[ad_1] The Silicon Valley-military industrial complex is increasingly in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence engineers. A few weeks ago, Google was reported to be backing out of a Pentagon contract around Project Maven, which would use image recognition to automatically evaluate photos. Earlier this year, AI researchers around the world ...
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[ad_1] With enchanting music and trippy visuals, our first look at Tetris Effect promises the timeless gameplay of Tetris in an entirely new context. Last week, we wrote about its gameplay additions and wild stylistic choices. But as novel as it appears, Tetris Effect isn’t the first reinvention of its kind. ...
Read More »Dell XPS 13 (2018) review: A redesign that's almost on the nose – CNET
[ad_1] Update: Summer 2018 The redesigned 2018 Dell XPS 13 was unveiled in January 2018 and released that same month. Pricing is unchanged since its launch, starting at $1,000. Although midrange configurations have seen temporary price cuts around $100, the top-end configuration keeps its price of $2,100 (or $2,150 if you ...
Read More »Facebook prototypes tool to show how many minutes you spend on it
[ad_1] Are you ready for some scary numbers? After months of Mark Zuckerberg talking about how “Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits,” Facebook is preparing to turn that commitment into a Time Well Spent product. Buried in Facebook’s Android app is an unreleased “Your Time on ...
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[ad_1] Video: How to make Google Chrome faster There’s a huge difference between using Google Chrome and mastering Google Chrome. What follows are a collection of tips, tricks, and tools to help you get the most from Google Chrome. There are tips on speeding up the browser and making it ...
Read More »Like a vice principal in the sky, this A.I. spots fights before they happen
[ad_1] We live in a surveillance society: A U.S. citizen is reportedly captured on CCTV around 75 times per day. And that figure is even higher elsewhere in the world. Your average Brit is likely to be caught on surveillance cameras up to 300 times in the same period. But ...
Read More »Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion: How to Clear Every Line D Station
[ad_1] Line D is the fourth line in the Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion DLC. It contains eleven stations, but does not contain any “Thangs”. Line D is a grey-coded line that’s a mostly horizontal line with the slight curve down at the end. This line intersects with Line B (cyan) at the ...
Read More »Bag Week 2018: Mission Workshop’s Radian rolltop starts simple but grows piece by piece
[ad_1] Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where ...
Read More »How to convert a PDF to EPUB
[ad_1] The PDF is a versatile file type which can handle both images and text well on a variety of devices. Not every one displays them as well as others, though, and in the case of ebook readers, there are often better options. With that in mind, in this guide, ...
Read More »The Morning After: Weekend Edition
[ad_1] Take that, iOS.Google’s Measure app comes to all ARCore-compatible Android phones Google Measure, the digital substitute app for anyone who doesn’t own a physical tape measure, has just received a much needed update. In contrast to the earlier version — which was limited to Google’s augmented reality (AR) platform ...
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