This new feature will let you record your sessions, so that anyone can play them later. The company says that users will get to experience the same stuff as live rooms like “leave quietly, and watch the dynamic of the stage and audience shift and evolve throughout the discussion, including PTRs, mic taps, and all the special moments that only happen here.” This sounds like a podcast, but with some… screen action?...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A robot walks into a bar and the bartender takes its order. The robot says: “I’ll have whatever my developer likes.” If you’re not laughing right now it’s because the joke isn’t funny. And if you are laughing, it’s because the joke is funny. That’s how jokes work. It’s also how people work. Humorous or not, the premise of the joke is that robots don’t have personalities, ideas, thoughts, or desires....
Recent advances in deep learning have rekindled interest in the imminence of machines that can think and act like humans, or artificial general intelligence. By following the path of building bigger and better neural networks, the thinking goes, we will be able to get closer and closer to creating a digital version of the human brain. But this is a myth, argues computer scientist Erik Larson, and all evidence suggests that human and machine intelligence are radically different....
The Foundation is essentially the bedrock of the Oldest House, the building occupied by the Federal Bureau of Control. This area is a mix of expansive open spaces that make you feel like you’re on another planet, and cave networks that you have to navigate to access different parts of the Oldest House’s substructure. Something is causing the Astral Plane to bleed into the Foundation, and it’s up to Jesse Faden, the Bureau’s new director, to stop it before the building and the agency are swallowed up by this invasive force....
It’s no wonder that only about 2% of VC investment goes to women-led startups (despite 39% of businesses being women-led), and only 3% of VC funding goes to black or Latino led startups. What’s more, 74% of VC funds have zero female investors and most investment is concentrated in California (which receives 54.13% of all VC investment in the US). And it’s extremely concentrated in certain industries: software (36.2%), biotechnology (17....
That’s according to PitchBook’s latest research on the pandemic’s impact on the European venture capital market, which notes how the epicenter of the outbreak has shifted from Europe to the US. As a result, US investors could place more emphasis on inward domestic investment as opposed to eyeing opportunities in Europe. “We may see fewer and smaller deals with US participation close,” the report says. [Read: What’s venture capital and why does it matter for startups?...
For nearly a decade, the pinnacle of the programming language pecking order has been deeply entrenched. Decades-old king JavaScript remained firmly at no. 1, while runner-up Java sat as a solid no. 2. That hierarchy has remained unchallenged as long as analysts at Red Monk have been ranking the world’s most used coding disciplines, beginning in 2012. Until now. This year, Python, who spent four years in 4th place before moving up to 3rd in 2017, shockingly tied JavaScript to share 2nd place on the 2020 list....
Karaoke is not for the timid. It’s high risk…and high reward. And if you’re ready to step up and belt out a classic like “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Sweet Caroline” or “Don’t Stop Believin,” you can all but guarantee any karaoke machine or facilitator will already have the track to accommodate you. But if you want to really dazzle, you need to follow the road less traveled. Because God knows, we can’t listen to some hack butcher “Livin’ on a Prayer” again, right?...
As a person with a great amount of anxiety, I’ve always liked puzzle games. They’re an excellent way to pass time when you’re on a flight, or when you’re waiting for your turn at your doctor’s clinic. Plus, if you’re getting bored while hanging out with a friend, there’s nothing like a short and engaging game. So, here’s a list of some exciting riddle games: Chain Reaction is one of the most fun games to play at a bar or at a cafe when you’re in a smaller group....
However, to cure these weekend blues, I’m gonna leave you with a ton of stuff that you can explore while you’re trying to take a break from the gruesome news cycle. Get your creative juices flowing. Apple is giving a 90-day free trial to its popular video and audio editing apps Final Cut Pro and Logic X Pro. It’s notable that the company doesn’t have any trial period on Logic X Pro under normal circumstances....
