Bethesda took just over a half hour to reveal all of its news at E3 2017, but you don’t have to sit through the entire ordeal to catch up on all of the announcements. We’ve compiled a clip that will bring you up to speed in under eight minutes. How’s…
We spend every minute of the working day bringing you news, reviews and features on every aspect of technology. Like everyone else, though, we also use tech outside of work hours. Last month we launched a new series about the gadgets we use every day…
Slowly but surely, Lenovo’s Motorola is updating all of its major smartphone lines. We got the refreshed Moto Gs while traipsing around at MWC, the Moto Z2 Play just recently broke cover, and now we have a new pair of low-cost Moto E4s to consider.
Pursuing more efficient sources of renewable energy has led to many iterations of the battery. But researchers just brought a really interesting new version to the table, one made from potassium ions and trash.
We’ve seen some very weird and disturbing images created by AI before. Google AI developer Mike Tyka works on his own AI projects in his spare time. This project has something that the Google DeepDream AI lacks – the ability to create original faces. DeepDream simply takes parts from other images and cobbles them together.
The portraits that Tyka’s own AI created aren’t excessively realistic, but Tyka says that is fine. What’s important is resolution. The AI uses something called a “generative adversarial network” or GAN to refine the ability of the AI over time. The GAN draws a picture from scratch (the generative portion) and then another part of the AI (the adversarial portion) tries to tell if the image is real or AI generated.
The idea is for one part of the AI to trick the other into saying its photos are real. As both portions of the AI get better, more accurate images can be created. One thing you can see in the images created by the AI is that the hair is far from realistic. This is apparently because the AI hasn’t seen hair in enough detail to identify individual strands. It also seems to dislike symmetry – the faces often have less than perfect eye location.
You can check out more face images and read all about the technology over on Tyka’s blog.
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According to a new report out of South Korea, Qualcomm has tapped the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company or TSMC for the production of its next-generation 7-nanometer semiconductor chips. If this report is correct, it would signal a big move for Qualcomm which is currently aligned with a major player in the semiconductor industry.
The report claims that Qualcomm has moved to TSMC for the production of its 7nm chips. If this is true, it would be ending its foundry partnership with Samsung Electronics, one of the giants of the semiconductor industry.
There’s no confirmation as yet but if Qualcomm really is moving to TSMC, it would be the second biggest customer that Samsung ends up losing. Apple was the first to move its application processor production business from Samsung to TSMC.
Qualcomm has reportedly been designing and developing its 7nm Snapdragon processor using a chip development tool that has been distributed by TSMC since the second half of last year. The company is said to be planning to mass produce this chip between the end of this year and early next year.
Samsung’s business may not see an immediate hit as it’s already contracted to produce Qualcomm’s 10nm application processor and modem chips but the impact could be visible starting next year when it’s not able to secure new customers to fill the gap that Qualcomm leaves behind.
Qualcomm will leave behind a substantial gap if it decides to go since it accounts for 40 percent of the entire sales of Samsung’s foundry business. None of this has been officially confirmed as yet and it may take a while before the companies say anything about this.
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A Windows utility, System Restore, allows you to restore your Operating System to an earlier working state, in case you encounter some issues (corruption, faulty driver…) with the current state of your PC. It’s very simple and easy to use. You can revert to the previous system state with ease if you are not satisfied with some major updates in your system. This article was written with Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 in mind.
In the context of the System Restore utility, references to “system” should be understood as Operating System (Windows). A system state denotes, the scenario of your PC with respect to a particular timestamp. Hence, this scenario varies accordingly with time. While a present system state may highlight some new apps and updates installed, those changes won’t be prevalent in an old state.
System Restore is done with the help of ‘restore points’ that are created both automatically and manually. Restore-points act like checkpoints with each having the state of the system saved in distinct timestamps. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you on how to do a system restore in Windows 8 and 10 systems. IMPORTANT: Restore Points do NOT save user data, only the Operating System (Windows) state is saved. If you want to save everything including OS and data+apps look at how to create a System Image.
