Google today announced that the company has created a second generation of its tensor processing unit (TPU) chip, a change the company calls a massive leap forward in its ability to train AI models. Available through the Google Cloud platform, the second generation TPU promises f … | Continue reading
General Electric Appliances today announced that owners of its Geneva series of connected devices can now use Google Home with Google Assistant to preheat your oven, find out if laundry is finished, or check that the dishwasher is running. GE Appliances, a Haier company, makes Wi … | Continue reading
Google announced its next generation of its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) machine learning chips at Google I/O today. These chips, which are designed specifically to speed up machine learning tasks, are supposed to be more capable than CPUs or even GPUs at these tasks an … | Continue reading
Facebook is bringing its battle against clickbait abroad, getting more precise about which link headlines it downranks in News Feed, and starting to demote individual posts instead of just web domains and Facebook Pages. The updates are part of a News Feed algorithm change the s … | Continue reading
Über 200.000 Computer sollen weltweit von der WannaCry-Erpresserwurm befallen sein. Eine große, ständig wachsende Sammlung veröffentlicht das Android-Malware-Blog. Nicht alle sind echt - aber das macht bei der Menge von Wahnsinn... | Continue reading
The free and open internet as we know it is at risk. Read More | Continue reading
Just ahead of Google’s I/O event kicking off later today, some details have leaked out about a new service that Google is launching for developers that are building chatbots. TechCrunch has learned that Google has developed a new service called Chatbase, which provides analytics … | Continue reading
Apple Music is cutting back on one of its defining characteristics: album exclusives. In a recent interview with Music Business Worldwide, Apple exec Jimmy Iovine said that the streaming service plans to be less aggressive about obtaining exclusives in the future. “We tried it,” … | Continue reading
Growing up in Ithaca, New York, I lived with as many as three Australian Shepherds at a time. My mother trains the breed for competition in a sprint-speed sport known as dog agility, so it was a common weekend activity for my family to head out to some remote field to exercise th … | Continue reading
Even watching it today, 25 years after it premiered at Cannes to a chorus of boos, it’s hard not to think of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as an intentional act of sabotage by David Lynch. The film was based on the TV series that the director had co-created with Mark Frost in 199 … | Continue reading
Minecraft is getting a small, but important change after an uproar on Reddit — and it might just save a few lives. In Minecraft, you can tame parrots (and coax them to breed) by feeding them chocolate chip cookies. Intrepid Redditor 1jl pointed out that chocolate will kill parrot … | Continue reading
Speaking at the U.S Coast Guard Commencement Ceremony in New London, Ct. on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said that no politician in history has been treated more unfairly than him. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Google is overhauling its Android Device Manager app, which is basically Android’s equivalent of Apple’s “Find My iPhone.” Now the two are much closer in name. As reported by Android Police, Google is in the process of rolling out a big update to the device-tracking software — an … | Continue reading
Comcast has now launched its previously announced Xfinity Mobile wireless service, which is only available for Comcast’s current internet and TV users. | Continue reading
The Constitution has a failsafe. When the framers decided to create a powerful chief executive with a fixed term of office, it was immediately evident that a remedy was needed in case something went terribly wrong. As Virginia delegate George Mason observed early in the deliberat … | Continue reading
Let’s say you randomly selected 1,000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of companies that go on to raise a Series A, how many would go on to raise a Series B? You could keep this process going until only a few comp … | Continue reading
Social payments app Verse has closed a $20.5 million Series B round of funding from its existing investors. The round is led by Spark Capital, with eVentures and Greycroft Partners also participating. It raised its Series A in October last year, when it took in $8.3M. Read More | Continue reading
The Verge is on the ground to cover Google's biggest show of the year. Continue reading… | Continue reading
[…]The post Ernst & Young Joins Bitcoin Association Switzerland to ‘Support Local Bitcoin Community’ appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
After about two years, today is my last day at CXL. Before I go, I want to share with you the most important lessons I've learned along the way. | Continue reading
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game will enter open beta on 24th May on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.The collectible card battler has been available in closed beta for a while. Sadly, if you've been playing so far, your progress is about to be reset.Both card collections and player pr … | Continue reading
Over the last 24 hours, journalists have hunted down Republican members of Congress in search of quotes that include words like “Watergate,” “impeachment,” and “obstruction of justice?” And they’ve elicited a few.But the shift occurring within the congressional GOP is mostly mani … | Continue reading
The delayed South Park: The Fractured But Whole will at last launch on 17th October, publisher Ubisoft has confirmed.As before, it's still on the way for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. And, as before, pre-orders of the game will unlock its predecessor South Park: The Stick of Tr … | Continue reading
Imagine if Siri wasn't just an anonymous voice living inside your iPhone. Instead, what if the dulcet tones of none other than Jeff Goldblum asked "how can I help you?" every time you accidentally press your home button for too long?If Steve Jobs had his way, we'd be living in a … | Continue reading
