Drifting is a sport that lots of people are into. It requires a high degree of car control to keep the vehicle sliding sideways while maintaining control. Anyone who has tried drifting knows it’s not as easy as it looks. Researchers at Dynamic Design Lab created an autonomous car that uses tech to drift itself around a controlled course. The … Continue reading
Huawei arguably has some of the best smartphone cameras in the market and its subsidiary Honor may have some of the best bang-for-buck flagships. Both brands, however, are now hobbled by the lack of Google Play Services and apps, something that Huawei is hastily trying to fix with its own solution. No, it isn’t yet ready with Harmony OS for … Continue reading
Beleaguered taxi giants Uber and Lyft won a break on Monday, scoring victory in a New York state court dispute over a law that would have dramatically slashed the number of cars between jobs that the firms let clog up Manhattan streets, Reuters reported.
“Hilarious. A large, beautiful, wild animal in a cage for our entertainment,” tweets a critic.
Back in August, a test conducted by the Chicago Tribune suggested that phones made by Apple and Samsung had exceeded legal radiation levels for electronic products. In fact, a lawsuit was recently filed against both companies because of that, leading to the FCC to take a deeper look into the issues.
However, it seems that devices made by Apple and Samsung have since proven to be safe and within the legal radiation levels set by the FCC. This is according to a tweet by Bloomberg in which the FCC has found that devices made by both companies did not violate agency rules on maximum RF exposure levels.
In a statement previously released by Apple, the company had disputed the report in which they said, “All iPhone models, including iPhone 7, are fully certified by the FCC and in every other country where iPhone is sold. After careful review and subsequent validation of all iPhone models tested in the (Tribune) report, we confirmed we are in compliance and meet all applicable … exposure guidelines and limits.”
JUST IN: The FCC says recent tests of mobile devices like the iPhone and Galaxy didn’t violate agency rules on maximum radiofrequency exposure levels.
An Aug. 21 Chicago Tribune report claimed that its own testing found excess levels of radiofrequency levels in these devices pic.twitter.com/caLNxXgkDw
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) December 19, 2019
It looks like the matter has since been resolved with the FCC officially stating that these devices are essentially safe. So if you were worried about the radiation levels, it looks like you’re good.
FCC Says The iPhone Does Not Exceed Radiation Levels , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
It wasn’t too long ago that Apple released the AirPods Pro. The earbuds introduced improved audio quality over the regular AirPods and also offers active noise-cancelling features. However, it seems that under the hood, Apple might have actually done more than what was advertised, one of which includes improvements in Bluetooth latency.
This was discovered by musician, composer, and software developer Stephen Coyle where based on his tests, he discovered that the AirPods Pro has better Bluetooth latency. Using a metronome, Coyle found that with the original AirPods, which uses the W1 chipset, has a latency of 274ms.
For the second-gen AirPods which uses the newer H1 chipset, it has a slightly lower latency of 178ms, but for the AirPods Pro, Coyle found that it has an even lower latency of 144ms. This is almost half the latency of the original AirPods, although whether or not this is something that users will be able to pick up on is unclear.
That being said, it should be noted that this Bluetooth latency is more for measuring sounds that are considered “unpredictable”, such as user-initiated sounds, sound effects in games, and so on. According to Coyle, latency in videos can be easily addressed by delaying video playback, so this is not necessarily an issue.
AirPods Pro Offers Improvement In Bluetooth Latency , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
You would assume that because computers have no feelings that when it comes to biases, they might be immune to it. However, a computer is essentially a tool and it does what the people who program it tell it to, and as such, sometimes maybe by accident, developers can bake biasness into them.
In a recent study conducted by the US government, they have found that when it comes to facial recognition systems, they tend to have biases against people of color and gender, where they misidentify people of color more so than other Caucasian people.
According to the report, “For one-to-one matching, the team saw higher rates of false positives for Asian and African American faces relative to images of Caucasians. The differentials often ranged from a factor of 10 to 100 times, depending on the individual algorithm.” For example, the study found that Microsoft’s facial recognition tech has nearly 10 times more false positives for women of color than men of color.
Microsoft has since said that they are reviewing the report, and hopefully make tweaks to address it. This is not the first time that tech has been accused of being biased. For example, not too long ago, the algorithm behind the Apple Card was found to be offering men a higher credit limit compared to women.
Study Finds Facial Recognition Systems Have Racial And Gender Biases , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Friends, one of the most popular sitcoms from the 1990s, will be very hard to stream starting next month. As we’ve expected for months, the sitcom will disappear from Netflix’s library on January 1, 2020, when the service’s rights to the show end. Friends will eventually make a return to on-demand streaming via the HBO Max service, but it will … Continue reading
This past weekend, Geralt of Rivia got moody, got on his horse, and “hmmed” his way onto Netflix for the first season of The Witcher. While our review got into a few of the things that worked or didn’t over the first five episodes, with the full season out, we took a spoiler-filled look at a few of our biggest likes…
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