A photograph taken by a monkey in Indonesia is at the center of a copyright case that could spell the future for works created by non-human authors. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of the monkey in question, Naruto, who took a selfie w … | Continue reading
The New Orleans Pelicans defeated the Atlanta Hawks, 105-95, in the first round of the Las Vegas Summer League playoffs at Cox Pavilion on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Motorola sent out official invites for its #hellomotoworld event later in July, and the company has all but confirmed a certain phone will be there. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: i2B Capital (www.i2bcap.com), a provider of direct financing to niche-market financial entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce the closing of an $8 million structured term loan to National Surety Underwriters, Inc. (NSU), previously known... | Continue reading
Lyft has spent a lot of time building tools that help it simulate the results of machine learning algorithms, and the company plans to make them available more broadly in the near future. The company’s simulators are a key part of the Lyft’s machine learning development process, … | Continue reading
Hear ye! Hear ye! Be warned: Do not look upon his visage without proper leave, supplicant! Ok, it's not that bad, but we've just learned that part of Mark Zuckerberg's tour of the unvarnished, down home parts of the American landscape includes a set of very cringey rules, and we … | Continue reading
Every two years Suntop Media ranks the top 50 management thought leaders and bestows the Thinkers50 Global Ranking of Management Thinkers. The ranking relies on nominations and voting from the community, meaning that the public decides who is selected. NOMINATIONS … Continue read … | Continue reading
LG has just sent out save the dates to the press, pretty much confirming that the LG V30 is debuting on Thursday, August 31 at IFA 2017 in Berlin. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Axum Graphics has been named winner of the AI hackathon at MB 2017. The team’s project uses computer vision to match human mouth movement to a digital avatar as part of its Auteurist solution that makes 3D and VR storytelling possible for people without technical knowl … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
When evaluating how AI can help a business, execs should figure out when computers can beat humans, according to Charlie Cole, the chief digital officer at Tumi. “If you think about the nexus of how you can pragmatically use artificial intelligence in a practical way, you have to … | Continue reading
Just because everyone's against you doesn't mean it has to look that way. That appears to be the thinking of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group behind the dubiously titled Unlock The Internet — a campaign urging average citizens to take internet reform into their own han … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingComey’s Replacement: At his confirmation hearing today, Christopher Wray, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that he’d maintain his independence from the administration. Wray is a former federal prosecutor and se … | Continue reading
In case you have ever wondered how Instacart works, know this: There are thousands of “personal shoppers” who physically go to a store and pick out your groceries. In some cases, that’s all they do — up to 29 hours per week. They might not actually deliver the groceries (that’s a … | Continue reading
As promised last month, Google has today launched its new “Backup and Sync from Google” tool, which aims to help users more easily backup the files and photos on their computer. The utility is meant to replace the older Google Photos desktop app, as well as the Google Drive clie … | Continue reading
While questions about Russia attracted more initial scrutiny at his Senate confirmation hearing today, Trump’s proposed James Comey replacement Chris Wray did offer a few clues on his ideas about the digital privacy of American citizens. On encryption: “There’s a balance that ha … | Continue reading
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At least 17 people were killed and 21 others wounded in a series of suicide bombings on Tuesday night in Borno state, Nigeria, the Borno police commissioner confirmed Wednesday. The bombings took place around 10 p.m. local time near the northeast city of Maiduguri and were orches … | Continue reading
Professor Nick Bostrom doesn’t need a crystal ball to predict the future; he’s got an institute for that. He’s the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford University. The institute works with researchers and tech companies like Google’s Deep Mind, an … | Continue reading
Recently-launched publishing platform Verst released a big update today, with new features like a homepage builder, new pricing and support for subscription paywalls. CEO AJ Frank told us that his team’s goal was to create a blogging platform with optimization and analytics alre … | Continue reading
Identifier: COS-EINET-2017-3-04Pillar: More favourable conditions for business creation and growthOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
Amazon's Prime Day may be over, but you can still save big on one of Motorola's best budget-friendly smartphones. | Continue reading
Hyperloop One, one of the leading startups working to bring the next-gen hyperloop transportation system from concept to reality, just shared footage of its first full-scale test in a vacuum environment. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk had a 'promising' conversation about tunnels with Los An … | Continue reading
A French court today ruled that Google is not liable for $1.3 billion in back taxes, passing judgement on a suit filed last year. The courts stated the company didn’t have a “permanent establishment” in France to justify the large amount of money. The company’s legal revenue-shif … | Continue reading
Transportation is a huge category. Just some of the players include automakers and motorcycle manufacturers and trucking firms and logistics companies and dealership groups and repair shop chains and truck rental companies and car leasing companies and telematics companies and e … | Continue reading