After you are done enabling ‘System Protection’, click on the ‘Create’ button to create a restore point. It shall prompt you to enter a name for the ‘restore point’. Type the name and hit enter to create it.
If you want to restore your system while Windows is operational, you can use this method. You just need to access the ‘System Protection’ tab, as described in the previous methods for enabling ‘System Protection’. Click on the ‘System Restore’ button. It shall pop up a ‘System Restore’ box. Click ‘Next’ to reveal the list of restore points.
Select the one you want your system to be restored to. You can also ‘scan for affected programs’ associated with the restore point. Click Next->Finish to confirm the initiation of system restore. Your PC will automatically restart to the state of your restore point.
‘Advanced Startup Options’, helps you to fix startup issues associated with Windows. When your PC crashes and fails to start, it automatically leads you to ‘Troubleshoot’. Click Troubleshoot->Advanced Options.
After successfully doing so, all you need is to click on ‘System Restore’. Your PC will automatically restart and ask you to choose an account to continue.
It shall lead you to the System Restore window. Choose the desired restore point, and click on next to start the process. Nevertheless, there are also several other ways to access, ‘Advanced Startup Options’.
If you are using Windows 10, press the ‘Start’ button. Type ‘Recovery’. You shall see something like ‘Recovery Options’. Click on it to reveal its window. Hit ‘Get Started’ associated with ‘Reset PC’. Doing so will reveal two options. You can either choose to keep your personal files or instead remove everything that would reinstall Windows. Select the one you desire. It shall then display the applications that will be affected by the operation. Click ‘Next’ to initiate the process.
In Windows 8/8.1, it’s the same process. You just have to search ‘Recovery’ using the Charms Bar. Click on ‘Recovery Options’. It shall then display a window highlighting, ‘Reset PC’ and ‘Refresh PC’ separately. Click the ‘Get Started’ button on either of those to perform the operation you want.
You can refer the video below which elucidates how to refresh your PC in a list of simple steps.
When we talk about merits, System Restore has quite some. It’s one among the easiest way to fix problems associated with your PC. You don’t need any prior technical knowledge or expertise to do it. Secondly, it’s very fast, as compared to other Windows recovery options. You can revert your PC to a stable working condition in a matter of minutes. However, if you rely on System Restore to fix startup problems, then in most of the cases it won’t work. This probably happens when you encounter hard drive failures or a major PC crash.
Hope, you gained the necessary knowledge with the help of our tutorial on how to do a system restore. If you have any queries, let us know in the comments section below.
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The Essential Phone may have made a huge misstep, with Andy Rubin showing that, while he knows how to make a slick phone, he may be behind the curve on carrier sentiment. Launched to no small amount of fanfare in late May, the Android smartphone puts refined design, cutting-edge technology, and modular extensibility at the fore. However, the bad news … Continue reading
This morning Motorola and Lenovo made clear their intentions to release the Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus. These devices will be available in a “variety of sophisticated metal finishes” around the world – this is a phone that people everywhere will want to take a peek at. The Moto E4 Plus is the one we’re interested in due to … Continue reading
If you stumble across @FoodsTiny in your Twitter feed, chances are you’re going to lose some serious time.
This food video series, called Tiny Kitchen, is created by Tastemade and there are nine seasons worth of them. Ranging between 5-21 episodes per season, the short videos feature the creation of our favorite dishes ― think BLTs and tacos ― made miniature, and they are beyond captivating. See for yourself:
They’re so captivating, not even Chrissy Teigen can look away.
Don’t judge Teigen, it can happen to you, too. (Remember, NINE seasons ― and tiny tacos!)
The tiny food is made in a tiny kitchen on a tiny stove top that’s heated by a tea candle. There is even a tiny frying pan and a tiny spatula.
This is all of us.
Good luck.
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