Oct 26
The Tony award winner revealed the only “Hamilton” song his toddler enjoys.
Oct 26
Fonda: People Are Listening Now Because Weinstein Victims Are ‘Famous And White’
Posted in: Today's ChiliGloria Steinem and Fonda appeared on MSNBC to discuss the Weinstein allegations.
Oct 26
This LGBTQ advocate got to meet his idol… and then things got even better.
Oct 26
Remember Jibo? The social robot promised to be your family’s best houseguest ever al the way back in 2014, with its lifelike movements and witty quips. Delays followed, of course, but now the company says it’s finally – finally – ready to launch. Jibo certainly had some solid bona-fides behind it. The company was founded by MIT robotics expert Cynthia … Continue reading
Oct 26
While Intel and AMD trade blows often when it comes to desktop PCs, it seems that Intel has a lock when it comes to notebooks. AMD is looking to change that today with introduction of two new Ryzen mobile processors made specifically for notebooks. The processors being announced today were previously codenamed “Raven Ridge” APUs (Advanced Processing Unit), a name … Continue reading
Oct 26
Amazon’s Prime Exclusive Phones line-up is getting some high-end additions from LG, giving the option of a flagship smartphone for a lot less cash, albeit with a compromise. Launched in 2016, the program offers a range of Android smartphones currently priced from just $59.99, significantly undercutting the usual list price. Only Prime subscribers are eligible to grab the deals. The … Continue reading
Oct 26
Today the mystery behind the “blue shift” in the Google Pixel 2 XL seems to have been solved. The color space is a much deeper subject, the likes of which could easily fill its own set of articles – but that blue? It’s quite simple, as it turns out. All one has to do is use a polarization filter on … Continue reading
Oct 26
As a parent you often are forced by your tyrannical children to try carnival games. This, according to ex-NASA and JPL engineer Mark Rober, is a bad idea. Rober and his friends – including a professional baseball player – dismantle every carnival game they can find, assessing the probabilities of winning and point out that the only ones you could feasibly win are the throwing games… Read More
Oct 26
Scientists weigh life
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Researchers at the University of Basel and University College London have created a scale that can measure life. The scale, which can measure the mass of single cells lets and them “monitor how their weight changes over time … with a resolution of milliseconds and trillionths of a gram.”
This means they can weigh a cell the instant it dies, finding definitely the mass of… Read More
Oct 26
It’s odd that the search engine company known as the “Google of China” says that its open-source autonomous driving platform Apollo is the “Android of the auto industry.” But that’s exactly what Baidu is trying to be with Apollo and it’s racking up p…
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