Hot on the heels of Oculus Go’s release earlier this week, Google and Lenovo have made their own standalone virtual reality (VR) headset available starting today. The Lenovo Mirage Solo is the first standalone VR headset that runs on the Google Daydream VR platform, meaning […]
Day: May 4, 2018
NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report
NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report Published on May 04, 2018 at 10:45PM An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 500 million phone call records of Americans last year, more than […]
Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation
Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation Published on May 05, 2018 at 12:45AM Criminals have discovered another use for drones — to distract and spy on law enforcement. From a report: They recently tried to thwart an FBI hostage […]
‘Follow-Up To Vine’ Gets Delayed For ‘Indefinite Amount of Time’
‘Follow-Up To Vine’ Gets Delayed For ‘Indefinite Amount of Time’ Published on May 05, 2018 at 12:05AM Late last year, Vine’s co-founder, Dom Hofmann, said he was working on “a follow-up to Vine,” after the six-second video social media app was shut down by Twitter […]
Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers
Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers Published on May 05, 2018 at 01:25AM lod123 shares a report from Threatpost: Nearly a half-million pacemakers are up for a firmware update to address potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities. Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) has released another upgrade […]
A friendly robotic arm plays tic-tac-toe to help rehabilitate patients
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are building a tic-tac-toe game to help patients with their rehabilitation exercises. The game is played on a grid of boxes and includes “embodied” and non-embodied play. Embodied play means a robotic arm will grab and […]
This Week in the Future of Cars: All About Elon
What do you think about Elon Musk? Tell me and I'll know a lot about your attitudes toward, well, most things. Take this week's first quarter earnings call. Executives at your average carmaker—your average public company, even—would bore to numbness all but the most invested […]
NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report
NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report Published on May 04, 2018 at 10:45PM An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 500 million phone call records of Americans last year, more than […]
Vendita della prima casa: quali tasse?
Quali costi o imposte dovrò sostenere se dovessi vendere una prima casa con più di 5 anni di proprietà senza però acquistarne un'altra? Occorre dire … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities by CADE METZ
By CADE METZ Salaries for artificial intelligence researchers at big tech companies are skyrocketing, luring many professors. Published: May 4, 2018 at 02:00AM from NYT Technology https://ift.tt/2HPG8OL via IFTTT