Satellite internet on this Honeywell plane may be as fast as your home Wi-Fi so you can Netflix or FaceTime from 35,000 feet.
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Evil Controllers has unveiled a new Xbox One gamepad design called the Shift. It features newly designed paddles, faster actuation face buttons, and a choice of thumbsticks, but strips out macro recording abilities.
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The proportion of jobs being made redundant across AOL and Yahoo is around 15 per cent globally, we have confirmed with our sources. This shakes out to as many as 2,100 jobs being lost as part of the corporate merger. Read More
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Roli’s new keyboard, the Seaboard Block, is fully compatible with the company’s modular Blocks system, but it also makes a great standalone keyboard that works with PC music creation apps, Roli’s Noise app for iOS, and more.
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In its short existence as a startup, London-based Roli has created two of the most compelling music making devices in recent memory. The Seaboard was a material rethink of the standard electric keyboard with a rubbery surface that allows played notes to be manipulated directly in a variety of ways. And the company went in an altogether different direction last year with Blocks — a system… Read More
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Father’s Day is coming up on Sunday, June 18. The post Spoil Your Dad This Father’s Day With These 15 Great Gifts appeared first on WIRED.
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Addepar, the provider of data collection and monitoring services for the financial industry (it’s Palantir’s somewhat less ethically compromised cousin), has raised a whopping $140 million in its latest round of funding. The company’s financing, which likely makes it a unicorn if it wasn’t already (company chief executive Eric Poirier refused to comment on the… Read More
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Rand Corporation reported in 2016 that autonomous cars would need to be tested over 11 billion miles in order to prove that they’re better drivers than humans. With a fleet of a hundred cars running 24 hours a day, that would take 500 years, according to the report. That seems both improbable and impractical, so companies like Cognata are filling the autonomous vehicle testing void… Read More
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London-based Trint, a startup co-founded by Emmy-winning journalist Jeff Kofman, is tackling a paint-point I know all too well: the time it takes to transcribe an interview (or any audio) accurately. Read More
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Thinking about getting a smart speaker like the Amazon Echo or upcoming Apple HomePod? You might want to think again.
Source: CNET