Japanese company Plasma, Inc. under Project Exograph, will pay four unemployed 200 thousand yen (almost 44 thousand hryvnias) for the data collection of them.

The authors of the project want to check whether people are ready to sell their privacy for money, as well as to check the interest of business in real life data.

The four unemployed must have surveillance cameras installed on their premises, in addition to the restrooms. They will work all time. Upon completion of the project, camera recordings will capture participants’ identity information and analyze events on video using a neural network.

The American car company Ford will use McDonald’s coffee waste to protect the headlights of their cars.

Starting this year, the company will be taking the coffee husk, which is formed during the coffee roasting process, for the plastic filler body of some car headlights.

“Most plastics are reinforced with filler, or fiber – talc, or fiberglass,” says Debbie Mivelski, Ford’s senior technical leader.

During the work in the laboratory found that the outer layer of beans provides a lightweight heat-resistant filler. The developers have replaced the talc in this component with 22% of the coffee husk, which is much less dense and environmentally friendly.

The social network Instagram has announced that the registration rules have been updated, it will ask for a date of birth and will not allow users under the age of 13 to create accounts.

Mandatory indication of the date of birth at check-in will “save the youth and generally create the conditions for an environment more appropriate for people,” the company explained. The date of birth will not be shared with other Instagram users.

The social network also adds that specifying a date of birth will allow users to offer more personalized content.

Google has released its own ranking of the best games, apps, TV shows and movies for 2019.

Google officials said that all of the apps, games and movies in the rating were able to surprise company employees. To determine the winners, Google conducted a two-week vote, which ran from November 11 to November 25.

So “Video Editor – Glitch Video Effects” became the app of the year. The game of the year was called “Call of Duty: Mobile”. Google’s best movie of the year was “Avengers: Endgame”. 2019 Best Book – “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”.

Apple has presented its own Apple Music Awards.

The award will be presented to the best and bravest musicians who have had the greatest impact on global culture. Winners of the Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year and Breakthrough nominations are selected by Apple’s worldwide editorial team of experts. In the Album of the Year and Song of the Year nominations, the decisive factor is that Apple Music users listened most to during the year.

This year’s winner was performer Billy Elish. She won Best Artist of the Year nominations, and her debut album WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? received the Album of the Year award. The song of the year was Old Town Road by rapper Lil Nas X, and singer Lizzo received the Breakthrough of the Year award.

The Singapore government has obliged the social network Facebook to put a “fake” mark under the post of one of the users of the social network.

According to the authorities, the post contains false information. According to internal rules, the Facebook network notified the user. No changes to the text of the post were made. The Singapore government has been able to reach out to Facebook to correct user posts thanks to a recent anti-fake news law.

At the same time, Facebook expressed its hope that this legislative initiative would not adversely affect freedom of expression and that its implementation would be “balanced and transparent”.

A pilot program has been launched in Bandung, Indonesia to combat child addiction to gadgets.

Its main components are the small chicks that the children are cared for and the seeds of chili pepper they are to plant. Bandung authorities have already distributed 2,000 chickens and 1,500 seeds of Chilean pepper to 10 elementary and 2 secondary schools in the city.

According to Mayor Oded Daniel, a local government initiative is designed to encourage children to use gadgets less, but city educators need time to test its effectiveness. At least some of Bandung’s parents supported the initiative, which had already been dubbed “chicken pox.”

The ICM Project Debater program, created on the basis of artificial intelligence, participated in the debate on the benefits and harms of artificial intelligence.

Project Debater took turns using two debater teams to discuss what more artificial intelligence brings – benefits or harms. In order to formulate arguments, the ICM program used the technology of “crowd speech”, which groups and generalizes large arrays of disparate abstracts that are spoken by individuals.

During the Cambridge debate, the program issued commands to the teams with introductory statements with the main points to support their position. In the end, by a vote of 300 people, a majority of 52.1% favored a team that argued that artificial intelligence would do more harm than good.

Twitter has started sending emails to users who have been active in their accounts more than six months ago.

Users are asked to log back in to the social network by December 11, or their accounts will be deleted. The social network representative explained that not all inactive accounts will be deleted at once, this process will take several months.

“As part of our commitment, we are working to clear inactive accounts to provide more accurate and trustworthy information that users can trust,” Twitter said.

In the second part of November 28, Thursday, a global glitch occurred on Instagram.

More than half of users who have complained about Instagram are unable to upload photos or other content. 36% can’t sign in.

According to the map of the failure, the social network does not work in many regions of the world, the greatest problems are observed in Western Europe and the eastern coast of South America. There are also problems with Instagram in Ukraine and the rest of Europe, as well as on the US east coast.

While the company does not comment on the problem and the cause of its occurrence.

The Mars-based InSight module resumes HP3 drilling rig operation.

The HP3 delves a few centimeters into the planet’s surface. This time the module successfully completed the task thanks to the bucket attached to the mechanical arm.

Last time, the operation failed because the storm did not have enough grip on the soil of Mars – the impact during drilling did not balance and the installation failed to move deep. The walls of the well were too much expanded.

The new episode of Rick and Morty will feature SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

The parody hero Musk appeared in serias 3 of the fourth season. Musk voices sound character named Elon Task, who runs a company called Tuskla. According to the plot, Tusk helps the protagonists build the robot.

Elon Musk hinted at his involvement with Rick and Morty back in February 2019, changing his name to Twitter for Elon Tusk. At the time, he said he was “just fooling around on Twitter.”