Nintendo seems to have slowed its release of Amiibo figures — the small, NFC-powered toys that can unlock digital content in games when placed near the Nintendo Switch or 3DS — in recent years, but a newly discovered patent hints that the gaming could be applying the tech to new play mechanics. Specifically, Nintendo has filed a patent for a … Continue reading
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Apple is a company that prides itself on its inclusiveness and part of their latest effort is to ensure that people with disabilities are represented when it comes to emojis. The company has recently proposed 13 new emojis that are meant to represent people who have a variety of disabilities.
This includes people who might have hearing disabilities where a proposed emoji has been designed to indicate that the user is deaf or might be wearing a hearing aid. There are also emojis where people are walking with a cane, people in wheelchairs, a service dog, and so on. All of these new emojis have been presented in a letter to the Unicode Consortium and according to Apple, they worked with various organizations that represent people with disabilities.
This includes the American Council of the Blind, Cerebral Palsy Foundation and National Association for the Deaf. According to Apple, “Adding emoji emblematic to users’ life experiences helps foster a diverse culture that is inclusive of disability. Emoji are a universal language and a powerful tool for communication, as well as a form of self-expression, and can be used not only to represent one’s own personal experience, but also to show support for a loved one.”
The company also notes that these emojis are not meant to represent all users with disabilities, but are said to be a starting point where presumably more will be added later. Whether or not these emojis will be approved is up to the consortium who will meet to vote on them, which if approved will get shortlisted for the next batch of emojis that are due for a release in March 2019.
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Music streaming was meant to be one of the ways to solve music piracy. By creating a service where people could listen to as much music as they like for a fixed price every month, versus buying music piecemeal which could easily add up to the hundreds, it does solve one of the reasons why people pirate, which is pricing.
However it looks like Spotify might have a bit of a piracy problem on their hands as the company has recently revealed that at least 2 million of their users are listening to ad-free music without paying for it. For those unfamiliar, Spotify has a free and paid tier, where the free tier has certain limitations, one of which is that every now and then you will have to sit through an add.
Subscribing to Spotify Premium does away with ads and gives users full functionality, which means that there are at least 2 million users who are not paying Spotify’s $10 a month subscription, which when multiplied is a lot. That being said, the company is doing something about it and are going after users who have modified versions of the app.
It is unclear if other music streaming services are experiencing a piracy problem as well, but so far Spotify is the only one who has come forward.
Spotify Reveals At Least 2 Million Of Their Users Are Dodging Ads , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
If you thought you could get around buying the more expensive iPad Pro and still enjoy the same Apple Pencil features, you’d be sorely mistaken. However that could change soon because according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could be getting ready to unveil a cheaper 9.7-inch iPad that will come with Apple Pencil support.
Apple is expected to host a field trip event in Chicago in the coming week and Kuo believes that Apple could use the event to unveil a new tablet. This would be a change of pace for Apple who typically announces new products at scheduled events like WWDC or at their iPhone event in the later part of the year.
However Kuo claims that Apple might use the field trip to announce a new, cheaper iPad, along with a new keyboard accessory. He also claims that Apple might be getting rid of the iPad mini lineup as the demand for mini tablets is being replaced by larger smartphones. Given the lack (or lackluster) upgrades that Apple has made to the iPad mini in recent times, we suppose this doesn’t come as a complete surprise.
Take it with a grain of salt for now, but if price was one of the reasons you’ve held back on purchasing the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, maybe this new cheaper iPad could be the solution you’ve been waiting for.
Cheaper 9.7-inch iPad With Apple Pencil Support Rumored , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
There’s been a lot of buzz in the media this past week about the first ever pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. While there was clearly some kind of failure to see the pedestrian by both the system and the safety driver, self-driving car systems are generally quite good at detecting pedestrians and other objects in clear weather. One thing that today’s autonomy systems (and humans) can’t do well is see through fog. But that may soon change, thanks to a new technology being developed by MIT engineers.
Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab developed a new imaging method which uses short laser bursts to detect the distance and shape of objects even when they’re completely obscured by fog. A camera counts up the number of light particles that reach it at a regular interval, which gives the system enough information to compute the depth and distance of objects.
The current version of the technology can only penetrate about 22 inches of fog, but the fog used in the test was far denser than what is typically encountered on the road. With some enhancements, it’s possible that the system could work far enough ahead on a foggy road to make a difference in vehicular safety. Keep in mind that this kind of technology might not just help self-driving cars be safer, but it could make driving in fog safer for human drivers by alerting them to obstacles they can’t see with the naked eye.
NBA fans have a number of options when it comes to streaming basketball games live, however they tend to be geared towards season-long coverage that includes every team in the league, which makes things like the League Pass a bit pricy. Fortunately it seems NBA digital might soon rollout an option for fans who just want to see the final … Continue reading
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