Month: June 2019

By having an estimated one billion active device users, Apple has a self-sufficient level of ecosystem strength to thrive despite slowing user growth (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: By having an estimated one billion active device users, Apple has a self-sufficient level of ecosystem strength to thrive despite slowing user growth  —  Apple’s ecosystem is massive.  Approximately a billion people are using more than 1.4 billion Apple devices. By having an estimated one billion active device users, Apple

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Saturday's Best Deals: Sunday Scaries, Arcade Cabinet, Trendy Furniture, Prime Pantry, and More

A great sale on your next Prime Pantry box, Sunday Scaries CBD gummies, and a discounted 12-in-1 arcade cabinet lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Saturday’s Best Deals: Sunday Scaries, Arcade Cabinet, Trendy Furniture, Prime Pantry, and More Source: Life Hacker

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The US charges contractor with supplying military with counterfeit gear from China

The Justice Department has charged a defense wholesaler with fraud and counterfeit trafficking after it produced uniforms and other gear for the US military in China that didn’t do what it was designed to do, according to Military Times. The contractor that’s been charged is Ramin Kohanbash, who owned a New Jersey-based supply company called

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DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times: DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III  —  Chess and Go were child’s play.  Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag.  Will such skills translate to the real world? DeepMind researchers detail how

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Our first look at Playdate, the world’s cutest game console

Panic, the venerable Mac and iOS software firm, made a major splash the other week with the announcement of its first hardware device. The Playdate is a bright yellow handheld gaming console with a monochrome screen; it was co-designed by Swedish hardware wizards Teenage Engineering and features exclusive releases from renowned developers like Zach Gage,

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3D Prints Turn Any Keyboard Isomorphic

In the history of weird musical instrument interfaces, isomorphic keyboards are a favorite. These keyboards look like a grid of buttons, but when you play them, the relative shapes of chords are always the same. The benefit? Just say no to five hundred years of clavier tradition. It looks cool, too. Theoretically, it’s easier to

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IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain non-public Huawei ban-related info, keeps Huawei's other membership privileges (Jeffrey Mervis/Science)

Jeffrey Mervis / Science: IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain non-public Huawei ban-related info, keeps Huawei’s other membership privileges  —  A major scientific society has banned employees of Huawei, the Chinese communications giant, from reviewing submissions … IEEE bans Huawei staff from journal article peer-reviews since papers may contain

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This AI tool is translating 2,000 African languages in a bid to boost local economies

A digital platform called OBTranslate that aims to translate more than 2,000 African languages to enable rural dwellers to gain easy access to global markets has been launched. According to its creator, 63 per cent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to global markets because of language barriers. “Over 52 native

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Paper Strandbeest Is Strong Enough To Walk

Most readers will be familiar with the work of the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose Strandbeest wind-powered mechanical walking sculptures prowl the beaches of the Netherlands. The Jansen linkage provides a method of making machines with a curious but efficient walking gait from a rotational input, and has been enthusiastically copied on everything from desktop

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