It’s not like they will all stop in the middle of the highway. But if they do stop, they won’t know where they are…
https://www.makeuseof.com/3g-shutdown-car-become-obsolete/
3G Shutdown: Is Your Car About to Become Obsolete?
… it's not just phones that rely on 3G technology. You may be surprised, but many vehicles also use 3G. Both commercial fleets and everyday passenger vehicles use this technology for service communication, specifically telematics.
Telematics use technologies like GPS tracking, systems monitoring, and onboard diagnostics to wirelessly monitor and control a vehicle. For commercial fleets, this is generally used to monitor your fleet's location and status.
But for passenger vehicles, telematics offers so much more. Makers offered services like OnStar, Enform, BMW Assist, and more. These use telematics technology to communicate with the manufacturer's servers and process your car's data.
… More importantly, crash detection technology that automatically dials 911 in case of an emergency also uses telematics. While recent cars come equipped with 4G and 5G antennas that will work after 3G services have stopped, several older models are only equipped with 3G technology.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/technology/att-5g-race.html
In Race for 5G, Alarm and Security Services Get Stuck in the Middle
Melissa Brinkman’s troubles are threatening to slow down AT&T’s multibillion-dollar rollout of ultrafast 5G wireless technology.
Ms. Brinkman is the chief executive of Custom Alarm, a company that installs and monitors home and commercial security systems, fire detectors and personal emergency alert devices in and around Rochester, Minn.
Those alarm devices were mostly designed to communicate using slower 3G wireless technology. In early 2019, AT&T announced it would phase out 3G wireless service in February 2022, meaning that the devices would no longer have a connection after that date.
Unanticipated consequences…
A TEENAGER ON TIKTOK DISRUPTED THOUSANDS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES WITH A SINGLE VIDEO
Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager.
The July 23rd video is short and simple. It opens with recent Florida high school graduate and self-described “teen author” Sarah Frank sitting in her bedroom and smiling at the camera.
“Welcome to side hustles I recommend trying — part one,” she says in the video, pointing users to the website Prolific.co. “Basically, it’s a bunch of surveys for different amounts of money and different amounts of time.”
That video got 4.1 million views in the month after it was posted and sent tens of thousands of new users flooding to the Prolific platform. Prolific, a tool for scientists conducting behavioral research, had no screening tools in place to make sure that it delivered representative population samples to each study. Suddenly, scientists used to getting a wide mix of subjects for their Prolific studies saw their surveys flooded with responses from young women around Frank’s age.
For researchers who rely on representative samples of the US population, that demographic shift was a major problem with no obvious cause and no immediately clear way to fix.
Probably not what you want to hear.
Common sense is a huge blind spot for AI developers
Welcome to AI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence.
Recent advances in deep learning have rekindled interest in the imminence of machines that can think and act like humans, or artificial general intelligence. By following the path of building bigger and better neural networks, the thinking goes, we will be able to get closer and closer to creating a digital version of the human brain.
But this is a myth, argues computer scientist Erik Larson, and all evidence suggests that human and machine intelligence are radically different. Larson’s new book, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do. discusses how widely publicized misconceptions about intelligence and inference have led AI research down narrow paths that are limiting innovation and scientific discoveries.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-kdp-university/
KDP University: What Is It and How Can It Help You Publish Books on Amazon?
Are you thinking of publishing a book on Amazon for the first time? The Kindle Direct Publishing University can help you get started.
… KDP University is basically a page full of tutorials in written and video form. Its main goal is to teach you how to use your publishing tools and find success with your paperback and digital books on Amazon.
Tools & Techniques,
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-voice-to-text-browser-extenstions/
The 5 Best Voice-to-Text Browser Extensions
These five Chrome extensions let you use your voice to type online and navigate the internet.
Tools & Techniques. Apps for my niece and nephew.
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-iphone-android-apps-graduate-students/
The 7 Best iPhone and Android Apps for Graduate Students
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