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Apple follows Spotify and announces its own music awards 2 days ago – It seems that Apple is quite enjoying its foray into the entertainment industry. After launching its Apple TV+ streaming service with some high-profile shows, the company has now announced the Apple Music Awards. The awards are a mix of choices from editors and experts and the number of streams o...
Apple follows Spotify and announces its own music awards 2 days ago – It seems that Apple is quite enjoying its foray into the entertainment industry. After launching its Apple TV+ streaming service with some high-profile shows, the company has now announced the Apple Music Awards. The awards are a mix of choices from editors and experts and the number of streams o...
Amazon unveils musical AI keyboard that teaches humans about machine learning 2 days ago – Last night, Amazon announced an AI-powered musical keyboard for developers at its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas. The keyboard, called AWS Deepcomposer, is available in physical and emulator form for folks to try their hand at machine learning. It has 32-keys in two octaves and pre-traine...
Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode 2 days ago – Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. As you browse through websites, it’s hard to shake off the creepy feeling that wherever you go, unseen eyes are watching you: Google, Facebook, your internet service provider, the government, the person sitting next to you, etc. Among the many priva...
These 5 killer app deals are still at their Cyber Monday price 2 days ago – We found five Cyber Monday deals that are still hanging around at a Cyber Monday price. If you like ‘em...well, it’s the season. Get yourself something nice. You’re worth it.
Amazon launches a portable Echo speaker for India a day ago – Amazon has just launched an Echo speaker with a battery pack in India. The device, called the Echo Portable Speaker Edition, is priced at Rs. 4,999 ($69.70). The new Echo device has a 4,800 mAh battery that can last up to 10 hours in a single charge. #JustLaunched Feedback from our Indian custome...
Watch: Performance-enhancing AI could change baseball forever a day ago – Meet Tipper, a convolutional neural network that lives on an Nvidia AI card. Its creator says it can predict whether a baseball pitch will land inside or outside of the strike zone. Tipper was developed by Nick Bild, a serial creator who seems to have an unquenchable thirst to create and innovate...
Regional strengths are shaping AI’s evolution in Asia 16 hours ago – McKinsey estimates that by 2030, 70 percent of companies “might have adopted at least one of the five categories of AI like computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation and advanced machine learning.” The report estimates that AI has the potential to deliver “...
North Korean hackers may be behind malware distributed by cryptocurrrency trading platform 16 hours ago – A new macOS malware packaged by a cryptocurrency trading platform has been uncovered by security researchers. The malware is believed to be the work of notorious North Korean hacking group Lazarus. Security researcher Dinesh Devadoss tweeted their discovery of the malware yesterday. A detailed an...
Microsoft may release two Xbox consoles next year 4 hours ago – A new reports suggests that, contrary to what Microsoft employees have been saying for months, there are two Xbox models coming out in the next console generation. If the information is correct, Microsoft is making a cheaper and less-powerful console to compliment its powerhouse, Project Scarlett...
Elon Musk testifies he wasn’t calling the person he accused of marrying a preteen a pedophile 4 hours ago – “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole.” Elon Musk in an email to Buzzfeed dated 30 August, 2018. In another sign of just how ridiculous the US justice system has become, Elon Musk‘s lawyers are...
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In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India a day ago – After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: portability. The e-commerce giant today unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart S...
In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India a day ago – After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: portability. The e-commerce giant today unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart S...
Carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high this year (it’s not fine, but not hopeless) a day ago – Carbon dioxide emissions, one of the main contributors to the climate changes bringing extreme weather, rising oceans and more frequent fires that have killed hundreds of Americans and cost the U.S. billions of dollars, are set to reach another record high in 2019. That’s the word from the Global...
( Kindly note : IPCC reports are political agendas and qualify as Fake News )
AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform a day ago – AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service. Like spot instances for the EC2 compute platform, Fargate Spot pricing is significantly cheaper, bo...
Nintendo’s Switch just had its best sales week in the US 10 hours ago – Nintendo today noted that the Switch just had its best-ever sales week in the States. Over the course of Thanksgiving week, the three-year-old console moved more than 830,000 units. That brings the system up to a combined 17.5 million units in the U.S., by Nintendo’s count. It’s pretty impressive...
Nintendo’s Switch just had its best sales week in the US 10 hours ago – Nintendo today noted that the Switch just had its best-ever sales week in the States. Over the course of Thanksgiving week, the three-year-old console moved more than 830,000 units. That brings the system up to a combined 17.5 million units in the U.S., by Nintendo’s count. It’s pretty impressive...
YouTube warns creators of subscriber count declines amid purge of closed accounts 11 hours ago – YouTube is warning creators they may see their subscriber numbers decline this week as the result of a purge that will remove closed accounts from YouTube metrics. Closed accounts could refer to those that were willingly shut down by users or those that YouTube shut down for policy violations — l...
GitGuardian raises $12M to help developers write more secure code and ‘fix’ GitHub leaks 12 hours ago – Data breaches that could cause millions of dollars in potential damages have been the bane of the life of many a company. What’s required is a great deal of real-time monitoring. The problem is that this world has become incredibly complex. A SANS Institute survey found half of company data breac...
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Apple acknowledges random shutdown issue with some 2019 13-inch MacBook Pros 13 hours ago – Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As noted by MacRumors, Apple has acknowledged an issue with some entry-level 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro machines in which the laptop “keeps shutting down.” This concerns the model with a Touch Bar and two Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C ports that Apple released...
The Expanse season 4 settles down for an anti-colonial disaster 11 hours ago – A year ago, The Expanse was canceled. News of its doom arrived while its third season was airing on SyFy, the reported rationale being that the rights agreement between its production company and its host network was not terribly profitable for the latter. In about two weeks, the show was saved b...
Nintendo brings more SNES and NES games to Switch, including Star Fox 2 2 hours ago – Photo by Andrew Webster / The Verge Nintendo is adding the first new retro games to its Nintendo Switch Online service since the program expanded to include Super Nintendo titles. The most notable new addition is Star Fox 2, the long-lost Star Fox sequel that Nintendo dug out of its archives f...