Apple's next fall event will be on October 27, according to a new report from Recode, during which Apple is widely expected to unveil the next generation of the MacBook Pro. And it's about time.The last time Apple significantly updated its top-of-the-line MacBook Pro was back in … | Continue reading
Google Assistant is Google’s long-overdue response to Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. It’s available by pushing the home button at the bottom of the new Google Pixel smartphones. It can send emails for you, recite your calendar events, open apps, tell jokes, play games with you, … | Continue reading
Mobile gamers can be insatiable. And that appetite is the key challenge for developers trying to maintain momentum for a popular app. Nielsen, the intelligence firm that studies consumer media behavior, has released research that looks into long-term success of mobile games. The … | Continue reading
A coalition that includes the ACLU, EFF, and 50 other organizations has asked the Department of Justice to investigate how the FBI and police are using large-scale facial recognition databases in criminal investigations. The letter comes alongside a new report that claims around … | Continue reading
Trained neural networks at Microsoft are now as good at recognizing the human voice as humans, researchers announced today. In a report released Monday, researchers pitted its NIST 2000 automated system against professional transcriptionists and found for the first time a higher … | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Knicks have re-signed forward Cleanthony Early. | Continue reading
There’s a new remote-controlled Star Wars droid on the way, but it might not be the one at the top of most people’s gift lists. The R/C Mouse Droid (via Gizmodo) is about as basic as a bot can get, but the tiny scene stealing droid will be very familiar (and possibly even cherish … | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) -- Charles Barkley didn't want Kevin Durant to join the Golden State Warriors and isn't sure Durant changes things now that he's there. | Continue reading
Wine merchant Laithwaite's is hosting a two-day event in London celebrating wine, with immersive tastings and virtual reality (VR) tours of vineyards. | Continue reading
Two taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) have docked to the Chinese space station, Tiangong-2, kicking off the nation’s longest human spaceflight mission to date. Watch LIVE: #Shenzhou11 and #Tiangong2 set for orbital docking #Today at 19:30UTC https://t.co/6LJ8qJnY0O cc: @Astroguyz p … | Continue reading
“Virtue may be defined as a habit of mind (animi) in harmony with reason and the order of nature. It has four parts: wisdom (prudentiam), justice, courage, temperance.” [Cicero] Long before our time, Plato outlined a list of four qualities, which became known as Cardinal Virtues. … | Continue reading
Less than two days after Orbital ATK’s successful launch to the International Space Station, another rocket is headed the same way. Early Wednesday morning, a Russian Soyuz rocket will take off from Kazakhstan, transporting three new crew members to the ISS. Continue reading … | Continue reading
Apple is reported to be prepping its MacBook Pro refresh for later this month -- say hello to faster chips and OLED touch screens and goodbye to USB connectors, if the rumors are right. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is probably the most disruptive innovation of this century. As the decentralized cryptocurrency continues to revolutionize the global financial system, the European Central Bank has started to feel the heat. In a recent statement, ECB has asked lawmakers in the European U … | Continue reading
Microsoft today sent out media invitations for an event at 11 a.m. Eastern on November 2 in New York where chief executive Satya Nadella and Office corporate vice president Kirk Koenigsbauer will speak. The executives will “discuss the changing nature of collaboration and how we … | Continue reading
After a small snag, the ESA's first Mars landing is proceeding as planned. | Continue reading
Who’s copying Amazon? Everyone! But especially Walmart. Speaking of which, the retailer giant announced today the launch of its own video streaming service, called Vudu Movies on Us. The service at launch will include thousands of titles, which will be available in HD and can be … | Continue reading
Intel today reported its Q3 earnings, and while the company beat estimates on both revenues and earnings, it also said that it would be raising its restructuring charges to an eye-watering $2.3 billion, as it continues to shift its business away from PC processors and into chips … | Continue reading
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Yahoo ($YHOO) has declared its earnings for its third quarter, generating in $1.31 billion in revenue and an earnings per share of $0.17. $703 million in revenue was generated from search, compared to $516 million the same time last year. For next quarter, the company said it exp … | Continue reading
While several implementations of the much-anticipated Lightning Network have emerged, new specifications could bridge these splintered projects.Source | Continue reading
Architect Yuri Zagorin Alazraki, founder of the Mexico City firm ZD+A, has designed PN House, a beautiful retreat home in Mexico City. | Continue reading
Yahoo made more slightly money than Wall Street expected — and no one cares at this point. The company reported its third-quarter earnings, basically falling a hair above what everyone was looking for on its earnings and in line with revenue. But at this point the company is in t … | Continue reading
Intel reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates, driven by revenues from data center chips and the Internet of Things. And it sounds a lot more bullish than it did about its core PC chip market. Intel had signaled that this quarter would be better on September 1 … | Continue reading
