macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions

macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions

While all of our 32-bit games will continue to function on macOS Mojave, we’ve decided to remove these games from sale by the end of the day today (6/17/19). After today, the entire library of Aspyr titles on Mac will be 64-bit or will receive a 64-bit update before September. For Steam players, if you stay on Mojave, you will be able to access your 32-bit Aspyr titles purchased on Steam.

Source: support.aspyr.com

Citizens on Patrol: What If Your Neighbor Could Give You a Parking Ticket?

Citizens on Patrol: What If Your Neighbor Could Give You a Parking Ticket?

Few jobs are more thankless, or invite more cursing and murderous glares on any given workday, than that of a parking enforcement officer. The traffic bill is mostly about things like installing all-way stops at intersections and reducing the speed limit on most side streets to 20 or 25 miles an hour. But none of that has attracted nearly as much attention as the resident enforcement plan, which has conjured visions of a swift comeuppance for scofflaws idling in bike lanes while also raising alarms about the potential for abuse.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring

Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring

Just as Amazon had the power to make their Kindle ebook reader a platform with their combination of money, tech savvy and connection to book sellers big and small, Facebook and the masters of the financial and tech world have the power to create a platform and push it into the hands of billions. A number of writers have pointed out that Libra’s consensus system looks a lot like Proof of Stake, but it’s more accurate to say it functions like Delegated Proof of Stake, popularized by EOS and other platforms. Unlike other cryptocurrencies with a fixed money supply that’s slowly released over time, Libra’s currency gets created or destroyed as money comes into the system.

Source: hackernoon.com

How big should a text editor be? (Impending kOS)

How big should a text editor be? (Impending kOS)

For the last twenty years it has evolved as kdb+, trading as Kx Systems, Inc.[2] It’s a two-orders-of-magnitude sort of thing: two orders of magnitude faster than industry-standard database, two orders of magnitude smaller code volume. Whitney sent Oleg and Pierre some of the C code he was working on, and notes on a problem he didn’t know how to solve. Whitney demonstrated his “research K interpreter” at the Iverson College meeting[5] in Cambridge in 2011.

Source: archive.vector.org.uk

‘Nothing Kept Me Up at Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’

‘Nothing Kept Me Up at Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’

There are many avid documenters of this new technology, but no one seems to understand its many facets quite like Arthur Holland Michel, founder and co-director of the Bard Center for the Study of the Drone, which catalogs the growing use of drones around the world. Now, Holland Michel has written Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All, a book of startling revelations about drone surveillance in the United States. Holland Michel has lived and breathed drone technology for the last six years, but nothing quite shocked him like the technology of Wide Angle Motion Imagery (WAMI).

Source: longreads.com

Researchers synthesize healing compounds in scorpion venom

Researchers synthesize healing compounds in scorpion venom

To find out more about each compound, Possani reached out to Zare’s group at Stanford, which has a reputation for identifying and synthesizing chemicals. Using clues gleaned from running the compounds through various chemical analysis techniques, the Stanford scientists concluded that the color-changing ingredients in the venom were two previously unknown benzoquinones – a class of ring-like molecules known to have antimicrobial properties. Zare’s lab sent a batch of the newly synthesized benzoquinones to Rogelio Hernández-Pando, a pathologist at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City, whose group tested the lab-made compounds for biological activity.

Source: news.stanford.edu

‘Living drug’ offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients

‘Living drug’ offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients

NHS patients with lymphoma have for the first time been given a pioneering treatment that genetically reprogrammes their immune system to fight cancer. The therapy, called CAR-T, is a “living drug” that is tailor-made for each patient using their body’s own cells
Doctors at King’s College Hospital, London, said some patients were being completely cured in a way that had “never been seen before”. Image copyright
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Yuvan, 11, had CAR-T therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

One reason the blood cancer work has been easier is down to acceptable collateral damage.

Source: www.bbc.com

Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones

Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones

Amazon’s delivery drones are not yet dropping off packages, but the company is already envisioning how else that might be used — including by offering “surveillance as a service.” Using delivery drones for surveillance raises huge privacy concerns for everyone who hasn’t given Amazon permission to view their homes — a problem that Amazon’s patent specifically addresses. The patent describes how geo-fencing technology would be used to ensure that Amazon’s drones don’t capture footage of houses they’re not supposed to.

Source: www.theverge.com

Microsoft Bans Slack and Discourages AWS and Google Docs, and Use Internally

Microsoft Bans Slack and Discourages AWS and Google Docs, and Use Internally

Microsoft has banned the use of the free version of Slack for its 100,000+ employees. GeekWire reports that Microsoft has a list of prohibited apps and services, and even Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Docs are “discouraged for use” inside the company. Microsoft Teams

Slack Enterprise Grid is the only version approved for use

That means employees can use Slack Enterprise Grid, but given the costs involved it’s far more likely that most groups in Microsoft will be using the preferred Microsoft Teams option.

Source: www.theverge.com