Love him or hate him, Snowden likely knows a thing or two about securing your data. I will be interested to hear feedback from [H]’ers that using Haven in any capacity and what exactly those usage models are. Personal security device or surveillance system for recording everything around the device without anyone knowing?



Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy. It is an Android application that leverages on-device sensors to provide monitoring and protection of physical spaces. Haven turns any Android phone into a motion, sound, vibration and light detector, watching for unexpected guests and unwanted intruders. We designed Haven for investigative journalists, human rights defenders, and people at risk of forced disappearance to create a new kind of herd immunity. By combining the array of sensors found in any smartphone, with the world’s most secure communications technologies, like Signal and Tor, Haven prevents the worst kind of people from silencing citizens without getting caught in the act.

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According to technologist Kai-Fu Lee, artificial intelligence will end most if not all white-collar office jobs, as AI is incredibly effective at the routine work that your average office employee is responsible for. Lee claims the replacement is already happening, and blue-collar workers will be affected similarly, albeit later. Thanks cageymaru.



Lee pointed to several of the investments made by his company, Sinovation Ventures, as clear signs of how routine office work is already being transformed by AI. For example, Lee has backed Smart Finance Group, a company that uses machine learning to determine a person’s eligibility for a payday loan.

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ASUS’s ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti features a custom PCB, which has reportedly been changed. This is a pretty big issue for companies such as EK WB, which offers custom water blocks for it: customers are now being warned of potential incompatibilities.



EK Water Blocks called out Asus for a change to one of its graphics card PCB designs, claiming that several of its GPU waterblocks are no longer compatible with recently minted versions of a previously compatible Asus graphics card, the ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti. Based on the range of serial numbers, Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards manufactured before November 2017 are still compatible with EKWB’s purpose-built GPU waterblocks.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – ASUS Quietly Changes ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti PCB Design

Japanese scientists have successfully created robots that are capable of pulling off an inspirational training montage, glistening robo-muscles and all. Their creations have anatomically correct musculoskeletal structures like spinal joints, and their body mass and proportions resemble our own. One robot, “Kengoro,” can even sweat.



Engineers in Japan have constructed two humanoids that successfully replicate human-like movement during physical activity. The robots, named Kengoro and Kenshiro, can perform multiple push-ups, crunches, stretches, and other whole-body exercises — feats not possible for earlier versions of human-mimicking bots to perform.

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