The Switch became the fastest-selling console in Nintendo’s history just about a month after it launched, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Nintendo’s flagship console was the number one selling video game hardware device in October, according to new figures from NPD Group, […]
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Where and why venture capitalists invest close to home
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor: Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the same isn’t true for […]
Great HPC bake-off: novel recipe for ‘supercomputer’ uses 750 Raspberry Pi boards
The humble Raspberry Pi has been put to many uses by hobbyists over the years since it was launched, but the latest use for the board is certainly very novel: bundling loads of the things together to make a cheap supercomputer (of sorts). As Anandtech […]
Pip is a retro games console for kids to learn coding
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been incredibly successful at sparking all sorts of creativity via its low cost microcomputers, which arrived in the market back in 2012. Its core electronics are also indirectly responsible for UK-based learn-to-code startups like Kano and pi-top, which have built […]
The Morning After: Thursday, November 16th 2017
That’s different.Teenage Engineering teams up with Baidu to create strange new speakers One way to separate from the increasingly crowded smart speaker market is to do something different, and Teenage Engineering has managed that with its new “R” and “H.” They offer voice control, just […]
Postmates’ first food deliveries outside the US start in Mexico City
Lyft isn’t the only major American online service dipping its toes in foreign waters this week: Postmates is starting its first food deliveries outside of the US with a launch in Mexico City. Hungry people in several districts of Mexico’s capital can order from 1,000-plus […]
Luxurious French cuisine in the heart of Osaka
Maison Tateru Yoshino, a French restaurant at the ANA Crowne Plaza Osaka that earned a star in the Michelin Guide Kyoto-Osaka 2018, is offering … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours from
Algorithmia now helps businesses manage and deploy their machine learning models
Algorithmia started out as an online marketplace for — can you guess it? — algorithms. Many of these algorithms that developers offered on the service focused on machine learning (think face detection, sentiment analysis, etc.). Today, with the boom in ML/AI, that’s obviously a big […]
‘Battlefront II’ under investigation in Belgium over loot crates
Authorities are especially concerned over the fact that the games are marketed towards children. Naessens says kids could feel forced to spend a lot of money under social pressure. EA made earning heroes easier after facing backlash, but players might still end up spending serious […]
Review: Zojirushi NL-BAC05 3-Cup Rice Warmer and Cooker
For a grain that is a staple in so many different cultures, rice is surprisingly difficult to cook. Most stove burners don’t have a setting that’s low enough to steam it properly without the pot boiling over, or scorching it. A perfectly-cooked pot of rice […]