And I’ve got great news for everyone who loves weed vapes like I do: DaVinci has launched the IQ2! Now, that might not mean a huge amount to you, but it should. Why? Because the original was one of the best weed vapes in the business. Hell, whenever I recommended anyone a vape, I always pick either the Pax 3 or the Davinci IQ. So the news that DaVinci is launching the IQ2 today is music to my vibe-hungry ears....
Accessible design often focuses on people with vision or hearing disabilities. Designing for cognitive accessibility (COGA) rarely receives as much attention, but is equally important. At first, COGA may feel too complex because of the wide range of cognitive disabilities. The medical terms may be overwhelming. Yes, accessible design can help people with dementia, Alzheimer’s, aphasia (loss of ability to understand and express speech), autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity, dyslexia and dyscalculia (severe difficulty in making mathematical calculations) and more....
A report from analyst firm IDC suggests that Chinese phone makers had more than 70% of the market in 2020. This indicates that the majority of Indian consumers are buying a device made by a company from the neighboring country. The report also notes that after multiple years of growth, the smartphone market fell by 2% in 2020. Even in a year with the coronavirus pandemic and dwindling trade, brands such as Realme, Vivo, and Oppo showed growth in the Indian market....
When we look at where AI will be in the next year, five years or decade, who will feel it first? Which industries will embrace it and which will run for the hills when they see it enter? To find out more about what impact AI will have on a variety of industries, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: What is one industry you think AI will disrupt next and why?...
This includes poetry. Digital technologies can disseminate and publish contemporary poetry, and also create it. Digital artists combine human and computer languages to create digital poetry, which can be grouped into at least five genres. 1. Generative poetry Generative poems use a program or algorithm to generate poetic text from a database of words and phrases written or gathered by the digital poet. The poem may run for a fixed period, a fixed number of times, or indefinitely....
This DNA kit will get you all the information you desire about your four-legged best friend. You’ll get detailed reports breaking down your dog’s DNA composition, breed mix, predisposition to disease, personality traits, and much more. And as an added bonus, your get a lifetime subscription to DOGTV. This kit is simple to use. Just get a swab from your dog’s cheek in less than a minute, send it to the lab in a return mailing envelope, and in two weeks you’ll have all the information at your fingertips....
The “Sensing Project” uses cameras and sensors to collect data on vehicles driving in and around Roermond, a small city in the southeastern Netherlands. An algorithm then purportedly calculates the probability that the driver and passengers intend to pickpocket or shoplift, and directs police towards the people and places it deems “high risk.” The police present the project as a neutral system guided by objective crime data. But Amnesty found that it’s specifically designed to identify people of Eastern European origin — a form of automated ethnic profiling....
The UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee yesterday heard evidence from EA and Epic Games representatives about various game-related issues, the legality and propriety of loot boxes and other microtransactions in games chief among them. For the most part, the gaming reps danced around the issue as tactfully as possible, but when the EA camp was asked about loot boxes, they responded by saying they refer to loot boxes as “surprise mechanics” and comparing opening one to cracking a Kinder egg or a Hatchimal....
Tarkov, a tactical first-person shooter, has enjoyed a spike in popularity since the year began, and it’s being played by multiple popular streamers. In the wake of this newfound attention, WccfTech’s Alessio Palumbo 2016 interview with Pavel Dyatlov recently resurfaced. Palumbo spoke with Dyatlov, a member of the development team, about Tarkov during Gamescom and the topic of female characters came up. Dyatlov’s response was rather distressingly backwards: Okay, so… I’m not even going to try to unpack the troubling implications of that thought process....
The group aims to assess use cases of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), analyse design choices such as cross-border interoperability, and share knowledge on the emerging technology. [READ: European Central Bank bigwig outlines why Facebook’s Libra isn’t real cryptocurrency] Initial members include the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the European Central bank (EBC), the Sveriges Riksbank, the Swiss National Bank, and the Banks of England, Canada, and Japan. Benoît Cœuré, the head of the BIS Innovation Hub, will co-chair the group alongside Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunliffe....
