Tuesday, February 12, 2019

How the creators of 'Ralph Breaks the Internet’ showed two sides to life online

Warning: May contain light spoilers. "Everything is for sale on the internet." Phil Johnston, the director/co-writer of the Oscar nominated Ralph Breaks the Internet, isn't holding back. "From the pop-ups to the videos you watch, commerce is a part... http://bit.ly/2TL6eoh support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 10:30AM

'Upskirting' is now a crime in the UK

After some setbacks, the UK's bill forbidding "upskirting" has become law. The Voyeurism Act takes effect in April and gives creeps up to two years in prison if they take photos under a person's clothing without consent for the sake of "sexual grati... http://bit.ly/2BwvTKm support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 10:30AM

IBM on its '5 in 5' predictions for 2019


Jeff Welser, vice president and lab director at IBM Research - Almaden, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about IBM's latest 5 in 5 announcement. http://bit.ly/2DvE5KV support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:44AM

The Bring Up: Episode 6: Remote Workstation


We Bring Up: The benefits of using remote workstation, community questions, and Bridget and Cavin go ‘remote.’ 00:42 Remote Workstation 01:44 AMD Radeon™ Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q1 Release 02:12 Application Virtualization 03:03 Radeon™ Pro Image Boost 03:20 Day Zero Certification on ISV Applications 03:50 Cavin’s Remote Workstation setup 05:08 Cavin and Bridget go “remote” 07:30 AMD Radeon™ VII 08:00 Community Questions 08:28 Dynamic Local Mode 09:15 Radeon™ Adrenalin Driver Updates 10:42 GPU Processing Power Related Links: Radeon™ Pro Software: http://bit.ly/2DuM76S AMD Remote Workstation: http://bit.ly/2Spx8VU Dynamic Local Mode: http://bit.ly/2Dy7Ri2... Blog for the 19.Q1 driver: http://bit.ly/2SpxETQ *** Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_to_AMD Like us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_Facebook Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/AMD_On_Twitter Follow us on Twitch: http://Twitch.tv/AMD Follow us on G+: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_GooglePlus Follow us on Linkedin: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_Linkedin Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_Instagram ©2018 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow Logo, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. #TheBringUp http://bit.ly/2SpxbB4 support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:34AM

The Bring Up: Episode 6: Remote Workstation


We Bring Up: The benefits of using remote workstation, community questions, and Bridget and Cavin go ‘remote.’ 00:42 Remote Workstation 01:44 AMD Radeon™ Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q1 Release 02:12 Application Virtualization 03:03 Radeon™ Pro Image Boost 03:20 Day Zero Certification on ISV Applications 03:50 Cavin’s Remote Workstation setup 05:08 Cavin and Bridget go “remote” 07:30 AMD Radeon™ VII 08:00 Community Questions 08:28 Dynamic Local Mode 09:15 Radeon™ Adrenalin Driver Updates 10:42 GPU Processing Power Related Links: Radeon™ Pro Software: http://bit.ly/2DuM76S AMD Remote Workstation: http://bit.ly/2Spx8VU Dynamic Local Mode: http://bit.ly/2Dy7Ri2... Blog for the 19.Q1 driver: http://bit.ly/2SpxETQ *** Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_to_AMD Like us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_Facebook Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/AMD_On_Twitter Follow us on Twitch: http://Twitch.tv/AMD Follow us on G+: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_GooglePlus Follow us on Linkedin: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_Linkedin Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/AMD_on_Instagram ©2018 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow Logo, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. #TheBringUp http://bit.ly/2DvzFnp support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:33AM

Lexmark is "Off to the Races" at HIMSS19


We are back at HIMSS19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando! Lexmark's healthcare team is ready to meet you this week in Booth #2640! Stop by and see us and let us show you how Lexmark specifically engineers devices for hospital and healthcare environments. http://bit.ly/2Spx7kO support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:38AM

Focal’s $3,000 Stellia aims to be the best portable headphone money can buy


It was just a few months ago that Focal Audio revealed the Elegia, its first take on a premium pair of closed-back headphones. I liked the Elegia when I reviewed it, but given its $900 price tag and recent release, I thought it would be quite some time before Focal tackled closed-back headphones again. Boy, was I wrong. Focal today announced the Stellia, a new flagship closed-back headphone launching in advance of the CanJam NYC headphone show this weekend. At $3,000, this is one of the most expensive pairs of closed-back headphones I’ve seen; even more expensive than the $2,400…

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A Popular Electric Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop

The Xiaomi M365 scooter can be hacked to accelerate or break while a rider is on it. http://bit.ly/2DxoxpZ support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:04AM

The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias

Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for. http://bit.ly/2SsByvb support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:04AM

