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PSA: Don’t give in to police officer asking for your Bitcoin, it’s a scam

Apr25
by on April 25, 2019 at 8:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Has a cop recently asked you to hand over your cryptocurrency? Well, a phone scammer posing as a police officer is targeting victims in California, requesting they hand over all the money in their bank account in Bitcoin. Berkely Police Department (BPD) has issued a warning, stating a woman received a phone call from someone claiming to be “Officer Neil Matthew” of the BPD. The scammer demanded the woman send him all her money using the cryptocurrency, claiming she was under investigation for “drug trafficking and fraudulent activities.” The woman received multiple phone calls from various numbers – including 911. …

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Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast now – but you may have already heard it

Apr25
by on April 25, 2019 at 5:43 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just launched a podcast the same day that his company issued its latest quarterly earnings report. But if you’ve been following his public posts on the social network over the few months, you’ve probably already heard the first two episodes. That’s because Tech & Society with Mark Zuckerberg (currently available only on Spotify, as far as we can tell) is essentially an audio version of the videos of conversations he’s had with experts about the impact that technologies have on the world at large. The first one features Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain (recorded in February),…

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Deep learning can help us eradicate suicide – but only if we let it

Apr24
by on April 24, 2019 at 11:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


Humanity’s mental health crisis has reached pandemic proportions. Bluntly put: we don’t seem capable of solving the problem on our own. Cutting edge AI research shows a clear path forward, but society as a whole will have to accept the fact that mental health is real in order for us to take the first steps. Machine learning researchers in academia, government, and industry are all scrambling to adapt and apply modern artificial intelligence techniques – deep learning in particular – to the suicide problem. The big idea seems to be that AI can act as a sort of early detection…

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