Just a few days after raising $502 million from SoftBank, Improbable has announced an alliance to develop big online game worlds with Jagex, the maker of fantasy role-playing online game RuneScape. Jagex will use Improbable’s SpatialOS, an operating system built for the era of cl … | Continue reading
Spricht man über autonomes Fahren, denken die meisten an den privaten oder "normalen" Gebrauch von Autos. Aber wie wirkt sich so eine Technologie auf Branchen aus, die täglich mit Fahrzeugen hantieren müssen? Die Müllabfuhr zum Beispiel,... | Continue reading
At about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, it seemed like a solitary flight of fancy when firebrand Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of Los Angeles told a conference of liberal activists in Washington, D.C., that “we don’t have to be afraid to use the word impeachment” when talking ab … | Continue reading
The 'Flyte' is the perfect gift for the person in your life who already has everything. It's a floating LED lightbulb that can last up to 22 years. Read more...More about Tech, Home, Technology, Light, and Real Time | Continue reading
After last week’s massive ransomware attack shut down machines around the world, the NSA, which knew of the exploit before it was public, became a target for criticism. Microsoft patched the problem before the attack, but it’s still raised questions about how, and when, the NSA d … | Continue reading
“How did the Grand Canyon form?” is a question so commonly pondered that YouTube is rife with explanations. Go down into the long tail of Grand Canyon videos, and you’ll eventually find at a two-part, 35-minute lecture by Andrew Snelling. The first sign this isn’t a typical geolo … | Continue reading
Our hair is a big part of our identities. But when it comes to finding an emoji that represents us, there aren't that many options to choose from.There's some hope on the horizon. The Unicode Technical Committee just added emoji for curly hair, white hair, red hair, and baldness … | Continue reading
It wasn’t even two weeks ago that Republicans were back-slapping with Donald Trump at the White House, celebrating the passage of a health-care bill they hoped would rejuvenate their legislative agenda. Now, however, top GOP lawmakers are grimly accepting a role they wanted despe … | Continue reading
Apple’s wireless payment system Apple Pay is now up and running in Italy. The company partnered with a handful of banks and popular retailers. Italian customers can now add their payment cards to the Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple Pay currently supports Boon, … | Continue reading
For the first time since 2005's Enterprise, Star Trek is returning to television... sort of. Star Trek: Discovery will air on CBS's All-Access streaming service. Follow along for all of the developments, commentary, and trailers. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Who doesn’t love options? But as psychologists have pointed out, choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them. And if you’ve been paying attention to the growing boutique fitness class trend, you know that the options are endless – and s … | Continue reading
Nintendo wins again. The Japanese game company revealed today that its Switch system was the No. 1 best-selling console in the U.S. in April. Consumers bought 280,000 of the portable/home console hybrid machine. The news come from Nintendo via figures provided by The NPD Group. T … | Continue reading
[…]The post No, Fed’s Comment on Blockchain Didn’t Lead to Bitcoin Price Surge appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
LG is rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update to the unlocked G5 devices in the US. | Continue reading
How can humans stay ahead of an ever growing machine intelligence? “I think the challenge for us is to always be creative,” says former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, speaking on stage here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. Read More | Continue reading
The business of hacking has dealt a huge blow to our democracy, not to mention a plethora of organizations and individuals, and our collective sense of sanity. One silver lining, however, has been that it has led to the emergence of a number of security startups that are buildin … | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin is once again above $1,800 following a recent uptick that comes amid increasing exchange competition.Source | Continue reading
If you’re a hardcore web pro, there’s a decent chance you’re also a devotee of the Linux operating system. Sure, Windows and iOS come with lots of fun frills and added features, but for down and dirty, uncluttered programming and system operations, many coding beasts say the open … | Continue reading
UK activist Muhammad Abdur Rabbani has been charged with obstruction of justice after refusing to provide encryption passwords to police at an airport stop in London. He is due to appear in court in Westminster, England on June 20th.Rabbani is being charged under the UK’s controv … | Continue reading
Ob Fidget Spinner nur ein kurzes Leuchtfeuer, aufgekochter 00er Hype oder doch wieder was Spannendes sind. Das muss jeder für sich selber beantworten. Fakt ist, Fidget Spinner machen derweil oft die Runde und auch spannende Objekte entstehen dabei.... | Continue reading
Hardware cryptocurrency wallets have quickly become the norm these days. Consumers are looking for secure ways to store their digital assets. Ledger is one the companies who have made a big name for themselves in this regard. The company announced this week they will enable XRP s … | Continue reading
Repeat customers produce 41% of revenue, according to Forrester . Yet B2B marketers spend nearly all their money on lead gen . Jay Baer... | Continue reading
FOLLOW US LIVE ON THE GROUNDGoogle’s biggest event of the year is almost here.The company’s I/O developer conference is about to kick off and all signs suggest it’s going to be as big as ever. At this year’s conference, we expect to hear much more about the next version of Androi … | Continue reading
McDonald’s expanded its partnership with the food-delivery arm of Uber last month, and now we know exactly which cities are coming onboard for mobile McGriddle deliveries. Starting today, UberEats will support McDonald’s in more than 1,000 locations across the US, which now inclu … | Continue reading