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The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq, is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea. According to its website, Tabiq is used in several hotels across Japan and relies on facial recognition and document scanning to check guests in.
They left an S3 bucket open.
Universal Paperclips goes dark?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barnes_(Texas_politician)#Involvement_in_the_Iran_hostage_crisis
NYT article is from March 2023 so not news.
The "standard model of cosmology" aka lambda-CDM model has never claimed to be complete or to explain everything. It's just a good fit to the known data going most of the way (but not all of the way) back to the big bang. Everybody knows that understanding the unreached parts will require totally new physics.
Available for pre-order for $300 and up, the computer consists of a 100 x 86mm (3.9″ x 3.4″) board that comes with an aluminum enclosure and built-in fan. The board supports up to 32GB of onboard LPDDR5-6400 memory, and supports up to 256GB of UFS storage as well as an M.2 2280 slot that can be used for a PCIE 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD, among other things.
Meh. Wake me up when they can beat a Raspberry Pi of a similar price level. By the way the $300 version has 8GB of ram. The 32GB version is $575.
Why is the max battery size controlled by the chipset? Use whatever battery you want.
It says 1MB FRAM chips are around $25 each which is way lower than I expected. But 256 of them in a box seems pretty outlandish. FRAM is great for MCUs with a few kilobytes of it. It's way better than flash, but still has write cycle limits unlike regular RAM.
I don't see that as helping much, at least without creating a horrible police state. Imagine thousands or millions of James Bond villains or other mad scientists running around and finding ways to evade detection. Making the cops smarter only goes so far.
Probably not. In fact if you mean everyone gets smarter starting tomorrow but up til today we're in the same crappy world as always, that's probably a disaster. Yeah we have some sociopath criminals in high places, but lots more of them are in prison or doing really dumb things (there's a tv show about them, "world's dumbest criminals"). Now imagine they suddenly get a whole lot smarter. Everyone else also becoming smarter won't help that much.
If you mean human evolution somehow went on a different path making all humans smarter all the way back to prehistoric times, then it's harder to say, but it doesn't sound so great either.
Emotional intelligence isn't the answer either, for the same sorts of reasons. Maybe there's a separate thing called "wisdom" but there will always be gaps.
You might like HPMOR, a Harry Potter fanfic novel that philosophizes a lot about these types of questions. It's at hpmor.com. Warning, the main character is insufferable a lot of the time, especially near the beginning. So you might hate it, in which case feel free to quit after a few chapters.
For a more positive take, try the old school science fiction novel "Protector" by Larry Niven.
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I haven't heard a proposal like that before, though of course it might exist and have legal analysis that I don't know about. IANAL and don't follow that stuff now. Any discussion of the consequences of a hypothetical amendment like that would of course be speculative. That is, there's no way to know.