Here’s a surprise turn of events: Softbank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot — has just announced that it is acquiring two robotics companies from Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into robotics: Big Dog developer Boston Dynamics and the bipedal robotics firm Schaft. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed but we will try to find out. For Alphabet, this is part of… Read More
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After breaking up in 2014, Taylor Swift and Spotify are getting back together. To celebrate her album 1989 hitting 10 million records sold and selling 100 million total songs, today the pop singer announced she’s making her full back catalog available on all streaming services starting tonight at midnight. Swift was already on Apple Music but now she’s opening up to Spotify and… Read More
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A memo for a company event in 2013 warned against getting arrested and throwing kegs off buildings.
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Earlier this week, at a staff meeting in San Francisco, Uber executives revealed to the company’s 12,000 employees that 20 of their colleagues had been fired over harassment, discrimination and inappropriate behavior, following a string of accusations that Uber had created a toxic workplace and allowed complaints to go unaddressed for years. Those complaints had pushed Uber into… Read More
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Can OnePlus wow us again? Here are all the rumored specs of the maverick Chinese phonemaker’s next flagship device.
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On Thursday, AMD updated its Radeon Software Crimson Relive Edition software to version 17.6.1, with the usual performance improvements for Dirt 4 and Prey, along with a host of important fixes.
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While all eyes were on James Comey today, HHS secretary Tom Price’s hearings passed by with little fanfare.
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Group led by the president’s son-in-law will focus on ways to modernize government services.
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Also, internet usage is on track to pass 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes by then.
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The Robust Reactive Systems Lab just might have the highest ceilings of any lab on the Carnegie Mellon campus. It’s big and drafty, and were it not for the rows of computer workstations, it might easily be mistaken for an airplane hangar. The centerpiece looks more like a batting cage than a serious piece of lab equipment. But when the demo starts, everyone stops and watches. Read More
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