For the first time the handmade unique pieces - Sea Anemones - by the German artist Pia-Maria Raeder will be presented during the PAD London | Continue reading
Chances are you’ve never heard of ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablet.’ This forgotten title was stowed away for years after originally being made for Nintendo’s Super Famicom system in the 90s. The most hardcore of the hardcore Zelda fans have undoubtedly been waiting to … | Continue reading
Those Architects have transformed a small semi detached Sydney house into a light-filled home for a young family. Addition to Maroubra House | Continue reading
“Voutes Celestes” is a generative and interactive virtual-reality artwork projected onto the Saint Eustache Church’s chancel vaults ... | Continue reading
Indie studio Curve Digital is aiming to take on the virtual reality market, and that has it bringing in new talent. The developer announced today that it has appointed former Sony Interactive Entertainment London Studios executive producer Brynley Gibson as its new head of studio … | Continue reading
The LA Dodgers are tired of living in filth and are investing in a company called Renegade Brands USA to help clean up their gear. Read More | Continue reading
It’s a red-letter day at Microsoft Research: a team working on speech recognition has hit a serious symbolic goal with a system that’s as good as you at hearing what people are saying. Specifically, the system has a “word error rate” of 5.9 percent, on par with professional human … | Continue reading
Robots are now just as good at transcribing speech as humans. According to a paper published yesterday, a team of Microsoft engineers in the Artificial Intelligence and Research division reported their system reached a word error rate (WER) of 5.9 percent, a figure that is roughl … | Continue reading
Tesla has changed the language on the Model 3 marketing page of its website, which now says that "production" of its Model 3 vehicle would begin by the end of 2017. Previously, the text said "Deliveries begin late 2017." Though the new language suggests a delay in the Model 3 rol … | Continue reading
Die Jungs vom Macro Room gehen ja gerne richtig nah ran mit der Kamera, um die "versteckte Schönheit der Welt" sichtbar zu machen, was mit zündenden Streichhölzern und brennenden Zigaretten ganz wunderbar funktioniert, vor allem weil... | Continue reading
A group of banks in Hong Kong are reportedly developing a system that uses blockchain tech to share information about mortgage valuations.Source | Continue reading
Want to kill audience interest quickly? Use a laundry list. "We think dumping the entire contents of the benefits-basket onto a reader,... | Continue reading
On September 7, 2016, Evercar sent out a press release announcing that it had expanded from its Los Angeles home base to San Francisco and Oakland and had financing for buying up to 3,000 vehicles in the next year. Almost exactly a month later, the service that rented EVs and hyb … | Continue reading
It’s generally pretty easy to tell which candidates people support based on the things they post and like, but now Facebook is making your endorsements really obvious. The company today quietly added an endorsement feature that anyone can use to prominently display their colors a … | Continue reading
GUEST: Marketing pros always like to talk about the cool factor. In advertising it drives curiosity. In a new product it creates demand. But with the cool factor for customer engagement, the proof is in the plateau — the plateau of productivity that is, a.k.a. the user adoption p … | Continue reading
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday that returning the All-Star Game to Charlotte in 2019 is "a high priority," provided there's a resolution to a North Carolina law that restricts the rights of LGBT people. | Continue reading
Dr. Boom might have been kicked out of Hearthstone’s Standard format, but the powerful Legendary is still terrorizing players. Blizzard Entertainment has released an infographic sharing stats for the Arena mode of its free-to-play behemoth. Hearthstone has helped create a $1.2 bi … | Continue reading
Last week, when we reported on how PayPal has considered acquiring crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, we noted that the startup was on a growth tear and “printing money”. Today, GoFundMe is releasing some numbers that speak to just how big that is for the company right now. GoFundMe … | Continue reading
Goldman Sachs confirmed investors' expectations of a strong third quarter earnings report Tuesday, after key rivals reported strong trading revenue in recent days. WSJ's Lee Hawkins explains. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Instagram is now doing even more to push its users to its new Stories feature. The app is now surfacing Stories in its Explore section in an effort to encourage greater discovery. Now, when you head to Instagram's Explore section, Stories will appear at the top of the page, much … | Continue reading
Your list of parental responsibilities is about to take a weird turn. Gone are the simpler days when you could send a kid out into the great wide world after a few basic lessons on right and wrong and birds and bees. The next generation will need some other, more advanced teac … | Continue reading
The GTX 1050 Ti and 1050 are both coming in a bit more than a week from Nvidia -- with a few surprises under the hood. | Continue reading
If the idea of deep space travel conjures up mental images of a winged shuttle — or simply a dusted-off Apollo capsule — your imagination could use a little recalibration. Not since the Moon landing have humans ventured beyond "Low Earth Orbit." That means, to travel beyond th … | Continue reading
The Microsoft Surface has defeated New Englands Patriots coach Bill Belichick.In an unusually longwinded rant to reporters Tuesday, Belichick declared that he will abandon his device — the official tablet of the NFL — in favor of pen and paper.SEE ALSO: Patriots suffer Microsoft … | Continue reading