Machine learning techniques excel at doing a good-enough job quickly in situations where there’s lots of data to grind through. It turns out that’s a great fit for backlogs of plant samples at herbariums and other repositories around the world, which have millions of the things waiting to be digitized and identified — including some that may be new to science. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Why just plot out the eclipse’s path on a map when you can add in mythical characters or fork up some smothered and covered hash browns?
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Tired of moving your apps around one by one? This new trick in iOS 11 will help speed things up.
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In Amazon’s ongoing quest for world domination, it’s struck a deal with the mind behind one of the most popular TV shows,
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U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is concluding his tech tour of the West Coast today with a visit to Google’s Mountain View campus. Mattis spent time at Amazon and the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, earlier in the week. His key takeaway from all the socializing with tech leaders is that the Department of Defense needs to embrace technology coming out of the private sector… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Plus: a $25 human-anatomy app for 99 cents and a 65-inch TV for under $500!
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This week: Disney ditches Netflix, bundles await, and Facebook makes TV now.
Source: Wired
We’ll try not to look directly at the sun with Ben Fox Rubin on today’s episode, but we will be discussing HBO’s hack and a CNET feature on sex robots and A.I.
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Plus: what’s up with that guy dressed as a car seat in a not-so-self-driving car.
Source: Wired
This song will jump to the top of your iPhone’s library. It’s just 10 minutes of silence.
Source: Wired