On August 17, TikTok announced it will partner with Audius, a streaming music platform, to manage its expansive internal audio library. Audius was not the obvious choice for partnering with the short video giant. A digital music streaming startup founded in 2018, it isn’t one of the major streaming services such as Apple Music or
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Read MoreThe ESP32 has enabled an uncountable number of small electronics projects and even some commercial products, thanks to its small size, low price point, and wireless capabilities. Plenty of remote sensors, lighting setups, and even home automation projects now run on this small faithful chip. But being relegated to an electronics enclosure controlling a small
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Read MoreRumors say we could see the Apple’s new iPhone in the third week of September. We think we know the iPhone 13 release date: Here are all the clues – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThere was an urban legend back in the days of mechanical electricity meters, that there were “lucky” appliances that once plugged in would make the meter go backwards. It probably has its origin in the interaction between a strongly capacitive load and the inductance of the coils in the meter but remains largely apocryphal for
Read MoreWith notable WearOS features, including body analysis, snore tracking, Bixby and rotating bezels, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 may point to the future of Android watches. Galaxy Watch 4: My thoughts on Samsung's new smartwatch after 2 days of wear – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Elon Musk’s “Tesla Bot” is a distraction and an empty promise, considering the progress of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, which has been in development for 10+ years — A distraction and an empty promise — After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI … Elon
Read MoreData nerds, computer geeks, science morons, I’m speaking to you. It’s the ever-prevailing cliché: the antisocial introverts who spend their days hacking away at some nerdy project that nobody understands. The freaks that push the frontiers of tech every day but still can’t keep up with the Kardashians. The cliché goes further. If techies lack
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Read MoreSummerSlam saw both Brock Lesnar and Becky Lynch return. WWE SummerSlam 2021: Results, Brock Lesnar returns, full recap – CNET Source: CNet
Read More[AchillesVM] decided to build a tabletop electric fan so it would track him as he moves around the room. Pan and tilt control is provided by a pair of servos controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3b+. How does it know where [AchillesVM} is? It captures the scene using a Raspberry Pi v2 Camera and uses
Read MoreElizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines — The social-media platform’s Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data. Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread
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