Verizon has revealed plans to start rolling out its 5G network in Los Angeles in the fourth quarter of this year. The company announced the plans today, saying Los Angeles is the second city that will be getting its 5G network deployment. The first city, Sacramento, was first revealed in November 2017. The company is eyeing progressive cities in particular. … Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch may have revolutionized portable consoles but it wasn’t the first in that category. That same promise of “console gaming on the go” was made by the Sony PlayStation Vita around 6 years ago. Unlike the Switch, however, the PS Vita failed to woo gamers and developers alike, particularly in Western markets. Now it seems that the writing … Continue reading
Trolls on the internet are a problem because sometimes they steer the conversation to somewhere else detract from the main point entirely. More often than not it is done to rile other people up for no good reason other than for fun. Twitter has been battling abusive behavior on its platform for a while now, and they might have a new approach.
According to Twitter, “What we’re talking about today are troll-like behaviors that distort and detract from the public conversation on Twitter, particularly in communal areas like conversations and search. Some of these accounts and Tweets violate our policies, and, in those cases, we take action on them. Others don’t but are behaving in ways that distort the conversation.”
So how will Twitter deal with this? Basically Twitter’s algorithms will now take into account a greater variety of data. For example it will look at how many accounts are registered to that particular user, if they constantly tweet and mention accounts that don’t follow them, or if they might have been blocked by some users, and so on.
According to Twitter, based on their testing using this new approach, they have found that there is a drop of 4% in abuse reports from search and 8% drop in reports from conversations. Twitter admits that their work is far from done but hopefully these changes will result in a more positive user experience.
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Logitech’s extremely-low-latency Lightspeed technology was largely reserved for well-heeled gamers when it first hit the scene last June, but it’s a much different story a year later. The peripheral maker has unveiled the G305, a Lightspeed-equipped…
The problem with wireless headphones is that there are some devices that they might not necessarily work with. A good example would be in the airplane where for the most part, most inflight infotainment systems do not provide Bluetooth connectivity, which means that you won’t be able to connect wireless headphones to them.
However the folks at Twelve South are hoping to change that with the launch of the AirFly. This is essentially an adapter for interfaces that require a wired connection that gives it wireless connectivity. It is pretty straightforward where all you need to do is plug the AirFly into the port and then pair your wireless headphones with it and you’re good to go.
Now this is definitely not the first adapter of its kind, but if you’re not comfortable with no-brand adapters then perhaps Twelve South’s offering might be of interest to you. The company is claiming that the built-in battery should last up to 8 hours and from the way the device has been branded, it is clear that Twelve South is aiming this at AirPods users, although given that it is Bluetooth at the end of the day, any Bluetooth headphones should play nicely with it. It is priced at $40 and is available via Amazon.
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Last year Google launched the Pixel Buds, the company’s answer to the increasingly popular style of wireless headphones (or earbuds to be more accurate). Just like we’ve seen in other wireless earbuds, gesture control is one of the ways that users can interact with the devices, but now it looks like Google is introducing more commands.
In an announcement on its blog, Google has revealed several new ways that users can interact with their Pixel Buds. This comes in the form of new gestures, such as the triple tap on the right earbud that will let users turn the earbuds on or off. There will also be the double tap which previously was used to let users hear new notifications.
However according to Google, users will now have the option of changing that to the ability to skip to the next track when listening to music. Google has also updated the pairing of the Pixel Buds where users can now switch between devices easily just by selecting it from the Bluetooth menu on the device you want to connect to.
Some of these features were actually hinted at a couple of months ago so it’s good to see that they will finally be here in the next week or so.
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Israeli military forces killed some 60 Palestinian demonstrators on Monday.
Making something fly involves a lot of trade-offs. Bigger stuff can hold more fuel or batteries, but too big and the lift required is too much. Small stuff takes less lift to fly but might not hold a battery with enough energy to do so. Insect-sized drones have had that problem in the past — but now this RoboFly is taking its first flaps into the air… all thanks to the power of lasers.
We’ve seen bug-sized flying bots before, like the RoboBee, but as you can see it has wires attached to it that provide power. Batteries on board would weigh it down too much, so researchers have focused in the past on demonstrating that flight is possible in the first place at that scale.
But what if you could provide power externally without wires? That’s the idea behind the University of Washington’s RoboFly, a sort of spiritual successor to the RoboBee that gets its power from a laser trained on an attached photovoltaic cell.
“It was the most efficient way to quickly transmit a lot of power to RoboFly without adding much weight,” said co-author of the paper describing the bot, Shyam Gollakota. He’s obviously very concerned with power efficiency — last month he and his colleagues published a way of transmitting video with 99 percent less power than usual.
There’s more than enough power in the laser to drive the robot’s wings; it gets adjusted to the correct voltage by an integrated circuit, and a microcontroller sends that power to the wings depending on what they need to do. Here it goes:
“To make the wings flap forward swiftly, it sends a series of pulses in rapid succession and then slows the pulsing down as you get near the top of the wave. And then it does this in reverse to make the wings flap smoothly in the other direction,” explained lead author Johannes James.
At present the bot just takes off, travels almost no distance and lands — but that’s just to prove the concept of a wirelessly powered robot insect (it isn’t obvious). The next steps are to improve onboard telemetry so it can control itself, and make a steered laser that can follow the little bug’s movements and continuously beam power in its direction.
The team is headed to Australia next week to present the RoboFly at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Brisbane.
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