Google today announced the launch of version 0.8 of TensorFlow, its open source library for doing the hard computation work that makes machine learning possible. Normally, a small point update like this wouldn’t be all that interesting, but with this version, TensorFlow can now r … | Continue reading
Today in two people you wouldn’t think would be in the same sentence, rapper Azealia Banks claims that Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey promised to tweet about her mixtape if she tweeted about Square’s Cashtag. Evident in his Twitter feed, he did not do so, and she threatened to “h … | Continue reading
Thanks to a brain implant, Ian Burkhart can use his hand to play video games for the first time since the accident that broke his neck six years ago. The finding, published today in Nature, is the... | Continue reading
Last November, Google opened up its in-house machine learning software TensorFlow, making the program that powers its translation services and photo analytics (among many other things) open-source and free to download. Now, the company is giving TensorFlow the machine learning eq … | Continue reading
Google today is announcing the release of version 0.8 of its TensorFlow open-source machine learning software. The release is significant because it supports the ability to train machine learning models on more than just a single machine. TensorFlow can be used for a type of arti … | Continue reading
Video game strategies may have given quantum researchers a new insight into a crucial problem facing quantum computing, according to a new article in Nature. The research focused on a game called Quantum Moves, which is designed to mimic neutral atoms in an optical lattice. Facin … | Continue reading
The chatbot craze has claimed another victim. I mean, acquisition. Shopify, the makers of a popular platform used by over 243,000 businesses, from smaller online merchants to big names like Tesla and Budweiser, announced today it’s buying a startup called Kit CRM. The company hel … | Continue reading
Hydraulikpresse zerquetscht Kram war ja ganz amüsant, aber hier kommt der neue heiße Scheiß: Wasserstrahlschneider halbiert Kram. Denn bei ein paar Tausend bar wird H2O zum Supercutter, mit dem sich so ziemlich alles sauber in zwei... | Continue reading
Minecraft has been toying around with offering multiplayer Realms across desktop, consoles and phones for a while now – and now it wants Android users to help test its Pocket Edition. Today, if you want to play multiplayer on mobile, you’ll need to mess around with IP addresses, … | Continue reading
Blizzard continues to try different ideas in its Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawls, and this week's The Great Stone of Challenge is definitely an interesting one. The challenge this week is to build a strong deck that has only even-cost spells and minions with odd attack. So, as y … | Continue reading
Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote starting at 10am. There’ll also be more streamed sessions all day today. Read More | Continue reading
HANG TIME BIG CITY — The season may not be over just yet, but the Sacramento Kings are reportedly already planning for the future. According to a report from The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnorowski, tomorrow the Kings will be part ways with coach George Karl… The Kings will allow Karl … | Continue reading
New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall paid a visit to Silicon Valley this week to explore opportunities and potential partnerships with tech companies around mental health issues. Part of the reason for his visit was because, in 2011, Marshall was diagnosed with borderline … | Continue reading
Snapchat is getting a nifty update to its videos: users can now attach stickers and emoji to objects and track them around a scene. That lets you do things like place an emoji on your face and use it as a mask, or make tiny vehicles move around in your videos. via Mashable You ca … | Continue reading
We’re happy to be adding Kathy Astromoff as a lightning talk speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California. Astromoff is vice president of developer success at Twitch, the la … | Continue reading
My colleague Jamieson Cox brings me a lot of joy — he is my pop culture soulmate, the one person with whom I have shared nearly all of my feelings about Zayn Malik. Today he brought me another bundle of joy: this video of Master of None costars Eric Wareheim and Aziz Ansari celeb … | Continue reading
Die niederländische Firma Clear Flight Solutions (CFS) entwickelt erstaunlich lebensnah wirkende, ferngesteuerte Raubvögel, die als fliegende Vogelscheuchen an Flughäfen zum Einsatz kommen sollen. Die per 3D-Druck produzierten und li... | Continue reading
Backflip Studios' Dragonvale [Free] may be a little old, but there's still a ridiculous amount of people playing the game. To keep players engaged, Backflip has continually been rapid-firing new content into the world of Dragonvale. Currently, there's more than 270 dragons that p … | Continue reading
Maybe it’s the modern-day equivalent of endless channel-surfing — turning on Netflix or some other streaming video service, then going through page after page of movies and TV shows, never quite settling on what to watch next. It’s even worse when you add another person, or a who … | Continue reading
For anyone who loves to add emojis to video clips on Snapchat, the company behind the ephemeral messaging app has released an update that will make things more exciting. The feature is rolling out today for those on Android and will allow you to make emojis move, rotate, and scal … | Continue reading
The grille goes away. There's more range, up to 294 miles. The rumored 100-kWh battery was not announced. | Continue reading
