[ad_1] Google Assistant is gaining some new capabilities thanks to a deal with Fandango that should make ordering movie tickets a quick and easy process. Simply tell Google Assistant that you want to buy some movie tickets and you’ll see what’s playing nearby; you can dial in the specificity to ...
Read More »A friendly robotic arm plays tic-tac-toe to help rehabilitate patients
[ad_1] Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are building a tic-tac-toe game to help patients with their rehabilitation exercises. The game is played on a grid of boxes and includes “embodied” and non-embodied play. Embodied play means a robotic arm will grab and place a marker – ...
Read More »Facebook’s open-source Go bot can now beat professional players
[ad_1] Go is the go-to game for machine learning researchers. It’s what Google’s DeepMind team famously used to show off its algorithms, and Facebook, too, recently announced that it was building a Go bot of its own. As the team announced at the company’s F8 developer conference today, the ELF ...
Read More »Watch these robotic soccer players play a nail-biter of a match
[ad_1] As a hater of all sports, I am particularly excited about the imminent replacement of humans with robots in soccer. If this exciting match, the Standard Platform League (SPL) final of the German Open featuring the Nao-Team HTWK vs. Nao Devils, is any indication, the future is going to ...
Read More »Qualcomm: Meet the new boss of everything mobile
[ad_1] (Image: ZDNet) This week, T-Mobile US and Sprint announced their intention to merge, which — if approved — would create the second largest mobile telecommunications provider in North America behind Verizon Wireless and ahead of AT&T. Must read: What is 5G? Everything you need to know The technical details ...
Read More »How much data is Apple collecting from you? Not that much
[ad_1] Not so long ago, a New York Times journalist took a look at just how much Facebook knew about him, and was horrified by the answer. Of course, this little experiment begged the question — how much do the other popular tech companies know about their users? To answer ...
Read More »Intel drones offer high-tech help to restore the Great Wall of China
[ad_1] Andre Distel/Getty Images Tourists visiting the Great Wall of China are usually taken to one of the small number of restored sections, but many parts of the ancient structure are crumbling badly or have completely disappeared. Working with the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage, Intel is using its drone ...
Read More »Deadpool And Celine Dion Perform Together In Deadpool 2 Music Video
[ad_1] Celine Dion, the Canadian singer probably best known for performing the theme to the movie Titanic, has lent her voice to Deadpool 2‘s official soundtrack with her song Ashes. The video, which you can find below, has Dion crooning a haunting ballad about power and returning to the fight ...
Read More »Microsoft is making it easier to take screenshots in Windows 10
[ad_1] Plus, you can even replace the standard print screen functionality with the new Screen Sketch tool. You’ll also be able to get a quick “screen snip” button in the Action Center. And anyone with a digitally-interfacing pen can set it to snip on a single clip. The Windows team’s ...
Read More »Washé raises $3.5 million for its on-demand car washing service and biz platform
[ad_1] Another startup wants to make on-demand car washing work, where others have failed. Washé, a Boca Raton-based service for on-demand washes, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which involves a mobile app consumers use to connect with Washé’s network of around 1,000 ...
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