The saga between the powerhouse venture firm Benchmark  and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick continues. Following last week’s lawsuit revelation, Benchmark penned a public letter to Uber employees, explaining why it is taking legal action against Kalanick, who remains on Uber’s board and controls two other, empty board seats. Today, Benchmark doubled down on its decision, writing… Read More
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Only a few years ago, Opera Max was the rising star in the browser maker’s portfolio. The service offered a system-wide data-saving proxy that funnelled all app data through Opera’s servers to compress images and videos. Now, however, Max is heading for the deadpool. The company, which is now owned by a consortium of Chinese firms, today announced that it will shut down… Read More
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Arthur C. Clarke once said that advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Researchers from the U.K. have put the two things together to create an AI-generated “mind-reading” card trick.
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Dead fathers loom large in “Eastwatch,” but it feels a little strange at a time when the old ways are changing so drastically.
Source: Wired
If you bought a single Bitcoin in 2009, it would have cost you pennies. Today, that same cryptocurrency is worth upwards of $4,000 per coin, breaking all sorts of records and continuing to cement it as the king of crypto.
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SpaceX is launching a Dragon spacecraft using a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, with a launch window set for 12:31 PM EDT (9:31 PM PDT). The mission is CRS-12, the twelfth commercial resupply mission conducted by SpaceX, which is set to deliver a payload of over 6,400 pounds of supplies and experimental support materials to the International Space Station. The launch’s payload includes a… Read More
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Sure, you can buy solar glasses. Or you can save your money an make a DIY pinhole. It’s a lot more fun.
Source: Wired
Made in Space wants to launch a 3-D printer with robot arms into orbit, to build too-big-to-launch satellites and telescopes.
Source: Wired
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) wants to ensure your streaming video experience stays smooth. A research team led by MIT professor Mohammad Alizadeh has developed an artificial intelligence (dubbed ‘Pensieve’) that can select the best algorithms for ensuring video streams both without interruption, and at the best possible playback quality.… Read More
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On Wednesday night ABC will be airing the CMA Music Festival, Nashville’s paean to the boot-scootin’, honky-tonkin’, hoedown throw-down music that the Grand Ole Opry helped build. As part of the celebrations, some of country music’s rising and established stars are going to be streaming in 360 video on YouTube — airing select songs from their performance as if… Read More
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