Microsoft has effectively announced a pivot away from mobile and towards AI and deep learning in its latest 10-K filing. But is this a rebrand or a serious attempt to tackle the nascent AI market? The post Microsoft Dumps Mobile References, Declares AI Top Priority in 2017 appear … | Continue reading
India's securities markets watchdog has announced that it will explore blockchain for potential applications to its regulatory oversight processes. | Continue reading
You probably already know about using schema.org markup in your web pages. But did you know that you can use it in your emails as well? | Continue reading
Beer in Hanoi The driver drew the taxi to a standstill, pointing through the right-side window to say, “There it is.” I nodded. We had successfully hauled ourselves from Hanoi’s Old Quarter to Quang An Flower Market, on the edge of Hanoi’s West Lake neighborhood. The market was a … | Continue reading
Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations that occur each day on the backend of the social network. Translations carried out with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were able to scale with the use of Ca … | Continue reading
In 1993, writer-artist Mike Mignola introduced comic book readers to Hellboy, a demon discovered and raised by American soldiers after World War II that ended up fighting against forces attempting to take over the Earth. It was an almost immediate hit, and Mignola went on to expa … | Continue reading
Kansas City already has the right lineup for its own tech rally, Karen Fenaroli said. “We have the investors, we have the startup talent,” Fenaroli, founder of Fenaroli & Associates and organizer of Pure Pitch Rally, said. A pitch competition next month attempts to connect the tw … | Continue reading
The indie studio Accidental Queens has announced that it’s releasing Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story later this summer on Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s a narrative-driven puzzle game that’s similar to the studio’s first release, A Normal Lost Phone. The studio is partnering onc … | Continue reading
Not every WordPress update goes as expected. WordPress websites can have a variety of problems, especially when there are incompatible themes or plugins. Some errors include the site being stuck on scheduled maintenance screens, white screens of death, or a website looking comple … | Continue reading
In the 21st century, chatbots drive social change and help people improve their sex lives. But they're not without a downside—including full-on political rebellion. SEE ALSO: Microsoft's chatbot Zo has some interesting opinions about WindowsIn China, two chatbots have been remove … | Continue reading
The biggest challenge of the Bunkherr house came up at the outset of the collaboration between the client and the architects. | Continue reading
One can learn a lot from the transcripts of President Trump's phone calls with Enrique Peña Nieto and Malcolm Turnbull, which were leaked and published in The Washington Post on Thursday. For one thing, it's evident that Trump did not prepare much for these discussions. But in ne … | Continue reading
“Wait for the green light and let go,” the Cadillac engineer instructed. That’s it. The car was driving itself. I, the person behind the steering wheel, was no longer the driver. Cadillac’s Super Cruise system was driving. The 2018 Cadillac CT6 sped along US-23 under the directi … | Continue reading
Motorola’s Z Force was one of our favorite phones last year, to the extent we picked it as the best phone for power users. Its snappy performance, long battery life, unbreakable screen, and modular flexibility made it a unique offering in an increasingly homogenous smartphone mar … | Continue reading
Today I spent a little bit of time poking around in Bing’s local results. I rarely visit Bing although I do drop by from time to time to stay on top of how they are ranking what and to check in on their local results. Looking at | Continue reading
Using a Game Boy Color, a Game Boy Advance SP screen, and a custom kit purchased online, YouTuber This Does Not Compute successfully created a version of the Game Boy Color with a backlit screen.With a little bit of soldering and some adjustments to the Game Boy Color's plastic s … | Continue reading
AI is not part of the daily conversation in schools right now. I know, because I sometimes work with students at a collegiate level, mentoring and training them and helping to create a better cross-pollination between the academic world and the future prospect of a real job. From … | Continue reading
People may not be using Facebook Stories, but that isn't stopping the social network from expanding the feature to its next platform.Facebook is now testing a version of Stories for desktop, with a wider launch coming "soon," according to a company spokesperson. SEE ALSO: Mark Zu … | Continue reading
The Big Bang brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago. Life first appeared on our planet 3.8 billion years ago. Earth witnessed a hominid species, Home erectus, walking upright for the first time 1.9 million years ago. And, 7,000 years ago, money was invented. … | Continue reading
A noted security researcher has been arrested by the FBI, as first reported by Motherboard. Marcus Hutchins (better known as MalwareTech) appears to have been stopped by the FBI yesterday afternoon as he prepared to board a flight from Las Vegas back to his home in London. Hutchi … | Continue reading
A highly-anticipated total solar eclipse is set to cut a path across a large portion of the United States on August 21, but not everyone has the proper gear to see it safely. But some organizations want to change that.The company Mystery Science and Google just announced a partne … | Continue reading
Micro satellite launch startup Vector, which is founded by a team of alumni from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Boeing and other aerospace leaders, competed its first suborbital launch and flight of a full-scale test version of its Vector-R launch rocket. The launch is also a first fo … | Continue reading
Netflix’s latest original series, American Vandal, is about a high school senior named Dylan Maxwell (Jimmy Tatro), who’s in a bit of a pickle. “This is just not the way I thought things were going to go. I was going to graduate high school, get my degree in engineering,” he says … | Continue reading
If you’re one of those people that worries that you haven’t accomplished much in your life, you probably shouldn’t read this profile of Kavya Kopparapu, a teenager who has probably done more in her time at high school than I’ve done since I graduated. Read More | Continue reading
