2021 starts off with a little treat for people who enjoy spooky games, as Polish developer Bloober Team is set to release their latest effort, The Medium, later this week. The Medium comes out on the new Xbox consoles and PC. Iâve been playing it for a couple of days and itâs⊠ok. Bloober Team has been making a name for themselves in the horror genre since they released Layers... Read more âș
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As advocates for facial recognition tout the techâs potential to track down the US Capitol rioters, a new Amnesty International campaign has provided a timely reminder of the softwareâs dangers. The NGO has shared a stream of examples of how the software amplifies racist policing and threatens the right to protest â and called for a global ban on the tech. The Ban the Scan campaign was launched on Tuesday... Read more âș
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Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. While owning an electric vehicle is still far from the norm in most of the world, theyâve been around long enough for there to be a decent amount of options now available on the second-hand market.c Buying a used EV isnât exactly the same as buying a regular used... Read more âș
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Self-driving car startup Cruise has received more than $2 billion in a new round of investment from Microsoft, General Motors, Honda, and institutional investors, according to a joint statement by Cruise, its owner GM, and Microsoft on Tuesday. The investment will bring the valuation of Cruise to $30 billion and make Microsoft an official partner. Per Tuesdayâs announcement: âTo unlock the potential of cloud computing for self-driving vehicles, Cruise will... Read more âș
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If youâre looking for the latest digital insights and social media stats, youâll find them all in our new Digital 2021 reports series. Published in partnership between We Are Social and Hootsuite, this yearâs reports reveal that connected tech became an even more essential part of peopleâs lives over the past year, with social media, ecommerce, streaming content, and video games all seeing significant growth in the past 12 months.... Read more âș
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Former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has finally launched his new venture today â and itâs called NOTHING. Apart from the brand name, the company hasnât given many details about its product roadmap. It said that itâll launch smart devices in the first half of the year. Peiâs message on the launch was cryptic. He said that the company wants to remove boundaries between people and tech: tâs been a while... Read more âș
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Artificial intelligence has been making waves in recent years, enabling us to solve problems faster than traditional computing could ever allow. Recently, for example, Googleâs artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind developed AlphaFold2, a program that solved the protein-folding problem. This is a problem that has had baffled scientists for 50 years. Advances in AI have allowed us to make progress in all kinds of disciplines â and these are not limited... Read more âș
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Air pollution is one of the worldâs biggest silent killers. Poor air quality can lead to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and other chronic respiratory diseases. The World Health Organization says 4.2 million deaths a year are a result of polluted air. Bike commuters face this problem on a daily basis. However, help is on its way from Belgian ebike maker, Cowboy. [Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by... Read more âș
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About 280 light-years from Earth, a world of molten magma orbits one of the oldest stars in the galaxy. This exoplanet, 50%Â larger than the Earth, whips around its star at a breathtaking clip. Racing in tight circles 100 times closer to its star than the Earth maintains from the Sun, TOI-561 b burns with scorching surface temperatures over 2,000 Celsius (3,630 F). This is roughly twice as hot as... Read more âș
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Friends, itâs that time again: thereâs a new iPhone software update available. Specifically, itâs time for iOS 14.4 to rule our pathetic lives for a few months. You may be sitting there wondering whatâs new this time round and whether you should download it, or you may have automatic updates set and iOS 14.4 is already on your phone â I donât know, Iâm not your psychic father. But there... Read more âș
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In 2016, Microsoft released a chatbot called Tay that fed off peopleâs replies to it. Within hours, the bot turned racist and the company had to pull it down. This incident remains one of the classic lessons that teach us why itâs a bad idea to train an AI using social media. However, data scientists now have a chance to tune their AI to become aware of this kind of... Read more âș
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For those of us in the startup scene, itâs become pretty mundane to deal with all sorts of âwizardsâ and âninjasâ on a daily basis. But despite the onslaught of âquirkyâ and âfree-thinkingâ job titles, I canât help but to stop every once and again and wonder âwait⊠wtf is this personâs job exactly?â Thatâs why I got curious when I came across Juraj Holub, the Chief Meeting Designer at... Read more âș
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Get up from the bed, and update your iPhone right now. Apple has released its iOS 14.4 update with fixes to three critical vulnerabilities that are possibly being exploited as we speak. The iPhone maker hasnât listed too many details about the bugs, apart from saying that they âmay have been actively exploited.â One vulnerability is related to the kernel where the attacker could increase their privilege level (like becoming... Read more âș
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Intel seriously doubled down on graphics performance with the launch of its Iris Xe graphics on laptops last year, all while implying it would bring similar gains to the more crowded desktop market as well. Today we are seeing the first inkling of this with the launch of Intelâs first dedicated, plug-it-in-a-slot desktop GPU in decades. The card is simply dubbed the DG1 (Iâm going to hazard a guess thatâs... Read more âș
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Quantum computers, according to experts, will one day be capable of performing incredible calculations and nearly unfathomable feats of logic. In the near future, we know theyâll help us discover new drugs to fight disease and new materials to build with. But the far future potential for these enigmatic machines is as vast as the universe itself. The realm of classic science fiction is littered with ideas that todayâs experts... Read more âș
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Sony has been dominating the mirrorless camera market for the past few years, but we always knew it intended to release a flagship camera lineup even more powerful than its popular a7 and a9 models. That new flagship arrived today: the Sony a1. At $6,498, itâs clearly aimed at professional photographers and videographers only â or those with big enough budgets. Featuring a 50MP sensor with a pair of new... Read more âș
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One day weâre all going to die. Science and technology can put it off for awhile, but the march of time stops for no human. Sadly, most of us will be forgotten. Itâs a bleak prognosis but thatâs how things have always been. And thatâs unlikely to change, despite the best efforts of the AI community. Thereâs a new tech trend (thatâs actually a dumb old trope) sweeping through big... Read more âș
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Facebook News today rolled out across the UK, and the social network marked the launch by revealing new details on how algorithms power the feature. In a blog post, Facebook said the ranking system isnât comprised of a single algorithm. Instead, it uses multiple layers of machine learning models to predict what a user wants to see. Facebook explained how this would work for a fictional user called Juan: Since... Read more âș
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The head of video games giant Valve says future brain-computer interfaces could change how players feel. Gabe Newell believes BCIs will soon create superior experiences to what we can perceive through our eyes and ears alone. âBut thatâs not where it gets weird,â he told New Zealandâs 1 News. âWhere it gets weird is when who you are becomes editable through a BCI.â Newell envisions the devices detecting a gamerâs... Read more âș
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TLDR: Lightkey Pro studies how you write, then predicts what youâll write next up to 12 words so you can add it to your emails and documents with just a click. Thereâs a reason answering emails starts to feel like shoveling snow during a Minnesota January. The moment you think youâre finished, you turn around and another dump has erased all your past work and you get to do it... Read more âș
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