Google today announced the latest updates to its Google Container Engine, its service for running Kubernetes-based software containers in its cloud. Like with previous releases, this update brings the Container Engine, or GKE, as Google calls it (where the ‘K’ stands for Kuberne … | Continue reading
Software testing company Applitools has raised $8 million for its technology that uses computer vision to recognize changes to websites or mobile apps like typos, missing icons, or other content. Developers using Applitools can catch mistakes or spot variations between version hi … | Continue reading
In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It’s a weird idea, but scientists have actually been using the genetic wonder tool known as CRISPR or “clus … | Continue reading
Frank Artale, a managing director at Ignition Partners, has resigned, according to the firm. Earlier this month, the firm received a misconduct complaint regarding Artale, Ignition Partners wrote on Twitter last night. Within a few days of receiving the complaint, the firm asked … | Continue reading
News Media Alliance (NMA), a group comprised of 2,000 news organizations in the US, recently announced it’s lobbying congress for an exemption to Federal anti-trust laws. The organization says that it is integral to democracy that publishers be able to collectively negotiate with … | Continue reading
Yet another national financial regulator is pursuing action against onecoin, an alleged cryptocurrency investment scheme.Source | Continue reading
I recently spent a night in Paris in 1899. Don’t worry; you read that correctly. It was for an event called “Secret Cinema”, which takes place in London every year and celebrates a cult film by bringing its setting and characters to life, using actors, before a screening of the … | Continue reading
Google is doing all of us a solid and giving everyone the chance to use its free cloud storage to backup an entire computer's system files.The new Backup and Sync feature will let you use Drive to automatically store files that you've already saved on your computer's internal har … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesDuring his Senate confirmation hearing for FBI director, Christopher Wray pledged that he’ll “never allow the FBI’s work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law, and the impartial pursuit of justice.” Democratic Representative Brad Sherman introduce … | Continue reading
We reported on a rumor last month that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 would be announced in August. We're now getting further confirmation on that time frame from two Korean publications. The Bell reports that the announcement date will be August 23rd, while another source, The Invest … | Continue reading
CoEmbed review explaining how this amazing software allows you to embed your call-to-action while sharing other people’s viral content. | Continue reading
You can now listen to music you’ve uploaded to and purchased from Google Play Music — not just free radio stations or, if you’re a subscriber to All Access, whatever’s available on-demand. That’ll come as welcome news to people who’ve stored hard-to-find albums (stuff that’s typi … | Continue reading
Some months ago, we wrote about the upcoming collectible card game Fightlings, a game that adds an interesting, real-world twist to the normal CCG formula, and now you can look at some of its gameplay in the most recent trailers. The game has you discovering various resources and … | Continue reading
The next time you hear someone prattling on about life’s simple pleasures, remind them of one of life’s more complicated ones: eating delicious food in your home. For those of us who aren’t natural chefs – and even for the weary ones who are – that means having it delivered. As D … | Continue reading
The Microsoft font Calibri is now a key piece of evidence in a corruption investigation surrounding Pakistan’s prime minister. Investigators noticed that documents handed over by the prime minister’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, were typed up in the font Calibri. But the docume … | Continue reading
Google’s new Backup and Sync app was initially set to launch on June 28 but was delayed for some last-minute improvements. Now it’s finally available. | Continue reading
A private bank in Switzerland is offering its clients management services for their bitcoin holdings.Source | Continue reading
The PC market has now been in decline for 11 quarters in a row, according to research firm Gartner. For Q2 2017, both Gartner and IDC found PC shipments were down globally. Gartner estimates worldwide PC shipments fell 4.3 percent to 61.1 million units in Q1 2017. This is the wor … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: It’s a tough balancing act between delivering rich content and letting players enjoy the game without a painful loading screen. Catch up on this VB Live event for a deep dive into the best practices for reducing load times across both the mobile web and apps. Access this … | Continue reading
The developer of Disc Golf to Go has been quite active in our Upcoming Games forum thread, describing his development process over the last few months, and now the game is almost done and will release next month. This one-man project has you trying to beat various levels using th … | Continue reading
Reddit has been one of the most prominent companies in digital advocacy, organizing to defeat SOPA in 2012 and to defend net neutrality in 2014. As the internet rallies for today’s pro-net neutrality protest, Reddit has organized Ask Me Anything sessions around the issue, and the … | Continue reading
If you’re an omnichannel marketer, then you want to know how much each channel contributes to your revenue, enter Google Attribution 360. | Continue reading
Audi aims to be first with Level 3 autonomous driving, the first with lidar, and the first with a massaging rear seat footrest. And you thought innovation was dead.The post The 2019 Audi A8 Will Drive Itself Up to 37 mph appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading