Besides featuring a QLED screen, a minimalist remote control, and a mechanized soundbar that slides into place beneath the screen when it’s turned out, the 55-inch Q1 Pro comes with Android TV on board (based on Android Pie 9.0), as well as OnePlus’ own content discovery service. It’s also surprisingly expensive for the Indian market, which has recently seen a flood of competitively priced smart TVs from several Asian brands....
The research lab initially said its predecessor’s potential to spread disinformation made it too dangerous to share. The decision led terrified journalists to warn of impending robot apocalypses — generating a lot of helpful hype for GPT-2. Now, OpenAI has unveiled its big brother. And it’s enormous. The language model has 175 billion parameters — 10 times more than the 1.6 billion in GPT-2, which was also considered gigantic on its release last year....
Named DALL-E 2, the system is the successor to a model unveiled last year. While its predecessor generated some impressive outputs, the new version is a major upgrade. DALL-E-2 adds enhanced textual comprehension, faster image generation, and four times greater resolution. “When approaching DALL-E 2 we focused on improving the image resolution quality and improving latency, rather than building a bigger system,” OpenAI researcher Aditya Ramesh told TNW. — Aditya Ramesh (@model_mechanic) April 7, 2022 The new tool also introduces two extra capabilities: reinterperations of existing images and an editing feature called inpainting....
Scientists in Canada have developed a model that identifies future designer drugs before they even hit the market. But don’t get too excited: the researchers aren’t planning to provide your next buzz. Instead, they want the cops to find it first. High times It wasn’t easy introducing AI to the drug game. First, the neural network needed a crash course in pharmacology. Instead of a traditional education in a meth lab, the neural network was trained on a database of known psychoactive substances....
In a paper — titled “Practical Decryption exFiltration: Breaking PDF Encryption” — German academics from Ruhr-University Bochum and Münster University of Applied Sciences disclosed two different variations of the attack that left over 23 widely used PDF viewers, including Adobe Acrobat Reader, Evince, and Chrome and Firefox’s built-in PDF viewers, vulnerable. Called PDFex, the attack exploits security weaknesses in the standard encryption protection built into the Portable Document Format, also known as PDF....
In the premiere of And Just Like That, a Peloton cameo sent stocks in the fitness firm tumbling by 11%. SPOILER ALERT The scene shows Carrie’s husband, Mr. Big, dying from a heart attack after a Peloton class. Initially, Peloton responded in a statement, which blamed the death on Mr Big’s “extravagant lifestyle” of “cocktails, cigars, and big steaks.” But that was merely the start. Just 48 hours after the episode aired, Peloton unveiled a PR showstopper....
Credit: WinFuture WinFuture’s report also reveals or corroborates a myriad of specs and other details. It reiterates reports that the device will come with a Snapdragon 765G, which would technically make the Pixel 5 slower than the Pixel 4. Although if it’s anything like the OnePlus Nord, that should be more than enough performance for most people. Google doesn’t appear to be skimping too much on the rest of the specs though, what with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and an IP68 water-resistant chassis....
It was approximately two months ago when the world went into lockdown and since then, much of our free time has been spent resisting the urge to aimlessly scroll through social media. If you’ve had enough of Instagram’s explore page and you’re in need of some fascinating subreddits to binge-read, we’ve got you covered. This week, we talked to the web developer and entrepreneur Steve Huffman, co-founder and CEO at Reddit, a social news aggregator, web content rating, and discussion platform which Time magazine ranks in the top 15 influential websites of all time....
I’m all about proper lighting on bikes. I was an occasional driver before I started riding my ebike everywhere, so I’m well aware of the dramatic difference a couple of lights can make to keep cyclists safer on the road. But though I’ve seen lights integrated into ebike frames, helmets, wheels, and more, Redshift’s new Arclight pedals are one of the few times I’ve seen bike lighting integrated right below your feet....
