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Artificial Limbs And Intelligence

Prosthetic arms can range from inarticulate pirate-style hooks to motorized five-digit hands. Control of any of them is difficult and carries a steep learning curve, rarely does their operation measure up to a human arm. Enhancements such as freely rotating wrist might be convenient, but progress in the field has a long way to go.

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Source: Netflix to hire Activision Blizzard's Spencer Neumann as its new CFO starting in early 2019; Activision said it intended to fire Neumann in a filing (Kenneth Li/Reuters)

Kenneth Li / Reuters: Source: Netflix to hire Activision Blizzard’s Spencer Neumann as its new CFO starting in early 2019; Activision said it intended to fire Neumann in a filing  —  (Reuters) – Netflix Inc is expected to announce in the next few days that it has poached media finance veteran Spencer Neumann … Source:

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Hacking a 20 Year Old Subaru

While cars are slowing becoming completely computer-controlled, road vehicles have been relying on computers since the 1970’s. The first automotive use of computers was in engine control units (ECUs) which came along as fuel injection systems started to replace carburetors. [P1kachu]’s 1997 Subaru Impreza STi, like most cars of this vintage, uses an ECU and

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All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar's tool to match a user's photo with a celebrity's, were accessible from a public AWS storage bucket that is now locked (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar’s tool to match a user’s photo with a celebrity’s, were accessible from a public AWS storage bucket that is now locked  —  I thought the worst thing about Popsugar’s Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden. All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar's

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Tech trends for 2019: foldable phones, 5G, cashierless retail, privacy legislation, autonomous delivery wagons, IoT edge computing, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Tech trends for 2019: foldable phones, 5G, cashierless retail, privacy legislation, autonomous delivery wagons, IoT edge computing, and more  —  From delivery wagons and foldable phones to privacy crackdowns and corporate health tracking, the coming year will make good on some of the tech industry’s biggest promises Tech trends for 2019: foldable

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Screenshots suggest Google is testing group calling and a low light mode in its Duo video chat app for Android (Scott Scrivens/Android Police)

Scott Scrivens / Android Police: Screenshots suggest Google is testing group calling and a low light mode in its Duo video chat app for Android  —  Group calling and a low light mode in Google Duo have been rumored for some time, but we now have our first glimpse of the features in action. Screenshots

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Parents are often shocked by inappropriate videos on TikTok, a major hit with teens that Sensor Tower says was the most downloaded app on iOS in H1 2018 (Agence France-Presse)

Agence France-Presse: Parents are often shocked by inappropriate videos on TikTok, a major hit with teens that Sensor Tower says was the most downloaded app on iOS in H1 2018  —  TikTok’s video-sharing app was the most downloaded on Apple’s App Store in the first half of 2018, beating out Facebook, Instgram and Snapchat Parents

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