Scientists in Zurich are removing the blinders and letting drones figure things out for themselves. Using “vision algorithms” a group of researchers were able to teach inexpensive off-the-shelf drones to fly autonomously and map surrounding areas. The algorithms used are a “dense … | Continue reading
We didn't quite know what to expect from Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age on PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro. On the one hand, developer Virtuous Games did a good job with its existing Final Fantasy 10 and 10-2 remasters, with decent artwork upgrades that sat well on a full HD display. … | Continue reading
Venture capital’s national association has come out swinging against the Trump administration’s decision to delay the International Entrepreneur Rule. A product of the final days of President Obama’s administration, the rule was designed to let talented immigrant entrepreneurs s … | Continue reading
In the shadow of its Inspire partner conference, Microsoft today launched in preview three new tools for small businesses: Microsoft Connection, Microsoft Listings and Microsoft Invoicing. These join the company’s existing stable of small business tools like Microsoft Bookings a … | Continue reading
Google is throwing down the gauntlet and trying to crash Amazon's annual Prime Day party with an almost too-good-to-be-true deal on Alexa's biggest competition.Prime Day has become Amazon's annual summer sales blowout extravaganza, giving everyone an excuse to drop what they're d … | Continue reading
For every exciting opportunity promised by artificial intelligence, there’s a potential downside that is its bleak mirror image. We hope that AI will allow us to make smarter decisions, but what if it ends up reinforcing the prejudices of society? We dream that technology might f … | Continue reading
If you've been following TouchArcade as of late, you'll have likely seen me wax lyrical over Cat Quest consistently for the past few months, and for good reason. While it's true that any game merely featuring God's feline gift to earth is enough to pique my interest, Cat Quest go … | Continue reading
The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, created in part by the Omidyar Fund and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, announced its first round of funding today, delivering $7.6 million to a variety of organizations around the world. The $27 million fund for artificia … | Continue reading
San Diego Comic-Con has become an informal virtual reality testing ground over the past couple of years, with many fans getting their first exposure to the technology thanks to TV show activations and movie tie-ins. This year the network FX will be doing the same thing for the Mi … | Continue reading
How do we prevent pre-existing biases from bleeding into the artificial intelligence systems we're increasingly relying on for day-to-day tasks? By paying closer attention to the data and machine learning used to build those AIs.Google's new initiative, PAIR, or People + AI Resea … | Continue reading
If sea spiders had a creation myth, it would go something like this. An inebriated deity stumbles home after a hard day’s creating, finds a bunch of leftover legs, glues them together, and zaps them to life before passing out and forgetting to add anything else. The resulting cre … | Continue reading
A consortium of newspaper publishers are preparing to take the unusual step of begging the nation’s legislature for the right to collectively negotiate with Facebook and Google.(Generally, antitrust laws forbid this kind of collective bargaining because it reduces economic compet … | Continue reading
"From coast to coast", sagt man bekanntlich, wenn man von der amerikanischen Ost- an die Westküste bzw. vice versa mit dem Auto fährt. Die Königsdisziplin, die eine Menge Geduld braucht. Über 4.554 km ist die Strecke lang und die... | Continue reading
China’s latest move to crackdown on VPN software that enables people to circumvent its internet censorship system appears to be a very worrying one. Bloomberg reports that the government has requested that state-run telecom operators prevent their customers from running VPN apps … | Continue reading
As premium cable networks transition to become over-the-top services aimed at cord cutters, they’re finding that they need to offer more diverse content libraries, in order to compete with streaming giants like Netflix. HBO tackled this problem a couple of years ago, by partneri … | Continue reading
The sharing economy has made it easier for communities to peer exchange anything from a spare bedroom in your house to car rides and bicycles. But the model doesn’t work for everything, as one umbrella-sharing startup learned the hard way. Just under three months after launch, Ch … | Continue reading
The grease that makes the wheels of the sharing economy work is the assumption that most people are good. There’s an assumption that you won’t vomit in an Uber, steal from your Airbnb host, or crash your Turo car. One startup that’s learned the hard way you can’t always rely on t … | Continue reading
Take this at face value: Detroit has 50% more venture-backed startups than it did three years ago. This comes from a study (PDF) from the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) which found there are 35 active venture-backed startups in Detroit. Sure, that’s not a huge numbe … | Continue reading
One of Lucid’s prototype Air vehicles returned to the Transportation Research Facility’s oval race track recently for a second round of high-speed performance testing – and this time, it ran the tests without a software speed limiter in place. The first time around, said speed l … | Continue reading
TNW Deals’ Python Programming Bootcamp has perennially been one of our most popular course packages. So it stands to reason that when it came time to update that Python learning package, it only made sense to add in even more of what made the offering so popular in the first plac … | Continue reading
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking a narrower focus in its investigation of digital currency startup Coinbase. | Continue reading
Photo: Untitled (Port-Bouët, Abidjan), from the series Consonances, 2017 © Adrien Boyer/Galerie Clémentine de la FéronnièreToday we visit the work of Adrien Boyer in our #ArtistSpotlight. Boyer will exhibit his series Consonances with Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière. U … | Continue reading
Es un dogma de Fe en la industria del marketing y los medios sociales que Facebook desea que no salgamos de su plataforma. La idea es mantenernos ahi el mayor tiempo posible, a fin de que podamos c… | Continue reading
