Watch this news being used to spin that the politicians solved the problem and it's all good now. Please ignore the half billion dollars they handed out with no tender, see it was totally a good idea, it fixed the reef before they even spent it!

They cover this in the paper, under Monte Carlo rendering. Based on the timings they report, a trained CNN was producing results close to equivalent to a much higher ray count, for a low count, real-time Monte Carlo rendered scene. 2000 times faster.
I don't know what current de-noising for Monte Carlo rendering looks like, but this is quite interesting. I've also seen some work combining CNN with RNN/LTSM that might also apply to this.

It's been a few years, but my last experience in contracting like this was that the recruiter MADE themselves non-optional. In order to access the recruitment service (primarily to reduce the time invested in screening applicants), companies have to agree to make the payments to the recruiter. Advertisements for positions are made by the recruiter and don't include details of who the actual company is, until after you're under contract.

Additionally, companies and contractors are in breach of contract if they tell each other what they are paying/being paid by the recruiter. My last employer "accidentally" let me find out this information, and suffice to say the recruiter was making a very nice profit. AND you're required to not work for the employer directly for a period of time after the contract ends.

Our PM is so useless, that him publically supporting it was probably what killed it. The opposition would oppose it on principle, and the factions inside his party would oppose anything he does that they haven't told him explicitly to do.

I understand there is also some sillyness involving UPNP in some devices, so you can connect to the device "from your phone", as in, from the wider Internet. This probably includes the initial connection brokered through a central service, but much of the bulk data via direct connection.

OAuth2 isn't uselessly complicated. OAuth (version 1) was, because they wanted to not require HTTPS, but wanted all the security mechanisms HTTPS would have provided. OAuth2 requires HTTPS, and removed the complex handshaking required in version 1.

Reading through the published paper, it's a flaw with the implementations, not the protocol itself, which is reassuring. It can be fixed by adding the missing checks, rather than having to replace OAuth2.

Interestingly, this requires DRM (dialling home to validate keys periodically). So if the company does the "good" thing and releases their game without DRM, they are set up for exactly this kind of rip off.

I agree the screen tearing issue with the Pebble OG really sucks (although to be fair, it's plausible it didn't show up in QA, since it's an interaction with the case slightly changing shape after multiple warm/cool cycles). Given that it's been fixed with the Time models, I assume it's also fixed for the 2's.

Fortunately for me, I'm in Australia, where it's law to have a minimum 2 year warranty.

At this point I think Amazon considers actual books a sideline. Textbooks, on the other hand, are more of a required artefact to prove you have made your sacrifice at the alter of consumerism, than something intended to share knowledge.

I found out that the text chat in Doom used a standard IPX broadcast mechanism - when my father (a network engineer) came in and told me off for my choice of language.

It might depend what country you're in, but here in Australia they already have adverts up to 30 second long (usually 15) that are unskippable. I don't know what proportion these are in comparison to skippable adverts, but I -wish- they'd go down to 6 seconds long.

(Yes, I have an adblocker, I leave it off for Youtube because ad impressions = income for the creators of the series I'm watching.)

Electric semi's are already in development and testing. E.G. http://www.popularmechanics.co...

Presumably this concept is aimed more for suburban areas, where hopefully semi's aren't a significant portion of the traffic.

I'm waiting to see if/how this affects Pebble Time. We've been wanting access to the Google Voice API for ages now. Personally I want it mostly for Google Now integration, which may or may not be separate.

Thank you, I didn't know about Safe. At one point I had to recover a backed up EncFS and ended up using a Linux VM to mount the encfs then copied everything out unencrypted.