective.
Dolgov didn’t reveal what the company has learned from the simulation testing but did point out that “”The amount of driving you do in both of those is really a function of the maturity of your system, and the capability of the system.”
“We’ve driven ten billion miles in simulation,” says CTO Dmitri Dolgov at #TCMobility pic.twitter.com/NHtL90wJLX
— Waymo (@Waymo) July 10, 2019
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