So that’s Monday out of the way and action in the bitcoin price has made for a pretty volatile session throughout Europe today. We suggested in this morning’s analysis that we might see some up and down action based on the fact that action over the weekend was similarly volatile … | Continue reading
Roman concrete's durability and strength blows our own out of the water (in this case, literally). And after years of research, we're getting better at understanding why.The post Why Roman Concrete Endured Thousands of Years of Seawater Pounding, While Ours Can’t appeared first o … | Continue reading
Game of Thrones is gearing up for its seventh season, which is set to debut in just a matter of days. With the new season comes the knowledge that the show is swiftly coming to an end — and that HBO is hard at work on follow-ups that capture its spirit. There are a handful of pro … | Continue reading
EA, via the PlayStation Blog, has announced the details of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta, which begins in early October.The open beta kicks off on 6th October, but you can play two days early by pre-ordering the game. It ends on 9th October.The beta lets you play Galactic Assa … | Continue reading
Roughly 400,000 Galaxy Note FE units were made available in South Korea, and, according to local retailers, customers flocked to buy the refurbished device. | Continue reading
Many journalists covered the battle for Mosul, the capital of the self-styled Caliphate of the Islamic extremist group ISIS. American author Luke Mogelson, on assignment for The New Yorker, viewed it from a unique angle: He embedded for two months with a SWAT team from the Iraqi … | Continue reading
August de los Reyes is the head of design and research at Pinterest. In this episode, he shares how a personal life event forever altered his outlook on design, what inclusive design means to him, and why diverse teams have the best shot at combatting disabilities and exclusion. … | Continue reading
Amazon is stretching its tentacles into a wide range of different industries and services. Now, the company is targeting Best Buy's Geek Squad installation and repair service.Recode reports that Amazon has "quietly been hiring an army of in-house gadget experts" that will soon of … | Continue reading
On a recent Thursday afternoon, 43 demonstrators were arrested outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell’s office. They shouted “No cuts to Medicaid!” as Capitol Police lifted some from wheelchairs and removed them from the building. The activists were quick to point out … | Continue reading
Punch! Bosh! Blart! Wrestling is coming to Nintendo Switch in the six-packed shape of WWE 2K18.It's the first official WWE game to grace a Nintendo system since WWE '13 in 2012 - all the way back on the Wii.WWE wrestling man Seth Rollins just confirmed the news via Twitter. He's … | Continue reading
It's about time for Google to announce the official name for Android 8.0. What do you think it will be? | Continue reading
Das taiwanesische Unternehmen HTC hat sich mit Volkswagen zusammen geschlossen, um gemeinsam an VR-Lösungen für den Autobauer aus Wolfsburg zu arbeiten. HTC berichtet, dass VR hier vor allem für die interne Produktion und Logistik eine... | Continue reading
Last July, Gavin Long, a black, 29-year-old former Marine, ambushed police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing three officers and wounding three more before being killed. Now one of the wounded, who was rendered permanently disabled in the shooting, has filed a federal lawsuit aga … | Continue reading
ERBIL—When Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in western Mosul to declare its liberation from the Islamic State, he was surrounded by mountains of rubble and shattered stone—all that remains of the majority of the once-great city.Rebuilding Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest … | Continue reading
After spending more than a year at Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is about to fly over the planet’s most iconic landmark: the Great Red Spot. It’s a giant storm twice as wide as Earth that’s been brewing on Jupiter for hundreds of years. Now, Juno is going to get the closest eve … | Continue reading
This is Wild West Online, an online multiplayer game set in, you guessed it, the Wild West.The video below shows a brief look at character creation, a town, various NPCs, exploration and combat. You can visit a saloon to pick up quests, steal stuff, which affects your reputation … | Continue reading
Waze introduced a feature on Android that allows users of the app to record custom voice prompts, including turn-by-turn directions, and now that feature is available to iOS users, too. The latest update to the iOS Waze app adds Voice Recorder support, letting you make your own … | Continue reading
New York based studio General Assembly developed a total renovation project for an Vinegar Hill apartment. Modern clean detailing and ... | Continue reading
It’s one of the ocean’s most beautiful and striking mysteries: Why do corals fluoresce?In shallow waters, they glow a brilliant pink and purple. In deeper waters, corals turn red and green against a dim blue background. The view is most unforgettable at night with a flashlight an … | Continue reading
Recently, 43 disabled protesters were arrested outside of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's office, and the clips went viral on social media. Since then, activists have kept up the pressure on the Republican health bill with similar actions across the country. For this sho … | Continue reading
BoJack Horseman is coming back to Netflix in September. The series, about a washed-up actor who is also a horse, was renewed for a fourth season back in 2016, right after its season 3 premiere. Last season ended with BoJack hitting new lows after his prized Oscar nomination was t … | Continue reading
If you’ve been waiting to purchase the PS4 Pro in white, well the wait is over. Sony is now selling a PS4 Pro in glacier white as part of a Destiny 2 bundle that will hit shelves on September 6th. The console, which comes with a matching glacier white controller, will … | Continue reading
The worlds of corporate brand marketing and online community management have been in separate orbits. And if you’re not taking steps to bridge the gap, your organization is missing a massive opportunity. I’ve seen too...read moreThe post Want to Supercharge Your Brand? Harness t … | Continue reading
Brand marketing and community management have been in separate orbits. if you’re not taking steps to bridge the gap, your organization is missing out. | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.You can deny it all you want, but deep down you know you want a fidget spinner. Sure, it’s a fad and everyone and their mother seem to have one, but that doesn’t mean you should … | Continue reading