If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is especially important for professionals. Online, learning pronunciation is generally “hear a recording, then repeat it.” A new platform, Blue Canoe uses an established curriculum and machine learning to make things easier and… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Amazon will be offering a new service to deliver packages inside your home. Would you sign up for this service and give the delivery person access to your front door? We want to know.
Source: CNET
Because it’s rude to leave out children, HelloFresh co-founder Dan Treiman has teamed up with Joanna and David Parker to launch a healthy prepared meal service for the little ones. Treiman, who joined the company last December, helped Yumble officially launch this past summer. Yumble is currently live in 26 states on the east coast and has plans to expand to the west coast sometime in… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
After being criticized for not catching fake news online, the tech giant partners with a fact-checking network to better comb the internet.
Source: CNET
After the card surfaced in rumors over the last several months, Nvidia confirmed when the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card will hit stores. They will be provided by 11 manufacturers with a starting price of $449.
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Source: Digital trends
One author of a new paper on artificial intelligence is a 17-year-old high school senior.
Source: Wired
Twitter announced its Q3 financials today which included a surprise beat that could lead it to a quarter of actual profitability before 2017 is out, but there is also less positive news. The company admitted it had mistakenly counted users of Digits, the app it transferred to Google via the sale of its Fabric product in January, as part of its overall audience for the past year. At peak,… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Researchers at the University of Basel and University College London have created a scale that can measure life. The scale, which can measure the mass of single cells lets and them “monitor how their weight changes over time … with a resolution of milliseconds and trillionths of a gram.”
This means they can weigh a cell the instant it dies, finding definitely the mass of… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Netflix’s is preparing to capitalize on the success of its hit original series Stranger Things with the launch of a new ‘after-show,’ starting on October 27 – the day the new season of Stranger Things hits the streaming platform. Called Beyond Stranger Things, the show will offer rehashes, as well as other behind-the-scenes content, and answers to other… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik won’t be able to advertise on Twitter any longer. But their tweeting continues.
Source: CNET