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Test your Python skills with these 10 projects 2 days ago – Did you know Python is known as an all-rounder programming language? Yes, it is, though it shouldn’t be used on every single project, You can use it to create desktop applications, games, mobile apps, websites, and system software. It’s even the most suitable language for the implementation of ar...
This AI advised me to read The Hunger Games to survive this ‘cruel world’ 2 days ago – If you’re unimpressed by the book recommendations provided by your tasteless friends, a new AI tool called GPT-3 Books could help revive your joy of reading. The system is the brainchild of Anurag Ramdasan and Richard Reis. The duo are the co-founders of Most Recommended Books, a repository of re...
Mercedez-Benz’s GLE rated as Europe’s safest automated vehicle a day ago – With advancing technology, many new cars come equipped with automated features that appear to give them some degree of autonomous capability. The problem is, all these systems are slightly different and that has caused confusion and danger, and in some cases led to fatalities. Vehicle safety test...
Xiaomi’s Mi Smart Speaker is bass-heavy and surprisingly inexpensive a day ago – Amazon Echo and Google Nest (formerly known as Google Home) have mostly dominated the smart speaker space in India. These speakers are not exactly cheap by domestic standards in India. You’d have to spend anywhere between ₹3,500 ($47.50) to ₹5,000 ($68) to get their smallest speakers — namely, th...
Microsoft’s $549 Surface Laptop Go could be its most compelling PC yet a day ago – I have a soft spot for the Surface Go. Despite being the least powerful device in Microsoft‘s Windows 10 lineup, the fact that Microsoft managed to fit a great display and a premium-feeling metal design into a package that starts at $400 led me to recommend it often for people looking for their f...
Fujitsu apologizes after Tokyo Stock Exchange suffers worst ‘crash’ in history a day ago – The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) suffered its worst service outage ever on Thursday when a technical glitch sent its entire system offline for the entire day. The exchange said a hardware fault discovered at around 7am local time eventually led to system-wide failure after backup infrastructure fai...
You should call in sick more often — even if you’re WFH 12 hours ago – The dramatic rise in working from home due to coronavirus looks likely to become a permanent feature for many organizations, at least for part of the week. But while this brings many benefits to both employees and employers, it’s also likely to lead to more people working while ill. This is not g...
Google Maps adds new AR tools to help you get around town 15 hours ago – Not content to just launch new hardware this week, Google today revealed a few updates to Maps that should make the platform a bit more useful for getting around — and a little more futuristic, too. Specifically, Google is expanding the augmented reality (AR) capabilities within Maps. Last year, ...
An Agile Scrum product owner is your company’s MVP. This course can get you there 3 hours ago – TLDR: The Complete Agile Scrum Product Owner Masterclass Course teaches what it takes to lead a project from ideation to successful completion. In the world of project management as outlined by one of the most popular PM methodologies, the Agile Scrum product owner is basically the team’s quarter...
An Agile Scrum product owner is your company’s MVP. This course can get you there 3 hours ago – TLDR: The Complete Agile Scrum Product Owner Masterclass Course teaches what it takes to lead a project from ideation to successful completion. In the world of project management as outlined by one of the most popular PM methodologies, the Agile Scrum product owner is basically the team’s quarter...
Beauty is in the app of the beholder 3 hours ago – I’m not a selfie guy. Raising my hand and pointing my phone at my own face never quite felt natural to me. Sure, I’ve done it a bunch of times, but it never really got any less awkward. It never felt like me. Because it wasn’t me. There has long been whispers about phone cameras secretly post-pro...
Google takes aim at ‘beauty filters’ with design changes coming to Pixel phones a day ago – Google is taking aim at photo face filters and other “beautifying” techniques that mental health experts believe can warp a person’s self-confidence, particularly when they’re introduced to younger users. The company says it will now rely on expert guidance when applying design principles for pho...
Hear how Porsche is preparing for the electric future at TC Sessions: Mobility a day ago – Detlev von Platen is a car guy, and in this age of new mobility, that’s important. Platen has been at Porsche for more than 30 years, and is currently on Porsche’s executive board as the sales and marketing executive. Before his current role, he led Porsche North America, where he oversaw incredi...
Google now has three mid-range Pixel phones a day ago – The Pixel has always been a mixed bag. The first-generation product was announced roughly this time four years ago, with Google finally offering a full-throated entry into the smartphone space after years of device partnerships. Of course, by 2016, the market was already mature — particularly for...
Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions a day ago – Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last year. Live View uses your phone’s camera and GPS to tell you exactly where to go, making it a nice addition to the standard map-centric directions in si...
Bullpen Capital raises $130 million more to fund the far afield and misunderstood a day ago – Bullpen Capital, a now 10-year-old, venture fund in San Francisco that focuses on what it calls post-seed investing — it backs startups that have already raised up to $5 million and “aren’t quite ready for a $10 million check but another $5 million would make them dangerous,” says firm co-founder...
