Did This Is Us Border Crossing Confuse? Did WandaVision Miss Olsens Nod? Is Riverdale Timeline Weird? And More Qs

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including WandaVision, 9-1-1: Lone Star, This Is Us, Riverdale and Chicago Fire! 1 | In Firefly Lane Episode 6, how did Travis manage to call back Kate after her hang-up when his phone […]

‘Legion’ Will Be Back to Awe and Confuse Us in 2019 [Comic-Con 2018]

The Legion panel, the last Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year, had several panelists including producer and writer Nathaniel Halpern, executive producer and director John Cameron, Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb, and cast members Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Irwin, Amber Midthunder, Jeremie Harris, Jean Smart, and Farouk himself, Navid Negahban. […]

South Korea’s World Cup team tried to confuse Sweden’s spies by swapping jerseys so their opponent couldn’t tell them apart

REUTERS/Carlos Barria South Korea’s World Cup team responded to a Swedish spy for Sweden’s team by swapping their jerseys so it would be harder to tell them apart.  Taeguk Warriors coach Shin Tae-yong told reporters Sunday “it is very difficult for Westerners to distinguish between Asians.” The Swedish spy, who is a member of Sweden’s […]

Don’t confuse ETFs with ETPs

Reuters/Simon Dawson Don’t confuse Exchange-Traded Products with Exchange Traded Funds. Over 97% of the $ 5 trillion global ETP market consists of exchange traded funds (ETFs), which are plain vanilla, traditional, liquid funds. ETP’s are financially engineered investments that bet on against the very indexes that they track. As the recent market volatility made clear, there’s […]

Hacking street signs with stickers could confuse self-driving cars

Enlarge (credit: Ivan Etimov et al. / Thinkstock) Progress in the field of machine vision is one of the most important factors in the rise of the self-driving car. An autonomous vehicle has to be able to sense its environment and react appropriately. Free space has to be calculated, solid objects avoided, and any and […]

You can confuse self-driving cars by altering street signs

While car makers and regulators are mostly worried about the possibility of self-driving car hacks, University of Washington researchers are concerned about a more practical threat: defacing street signs. They’ve learned that it’s relatively easy to throw off an autonomous vehicle’s image recognition system by strategically using stickers to alter street signs. If attackers know […]