Poshmark, the site for buying and selling women’s fashion, has announced that it has raised $25 million in a round led by GGV Capital. Hans Tung, managing partner at GGV Capital is joining the company’s board of directors.Attracting 1.5 million sellers since its launch, Poshmark … | Continue reading
Disrupt NY is right around the corner. The event starts on May 9th and we’re delighted to reveal the agenda. The lineup is stellar and for the first time, we will be hosting Disrupt NY in Red Hook, Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. We say this every year, but this is set … | Continue reading
Stationary, one-size-fits-all emoji are so yesterday. Android Snapchat users can now attach emoji to specific objects in their videos that will move, rotate, and scale automatically as the object moves throughout the snap. The update will come to iOS in the coming weeks. Make sur … | Continue reading
Today Snapchat revealed its new 3D stickers that can be pinned to objects in a video and stick with them no matter how they or your camera move. Add an emoji face to your pet as it walks around, or give the moon sunglasses that grow with it as you zoom in. By bringing augmented r … | Continue reading
Snapchat videos just got even more interesting with new emoji stickers, which you can attach to objects and move with them, changing size and even orientation.SEE ALSO: 8 Snapchat pranks you can pull off from the comfort of your phoneAs opposed to Snapchat's drawing and text over … | Continue reading
An interesting question came up on the mechanical-sympathy list about how to best benchmark a... | Continue reading
I’m not trying to be morbid here but when I heard Nancy Reagan’s tributes last month after she died, I wondered why it is we wait to let someone else write our obituary after we’re gone. I didn’t know that much about Mrs. Reagan; I’ll be honest. Ronald Reagan was president during … | Continue reading
While you guys are busy celebrating National Bookmobile Day, I've been spending my morning trying to figure out what's going on with the App Store. I've heard a bunch of different rumors from a bunch of different connected people about something big happening in these next two we … | Continue reading
Fable Legends, Lionhead's free-to-play multiplayer-based spin on its fantasy world that sadly never saw release, has come to its end with the closed beta winding down for good. Its closure comes as Lionhead itself is set to close, the Guildford-based developer not quite being abl … | Continue reading
Bitcoin trading sold price from the $425 price level and is now turning back up in what should be a telling price move. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29 … | Continue reading
Motorola has collaborated with legendary graffiti artist Futura to produce 30 custom-tagged phones. The mobile phone developer, which Google sold to Lenovo in 2014, posted a video to YouTube yesterday in which Futura rides an elevated subway line and tags a bunch of Moto X Pure h … | Continue reading
The head of interest rate and credit models at Banca IMI has penned a new paper on blockchain tech. | Continue reading
Google announced custom Gamer IDs and automatic sign-in functionality for Play Games a few months ago, and the latest update brings both of those features to all users. | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: State of Cavs as playoffs near? | Outlook on 76ers’ future? | Your All-Roo … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: State of Cavs as playoffs near? | Outlook on 76ers’ future? | Your All-Roo … | Continue reading
Google Photos automatically backs up photos to the cloud, which is a convenient way of making sure you never lose your memories. But sometimes you want to make sure a photo is backed up right now, in which case you were out luck. That’s changing today – if you use Android, at le … | Continue reading
UHD televisions and monitors are starting to gain real traction in the market these days. Prices are dropping on the displays themselves while more and more services are beginning to deliver UHD content. But what about a UHD laptop? Is that only for the absolute top of the market … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: State of Cavs as playoffs near? | Outlook on 76ers’ future? | Your All-Roo … | Continue reading
There is nothing in this world I love more than a good Vine. I have spent countless nights scrolling through the app, tears streaming down my face, cackling and whispering "Vine is the future" softly to myself. My only real problem with Vine is the lingering fear that one day, be … | Continue reading
Launching today, a new master class from Elizabeth Gilbert. Liz Gilbert is a gift. Hew new book Big Magic is a generous beam of light, a chance to shake off the ennui and fear that holds us back. Last month,... | Continue reading
It's the pure Android phone that everyone loves pitted against the latest newcomer in Android. Here's our quick look between the HTC 10 and Google Nexus 6P. | Continue reading
What does Facebook’s new chatbot platform mean for your business and the future of mobile? Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, where Facebook Messenger’s head of product Stan Chudnovsky will offer insights on the next wave of messaging. Stan’s been in social since before Facebook … | Continue reading
Wondering what phones come with Qualcomm's flagship processor? Here are all the Snapdragon 820 phones you should know about. | Continue reading
The rumble of a train coming down the tracks to the station fills the underground air, but the turnstile is still 30 feet away. It'll be at least another 15 minutes until the next northbound R comes rolling through. As the rumbles turns to screeching brakes, the yellow MetroCard … | Continue reading
"Weihnachtsbaumschießen mit Silas" steht da nur, und das Video heißt: "Weihnachtsbaumschießen". Also wird man wohl erstmal nicht umhin kommen zu rätseln, auf was für einer Art Rampe da welche Art brennender Baum aus welc... | Continue reading