Ethel’s Club founder is launching Somewhere Good, a social platform that centers people of color a day ago – Naj Austin, founder and CEO of subscription-based physical and digital community Ethel’s Club, is building Somewhere Good to be a one-stop shop for people of color. Beyond being a place for people of color to connect, it’s also about creating a safe space for folks to be their authentic selves. “...
Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers 20 hours ago – Google is paying a lot of money for its news licensing program, Microsoft announces an affordable laptop and Facebook says it won’t accept ads casting doubts on the election. This is your Daily Crunch for October 1, 2020. The big story: Google commits $1B to pay publishers Specifically, CEO Sunda...
There’s a way to pick the absolute best images for your content: Apply AI 21 hours ago – Is there a data-driven — or even better, an AI-driven — process for gaining deeper insight into which images are more likely to engage users?
Facebook sues two companies engaged in data scraping operations 21 hours ago – Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, including both Facebook and Instagram, as well as other large websites and services, including Twitter, A...
Indianapolis-based Malomo raises $2.8 million to turn order tracking into a branded customer experience 5 hours ago – Yaw Aning named Malomo, the service he launched for small businesses to turn their order-tracking services into branded customer experiences, as a tribute to his mother, who was a small business owner herself. “Malomo” means flowers in Swahili and it was the name of Aning’s mother’s small soap-ma...
Zynga completes its acquisition of hyper-casual game maker Rollic 5 hours ago – Zynga announced in August that it would be acquiring Istanbul-based Rollic, developer and publisher of hyper-casual gaming hits like Go Knots 3D and Tangle Master 3D. Today, it says the deal has closed. To be clear, Zynga doesn’t completely own Rollic yet. Instead, it has purchased 80% of the com...
American stocks drop in wake of president’s COVID-19 diagnosis 6 hours ago – American stocks are selling in the wake of President Trump, and members of his family and a key staff member, testing positive for COVID-19. The news, which came overnight, is weighing heavily on all major American indices, but heaviest on tech shares. As of the time of writing, here’s where the ...
Coinbase lets you withdraw funds to your debit card 23 minutes ago – Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is adding a new way to withdraw funds from your Coinbase account. If you’ve added a compatible debit card to your account, you can transfer USD, EUR or GBP to your bank account nearly instantly. There are some drawbacks, and the main one is that you’ll pay a lot o...
Kaleido’s Unscreen is dead simple drag-and-drop background removal for video 2 hours ago – Removing the background of a video you’ve shot can be a real pain if you don’t have the kind of tools and setup used by professionals — and even then it isn’t as easy as it should be. Kaleido’s one-step background removal tool for images, remove.bg, has graduated to full motion video with the com...
Watch SpaceX launch a GPS satellite for the US Space Force live 2 hours ago – SpaceX is set to launch a GPS-III satellite for the U.S. Space Force using a Falcon 9 rocket, with a target launch time of 9:43 PM EDT (6:43 PM PDT). That opens a 15-minute launch window, and so far weather is looking relatively good, which will hopefully help SpaceX end a recent string of launch...
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Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger a day ago – Earlier this week, Amazon unveiled Amazon One: new technology for its Amazon Go stores that lets shoppers pay for their groceries by scanning the palm of their hand. By analyzing the shape of your hand and the unique configuration of veins under your skin, Amazon says its technology can verify yo...
Facebook will fight QAnon by adding ‘credible’ info to #savethechildren hashtag 21 hours ago – Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images Facebook is taking additional steps to restrict militia movements and the QAnon conspiracy movement. The company will reject ads that “praise, support or represent militarized social movements,” including militias and anarchist groups as well as QA...
10 things we learned about Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Nintendo’s mixed reality racer 17 hours ago – One of Nintendo’s more intriguing upcoming games is Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. Developed by Velan Studios, it’s a title that follows the likes of Labo and Pokémon Go, attempting to take Nintendo’s playful experiences and translate them into the real world. In this case, Home Circuit is both a...
18 hours ago – I can’t put it better than SEGAbits: “Famitsu magazine took the photo we all wanted to see.” The photo is of Sega’s upcoming Game Gear Micro — perhaps the most ridiculous miniature gaming nostalgia bomb ever announced by virtue of the exorbitant price you’ll pay to carry just four games at a time...
Watch SpaceX launch an updated GPS satellite for the US Space Force 44 minutes ago – Late Friday night, SpaceX is slated to launch a new upgraded GPS satellite for the US Space Force from Cape Canaveral, Florida — the latest spacecraft intended to help modernize the current GPS fleet. This will be the fourth GPS satellite of its kind to launch in the last three years, and the thi...