Adobe's latest Lightroom CC uses AI to 'enhance' RAW images

Transforming your camera's RAW sensor data into a usable image is calculation-intensive and sometimes, your computer doesn't have the muscle to get it right. For the next version of Lightroom, Adobe has introduced a feature called "Enhance Details" t... http://bit.ly/2Dz5gnU support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 08:03AM

How to crop your images to a specific size or aspect ratio


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected services. If you’re working with images and want to display them on a website, a presentation slide, or a document, it helps to be able to fit them in just right, without stretching it or unintentionally cropping out important details. The best solution is to simply crop your images manually, using desktop or web apps – a number of which are free to use. It’s easy enough to do with just a few clicks. This…

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Mars One could live again thanks to a mystery investor

Bankrupt Martian colony startup Mars One says it's holding talks with an undisclosed investor to revive its for-profit arm. In a press release, the German company claims to have found a potential savior that could help pay off the one million Euros (... http://bit.ly/2I7WrXL support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

'Beat Saber' players were so fast that they broke Steam VR

Beat Saber, one of the coolest and most physical games available on VR, has some incredibly fast players. Valve recently announced that it updated Steam VR to "increase limits of what we thought was humanly possible for controller motion based on tra... http://bit.ly/2Gog9ga support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

InVision acquires design file versioning startup Trunk

InVision, the design company valued at $1.9 billion, has today announced the acquisition of Australia-based Trunk. Trunk is focused wholly on file versioning for designers. In the world of engineering, GitHub has provided a way for developers to keep versions organized — developers can track changes, create a separate branch to experiment, and collaborate more […] http://bit.ly/2Ia7Zd4 support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

A New Lab Is Brewing Microbes to Create Makeup and Medicines

At Culture Biosciences, rows of bioreactors are brewing yeast and bacteria so synthetic biology startups can produce their foods, biofuels, and medicines faster. http://bit.ly/2GrUa8v support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:31AM

Sorry, Sandra Bullock: A Fire Extinguisher Is a Lousy Thruster

In the movie *Gravity*, Sandra Bullock uses a fire extinguisher to maneuver in space. Controlling it is much, much harder than it looks. http://bit.ly/2Ia7WOq support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:31AM

Consumer-focused healthcare can save lives by focusing on changing behavior

Vijay Pande Contributor Share on Twitter Vijay Pande, PhD, is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he continues to advise the Pande Lab -- focused on tackling challenging problems in chemical biology, biophysics, and biomedicine. Everything we do in the $3 trillion healthcare […] http://bit.ly/2GmaGqo support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

NASA puts a key satellite in place for its Mars 2020 mission

NASA is preparing for the Mars 2020 mission by bringing the MAVEN probe, which will act as its antenna and connection to Earth, closer to the red planet. Over the next few months, the spacecraft will fly closer and closer to Mars until it's only 2,80... http://bit.ly/2Ia7Who support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

The Morning After: The 'Mars One' dream is over

Hey, good morning! Welcome to Tuesday! Google Maps is getting in deep with augmented reality, using what's around us to help us get to our destination, Samsung is making a foldable phone and really doesn't want you to forget and space-colonization s... http://bit.ly/2GmaDec support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

The UK now has a law against upskirting

A law change that comes into force in the UK today makes the highly intrusive practice of ‘upskirting’ illegal. The government said it wants the new law to send a clear message that such behaviour is criminal and will not be tolerated. Perpetrators in England and Wales face up to two years in prison under the […] http://bit.ly/2IhybTs support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company


This article was originally published on Medium by Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. In 2011 I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest–before I vested any of my stock–to work on what I thought would be my life’s work. Just had an idea for my first billion-dollar company. Tomorrow, I start building it. — Sahil Lavingia (@shl) April 2, 2011 Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. That didn’t happen. Now, it may look like I am…

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IBM AI fails to beat human debating champion

After suffering defeat to AI at Go and Dota 2, the battle between man and machine was starting to look a little one-sided. But a human has finally notched up a win against our future robot overlords. Champion debater Harish Natarajan triumphed in a l... http://bit.ly/2IhysFY support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) February 12, 2019 at 07:30AM

Here are the 5 hottest startups in Ireland


With one of the lowest corporate taxes in Europe (only 12.5 percent compared to Britain’s 23 percent and France’s 33.3 percent) and laxer regulations, almost every major tech company has chosen Ireland as the site for their European headquarters. Today, Dublin’s Silicon Docks look more like a hall of fame featuring the office buildings of major players like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Apple, and Amazon, to name a few. Ireland’s new Dubliners have transformed the city into a mini tech metropolis, attracting tech talent, investors and an entrepreneurial drive, creating the perfect conditions for a vibrant startup scene to flourish. Dublin…

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