Imagine being able to travel from Los Angeles to New York in half the time. What would normally be a grueling six hour ordeal could be a mere three hour excursion. You’d only have to watch one movie and extra leg room wouldn’t even be necessary. This dream could soon be a reality thanks to […]
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Google has added an eraser for bleak skies in Photos
So Google has updated its Photos app, and one of the most peculiar new features is a slider called “Deep blue.” It’s one small part of a vastly expanded suite of color adjustments added to Google’s built-in photo editor, and at first I couldn’t understand what it was for. It did nothing when I swung […]
Say “Hello” to the World’s First Large-Scale Tidal Power Farm
In Brief Scotland unveiled the first turbine for the MeyGen tidal stream project, the world’s first large-scale tidal energy farm. The project will initially install four turbines, but will eventually have 269 turbines, enough to power 175,000 homes. A turbine designed to generate electricity from the tides at Scotland’s north coast was revealed by its […]
Ultra-Thin Wallpaper TVs : oled tvs
Since technology advanced from cathode ray tubes to flatscreens, TVs have been getting thinner and thinner, but the 2017 LG OLED TVs look like they could have the potential to slim down even the lowest-profile TVs on the market today. The company’s 65-inch and 77-inch OLED TVs are expected to be made from a super-thin, […]
AI system finds Trump will win the White House and is more popular than Obama in 2008
This article is from October 28th. It’s not about the politics in the US, it’s about using data to help plan things. There was no reason to be surprised last Tuesday Trump will win the election, according to AI system After predicting the last three U.S. presidential elections, this A.I. system is calling for a […]
Adobe is working on an audio app that lets you add words someone never said…
Adobe is working on a new piece of software that would act like a Photoshop for audio, according to Adobe developer Zeyu Jin, who spoke at the Adobe MAX conference in San Diego, California today. The software is codenamed Project VoCo, and it’s not clear at this time when it will materialize as a commercial […]
Consumers Interested in Self-Learning Navigation for the Car
BOSTON, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Despite concerns about privacy, consumers are interested in systems which learn driving behavior and provide help with navigation. This is according to a recent survey from the In-Vehicle UX (IVX) group at Strategy Analytics According to the report (“Consumers Show Robust Interest in Self-Learning Navigation”), consumer interest is strong for systems which learn […]
Tesla Vandalized in ‘Most San Francisco Crime Ever’
Tesla stock price increased 4.45% after hours on Wednesday, perhaps giving a San Francisco-based vandal a creative idea for a crime yesterday evening. “In the most San Francisco crime ever,” Silicon Valley recruiter Morgan Missen tweeted, “someone tagged my neighbor’s Tesla with its afterhours stock price. His other Tesla appears unharmed.” Before the markets closed […]
This Is Your Brain on Quantum Computers
Machines enrich and enhance our lives, whether it’s the smartphones that allow us to stay connected or the supercomputers that solve our toughest computational problems. Imagine how much more productive and innovative our world will be when computers become infinitely more powerful. Indeed, the growing field of quantum computing may make our current technological capacities […]
Why Are Millions of People Ditching Their Wearable Devices?
Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. Others, meanwhile, measure their heart rate on their wrists. The latter group is growing exponentially, ushering in a multi-billion-dollar wearables market, from watches that count steps and heartbeats to earbuds that monitor a woman’s body temperature to calculate the ideal time to procreate. Probably one of the […]