Author: Tech Support

    • Yandex launches a new online service in Moscow called Lavka, which delivers orders in 15 minutes using bike couriers and small warehouses spread across the city (Ilya Khrennikov/Bloomberg)

    Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: Yandex launches a new online service in Moscow called Lavka, which delivers orders in 15 minutes using bike couriers and small warehouses spread across the city  —  In Moscow, online orders delivered in just 15 minutes by bicycle signal what the future of shopping may hold. Yandex launches a new online

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    • India-based InterviewBit, which offers an online computer science program and lets its students pay part of the fee after getting a job, raises $20M Series A (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based InterviewBit, which offers an online computer science program and lets its students pay part of the fee after getting a job, raises $20M Series A  —  InterviewBit, a Bangalore-based startup that runs an advanced online computer science program for college graduates … India-based InterviewBit, which offers an online computer science

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    • A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers (Tom Simonite/Wired)

    Tom Simonite / Wired: A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet’s X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers  —  Google’s parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year.  It doesn’t talk about a group at X working on software. A look at a

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    See-Through Catalytic Converter

    {$inline_image} There’s always something to be learned from taking things apart. Sometimes the parts can be used for other things, sometimes they can be repaired or improved upon, but sometimes it’s all in good fun. Especially in this case where extremely high temperatures and combustible gasses are involved. This is from the latest video from

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    See-Through Catalytic Converter

    There’s always something to be learned from taking things apart. Sometimes the parts can be used for other things, sometimes they can be repaired or improved upon, but sometimes it’s all in good fun. Especially in this case where extremely high temperatures and combustible gasses are involved. This is from the latest video from [Warped

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    • Behind the revival of Dubsmash, an app that lets users post lip sync and dance videos that now has 27% of the US short-form video market share by installs (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Behind the revival of Dubsmash, an app that lets users post lip sync and dance videos that now has 27% of the US short-form video market share by installs  —  The loud app that quietly hit 1 billion monthly views  —  Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. Behind

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    • Machine learning for everyone: How to implement pose estimation in a browser using your webcam

    The 20th century turned out to be an era of exponential growth in the field of machine learning. The 3000-year-old ancient game of ‘Go’ that computer scientists predicted will take another decade to crack was made possible by Google Brain teams AlphaGo AI, defeating multiple-time world champion Lee Sudol. And, by the way, this Chinese game has more combinations than predicted

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    A Nano With An Otter’s Bite

    The would-be microcontroller experimenter is now faced with a bewildering array of choices when it comes to a tiny development board for their projects. Everything from descendants and clones of the original Arduino through to full-fat Linux powerhouses such as the Raspberry Pi Zero and similar boards can be had, and often for a reasonable

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