For those of you who aren’t familiar with MagSafe, it was the company’s way of preventing your laptop (or you) from shattering when you inevitably tripped over the charger. The company began to abandon MagSafe after introducing USB-C with the 2015 MacBook. As great as USB-C is, it doesn’t do much to prevent you from tripping. An upcoming MacBook Air, to be released in late 2021 or sometime in 2022, will apparently feature MagSafe once more....
The report comes from Variety, which reports that Jackson will reprise his role as the character, while Tyler Bradstreet of Mr. Robot is attached as the show’s writer. In case you aren’t familiar, Jackson claimed the rights to the movie role years ago when his face was used (without his consent) as the model for the character in the Ultimates series. When his agents contacted Marvel, they offered him first rights to any screen portrayal of the character by way of apology....
However, virtual reality still isn’t very accessible or mainstream. Sure you can get a PlayStation VR headset for like 250 bucks, but that still needs to be hooked up to a PlayStation 4. Other solutions are even more expensive and require beefy computers, or are glorified phone cases that allow you to strap your phone to your head, which is obviously far from ideal. Enter Oculus Quest, a headset that is completely self-contained, affordable and hassle-free....
It delivers in all the key areas you care about. The Marshall Stockwell II looks just as exquisite as its amplifier brethren, which are used by professional musicians when performing live. Furthermore, it has an incredibly enduring battery, which delivers exceptional listening time when cranking out the tunes. And that’s important, because the Marshall Stockwell II sounds utterly amazing. Interestingly, it affords the listener the ability to change the characteristics of the audio through two dedicated knobs which control bass and treble....
Unfortunately, some of my favorite bikes in this regard also tend to be weaker on power delivery. I usually don’t mind a motor with less power, but sometimes I do miss the extra oomph. The Priority Current is one of the few ebikes that can deliver on both fronts. Priority has built up a reputation for minimizing maintenance on its ‘acoustic’ bikes, and the Current follows that trend with a series of sensible design choices....
It’s also, I should say, a bit of a weird one. RHA is a well-known manufacturer of headphones, but its newest offering, the RHA Wireless Travel Adapter, is an accessory. So, what is it? It’s a black cube of plastic that you can shove into the in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on your next exotic jaunt, allowing you to connect up to two pairs of Bluetooth headphones. I travel a lot, and I’ve got a deep passion for travel tech, and how it can make an otherwise frustrating and uncomfortable experience bearable....
Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in Florida last week, Hawley asked the crowd: In the wake of his speech, Hawley’s decided to call “masculinity” one of his “signature political issues.” And he recently reiterated his position during an interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen: When Allen asked Hawley to define what a “man” was, the senator responded: On the surface, it might seem that Hawley’s calling for moral action against the gaming and porn industries....
The new laws were first announced earlier this year and outlined how smart contracts and digital tokens would be thought of, legally speaking. The bill establishes the concept of “digital rights” in Russian law. In effect, the bill sees digital rights like securities or a set of contractual rights that state what a holder is entitled to. These laws determine how these digital rights can then be exercised and transferred....
The website went down shortly after EU lawmakers declared Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” over its attacks on Ukraine. “MEPs highlight that the deliberate attacks and atrocities committed by Russian forces and their proxies against civilians in Ukraine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure and other serious violations of international and humanitarian law amount to acts of terror and constitute war crimes,” a press release from the EU Parliament stated....
The report noted that while the Korean phone maker might be fit to launch the device, it doesn’t have a final date for when it’ll make the Fold available to consumers. Plenty of reviewers who received the phone’s unit early back in April, removed the protective film over the screen that wasn’t supposed to be removed – and that caused the device to glitch. Now, Samsung has stretched the film over the screen and into the outer bezels, so it can’t be removed easily....
San Jose City Council has approved a plan to install 880 kilometers of new bike lanes, boulevards and trails across the city in an effort to encourage more cycling. The San Jose Better Bike Plan 2025 builds on the city’s 2018 Better Bikeways initiative and will add to its current 515-kilometer network of on-street bike lanes. It is one of the most comprehensive biking schemes to be introduced in the US to date, but the country’s dependence on cars and safety concerns have often proved difficult barriers for transit authorities in the past, and a shift in mindset is something the city is seeking to address....
