people

The Mech Engineer demo is for people who like hateful interface design

by

If you heard loud cursing in the Watford area last night, it could have been one of two things: 1) I swore at my (borrowed) Steam Deck while surreptitiously accessing the WiFi from outside a closed public library, as I did I don’t currently have broadband at home, or 2) I’ll next try to make heads or tails of Mech Engineer, in which you take control of a mobile undersea metropolis and send squads of carefully assembled robo-soldiers into semi-automated combat against squid-like alien fauna.

Building a mech is a Herculean task whose completion eludes today’s puny scientists, and Mech Engineer doesn’t aim to make life easier, regardless of its supposed status as a “means of fun.” Mech Engineer is honestly a game with an attitude problem. I realized this on day two of the game, when the interface coughed up a number of damage reports, presented as pieces of paper, which I then had to crumple up and throw away individually.

Read more

‘I was terrified of the tea round’: the small changes that can help neurodivergent people thrive at work

by

To the outside world, Kat Brown was a professional success. What her colleagues didn’t know, however, was how much effort it cost her. “I had this underlying sort of buzzing voice in my head of ‘you’re not good enough, you’re not normal, you have to try five times harder than everyone else,’” says Brown, author … Read more

New technology could help find missing people in Colorado’s backcountry in minutes

by

A Durango-based helicopter company is testing a new tool that allows helicopter search and rescue teams to locate and communicate with missing and distressed people in Colorado’s backcountry in minutes, even if they are stuck in an area without cell phone service. The technology, similar to a miniature cell phone tower, attaches to the outside … Read more

How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System Can Be Abused to Track People Around the World

by

In depth Scientists have suggested that Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) could be exploited to create a global privacy nightmare. In an article titled ‘Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems’, Erik Rye, a PhD student at the University of Maryland (UMD) in the US, and Dave Levin, associate professor at UMD, describe how design … Read more

‘People just aren’t afraid of being ripped off’ – BBC News

by

Image source, Clark Hoefnagels Image caption, Clark Hoefnagels has developed an AI-powered tool that recognizes scam emails Item information Author, Jane Wakefield Role, Technology reporter 8 hours ago When Clark Hoefnagels’ grandmother was scammed out of $27,000 last year, he felt compelled to do something about it. “I felt like my family was vulnerable and … Read more

‘People just aren’t afraid of being ripped off’ – BBC News

by

Image source, Clark Hoefnagels Image caption, Clark Hoefnagels has developed an AI-powered tool that recognizes scam emails Item information Author, Jane Wakefield Role, Technology reporter 6 hours ago When Clark Hoefnagels’ grandmother was scammed out of $27,000 last year, he felt compelled to do something about it. “I felt like my family was vulnerable and … Read more

‘VPs have a better life in banking, but only if they are miserable people’

by

Omar Sadraoui knows firsthand what it’s like to be a junior investment banker. He graduated from HEC Paris’ prestigious Masters in Management Program and spent three years at Deutsche Bank in London, first as an analyst and then as an associate, before quitting last August. Sadraoui says he is not alone: ​​most young people are … Read more

I am one of the 100 people in the world who can remember the day we were born

by

By Caitlin Tilley, health reporter for Dailymail.Com 4:12 PM May 20, 2024, updated 4:19 PM May 20, 2024 Two women have revealed what it’s like to live with an incredible condition that has left them remembering what it was like to be a baby. Emily Nash, 18, from Ottawa, Canada, is the youngest known person … Read more

Brutal bank closures leave millions of people stranded in the banking desert. See your region

by

A new poll shows that half of people between the ages of 16 and 24 are angry. Bank branches are closing permanently – further proving that these closures are affecting all age groups Since 2015, banks have closed more than 6,000 branches (NurPhoto via Getty Images) The brutal closure of bank branches has left millions … Read more

Research shows that Paleolithic people settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought

by

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: Flinders University × close to Credit: Flinders University The patterns of early humans’ dispersal across continents and islands are hotly debated, but according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus … Read more