TLDR: The Knocki is a brilliant knock-activated smart trigger that can do everything in your home from turning on lights, playing music, setting your thermostat and more. Remember The Clapper? The sound-activated device was a revelation when it hit back in the 1980s, allowing users to magically turn lights and other electrical devices off and on with nothing more than the clap of their hands. Now that devices like The... Read more ›
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If you’ve uploaded any photos to the web in recent years, there’s a good chance they’ve been used to build facial recognition systems. Developers routinely train facial recognition algorithms on images from websites — without the knowledge of the people who posted them. A new online tool called Exposing.AI can help you find out if your photos are among the snaps they’re scrapped. The system uses information from publicly available... Read more ›
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Twitter has withheld multiple prominent accounts in India, including Caravan magazine, pro-farmers organization Kisan Ekta Morcha, and the Communist Party of India’s (Marxist) Puducherry account. [novideo] The social network didn’t specify the reason but said that it could withhold content or accounts in any country based on local laws and order from authorities: In our continuing effort to make our services available to people everywhere, if we receive a properly... Read more ›
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Mere hours after supporters of former president Donald Trump forced their way into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, sleuths, both amateur and professional, took up the task of combing through the voluminous videos and photos on social media to identify rioters. Facial recognition technology — long reviled by police reform advocates as inaccurate and racially biased — was suddenly everywhere. A college student in Washington, D.C., used facial recognition... Read more ›
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Imagine, if you will, a runner five miles into a marathon. At this stage they would have barely started, covering just 20% of the overall distance. Now picture that person stopping mid-stride and punching themselves in the face over and over again until they cascade into unconsciousness. That runner, friends, is Google. To sprinkle some context on the tale of self-pugilation: Google has discontinued its flagship tablet, the Pixel Slate.... Read more ›
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The UK is slowly but surely getting up to speed with fast-charging connectors. According to EV charging infrastructure trackers, Zap-Map, the UK now has 4,000 rapid chargers installed. In a tweet posted earlier today, Zap-Map declared that it’s now tracked the rapid chargers, which are installed at 2,667 locations. Zap-Map classes a rapid charger as anything capable of delivering more than 50 kW DC of power to an EV. For... Read more ›
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If you’re waiting to buy a phone in India this year, you might find prices in the market a tad steeper than before. The country has increased customs duty on importing certain parts to encourage local manufacturing. Presenting the annual budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharman said today that the country is introducing import duty on few mobile parts in order to boost local manufacturing. Domestic electronic manufacturing has grown rapidly.... Read more ›
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Saying good morning, in person, to a coworker you don’t know is perfectly normal. Sending a private message to a coworker you don’t know to say good morning is…weird. If not downright creepy. Look, that’s just how it is. I don’t make the rules. Seriously, though: the difference between these two interactions is real, which is part of why remote work is lonely. There’s also not really any context for... Read more ›
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It appears that luxury carmaker Genesis is getting closer to electrifying its entire vehicle lineup. Over the weekend, motoring and EV outlets were in a buzz with the news that Genesis — the luxury offshoot of South Korean carmaker Hyundai — has trademarked six car names all suffixed by the letter “e,” showing the company is readying efforts to overhaul its lineup. Early in the year, the company confirmed it... Read more ›
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Apple’s Keychain password manager is a handy way to store your credentials and not worry about having to remember them. However, this is mostly limited to the company’s own devices, which means you can only invoke Keychain to fill out passwords on iPhones, iPads,... Read more ›
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TLDR: The TourBox Neo offers ultimate control with unprecedented speed over your digital media creative projects that puts a standard keyboard to shame. Watching Eddie Van Halen’s fingers work magic as he plays Eruption is amazing. Seeing Tiger Woods wield a golf club like it’s an extension of himself is awe-inspiring. And believe it or not, elite craftsmen of every type perform equally impressive feats of creation all the time.... Read more ›
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TLDR: The iOS14 and SwiftUI Bootcamp Bundle breaks down everything a coder needs to build apps in Apple’s latest mobile operating system. If you know anything about Apple, you likely know this — Apple marches to the beat of its own drum. While Android systems are marked by their openness, products from Cupertino have always been safeguarded within an inch of their lives, deathly leery of outsiders creating for their... Read more ›
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Israeli company StoreDot recently announced it can now mass-produce electric vehicle batteries that can be fully charged in just five minutes. “The bottleneck to extra-fast charging is no longer the battery,” claimed the firm’s chief executive. But is this fast-charging battery really a game changer? And if so: exactly how? Electric vehicle charging speeds are a minefield and can be tough to understand. The latest models claim peak charging rates... Read more ›
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Water scarcity is among the top five global risks affecting people’s wellbeing. In water-scarce areas, the situation is grim. Conventional sources like snowfall, rainfall, river runoff, and easily accessible groundwater are being affected by climate change, and supplies are shrinking as demand grows. In these countries, water is a critical challenge to sustainable development and a potential cause of social unrest and conflict. Water scarcity also impacts traditional seasonal human... Read more ›
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In recent years, satellites have become smaller, cheaper, and easier to make with commercial off the shelf parts. Some even weigh as little as one gram. This means more people can afford to send them into orbit. Now, satellite operators have started launching mega-constellations – groups of hundreds or even thousands of small satellites working together – into orbit around Earth. Instead of one large satellite, groups of small satellites... Read more ›
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For decades, we’ve been trying to develop artificial intelligence in our own image. And at every step of the way, we’ve managed to create machines that can perform marvelous feats and at the same time make surprisingly dumb mistakes. After six decades of research and development, aligning AI systems with our goals, intents, and values continues to remain an elusive objective. Every major field of AI seems to solve part... Read more ›
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TLDR: This subscription to AfterClick Heatmap Analytics offers website heatmapping to track every user’s action on your website in stunningly clear visuals. This is the age of Big Data. There isn’t an industry on the planet that can’t immediately immerse itself in reams and reams of information about every aspect of that business. But sometimes, all that data isn’t necessarily a good thing. If you’re a website owner, a quick... Read more ›
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TLDR: This Vankyo Performance V600 Projector serves up a HD 1080p quality image at up to 300 inches across, all for under $150 for a limited time. It’s always a big plus when we can steer you toward an item that’s already prompted one of our reviewers to sing its praises. That’s the case with the Vankyo Performance V600 Native 1080p LED Projector. For a projector at its price point,... Read more ›
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It is obvious as this Covid-19 pandemic wears on that transport is being repositioned – both in our minds and our lives. Changeable travel restrictions and new virus strains are reshaping our mobility psychology. Despite the rollout of viable vaccines, any ‘return to normal’ for the foreseeable future will involve more work from home, more time spent locally, less socializing outside the household, and fewer trips for work and pleasure.... Read more ›
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More than three billion years ago, Mars was home to vast oceans, and a new study shows this world may have once looked familiar — especially to the residents of Iceland. The Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale Crater on Mars since 2012. That region may have resembled modern Iceland, careful examination of the geology of Gale Crater reveals. Curiosity has been examining mudstones for more than eight years. However,... Read more ›
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