Spot the robot dog has found fame through viral videos of it dancing, delivering sneakers, and even herding sheep. But civil liberties groups fear that the quadruped could also be weaponised. A new game aims to highlight the dangers of the Boston Dynamics bot by arming it with a paintball gun and dropping it in a gallery — and giving you the controls. The project is the brainchild of MSCHF... Read more ›
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EVs are super fast, ultra quiet, and brilliantly futuristic. They are what MP3 is to vinyl, an all-round much better idea for the everyday. While EV batteries and charging infrastructure are improving, the reality is that it still takes many hours to fully charge the average electric car. But that seems to be changing. Last month, news surfaced that a battery tech company had managed to achieve the seemingly impossible:... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s epic four-day stint at the peak of global wealth has come to a tragic end after the tycoon’s itchy Twitter finger triggered more financial upheaval. Musk lost $15 billion from his net worth in a single day after Tesla shares tumbled 8.6% on Monday. The sharp decline allowed fellow space-botherer Jeff Bezos to reclaim the crown of world’s richest person, with a ludicrous net worth of $186 billion.... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Complete Android 11 Developer Bundle is an 11-course package of training to help users learn everything they need to know to build a killer Android app from scratch. If you thought the world was crazy for apps before a global pandemic, you should take a look at the numbers now. 2020 pushed app downloads through the roof, with 2.5 million apps available on the Google Play Store. Coming... Read more ›
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When you’re building a machine learning model you’re faced with the bias-variance tradeoff, where you have to find the balance between having a model that: Is very expressive and captures the real patterns in the data. Generates predictions that are not too far off from the actual values, A model that is very expressive has a low bias, but it can also be too complex. While a model that generates... Read more ›
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Today, South Korean carmaker Hyundai unveiled its new hatchback EV, the 5. And you know what, it looks like a bloody brilliant. The motoring media has already published plenty of lengthy write-ups, so I’m going to focus on just three things you need to know about this new car: its range, how fast it charges, and a unique feature that means it can power other devices. But before we get... Read more ›
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I love making up band names. If you don’t believe it, I once spent an entire evening creating new musical group names for folks on Twitter. Coming up with funny or catchy monikers is hard. But… what if an AI did all the heavy lifting? Dream no longer. This Twitter bot not only comes up with new metal band names, but also makes their album names and artwork too. The... Read more ›
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A highly unusual object was spotted traveling through the solar system in 2017. Given a Hawaiian name, ʻOumuamua, it was small and elongated – a few hundred meters by a few tens of meters, traveling at a speed fast enough to escape the Sun’s gravity and move into interstellar space. I was at a meeting when the discovery of ʻOumuamua was announced, and a friend immediately said to me, “So... Read more ›
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Drawn to solving complex problems, I spent decades of my career in managerial roles at top tech companies Frank And Oak and building ad tech solutions for companies like Shopify and Clash of Clans. But throughout those years of growth and achievement, I always had a voice in my head saying, “Is this really the best thing I can spend my time doing?” I quickly realized that building technology that... Read more ›
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It’s been a long old journey for former Uber drivers James Farrar and Yasseen Aslam. But after a five-year legal battle, the pair arrived at their chosen destination – a court ruling that drivers for the taxi app firm should be treated as workers rather than independent contractors. It is a distinction that could have significant implications for the earning rights of Uber drivers, at a potentially heavy cost to... Read more ›
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Last night, I felt a great disturbance. It was as if millions of nerds cried out in pleasure, but one voice was suddenly silenced. I fear… Oh wait, I know what it is: Spotify HiFi was announced and Tidal shat itself in terror. Long story short, Spotify had an event. There were lots of things announced at that event, but one stood above them all: Spotify HiFi. This is a... Read more ›
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Spotify had a flagship event last night where it announced a ton of new stuff including launches in new countries, tools for creators, and new podcasts. A lot of that has to do with musicians and podcasters, but what can listeners expect from the company in the company in the coming years? Let’s take a look at its big plans. Launch in 80+ more countries In the last few years,... Read more ›
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Facebook has reached an agreement with the Australian government and said it’ll restore news links and pages on its platform in the coming days. This comes days after the social network barred all users and publishers in the country from posting or viewing news links, as new Australian laws required platforms like Facebook to pay publishers to display their content. While the company didn’t give details on what steps it’s... Read more ›
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NASA today released breathtaking new footage from the Perseverance rover’s arrival on the surface of Mars. The Perseverance rover left for the red planet on 30 July 2020. After a mostly uneventful transit through space, it managed to touch down on the surface of Mars at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. I love rocks. Look at these right next to my wheel. Are they volcanic or sedimentary? What story... Read more ›
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The Linux Foundation last week announced it was hosting seven open source projects in partnership with IBM and David Clark Cause’s Call for Code for Racial Justice. Background: Call for Code for Racial Justice launched late last year to solicit solutions from the global coding community. The goal of the challenge is to come up with novel open source solutions backed by IBM and partner technologies such as cloud computing... Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to add AI-powered text predictions to Word in March. The software giant first rolled out the feature to 50% of Windows Beta Channels in May. But an update to the Microsoft 365 roadmap spotted by TechRadar shows the company intends to offer it to all Word users next month. The feature uses machine learning to make writing suggestions based on the text a user’s typed. According to Microsoft:... Read more ›
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Netflix today unveiled a new way of binging on TV shows while you’re offline. The streaming giant has launched a new opt-in feature that automatically downloads new content the app infers you’ll like. “Downloads For You” uses data from your viewing history to find new shows and films that match your tastes. It then downloads the content to your mobile device when it’s connected to a Wi-Fi network. “Whether you’re... Read more ›
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Astronomers have used a combination of low-frequency telescopes, supercomputers, and algorithms to create a vast sky map of 25,000 supermassive black holes. The map shows thousands of twinkling dots that look like stars, but are actually enormous black holes, each of which is located in a different, distant galaxy. The researchers pinpointed the celestial objects by analyzing radio emissions emitted by matter that was ejected when it got close to... Read more ›
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TLDR: These Kodak Luma projectors over HD quality images, impressive compatibility and some epic scope, all from a package that fits in your hand. Projectors have really changed. Not too long ago, they were either giant centerpieces of movie theaters or looming ceiling-mounting equipment that all but dominated a room. Today, you say the word projector, and you can often unveil the device nestled safely in the palm of your... Read more ›
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After adverse weather, thousands are without power and water in Texas. Freezing temperatures and snow last week knocked out vital parts of the grid, which are still yet to be restored. To lend a hand, one ingenious Tesla owner shared a hack for how they turned their electric car into an external power source. In doing so, they have been able to heat their home, and keep their refrigerator running.... Read more ›
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