The president plans to spend a couple weeks at his New Jersey golf course this August, and the Secret Service plans to monitor the place with a drone. The drone (singular) would be tethered, and would buzz 300-400 feet above the ground, conducting video surveillance, according to … | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest diversity report, out today, comes with a genuine surprise: improvement in nearly every category. While most tech companies struggle to make their workplaces more diverse and less dominated by white and male employees, Facebook has managed to hire more women and … | Continue reading
Opposition to the IRS effort to obtain user information from cryptocurrency exchange startup Coinbase is growing. | Continue reading
BITS DIGIT Token is offering 50% profit-sharing in Bits Digit malty functional platform. The first Exchange platform to provide 100% insurance on investors’ money with maximum safety features enabled. On call immediate fund transfer No limit on fund transfer for verified accounts … | Continue reading
Studio Saxe has completed a boutique hotel and yoga studio set into in tropical landscape of Nosara, Costa Rica. | Continue reading
MalwareTech, the security researcher who stopped the spread of WannaCry ransomware, has been detained following a trip to DEF CON in Las Vegas. A friend, who spoke to Motherboard under condition of anonymity, said, I’ve spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no re … | Continue reading
Not long after Dan Arnit made the biggest archaeological find of his career, he had to go build a parking lot.The news of his discovery—3,000-year-old footprints made by a family walking through ancient fields—had made it up the chain at the Pima County government in Arizona, whi … | Continue reading
High in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, sits Monte Altissimo, a 5,213-foot (1,589-meter-high) mountain, climbed in 1517 by the Italian artist Michelangelo—in pursuit of fine marble for his sculptures. There, according to Reuters, he “found the marble of his dreams. It was, the Renaiss … | Continue reading
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is one of the hottest games around, so maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised that its in-game items are becoming a big commodity the day that loot crates become buy-able. But it’s still shocking to see a digital trench coat up for sale in Steam’s marke … | Continue reading
Does no good deed truly go unpunished?The infosec community is scratching its head this morning following the news that Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old security researcher who singlehandedly stopped the spread of the global ransomware WannaCry, is reportedly being detained in an … | Continue reading
Playing games in 4K is already pretty awesome, but playing games in 16K is a whole other world of awesome.The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips managed to rig up a 16K-resolution setup using a super-beefy computer and 16 4K-resolution monitors. The team tested it out on Minecraft, … | Continue reading
When President Donald Trump finally signed the new congressionally mandated Russia sanctions into law on Wednesday, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, announced that the Kremlin wouldn’t implement any new retaliatory measures to mark the signing. “Retaliatory measures hav … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — A website launched on Wednesday seeks to track Russian-supported propaganda and disinformation on Twitter, part of a growing non-governmental effort to diminish Moscow’s ability to meddle in future elections in the United States and Europe. The “Hamilton 68” dashboard … | Continue reading
President Trump reportedly told his top advisers he thinks the U.S. is “losing” the war in Afghanistan, and is reportedly considering replacing his top general in the country with Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, his national-security adviser.That Trump is skeptical about the n … | Continue reading
Last month during the San Diego Comic-Con, Telltale Games announced a second season for their interactive story adventure series based on Batman called Batman: The Enemy Within, and today they've released the first trailer showing the game in action ahead of its console and deskt … | Continue reading
Presidents normally decline to take credit for gains in the stock market. The Dow Jones and the Standard & Poor’s 500 are simple reflections of market sentiment and short-term profits, after all. And what goes up has a way of inevitably going sideways or crashing down.That has no … | Continue reading
Five teenage girls from Kenya are headed to California to make their dream of ending female genital mutilation (FGM) in their country a reality.The bright teens invented an app called i-Cut, which provides girls with easy access to legal and medical assistance before and after FG … | Continue reading
Originally noticed by Artnet, photographer Cindy Sherman suddenly has a public Instagram account with hundreds of posts. For fans of the photographer, it’s kind of like a surprise show of new material. The account has been active, but private, since October of last year. In the 5 … | Continue reading
Peter Levine has an interesting working theory. He believes cloud computing is going to take a back seat to edge computing — and we will soon see the majority of processing taking place at the device level. Levine says it’s based on sound analysis of where he sees computing goin … | Continue reading
Japan has a mascot for just about everything, and the newest addition is Kan-chan, an adorable pink penguin from Tokyo-based Ichijiku Pharmaceutical Co. If you’re having trouble trying to figure out what Kan-chan is, we’ll help you out: this perky, kawaii little creature is... an … | Continue reading
There’s a new app out today from iTranslate that teases the idea of real-time, universal translation better than almost anything before it. It’s called iTranslate Converse, and it’s available on both iOS and Android. I’ve had a few days to try a test version of iTranslate Convers … | Continue reading
Amazon announced today that it’s updating its Alexa voice assistant with the ability to play back music from the Amazon Music library based on specific activities, like meditation or running. “Alexa, play classical music for running.”Amazon says that over 500 activities are inclu … | Continue reading
When Zumper raised $18M in Series B funding last fall, the rental search engine explained that the funding would be used to grow the company beyond search – and assist renters with the entire leasing process. So today Zumper is announcing what they call Zumper Select, which is a … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Among the thousands of people from Hebron, Kentucky to Kent, Washington who stood in line yesterday to speak with recruiters at Amazon’s fulfillment centers, their thinking was clear: Amazon is their ticket to a good-paying, stable job. The long lines came courtesy of a … | Continue reading