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Yep, that’s a can of luncheon meat from 2001, at 5 km down on the slopes of the Mariana Trench. A recent submarine expedition to the deepest reaches of the ocean uncovered such sublime traces of human influence as flame retardant chemicals and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs), like PCBs, Budweiser, and low-sodium Spam. The team published their in the most recent issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution. Congrats, guys. We did it. There’s nowhere on our planet that humans haven’t left their mark. We have now literally spammed the bottom of the ocean. It seems obvious that the cans of beer and Spam probably fell off someone’s boat.
When times are tough, humans will do what they have to in order to survive. But what about machines? Google’s DeepMind firm pitted a pair of neural networks against each other in two different survival scenarios. When resources are scarce, the machines start behaving in an aggressive (one might say human-like) fashion. When cooperation is beneficial, they work together. Consider this a . The scenarios were a simple fruit-gathering simulation and a wolfpack hunting game. In the fruit-gathering scenario, the two AIs (indicated by red and blue squares) move across a grid in order to pick up green “fruit” squares.
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Gravity is a good thing when it keeps you firmly planted on Earth’s surface, but it’s quite a nuisance when you’re trying to launch things into space. The economics of space launches are harsh; every ounce sent up has an astronomical cost attached, but the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) just set an efficiency world record. It successfully launched 104 satellites into space with a single rocket. A lot of them were very small, but that’s still a big achievement. The launch was (PSLV), an expendable launch system developed by India specifically to get multiple satellites into orbit in a single rocket.
Eight years ago, BlackBerry (née RIM) was riding high. The company commanded almost 25% of the global smartphone market, a higher share than any company other than Nokia. The firm was expanding its businesses in other countries and it had ridden a wave of success to become the company most people thought of when they thought about business smartphones. Today, Blackberry’s hardware business is in ruins, with a global market share of 0.0%. That’s the word , which recently published its Q4 smartphone rankings. Out of 432 million devices shipped in Q4 2016, just 207,900 of them were BlackBerry OS products.
HTC was once the premiere Android device maker — in fact, it made the first handful of Android phones when no one else was interested in Google’s platform. This early support transformed from a white-label electronics manufacturer into a smartphone powerhouse. The last few years haven’t been very kind, though. After lagging sales and a loss of direction, HTC says it’s going to . This bit of news comes by way of HTC’s latest earnings report. In the final quarter of last year, HTC took in NT$22.2 billion ($722 million) and had an operating loss of NT$3.6 billion ($117 million).
Microsoft has announced it will take the lid off Scorpio at its E3 conference on June 11, four years after the Xbox One by Sony during E3 2013. Scorpio, in many ways, is Microsoft’s first real chance to clean up the Xbox One baggage the company has been dragging around for nearly four years. Microsoft’s early plans for the Xbox One were vastly different from what Sony offered with the PlayStation 4. Where Sony went simple and focused on the “It plays games,” message, . The Xbox One was a multimedia system where you could watch TV and game (despite lacking a DVR).
We’ve known for weeks that Toshiba was in rough shape and seeking to raise additional revenue through a potential partial sale to Western Digital, but events on Tuesday pushed the company’s position from “really bad” to “implosion imminent.” Today, announced that it would take a $6.2 billion write-down on the value of its nuclear plant construction business. Toshiba acquired a majority stake in Westinghouse Electric Company in 2006, and later upped its share of the company to 87% in 2013. Toshiba paid $5.4 billion for the company in 2006 and an additional $1.6 billion in 2013. In 2015, Toshiba declared its nuclear business was more profitable now than when the company acquired it, but scandals over the Japanese firm’s accounting broke soon thereafter.
