The Big Bang brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago. Life first appeared on our planet 3.8 billion years ago. Earth witnessed a hominid species, Home erectus, walking upright for the first time 1.9 million years ago. And, 7,000 years ago, money was invented. Read More
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LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with over 500 million users, has put a lot of effort into new areas of business like content, education and bringing on new users in emerging markets; but today it’s embarking on the roll out of a new service that plays squarely into the bread and butter of its business: looking for work. Today, the company is debuting a… Read More
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Micro satellite launch startup Vector, which is founded by a team of alumni from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Boeing and other aerospace leaders, competed its first suborbital launch and flight of a full-scale test version of its Vector-R launch rocket. The launch is also a first for Georgia’s Spaceport Camden, which was previously a NASA static test fire site for solid state rockets in… Read More
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By measuring how a nucleus bounces off a neutrino, scientists crack a window into the personality of the shyest particle.
Source: Wired
The Void is collaborating with Lucasfilm to create an original virtual reality experience called Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, which is coming to Walt Disney World and Disneyland this year.
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The move is part of a broader trend toward telemedicine across America.
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Amazon today is rolling out a new experience for Prime Photos, its photo backup and sharing app, on Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. With the update, you can now ask Alexa to display your photos, including those saved to your various albums, photos taken on a certain day, week or month, those snapped at a particular location, or even those of specific people or things – like photos of your… Read More
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The US is gearing up for a solar show-stopper on August 21, so take a moment to refresh your eclipse knowledge.
Source: CNET
Facebook announced this morning that it had completed its move to neural machine translation — a complicated way of saying that Facebook is now using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to automatically translate content across Facebook. Google, Microsoft and Facebook have been making the move to neural machine translation for some time now,… Read More
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Toyota’s Safety Sense driver’s aids technology saved the day in one fast distracted second.
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