[ad_1] Since large scale series production started in 1995, Bosch has made 5 billion Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors. Bosch Sensortec Every new smartphone comes with an auto-rotate function that alternates between the landscape and portrait modes. And, every car sold new in the United States leaves the factory with airbags; ...
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[ad_1] Google Home Street price: $130; Deal price: $90 If you’re looking for a smart speaker and like Google’s search ecosystem, this is a good opportunity to save some cash. At $90, it’s a nice drop on the Google Home speaker, bringing it within $10 of the deals we saw ...
Read More »How 3D printing is revolutionizing healthcare as we know it
[ad_1] Avi Reichental Contributor Avi Reichental is founder and CEO of XponentialWorks. He is a leading authority on 3D printing and exponential tech convergence. In 1983, Chuck Hall, the father of 3D printing, created something that was equal parts simple and earth-shattering. He manufactured the world’s first-ever 3D printer and ...
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[ad_1] Zipline Zipline is best known for its commercial drone delivery service delivering blood supplies in Rwanda. Now the company wants to step up its life-saving game. To do this, it’s unveiled what it claims to be the fastest commercial delivery drone on the planet. The redesigned drone will allow ...
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[ad_1] Zuckerberg added that the main goal going forward is to get all of Facebook’s systems under control, keep users safe and ensure that the site isn’t being used to undermine democracies all over the globe. He pointed to the company’s announcements from earlier today, in which it said that ...
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[ad_1] One of the joys of cloud computing is handing over your data to the cloud vendor and letting them handle the heavy lifting. Up until now that has meant they updated the software or scaled the hardware for you. Today, AWS took that to another level when it announced Amazon ...
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[ad_1] Carnegie Mellon University When people talk about those most likely to lose their jobs to automation, chances are that grannies aren’t the first people who come to mind. But knitting needle-wielding grannies, busy churning out tiny knitted jumpers for their grandchildren, could soon find themselves at risk of techno-replacement ...
Read More »Facebook has removed hundreds more Russian troll accounts
[ad_1] Of those accounts and Pages, Facebook says around 95 percent were written in Russian and were targeted towards Russian-speaking individuals in countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. “The IRA has repeatedly used complex networks of inauthentic accounts to deceive and manipulate people who use Facebook, including before, during ...
Read More »Backblaze partners with Packet and Server Central to better challenge the big clouds
[ad_1] Backblaze made its name as a cloud-based storage backup provider (and using lots of hard drives in the process) for individuals and businesses. With B2, however, the company also launched a file-centric cloud storage service for developers in 2015 that aims to challenge similar offerings from AWS and Azure ...
Read More »What we're watching: 'The Magicians'
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