Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Baby Driver Brings Your Badass Playlist Fantasies to Life

Ever made a playlist that makes you feel like an action hero? That’s basically Edgar Wright’s new movie.
Source: Wired

European Commission fines Google $2.73B for anticompetitive practices

After a monthslong investigation, the European Commission has formally announced that Google will be forced to pay $2.73 billion, having been found guilty of anticompetitive practices.

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Source: Digital trends

How to Use an iPhone and Physics to Measure the Height of a Building With an … Accelerometer?

The iPhone makes it easy to do all kinds of cool physics. Like, say, use the change in velocity in an elevator to measure the height of a building.
Source: Wired

IBM will use artificial intelligence to produce Wimbledon highlight packages

IBM has detailed its plans to use artificial intelligence to give tennis fans better access to a broader selection of highlights at this years edition of The Championships at Wimbledon.

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Source: Digital trends

Mining-oriented graphics cards are here to save us from stupid prices

The price explosion for gaming graphics cards may be finally at an end, as manufacturers are starting to debut new mining-focused graphics cards without video ports but with improved cooling.

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Source: Digital trends

Cancer Research's Reproducibility Problem Faces a Second Test

Source: Wired

The Clue to Next Year's Flu Strain Could Be Inside You

Decade-old snot from cancer patients revealed a new technique to forecast how flu evolves.
Source: Wired

Google hit with record $2.7B fine for abusing search dominance – CNET

The figure is twice as big as predicted — and there could be more to come for the search giant as the European Union looks into Android.
Source: CNET

How Samsung's new Galaxy S8 voice app stacks up to Siri, Google Assistant video – CNET

See how Samsung’s Bixby Voice compares to what Google and Apple offer when it comes to basic commands and phone controls.
Source: CNET

Rumors of the demise of augmented reality developers have been greatly exaggerated

 With the announcement of Apple’s ARKit, I’ve been bombarded with questions about what ARKit means for Augmented Reality (AR) developers, specifically ones building hard mobile AR technologies. We, along with our friends at Modsy, were even called out in a recent TechCrunch piece as being “Sherlocked” by Apple. So let me make it very clear up front what ARKit does to the… Read More

Source: TechCrunch