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Tencent teaches AI how to un-blur your photos (and give you a mustache too)
2018-05-29

In the early days of photography – which include the period between the birth of the camera and the launch of Google’s Pixel 2 last year – you had to actually be somewhat talented to get successful images. Now, thanks to AI, you can pretty much randomly smash the shutter button and end up with magnificient...

This candy dispenser lets you pay in bitcoin
2018-05-29

A cryptocurrency enthusiast has created a candy dispenser that accepts payments in bitcoin. The device, christened “sweetbit,” works by listening for incoming bitcoin transactions through blockchain.info and dispenses equivalent amount of candies. The dispenser is supported by Arduino Micro, a micro-controller...

A travel company just launched all-vegan tours
2018-05-29

Vegans can now take food tours of Thailand, Italy, and India. There’s an old joke about one vegan saying to the other vegan, “we have to stop meating like this!” Now vegans can “meat” on vegan food tours, traveling the world telling everyone they meet that they are vegan.Read Full...

Oh shit, Bethesda just hinted at a new Fallout game
2018-05-29

Fans of the Fallout franchise, take note. Bethesda Studios just tweeted this, hinting at a new installment of the iconic series to come. #PleaseStandBy pic.twitter.com/5IUjkURCcM — Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) May 29, 2018 Anyone vaguely familiar with Fallout will recognize this. It’s clearly in the...

Papua New Guinea is banning Facebook for a month
2018-05-29

The country just updated their relationship status with Facebook to “It’s complicated.” Papua New Guinea is taking a proactive approach to Facebook’s fake user problem. The country announced that they are banning the social media site for a month in a bid to crack down on “fake...

AI can use social media to predict when protests will go violent
2018-05-29

Researchers taught AI to read Twitter posts and pick up on language that indicated hostility. The artificial intelligence was created by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC). They taught the AI to read Twitter posts and pick up on language that indicated hostility. The AI then cross-referenced...

Report: Apple’s iPhones are all getting OLED screens next year
2018-05-29

South Korea’s ET News reports that Apple plans to use OLED displays for all three iPhone models that it’s slated to launch next year. That means their screens should be able to offer deeper blacks and higher contrast than LCD-based displays. For reference, Samsung’s Galaxy S9, Google’s Pixel 2, and OnePlus’...

Report: Apple’s next iPhones are all getting OLED screens this year
2018-05-29

South Korea’s ET News reports that Apple plans to use OLED displays for all three iPhone models that it’s slated to launch later this year. That means their screens should be able to offer deeper blacks and higher contrast than LCD-based displays. For reference, Samsung’s Galaxy S9, Google’s Pixel 2, and...

How AI could be using our voices against us
2018-05-28

Voice control gadgets – such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Home or Apple’s Homepod – are becoming increasingly popular, but people should pause for thought about advances in machine learning that could lead to applications understanding different emotions in speech. The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, recently...

Carrot Weather’s profanity-spewing forecast app arrives on Android
2018-05-28

iOS developer Brian Mueller’s Carrot Weather app has won numerous awards and features in Apple’s App Store for making it fun to check the day’s forecasts. It’s finally made its way to Google Play so Android users can enjoy its hilarious approach to bringing you weather information. Sure, you can see plenty of...

Why Instagram is the best window into Trump-era corruption
2018-05-26

Twitter may be the president’s id, but the image-sharing platform better reflects the ethos of the Trump era—the conflicts of interest, the naked ambition. During the week of April 16, 2018, at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald J. Trump hosted Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe. The founder and...

Opinion: It’d be great if AI experts stopped arguing like children
2018-05-25

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt today threw some shade at Elon Musk during a speech about AI, saying the Space X CEO didn’t “understand the benefits that this technology will provide.” Here we go again. His statements, of course, worked like a bucket of chum tossed into shark-filled waters. Stories almost...

TNW Conference attendees tell us what tech they want to see next
2018-05-25

As amazing as all of our existing tech is, some of the best is yet to come. We asked five TNW 2018 attendees to tell us which currently unavailable tech, app, or invention they wish for. Not surprisingly, some of the demands were pretty steep: “Teleportation.” Marie Bue. Startup evangelist, Zalando SE. “I would...

Here’s why Elon Musk isn’t “exactly wrong” when it comes to A.I.
2018-05-25

“A.I. and machine learning are so fundamentally good for humanity,” the former Google boss said. Former Google boss Eric Schmidt has some strong beliefs about A.I.—and some equally strong ones about Elon Musk’s fear of A.I. The Tesla and Space X boss has made it clear he is freaked out...

Fake news could ruin social media, but there’s still hope
2018-05-25

“Let’s try and have a conversation about fake news and disinformation campaigns without mentioning Donald Trump,” Camille Francois, director of research and analysis at Graphika, told the audience of her talk at TNW Conference today. Although it might be tempting to bring up the Twitter-loving President,...

TNW asks: What’s your worst career-related fuck up?
2018-05-25

As day two of TNW Conference begins to wind down, the editorial team took it upon itself to badger some (un)lucky event attendees. We wanted to talk about the types of things everyone experiences, but few want to relive. Today we asked the TNW faithful about their worst career-related fuck-ups… and we want details....

Google Doodle shines spotlight on cinematographer James Wong Howe
2018-05-25

A groundbreaking cinematographer gets his Doodle, Today’s Google Doodle is giving James Wong Howe, a man known for his work behind the camera, a moment in front of it.Read Full Story

Disinformation campaigns are undermining our democracy, but the battle is not lost
2018-05-25

“Let’s try and have a conversation about fake news and disinformation campaigns without mentioning Donald Trump,” Camille Francois, director of research and analysis at Graphika, told the audience of her talk at TNW Conference today. Although it might be tempting to bring up the Twitter-loving President,...

Here’s why Google employees meditate before and after meetings
2018-05-25

“There’s so much to do, and so little time,” says Connor Swenson, from the Partnerships team at Google for Entrepreneurs, as he explains how time is finite. There’s not a whole lot you can do about it in the office, except work more productively. As he tells the audience at TNW Conference: “I don’t have a...

Google and Facebook are already accused of breaking GDPR laws
2018-05-25

Both companies are engaging in “forced consent” according to privacy group noyb.eu. Both companies are engaging in “forced consent” according to privacy group noyb.eu. Forced consent is a “take it or leave it approach” where a company requires that users opt into data terms it...

Facebook and Twitter launching new political ad regulations
2018-05-25

The companies are trying to tackle foreign meddling in U.S. elections before the 2018 midterms. The companies will now only allow verified advertisers to post political ads, reports ABCNews. In addition, Facebook and Twitter users will be able to see who paid for the ads and how much money was spent on the ad. The...

Here’s how to see the data that tech giants have about you
2018-05-25

Facebook, Apple, Google, and Twitter probably have more info about you than you think. And the only way to know for sure is to download it all. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke earlier this year will probably hold the crown as 2018’s biggest story in tech. It came to light that upwards of 87...

Tweets from a decade ago reveal a simpler time on the internet
2018-05-25

Former Kickstarter CTO Andy Baio hit upon a most excellent discovery recently: a quick way to surface tweets from your timeline from exactly 10 years ago. Here, try it for yourself. Yup, those are decade-old tweets from the people you follow now While we obviously won’t get to see the same set of tweets, you’ll...

Essential is reportedly selling itself
2018-05-25

After barely a year in business and the release of a single phone, Essential is up for sale, reports Bloomberg. The Palo Alto-based hardware startup was founded by Android creator Andy Rubin and raised $300 million in funding. It is said to be looking for buyers, following poor sales of its PH-1 handset, and after...

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