The video, simply labeled IFA 2019 Invitation, appears to show off a device that opens up with two full-size panels, along with a smaller panel for information on the front ‘cover’ of the phone. Rather than one seamless panel like the Galaxy Fold or Mate X, the device appears to be composed of two separate panels stuck together by some sort of hinge. What isn’t clear from the teaser is whether this phone is actually a dedicated device with three screens, or whether it’s just a special accessory that allows you to glue two devices into a frankenphone....

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VPN service providers probably outnumber the massive list of shows currently waiting for you in your Netflix queue — by a lot. Unfortunately, VPN providers are just as flighty as those shows and movies that come and go from the streamer. Fly-by-night companies routinely start offering VPN protection, then abruptly disappear without a trace. No such concerns with KeepSolid, though. They’ve been around for five years — and coupled with industry plaudits from outlets like Software Informer, Laptop Review Pro and the venerable PC Mag, they’ve become a trusted name in that occasionally untrustworthy business....

These algorithms automatically adjust (learn) their internal parameters based on data. However, there is a subset of parameters that is not learned and that have to be configured by an expert. Such parameters are often referred to as “hyperparameters” — and they have a big impact on our lives as the use of AI increases. For example, the tree depth in a decision tree model and the number of layers in an artificial neural network are typical hyperparameters....

That’s not to say cryptocurrency itself is a con. Blockchain and decentralized cryptofinance technologies are, in my opinion, crucial for the future. They provide insurance against government and social tyranny in an ever-changing and dangerous world. Unfortunately, most shitcoins (and shit-tokens) are marketing schemes meant to create value out of nothing and then divide that “nothing” up like stocks. Those “nothing” stocks are then distributed to a community of holders, with extreme prejudice towards a minority group of “early adopters....

Google’s attempts at returning answers to queries online in a quicker, easier manner has made the job of SEO more challenging for marketers. With the rise of ‘zero-click’ searches, is there any way for us marketers to stay competitive? I definitely found zero-click SERPs a difficult pill to swallow as a marketer. However, as an internet user… I see it as a highly useful innovation. Searching Google for information about the weather, when my favorite sports team is playing next, or the net worth of Paul McCartney, the answers I’m looking for are likely to be displayed instantly at the top of the page — meaning that the information I need is right under my nose without the need for a click....

The artwork depicted French protest group the Gilet Jaunes in a re-imagining of Eugène Delacroix’s artwork “La Liberté guidant le peuple” (Liberty leading the people). It was a decidedly political statement. But one cryptocurrency enthusiast and artist isn’t standing for its censorship. Meet “BnoiitC,” who’s using blockchain to make cryptoart immutable and virtually impossible to censor. Over the past week, BnoiitC recreated Boyart’s Parisian mural in the Ethereum-based virtual world Cryptovoxels, and you can own a piece of it....

After hours of therapy (alone at night thinking about death and staring into the pit of darkness that is my soul), I self-diagnosed my borderline unhealthy obsession with death to have occurred because I was never exposed to death. Death is something we as a society don’t care to think or talk about — unless, like me, you stay up at night pondering about the inevitability of the inevitable. It’s not a case of “if” you die, it’s “when” you’ll die, and that’s a hard pill to swallow....

Nadella said that it’s great that we have all the AI and data available to us, but developers should think about privacy as a human right and removing biases while developing applications: He also added that as a South Asian living in the US, he realized that AI models made for cardiac purposes didn’t have South Asian representation for a long time, and that means “we basically had incorrect models trying to diagnose cardiac issues....

The company said that “Microsoft Office will also see a new perpetual release for both Windows and Mac, in the second half of 2021,” in an announcement first spotted by Windows Central. The perpetual version allows people to pay a flat price for Office products and own it forever — unlike Microsoft Office 365 that requires you to pay a monthly or annual subscription fee. However, you might not get the quick feature updates offered by the subscription plan....

You may not have realized it, but the landscape for your Windows PC shifted seismically earlier this month. For the first time in six years, Windows unleashed an update to its venerable operating system as Windows 11 rolled out across the web. While many older PCs aren’t supported by the requirements of the brightest, shiniest new Windows OS, many other newer devices have already made the switch. That’s allowing users to start digging into new features like integrated Android apps, better virtual desktop and Teams support, improved tech for gamers, and an avalanche of other upgrades, some big, some small....

What it really means, though, is that you and I have now entered into a (rather loose) social contract. It demands you are provided with enough interesting cryptocurrency tidbits so that you don’t complain to us on Twitter about being baited into reading another shitty blockchain article. Let’s see if we hold up our end of the bargain. Manny Pacquaio, the renowned Filipino boxing champion, launched his own cryptocurrency at a free concert in Manila on Sunday, Reuters reports....

The Korean tech giant’s phone, unsurprisingly called the LG Rollable, made a brief appearance in the company’s keynote. However, we don’t have any details about the display or when the phone will hit the market. This is not the first time LG has shown off a rollable display. Two years ago, it amazed everyone with a rollable TV at CES, and last year it even teased the phone’s flexible display....

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2020 Tesla is currently suing Alameda County. As noted by Ars Technica, the company is arguing that it should be exempt from the county’s lockdown measures because the state-wide lockdown didn’t cover ‘transportation’ and ‘energy’ sectors of the economy. Tesla says it is part of both. According to The New York Times, county health officials and Tesla were close to agreeing to reopen the factory as soon as May 18....

The space agency has developed a unique lunar orbit for the Gateway space station, which will provide a staging post for visits to Earth’s nearest neighbor. Dubbed the near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), the celestial path has never been tested in space — until now. In a launch window that runs from June 13 to June 22, NASA aims to demonstrate the orbit in an area around the Moon. This unprecedented trajectory will be flown by a microwave-oven-sized craft called CAPSTONE....

Considering E3 begins June 12, that means the announcement is likely just days away. Reportedly, the announcement may come before the event so that the games can get some time to shine during E3. The new Switch is reported to have Nvidia’s latest graphics technology and a 7-inch OLED display made by Samsung. It will reportedly be able to run games at 4K resolution using Nvidia’s DLSS(Deep Learning Super Sampling) technology, which is basically a way to upscale graphics convincingly using AI....

Researchers from the Santa Clara-based chipmaker have created a new AI tool — dubbed Ganimal — that can take in a picture of an animal and recreate its facial expression and pose on the face of any other creature. In a paper — titled “Few-Shot Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation” aka FUNIT — the image-to-image translation method leverages generative adversarial networks (GANs), a neural network that has been widely adopted in a variety of image generation and transfer scenarios....

The phone manufacturer boasted a lot about its triple camera setup around the launch. Which is understandable, seeing that it got a very high score of 111 from DxOMark, which is just one point behind the top position, jointly held by the Huawei P30 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G. However, at the launch, reviews across the internet suggested the phone’s camera performance doesn’t quite match its high DxOMark score....

There are all kinds of weird and wonderful DAOs out in the wild. For instance, PleaserDAO managed to grab an exclusive copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album for $4 million. But many of them don’t succeed: a notable DAO that attempted to purchase an original copy of the US constitution failed last year. Now, there’s an odd new project out to grab the limelight called The Tweet DAO. At first glance, the idea is simple: you buy one of the 1,000 egg NFTs it’s minted, and you get the right to post one tweet per day from the organization’s Twitter account....

There might be a framework that you want to learn or a library you’ve been interested in. It doesn’t even have to be related to your job. This is your time to learn something that you actually care about and work on something that sounds fun to you. Doing personal projects will make you a better developer and here are a few ways how. You get to experiment without judgement Nobody has to approve your pull requests or even see your code....