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Haven’t we seen how this plays out? Boston Dynamics, the robotics lab formerly owned by Google, says its robot dogs—the ones basically straight out of Black Mirror—are now available for “select early customers.”Read Full Story
Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way. In August 2018, Instagram followers of the New York Public Library were tapping through their Insta Stories when something unexpected...
Apply Thru is a voice app for Alexa and Google Assistant devices that users can activate by simply saying “Help me get a job at McDonald’s.” McDonald’s has announced that it has launched the “world’s first” voice-initiated application process, called Apply Thru. The...
We’ve seen multiple instances of deepfake technology being used to harm someone mentally or financially. To fight this, researchers need to develop detection algorithms to weed out such videos. Today, Google announced the release of a free, huge dataset of deepfake videos to help researchers. The company developed...
We’re officially in the dark mode era. iOS 13 and Android 10, which rolled out recently, both have that option. Sadly, not all appsautomatically respond to the dark theme on your phone and turn the lights down. However, according to reports by Android Police and 9to5Google, Instagram is testing a dark mode that...
Amazon’s “Voice Interoperability Initiative” aims to let you talk to multiple voice assistants on a single device, but as of right now, Apple and Google aren’t part of it. Amazon has a plan to make multiple voice assistants work together on the same product, so you can say...
The BBC reports that more than 80,000 fires have broken out in the Amazon rainforest so far this year. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro kicked off what Politico dubbed “Dictator Day” at the United Nations General Assembly with a speech that was denounced by indigenous leaders from Brazil before it...
After the president mocked the 16-year-old climate activist on Twitter, she turned his childish taunt into a mission statement. Greta Thunberg has plenty of time for Donald Trump today! The 16-year-old activist made a passionate plea to world leaders at the UN Climate Summit on Monday, demanding action on climate...
The embattled CEO will step down as part of an effort to increase investor confidence in the fast-growing but profitless company. WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has agreed to step down as CEO of the fast-growing shared office space company amid pressure from the company’s board of directors, according to reports from...
Declaring the two apps as “from Facebook” shows just how much Facebook is out of touch with users. Earlier this summer, the Information reported that Facebook is planning to add the words “from Facebook” to WhatsApp and Instagram‘s branding. From the perspective of a digital...
Europe is famous for many things, and a variety of regulations that directly or indirectly affect online businesses is one of them. There are strict cookie policies, the infamous GDPR, laws that regulate returns and refunds of online purchases, and whatnot. And starting September 2019, European sellers are required to...
Facebook‘s controversial ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra is facing yet more scrutiny after the governor of Japan’s central bank called for international cooperation to regulate it. According to Reuters, Haruhiko Kuroda, the Bank of Japan‘s governor, told business leaders in Osaka that a joint, international effort...
This coming November marks a year since thousands of Google employees and contractors from around the world — most of whom were mainly women — protested against the tech giant in a “Walkout” amid claims of its handling of sexual harassment allegations, gender-based discrimination, racism, and other issues in...
Google just won a case in Europe’s top court (CJEU) over the EU‘s right to be forgotten. The court confirmed that the search engine giant would only need to remove reported links from search results in Europe — not globally — the BBC reports. The case started back in 2016, when French privacy watchdog CNIL...
Even Google seems to have given up on Android tablets. But Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 proves that the category deserves to exist. I’ve owned, used, and liked an iPad Pro for two years. But I’m surprised by how much I’m enjoying Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6.Read Full Story
NASA recently published a Google Research paper indicating the company’s ‘Bristlecone’ quantum computer has successfully completed a processing task in a matter of minutes that would take a classical computer some 10,000 years to complete. Then it mysteriously deleted the research and, to the best of our...
$5 per month gets you 350 Android apps and games, with no ads or in-app purchases. Now that Apple Arcade has arrived on iOS, Google has its answer for Android with Google Play Pass. The $5-per-month service provides access to more than 350 games and apps, with no ads or in-app purchases. Some of the highlights include...
Oh, and Steve Jobs is why the Marvel Cinematic Universe exists. If you have a favorite cinematic character, chances are Disney owns it. The House of Mouse went on a massive buying spree ever since Bob Iger, it’s current CEO, took the leadership position at the company. Iger is why Disney now owns Pixar, Star...
The company is trying to fight the housing crisis near its office by building a walkable neighborhood instead of typical suburban sprawl. The sprawling office park near the main buildings at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, looks a lot like other corporate campuses in Silicon Valley, with...
Just nine months after introducing Stories in Facebook Groups, the social media giant is killing off the feature on September 26, at 9AM Pacific Time. The development was first reported by Matt Navara on Friday, which has since been confirmed by Facebook. The feature — called group stories and available since...
Over the years, mass manufacturing of phones has made it possible to get a smartphone for as low as $100. However, these models might not be available in every market. That’s why feature phones with internet connectivity are important for these regions, but there are very few options that are available right now....
Google has removed two malicious apps with a combined total of over 1.5 million downloads after they were caught serving adware. The apps in question — Sun Pro Beauty Camera and Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera — were also found to have “more advanced functionality than your average adware,” according to...
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As an academic scientist who researches human evolution, I was surprised to receive an email one day from Patrice Désilets, a top computer game designer responsible for the first two Assassin’s Creed games. He was working on a new game based on our early evolution in Africa, he said, and was using my book The...
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