Greenhouse keeps home in the 60’s, even when it’s freezing outside; allows family to grow Mediterranean fruit in Sweden

Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto literally live in a bubble, insulated from the cold and the harshness of the elements, while taking in the best of what nature has to offer. Their house is built inside of a greenhouse, providing them free heat and free food in the winter. On top of free heat, the couple has also installed a rainwater collection system for free water, and a composting toilet system that provides free fertilizer for their plants.

Real-time bidding underpins the entire online advertising industry, and that’s why this report is so significant. The findings: The Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data regulator, has concluded that these highly invasive data-driven online ads break both UK and European Union law. There are at least 10 pending legal complaints against this practice across the EU right now, so we can expect to see European regulators taking a closer and closer look at this industry in the coming months.

Although it has its origins in the 1950s, techniques developed in the last few years in machine learning, and its offshoots neural networks and natural language processing, have produced remarkable results that would have been unthinkable to those early researchers. It is largely agreed that AI trustworthiness involves satisfying four conditions: fairness, transparency, explainability (and thus accountability) and robustness. Pin-Yu Chen is a research member of the Trusted AI Group & MIT-IBM AI Lab at the IBM Watson Research Center, who primarily focuses on the robustness of AI in neural networks and is one of the field’s most prolific researchers.

This story-line ponders upon their tech decisions that changed over the years in the journey to IPO. Entrepreneurs, developers, strategists, growth hackers, and all startup enthusiasts can take a leaf out of Slack’s interesting book of tech stack decisions. StackShare illuminates the ethos and thoughts behind these Stack Decisions with interesting information stretching from Slack’s origin to the present.

The similar magnitude and acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas suggests a regionally coherent climate forcing, consistent with atmospheric warming and associated energy fluxes as the dominant drivers of glacier change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report estimates that mass loss from glaciers contributed more to sea-level rise than the ice sheets during 1993–2010 (0.86 mm year −1 versus 0.60 mm year −1 , respectively), yet uncertainties for the glacier contribution are three times greater ( 1 ). As a first approximation of the consistency between observed glacier mass balances and available temperature records, we estimate the energy required to melt the observed ice losses and conservatively estimate the atmospheric temperature change that would supply this energy via longwave radiation to the glaciers, using a simple energy balance approach (Materials and Methods).

How it will affect independent developers and kill innovation

Google, bruised from years of privacy scandals and keen to avoid its own Cambridge Analytica incident, announced last year that any project touching user data in Gmail would now require verification. However, because Aura doesn’t store any user data on its own servers I was able to avoid the security audit. With a userbase numbering 1.4 billion users, Gmail has become a platform in its own right.

The big picture: Consumers have gotten hooked on speed — and the efficiencies that e-commerce injected into retail are getting erased because now there are more deliveries of smaller numbers of packages. On top of UPS, USPS and FedEx, many other players in parcel delivery — including Amazon itself — are adding to the total impact. In a statement to Axios, Amazon said it is committed to bring down its contributions to climate change:

Target said it aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 30% by 2030.

YInMn Blue (for yttrium, indium, manganese), also known as Oregon Blue and Yin Min Blue, is an inorganic blue pigment that was accidentally discovered by Professor Mas Subramanian and his then-graduate student Andrew E. Smith at Oregon State University in 2009. [2][1] The color can be adjusted by varying the In/Mn ratio in the pigment’s base formula of YIn

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HONG KONG—Thousands of protesters besieged the city’s police headquarters, extending a political crisis in the city sparked by a proposed extradition law that the government has since put a stop to in an effort to ease unrest. In Friday’s demonstrations, they demanded the bill be fully withdrawn, the resignation of Mrs. Lam and that police be made accountable for forcibly dispersing protesters who blocked roads around the government’s headquarters June 12. Authorities’ reluctance Friday to again use force against protesters—after violent clashes last week put Hong Kong under international scrutiny and unnerved government advisers—enabled protesters free movement throughout the day.

How it will affect independent developers and kill innovation

Google, bruised from years of privacy scandals and keen to avoid its own Cambridge Analytica incident, announced last year that any project touching user data in Gmail would now require verification. However, because Aura doesn’t store any user data on its own servers I was able to avoid the security audit. With a userbase numbering 1.4 billion users, Gmail has become a platform in its own right.