Whatâs a smartphoneâs prime function? Taking photos? Making calls? Surfing the internet? Nah, all wrong. Itâs to tell you the time. You could tell me itâs bullshit, but ask a bunch of people, âWhatâs the time?â and watch them pull out their devices to check. Thatâs just how a lot of people rely on their phones lately. I often tap my phoneâs screen when itâs on a table to see... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Spade Smart Ear Wax Remover is the cotton swab 2.0, letting you see inside and clean your ears safely, all with the help of your phone. Easy question â should you use a cotton swab to clean out your ear? The answer is obviously no. And yet millions of us do it every day anyway. And itâs not even the danger of perforating an eardrum or one of... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 Premium Unity Game Developer Certification Bundle includes 17 courses to help new game creators use the Unity game engine to produce incredible games. While the GameStop stock story has used up almost all the available bandwidth for talking about the intersection of video games and Wall Street lately, thereâs been another such story in recent months that hasnât received nearly the fanfare. Since joining the ranks of... Read more âș
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The world population is estimated to reach 9.5 billion by 2050. Given that most of our current energy is generated from fossil fuels, this creates significant challenges when it comes to providing enough sustainable electricity while mitigating climate change. One idea that has gained traction over recent years is generating electricity using bacteria in devices called microbial fuel cells (MFCs). These fuel cells rely on the ability of certain naturally... Read more âș
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In May 2019, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) declared, âNo AI currently exists that can outduel a human strapped into a fighter jet in a high-speed, high-G dogfight.â Fast forward to August 2020, which saw an AI built by Heron Systems flawlessly beat top fighter pilots 5 to 0 at DARPAâs AlphaDogFight Trials. Time and time again Heronâs AI outmaneuvered human pilots as it pushed the boundaries of... Read more âș
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Googleâs advertising system allowed employers or landlords to discriminate against nonbinary and some transgender people, The Markup found. Companies trying to run ads on YouTube or elsewhere on the web could direct Google not to show those ads to people of âunknown genderâ â meaning people who have not identified themselves to Google as âmaleâ or âfemale.â After being alerted to this by The Markup, Google pledged to crack down... Read more âș
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During the pandemic, the chances are that as you enter an airport or doctorâs surgery, someone will point an infrared thermometer at your forehead in order to assess your temperature. Your skin temperature is being measured to try to identify whether or not you have an increased deep body temperature, which is indicative of fever, one of the leading signs of COVID-19. The good thing about using infrared thermometers is... Read more âș
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Facebook continues to expand its hardware aspirations. According to a report by The Information, the company is actively working on a smartwatch, offering the usual array of fitness, messaging, and notification features. This should be too surprising, considering Facebook tried to buy Fitbit before Google snatched it up. According to the report, the device is expected to launch by next year, with a second version to launch as soon as... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Dublinâs solar-powered Bigbelly bins were already smart, sending alerts when they are almost full to streamline collections. Now, theyâre also being used... Read more âș
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Little gets me as hot and bothered underneath my studded leather dog collar than a mystery Apple product â and what could be hotter and more mysterious than something called B2002? Letâs dig into the nonsense spouting from my fingers further. What is this B2002 thing all about? Well, the folks at MacRumors noticed Apple filed a product entry on the Bluetooth SIG database under âB2002â in October. Now, the... Read more âș
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TLDR: Enjoy some of the best prices of the year on some of the worldâs top language learning apps in honor of Presidentsâ Day. Somewhere back before the dawn of history, someone started linking the Presidentsâ Day holiday with sales. No oneâs sure where or how it all started. Maybe it was just another excuse for retailers to make a few extra bucks. But if youâre looking for deals on... Read more âș
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In May 2019, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) declared, âNo AI currently exists that can outduel a human strapped into a fighter jet in a high-speed, high-G dogfight.â Fast forward to August 2020, which saw an AI built by Heron Systems flawlessly beat top fighter pilots 5 to 0 at DARPAâs AlphaDogFight Trials. Time and time again Heronâs AI outmaneuvered human pilots as it pushed the boundaries of... Read more âș
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One of my favorite lockdown pastimes has been trawling the history books for old adverts of tech. The best finds are those that are so far ahead of their time theyâre laughably mundane by todayâs standards but also hyper retro in design. Dig a little deeper into these nuggets of days gone by, and youâll see something more profound: an idea, a vision of what engineers thought the future could... Read more âș
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Like a well-known rugby shirt wearing, floppy haired car critic, when I hear about new cars, I get âthe fizz.â I dive straight into the stats, the graphic renders, and head to forums to find out what others are saying about the new whip. When it comes to EVs, the first stat I look for is the Environmental Protection Agencyâs (EPA) estimated range figure. In a world of electric vehicle... Read more âș
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If you use Telegram on Mac, you should upgrade to its latest version (7.4) as the company fixed two critical bugs that could affect your privacy. These vulnerabilities included storing self-destructing messages locally even after they are deleted and saving the appâs passcode in plaintext. Security researcher Dhiraj Mishra found these bugs in Telegramâs stable macOS client (version 7.3) and reported them to the firm in December. Telegram patched them... Read more âș
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If youâve ever taken a marketing 101 course, youâve learned that keeping a customer is much more profitable than acquiring new customers. Itâs an old piece of wisdom but still valid today. Unfortunately, many SaaS companies forget about it and concentrate their efforts on generating new leads. The costs of acquiring new customers get very high, really quick. And if youâre unable to bind your user to your product, it... Read more âș
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The release of iOS 14.4 last month, had features such as the camera recognizing smaller QR codes which were nifty, but they were not life-changing. However, Appleâs upcoming iOS 14.5 update is shaping up to be one of the most important version updates in recent times. The company will roll it out by the end of this month, but letâs take a look at some exciting features that people have... Read more âș
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In the words of actor George Takei, whoâs probably best known for his role as âHologrampsâ on the hit Nickelodean series Supah Ninjas, the Kobayashi Maru browser game is so hard it will âmake you ugly cry, and no one wants to see that.â Scopelyâs Star Trek: Kobayashi Maru is a browser-based decision-making game where players are tasked with solving the legendary unsolvable challenge from Star Trek lore. In the... Read more âș
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Scientists from Cornell University have developed a way for robots to identify physical interactions just by analyzing a userâs shadows. Their ShadowSense system uses an off-the-shelf USB camera to capture the shadows produced by hand gestures on a robotâs skin. Algorithms then classify the movements to infer the userâs specific interaction. Study lead author Guy Hoffman said the method provides a natural way of interacting with robots without relying on... Read more âș
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Artificial intelligence often doesnât work the same for Black people as it does for white people. Sometimes itâs a matter of vastly different user experiences, like when voice assistants struggle to understand words from Black voices. Other times, such as when cancer detection systems donât account for race, itâs a matter of life and death. So whoâs fault is it? Setting aside intentionally malicious uses of AI software, such as... Read more âș
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