Microsoft’s AI can create caricatures that look like a real cartoon artist’s rendition of a human face. How Microsoft's caricature AI turns photos into portrait cartoons Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreBlack Friday. Just the words send a chill up the spine of even the most hardened shoppers. Battling the post Turkey Day hordes is the Super Bowl of commerce…and quite possibly the biggest headache in human record. Thankfully, you can get off that hamster wheel and still score big discounts on some awesome gadgets with
Read MoreLightsabers are an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Did you ever consider that cutting people’s hands off with a laser sword means automatically cauterized wounds and that lack of blood results in a gentler rating from the Motion Picture Association? Movie guidelines aside, a cauterizing pen is found in some first aid kits,
Read MoreLots of deals are live and in stock now — including a $200 PlayStation 4 bundle — and more are coming. Target's Black Friday 2018: Get 0 Apple iPad, Roku Streamer, 0 Microsoft Xbox One S bundle and more right now! – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s never been cheaper to get Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, ESPN, DirecTV Now and more to your TV. Here are the best discounts (so far) on our favorite streamers, many of which are available now. Black Friday 2018 streamer deals: Roku, Fire TV and Chromecast and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLiz Alderman / New York Times: With only 10% of Swedes using cash this year, down from 40% in 2010, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine societal costs — Cash is disappearing in the country faster than anyone thought it would. Now, officials are trying to slow its demise as they
Read MoreThe company will offer subsidies to carriers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apple to reportedly cut iPhone XR price in Japan – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe French confederation of tobacconists is hellbent on allowing tobacco stores (tabacs) across the country sell special coupons for Bitcoin and Ethereum, as a way of keeping up with the times. Announced suddenly via local media, confederation president Philippe Coy declared between 3,000 and 4,000 tabacs across France would be permitted to sell cryptocurrency vouchers,
Read MoreIt appears hackers were able to seize control of the email address of cryptocurrency exchange desk Uphold – and blast its users with a link to a Bitcoin giveaway scam. Scammers sent links to a phishing campaign, designed to dupe naive investors out of their coins. To fool users, the attackers disguised the fake giveaway
Read MoreDo you absolutely hate YouTube’s pre-roll ads? Well, YouTube’s thinking about introducing two back-to-back skippable ads, called “Ad-pods.” In return, it’ll let you watch a longer video without interruptions. Currently, YouTube shows an ad while you’re in the middle of watching a video. So, instead of that, YouTube will show two back-to-back ads before the
Read MoreMicrosoft puts another block on the Windows 10 1809 rollout and says it’s all part of its “controlled approach”. New Windows 10 1809 block: Microsoft halts update if you use flawed Intel drivers Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: LinkedIn quietly introduces a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking a user’s connections from exporting the user’s personal email address — A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters, and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections.
Read MoreThe tech industry has had so many screwups this year, it’s hard to keep track. But with CNET’s 2018 edition of Tech Turkeys, we’re gonna try. Facebook's Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and bitcoin: The biggest Tech Turkeys of 2018 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGet a camera drone with GPS for less than $100 or fly an app-controlled paper airplane for $35. Black Friday 2018 drone deals: DJI Mavic Air, Parrot Anafi, Ryze Tello and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSay goodbye to the grid. Eventually, a programming-first design similar to the Roku Channel will take over. Roku's home screen is going to get an overhaul (and you can already take a peek) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTech’s major players made even more big blunders, marking one of the industry’s worst years ever. Tech Turkeys 2018: So much Facebook! But net neutrality too – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNeural networks are a key technology in the field of machine learning. A common technique is training them with sample data, and then asking them to create something new in the same vein. AI researcher [Janelle Shane] decided to task a neural network with a fun task – inventing new kinds of pie. Using the char-rnn library, the
Read MoreTwo major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have been forced offline, after critical Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers suffered nationwide failure Thursday morning. AWS, one of the world’s widely used cloud services, was hit with major internal server failures that brought popular digital asset exchanges, Upbit and Coinone, to a screeching halt. Several popular e-commerce hubs
Read MoreTakashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple is offering subsidies to network operators in Japan to shore up sales of iPhone XR, after an underwhelming launch of its least expensive phone — Japanese carriers will use subsidies from Apple to discount the cheapest new iPhone, after an underwhelming launch Sources: Apple is offering subsidies
Read MoreOver the past couple of weeks, Twitter and Instagram have begun testing ways to reduce visual emphasis on users’ follower counts. The tweaks aren’t much more than changes in font size and where the text appears. But they represent a shift focus away from personalities’ popularity to the content they create, and the value they
Read MoreSurgeons at St Mary’s Hospital have been using a HoloLens-based system to pick out blood vessels before surgery. Augmented reality in the operating theatre: How surgeons are using Microsoft's HoloLens to make operations better Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreA critical vulnerability in an Ethereum token made it possible for malicious actors to force cryptocurrency exchange desks to spend extremely high fees on transactions. Even worse, the attackers could abuse the bug for profit. The flaw, discovered by a group of cryptocurrency researchers, resides in Ethereum-based cryptocurrency GasToken. It remains unclear precisely how many
Read MoreRobin Wauters / Tech.eu: Workable, a recruiting automation platform that uses AI software to help SMBs in more than 100 countries, raises $50M Series C bringing the total raised to $84M — Greek-American growth company Workable, which is building a recruiting automation platform used by an ever-increasing number of SMBs worldwide … Workable, a recruiting
Read MoreWhenever [MakerMan] hits our tip line with one of his creations, we know it’s going to be something special. His projects are almost exclusively built using scrap and salvaged components, and really serve as a reminder of what’s possible if you’re willing to open your mind a bit. Whether done out of thrift or necessity,
Read MoreXiaomi has built a commanding position in the Indian smartphone market by selling a wide range of affordable phones priced between $85 to $200 over the past few years. It’s now added an intriguing new model to its budget Redmi lineup: the Redmi Note 6 Pro. While the mid-range phone retains most of the characters
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