This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 6) – Singularity Hub

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Cant Go Out and Protest? Heres How to Help From HomeDemetria Mosley | WiredWhether youre trying to maintain your social distance or just looking for other ways to speak up, here are some ideas on how to contribute. Not everyone is a front-liner, and thats OK because we need all types of people, says Andra Hudson, an activist and prison reformist based in North Carolina. There are many ways people can help out from their homes, and we need people to do it. We need everyone to show up.'

How to Protest Safely in the Age of SurveillanceAndy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman | WiredIf youre going out to protestas is your right under the First Amendmentand bringing your smartphone with you, there are some basic steps you should take tosafeguard your privacy. Thesurveillance toolsthat state and federal law enforcement groups have used at protests for years put it at risk right along withyour physical wellbeing.

ARK Invest: AI Training Costs Dropped 100-Fold Between 2017 and 2019Kyle Wiggers | VentureBeatMachine learning systems are cheaper to train now than ever before. Thats the assertion of ARK Invest, which today published ameta-analysisindicating the cost of training is improving at 50 times the pace of Moores law, the principle that computer hardware performance doubles every two years.

All This Chaos Might Be Giving You Crisis FatigueMatt Simon | WiredYou might at this point feel lost or numb, and thats perfectly natural. Psychologists call it crisis fatigue: Your body is well adapted to handle temporary stresses, but it can get overwhelmed by the constant, unrelenting pressures of this horrible year.

Salto Jumping Robot Masters Pinpoint LandingsEvan Ackerman | IEEE SpectrumAs far as we know, the best way of getting Salto to stop jumping without destroying itself has been for someone with exceptional timing to try and snatch it directly out of the air mid-bounce. While amazing at jumping, Salto hasnt been particularly good at not-jumping. That is, at landing. Until now!

Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan StructureDevin Coldewey | TechCrunchLidaris fast becoming one of the most influential tools in archaeology, revealing things in a few hours what might have taken months of machete wielding and manual measurements otherwise. The latest such discovery is an enormous Mayan structure, more than a kilometer long, 3,000 years old, and seemingly used for astronomical observations.

The Facebook Groups Where People Pretend the Pandemic Isnt HappeningKaitlyn Tiffany | The AtlanticLosing track of a friend in a packed bar or screaming to be heard over a live band is not something thats happening much in the real world at the moment, but it happens all the time in the 2,100-person Facebook group a group where we all pretend were in the same venue. So does losing shoes and Juul pods, and shouting matches over which bands are the saddest, and therefore the greatest.

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