Oct 29
Trump Scammed Inexperienced Investors Through Endorsement Deals, Lawsuit Claims
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Trump-backed investment “opportunities” were instead “a pattern of racketeering activity.”
Oct 29
When Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 4, one of the features of the smartwatch is the built-in ECG monitoring tool. However Apple did note that the feature will not be available at launch and will arrive at a later date. It was also mentioned that it will be limited to the US, presumably due to regulatory clearances required for different regions and markets.
However according to a report from 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo, it seems that you can “trick” the Apple Watch into enabling the ECG feature even if you’re not in the US, and it is as simple as changing your region to the United States. Given that the Apple Watch Series 4 comes with the ECG monitor built into the watch, it is not a hardware limitation which means that in theory changing your region could be all it takes to unlock the feature.
However as Rambo notes, changing your region could mean changing other settings too, like your date and time formats, units of measurements, and so on, so that’s something to consider. Note that the ECG tool has yet to be enabled and this report is based purely on looking at the code, which means that it is possible that maybe Apple could make changes at a later date that might make it harder to circumvent it since we’re sure that local governments might not be too pleased about Apple introducing a medical device without the proper clearance.
That being said, it was previously suggested that clearance by local regulators could take a while which means that if you don’t live in the US, maybe you might want to consider the Series 3 which is cheaper, unless there are other features of the Series 4 that you want besides the ECG monitor.
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG Feature Can Be Used Outside Of The US , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Oct 29
Sarah Sanders Won’t Name Which Journalists Trump Considers Enemies Of The People
Posted in: Today's ChiliCNN’s Jim Acosta asked the White House press secretary if she had “the guts” to state which journalists are “the enemy.”
Oct 29
Ghostbusters Ghost Trap Cat Food Dispenser: Dogs and Cats Eating Together… Mass Hysteria
Posted in: Today's ChiliI ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost… and neither are cats. This Ghostbusters ghost trap automatic cat feeder is how nerds feed felines, and how feline nerds prefer to eat. This concept was designed by if industries.. Not only is it a cool replica of the Ghostbusters ghost trap, but it can also function as a computer controlled timed cat feeder or a Wi-Fi enabled device that can be triggered to open anytime you want via sms, tweet, email, or a phone call.
Hopefully, it won’t trap your cat like it’s a ghost, although it would be pretty cool for catching strays. That would make you a catbuster, right? I’d love to suit up and catch kitties with these things. Make my own catbusting business out of an old firehouse. It’s all fun and games until they slime you though. This already sounds like a better movie than the recent reboot.
If Industries website is loaded with cool concepts for products that we wish really existed. I hope this one gets made by someone because my cat is a fan of the original movies and he deserves nice things.
[via Geekologie]
Oct 29
At long last, pet portraits with background blur are possible on the iPhone XR
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe new iPhones have some great new photography features, but the XR lacks a couple, for instance portrait mode for non-people subjects, owing to its sadly having only the one camera. So last year! Fortunately third-party camera app Halide is here to help you get that professional-looking bokeh in your doggo shots.
There’s more to this than simply the lack of a second camera. As you know, because you read my article, The future of photography is code — and the present too, really. What’s great about this is that features that might otherwise rely on specific hardware, a chip or sensor, can often be added in software. Not always, but sometimes.
In the case of the iPhone XR, the lack of a second camera means depth data is very limited, meaning the slack has to be taken up with code. The problem was that Apple’s machine learning systems on there are only trained to recognize and create high-quality depth maps of people. Not dogs, cats, plants or toy robots.
People would be frustrated if the artificial background blur inexplicably got way worse when it was pointed at something that wasn’t a person, so the effect just doesn’t trigger unless someone’s in the shot.
The Halide team, not bound by Apple’s qualms, added the capability back in by essentially taking the raw depth data produced by the XR’s “focus pixels” and applying their own processing and blur effect to make sure it doesn’t do weird things. It works on anything that can realistically be separated from the background — pets, toy robots, etc. — because it isn’t a system specific to human faces.
As they write in a blog post explaining some of this at length, the effect isn’t perfect, and because of how depth data is sent from the camera to the OS, you can’t preview the function. But it’s better than nothing at all, and maybe people on Instagram will think you shelled out for the XS instead of the XR (though you probably made the right choice).
The update (1.11) is awaiting Apple approval and should be available soon. If you don’t already own Halide, it costs $6. Small price to pay for a velvety background blur in your chinchilla pics.
Oct 29
Google may have signed the death warrant for Google+ but some of its most devoted users are calling for a reprieve, with a Change.org petition demanding the oft-mocked social network be allowed to live on. The search giant announced that the writing was on the wall for Google+ earlier this month, conceding that the site it hoped to eventually overshadow … Continue reading
Oct 29
Google Pledges $25 Million for 'Good' AI, Totally Isn't Trying to Make You Forget That Military AI Stuff
Posted in: Today's Chili
Google has faced a lot of backlash since Gizmodo revealed in March that the company was helping the United States Department of Defense develop artificial intelligence that could be used to analyze drone footage as part of the Defense Department’s Project Maven. Internally, the program angered many Google employees…
Oct 29
Oct 29
When Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 4, one of the features of the smartwatch is the built-in ECG monitoring tool. However Apple did note that the feature will not be available at launch and will arrive at a later date. It was also mentioned that it will be limited to the US, presumably due to regulatory clearances required for different regions and markets.
However according to a report from 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo, it seems that you can “trick” the Apple Watch into enabling the ECG feature even if you’re not in the US, and it is as simple as changing your region to the United States. Given that the Apple Watch Series 4 comes with the ECG monitor built into the watch, it is not a hardware limitation which means that in theory changing your region could be all it takes to unlock the feature.
However as Rambo notes, changing your region could mean changing other settings too, like your date and time formats, units of measurements, and so on, so that’s something to consider. Note that the ECG tool has yet to be enabled and this report is based purely on looking at the code, which means that it is possible that maybe Apple could make changes at a later date that might make it harder to circumvent it since we’re sure that local governments might not be too pleased about Apple introducing a medical device without the proper clearance.
That being said, it was previously suggested that clearance by local regulators could take a while which means that if you don’t live in the US, maybe you might want to consider the Series 3 which is cheaper, unless there are other features of the Series 4 that you want besides the ECG monitor.
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG Feature Can Be Used Outside Of The US , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Oct 29
Ghostbusters Ghost Trap Cat Food Dispenser: Dogs and Cats Eating Together… Mass Hysteria
Posted in: Today's ChiliI ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost… and neither are cats. This Ghostbusters ghost trap automatic cat feeder is how nerds feed felines, and how feline nerds prefer to eat. This concept was designed by if industries.. Not only is it a cool replica of the Ghostbusters ghost trap, but it can also function as a computer controlled timed cat feeder or a Wi-Fi enabled device that can be triggered to open anytime you want via sms, tweet, email, or a phone call.
Hopefully, it won’t trap your cat like it’s a ghost, although it would be pretty cool for catching strays. That would make you a catbuster, right? I’d love to suit up and catch kitties with these things. Make my own catbusting business out of an old firehouse. It’s all fun and games until they slime you though. This already sounds like a better movie than the recent reboot.
If Industries website is loaded with cool concepts for products that we wish really existed. I hope this one gets made by someone because my cat is a fan of the original movies and he deserves nice things.
[via Geekologie]
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