The FCC will not be voting this November on the adoption of the “Restoring Internet Freedom” rule that would roll back 2015’s Net Neutrality rules, contrary to recent rumors. In a blog post, Chairman Ajit Pai listed a number of items the commission will be voting on, and the proposed rule isn’t among them. Read More
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La historia de la sociedad contra la automatización se remonta a 1811 cuando los luditas destrozaron las máquinas textiles de sus fábricas. Desde entonces, partidarios y detractores han creado una lÃnea temporal marcada por los cambios laborales y sociales, los grandes avances y la incertidumbre sobre el futuro de la sociedadÂ
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La compañÃa está abriendo estudios de grabación para crear vÃdeos volumétricos que, algún dÃa, podrÃan llevar las vergonzosas fotos familiares a un nivel completamente nuevo. Aunque aún no se sabe cuánto costará cada pieza, la compañÃa afirma que podrÃa llegar usuario medio en un par de años
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La edición de bases, mucho más precisa que la versión original de la técnica, puede manipular letras individuales del genoma para cambiar una A por una G y viceversa. Gracias a ella podrÃan repararse unas 15.000 mutaciones puntuales asociadas a enfermedades
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If you’re an Apple fan, you’re probably hemming and hawing between the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X. Here’s why.
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A recent study issued by cloud service provider Backblaze reports that hard drives built for data centers aren’t more reliable than models sold on the mainstream desktop market. The company compared two 8TB drives from Seagate.
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Alphabet delivered a knockout quarter today, handily beating the estimates from Wall Street — but, perhaps more importantly, showing actual growth in a critical metric that has seen a consistent decline for quite some time. Google’s cost-per-click — a metric that basically defines how valuable its ads are — grew 1% quarter-over-quarter this year. While still down… Read More
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Amazon posted company earnings after the bell on Thursday. The company posted significantly better-than-expected earnings, at 52 cents per share, when analysts were forecasting just three cents. Revenue came in at $43.74 billion, versus the consensus estimate of $42.14 billion. Shares quickly ticked up 7% in initial after-hours trading. Bezos credits the success of its popular… Read More
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Microsoft today announced its quarterly earnings for its first financial quarter of 2018 (yes, I know it’s early, but that’s how Microsoft’s financial quarters work). Wall Street’s crack team of financial analysts expected the company to report revenue of about $23.56 billion and earnings per share of $0.72. The actual numbers the company reported today were $24.5… Read More
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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
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