[ad_1] The current world speed record for riding a bike down a straight, flat road was set in 2012 by a Dutch team, but the Swiss have a plan to topple their rivals — with a little help from machine learning. An algorithm trained on aerodynamics could streamline their bike, ...
Read More »Oscar the A.I. trash can sorts your garbage and recyclables
[ad_1] Confused by which items in your trash are recyclable? Oscar the artificial intelligence garbage bin can do the sorting for you — at least that’s the claim by Autonomous, the ergonomic office and gaming furniture company behind Oscar. If you are intrigued by a smart device that will help sort your garbage, Autonomous ...
Read More »Switch RPG ‘Octopath Traveler’ gives you too many roles to play
[ad_1] I’ve been excited about Octopath Traveler for a while. The team behind it amped up the anticipation for RPG fans by framing it as the spiritual successor to the well-regarded Final Fantasy VI, and while the comparison makes sense in places (ensemble cast, medieval trappings, random battles, cute pixel ...
Read More »Ex-Tesla worker makes it official and blows the whistle to SEC
[ad_1] The former Tesla employee who was fired and then sued by the electric vehicle automaker has filed a formal whistleblower tip to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the company has misled investors and put its customers at risk. Martin Tripp has retained Meissner Associates, a whistleblower, securities, investment fraud ...
Read More »When sci-fi meets reality: Adobe re-imagines AR from ‘Terminator 2’
[ad_1] The science-fiction film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, has been credited for introducing ground-breaking visual effects in cinema. What’s perhaps more intriguing is that the film was released in 1991, when the computers used to make those effects are now less sophisticated than the iPhone in your pocket. So, what ...
Read More »The Morning After: Model 3 sales opened up and Facebook's fine
[ad_1] Finding good software used to be a headache.Ten years later, Apple’s iOS App Store changed the way we think about software Ten years ago (plus a day), Apple officially launched the iOS App Store and — for better or worse — it changed the world. The iPhone debuted about ...
Read More »Aspire Capital offers fast finance for SMEs in Southeast Asia
[ad_1] Southeast Asia’s digital economy is tipped to grow more than six-fold to reach more than $200 billion per year, according to a report co-authored by Google, with e-commerce accounting for the dominant share. The emergence of e-commerce platforms like Alibaba’s Lazada and U.S.-listed Shopee have enabled online entrepreneurship across the ...
Read More »Airbus to build Mars rover to get first soil samples back to Earth
[ad_1] With Mars the focus of so much exciting space research these days, scientists must be chomping at the bit to get their hands on some of those dusty red rocks that until now we’ve only been able to view via images beamed back to Earth. In April, we learned ...
Read More »YouTube invests $25 million to fix its breaking news problem
[ad_1] The improvements also involve refining the way YouTube tackles news going forward. It’s spending $25 million on an initiative that will create a working group (involving organizations like Vox and India Today) for improving YouTube’s news experience, fund news outlets creating “sustainable” video operations and widen support for news ...
Read More »Facebook was never ephemeral, and now its Stories won’t have to be
[ad_1] Before Snapchat made social media about just today, Facebook made it about forever. The 2011 “Timeline” redesign of the profile and keyword search unlocked your past, encouraging you to curate colorful posts about your life’s top moments. That was actually an inspiration for Snapchat, as its CEO Evan Spiegel ...
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