The agenda of the greenhouse: stickers for donations, updating Chrome, "Reading Thoughts" from Facebook

Important events of the day according to the editorial office of the greenhouse.

Instagram launches charitable stickers

Charity organizations in the UK can now create 24-hour fundraising campaigns on Instagram Stories using new stickers to collect donations. When pressing the sticker, users will be able to directly make a transfer to the fund. All funds raised in this way will be transferred to the organization’s account.

Google released the Chrome 76 update

Now the browser makes the user identification in incognito mode impossible. The developers said that the company blocked the loophole in Filesystem API, which allowed to determine whether the user is in incognito mode. For example, after the update, users will be able to read the infinite number of notes by The New York Times, which had not previously allowed to avoid paid access using the incognito regime.

Yandex.Direct will offer customers ready -made scripts

The advertising system will update the settings of automatic announcement strategies. By September 2019, Yandex will offer customers several options built on the basis of a parameter that the user wants to optimize. For example, when using the “Optimization of Converses” strategy, the user will be able to set a weekly budget and the maximum click price to receive as much target visits as possible, or to keep the desired price for the conversion.

A seminar on social entrepreneurship will be held in Moscow

The resource center of the NPO "Soul Moscow" continues a series of training events in the framework of the NKO Lab educational program. On August 6, students can attend a seminar on social entrepreneurship. The event is free, you need to register for participation.

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Technologies make the theater accessible to people with hearing impairment

The National Theater of Great Britain, together with partners, created a device that received an Inclusive Design Award in 2019 at the Techni4Good competition. Smart Caption glasses help people with a loss or hearing impairment enjoy theatrical productions. The system “listens” what they say or sing on stage, and sends the text to glasses using Wi-Fi.

Facebook learned to "read thoughts" and decode them in the text

Specialists of the Facebook Reality Labs unit, together with the scientists of the University of California at San Francisco, were able to record the activity of the brain of patients with epilepsy, and then were able to decipher the words in real time. So far, the interface “Brain - Computer Interface; BCI) can decode only a small set of words and phrases, but in the future scientists plan to achieve decoding speeds up to 100 words per minute with a frequency of errors less than 17%.

Smartphones will help save the crop

Researchers from the University of North Carolina have developed a technology that will help to recognize sick plants at an early stage. To do this, a simple test strip is used, which is connected to the reader on the smartphone.

A service was created for recognition of documents in a mobile browser

The developer in the field of recognition of texts and linguistics ABBYY has created a service for recognizing images of documents in the mobile browser Mobile Web Capture . It is enough for the user to follow the link and put the camera to the document. The algorithms themselves recognize the document and process the image in real time.

A promotion against domestic violence was held in the St. Petersburg metro

The artist Max Otto hung braids of female hair in St. Petersburg instead of handrails. Thus, he decided to draw attention to the topic of domestic violence. The artist told about this on Instagram.