Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Turo car-sharing marketplace launches in Germany

 Peer-to-peer car-sharing platform Turo is expanding to Germany officially, starting today, after acquiring Daimler’s Croove in-house product for providing essentially the same service. Turo also received a significant strategic investment from Daimler at the same time, as it acquired the automaker’s car-sharing experiment, and it now operates peer-to-peer rental services in the U.S. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Cómo destrozar el sector de la inteligencia artificial de todo un país

Durante años, EE. UU. ha liderado la investigación en inteligencia artificial, pero una serie de nuevas políticas gubernamentales amenazan con destruir su liderazgo. Los recortes en financiación se unen a una posible reforma fiscal que aumentaría las tasas de los estudiantes universitarios

Source: MIT

Los padres primerizos crearon los mejores 'gadgets' infantiles de 2017

Si quiere algo bien, hágalo usted mismo, esta es la máxima que han seguido una serie de padres emprendedores frustrados por los productos disponibles en el mercado para cuidar de sus bebés. Así han nacido un calcetín que monitoriza el sueño y un revolucionario sacaleches

Source: MIT

Viaje en coche autónomo con un conductor a kilómetros de distancia

Antes de que los vehículos sean capaces de afrontar todas las situaciones que se encuentren en la carretera, una empresa apuesta por pilotos en remoto que asuman el control cuando el coche se enfrente a un obstáculo que no sabe abordar

Source: MIT

Casually prep for nuclear war with this Minecraft tour of the Russian and American fallout bunkers

 Virtual tourism is a little heavy in 2018. Sure, you’ve seen the Minecraft Eiffel Tower and beamed aboard the Minecraft USS Enterprise, but have you considered where you might wait out the end of days? Well, not you exactly, but people more important than you. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

See a lifeguard drone help rescue two young swimmers – CNET

A surf-patrolling drone designed to watch for sharks delivers a life-saving package to two distressed swimmers in Australia.
Source: CNET

Airbnb purges thousands of San Francisco listings overnight – CNET

As a new law goes into effect, the short-term rental site is required to deactivate all hosts who didn’t register with the city.
Source: CNET

Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk About the *Multiplicity*

The robot revolution we’re in the midst of is way more interesting and way less murder-y than science fiction. Call it the multiplicity.
Source: Wired

What's Actually Inside a Tide Pod?

What exactly is happening when you wash your clothes with fatty acid salts in a candylike package?
Source: Wired

You can use Google’s new Fuchsia operating system on the Pixelbook

Google’s Fuchsia operating system has been in development for well over a year, but kept under wraps. It’s now possible to get it up and running on Pixelbook hardware for a sneak preview, however.

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Source: Digital trends