Datamation: These top machine learning services in the cloud enable companies to better analyze data and derive new insights.
Source: Linux Today – Top Machine Learning Services in the Cloud
Monthly Archives: January 2020
These Soft Robots 'Sweat' to Keep Cool
An international team of scientists has developed a soft robotic hand that literally perspires in response to excess heat. This innovative concept could improve the durability and endurance of robots, while also allowing them to work in extreme environments.
Source: Gizmodo – These Soft Robots ‘Sweat’ to Keep Cool
Blizzard Owns Your Custom Warcraft 3: Reforged Games
It is a fact somewhat lost to time—though certainly not one Blizzard will ever forget—that the eternally enduring MOBA genre got its start in Blizzard games. Riot and Valve, however, ended up reaping the rewards of seeds that were sown by custom game-makers in StarCraft and Warcraft 3. After a 2012 lawsuit, Valve even…
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard Owns Your Custom Warcraft 3: Reforged Games
What Does the New Emoji Sign Say?
More than 100 new emoji were officially announced on Wednesday, among them more inclusive emoji, a “pinched fingers emoji,” and a dodo bird. But one emoji in particular—the newly introduced placard—confounded Gizmodo staffers, all of whom read radically different wording on the sign.
Source: Gizmodo – What Does the New Emoji Sign Say?
Free to a Good Home… Xbox Game Pass for PC
I bought a 5700 XT today and it still came with this:
AMD Xbox Game Pass for PC Game Bundle
PM me and I’ll send the link and the code
I still have the ‘Free Game’ thing from AMD for my sister’s…
Free to a Good Home… Xbox Game Pass for PC
Source: [H]ardOCP – Free to a Good Home… Xbox Game Pass for PC
Tesla moves the Model Y release date up to 'spring 2020'
Tesla was on quite the roll in Q4 last year. The company unveiled its controversially popular electric Cybertruck at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Elon Musk won his “pedo guy” defamation suit, and the first Model 3s produced at Tesla’s new Shanghai Giga…
Source: Engadget – Tesla moves the Model Y release date up to ‘spring 2020’
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Will Ship with Linux Kernel 5.5, LibreOffice 6.4
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 is just around the corner, and the Release Candidate (RC) build is now available for public testing, giving the community a glimpse over the features and components to be implemented in the final release.
Source: LXer – OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Will Ship with Linux Kernel 5.5, LibreOffice 6.4
Google Is Temporarily Shutting Down All China Offices Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
Google is temporarily shutting down all of its China offices due to the coronavirus outbreak, as well as offices in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Verge reports: Currently, the offices are closed for the extended Lunar New Year holiday, a measure the Chinese government took to help reduce the spread of the virus by encouraging residents to stay inside and avoid travel. A Google spokesperson says the company now plans to keep its offices closed in accordance with the government guidance, and it’s also placed temporary business travel restrictions on flying to mainland China and Hong Kong. The company is also advising employees currently in China, and employees who have immediate family members returning from the country, return home as soon as possible and to work from home for at least 14 days from their departure date. Apple is also taking action to reduce the spread of the virus by temporarily shutting down three stores located China. Two of the stores were in malls in Nanjing and Fuzhou, China, while the other was in Qingdao, China. They are expected to reopen next week.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Is Temporarily Shutting Down All China Offices Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
Interior Department permanently grounds Chinese-made drones
The reports were true: the Interior Department is grounding much of its drone fleet. It’s issuing an order that bans flights for drones either made in China or with Chinese parts out of fear they could be used for spying purposes. That effectively…
Source: Engadget – Interior Department permanently grounds Chinese-made drones
New “Off-Facebook Activity” portal lets you know where you’re being followed
Enlarge / The Facebook logo is displayed on a TV screen on September 9, 2019, in Paris, France. (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images)
After years of promising increased transparency, Facebook is getting granular and showing you how it picks up and mashes together data about you from other companies. Facebook’s new tool is indeed illuminating when it comes to setting a glimpse at who tracks you (spoiler: everyone). Its promises to give you a measure of control over the process, however, fall short.
Facebook this week launched an Off-Facebook Activity portal, to give users a different and more detailed perspective on the data it hoovers up from other firms. Off-Facebook Activity is exactly what it sounds like: interactions you have with other entities, such as an app on your phone or a retailer you shop at, that it then receives data about. Facebook attaches that data to the rest of the information it has about you and uses it for marketing purposes.
Here’s how Facebook itself describes the process:
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Source: Ars Technica – New “Off-Facebook Activity” portal lets you know where you’re being followed
FS: Intel Core i7-6700K + AMD Phenom II X3 710. Asus Motherboards.
I have a complete in box Asus Maximus VIII Formula motherboard and an Intel Core i7-6700K for sale. The 6700K has been delidded and has Liquid metal applied. I ran this under water from day 1…
FS: Intel Core i7-6700K + AMD Phenom II X3 710. Asus Motherboards.
Source: [H]ardOCP – FS: Intel Core i7-6700K + AMD Phenom II X3 710. Asus Motherboards.
Here’s How to Max Out Your Nintendo Switch's Battery Life
If there’s one thing that sucks about the Nintendo Switch, it’s the battery. Yeah, yeah, you can play Zelda on the road. But is that really a selling point if you can only do so for, like, two hours? That doesn’t even cover the train ride from New York to New Haven! And if you’re facing a longer trip—or, worse,…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s How to Max Out Your Nintendo Switch’s Battery Life
Google's Latest Video App Tangi Is TikTok for People Who Love Pinterest
Google has announced it’s launching an “experimental social video sharing app” called Tangi for short, 60-second tutorials.
Source: Gizmodo – Google’s Latest Video App Tangi Is TikTok for People Who Love Pinterest
Here are all the Super Bowl commercials that have already dropped online
It’s that time of year when The Brands stop trying to be cool on Twitter and start trying to be cool on the TV. The below ads—each brimming with A-list talent and budgets your average indie filmmaker would salivate over—will air during the Super Bowl, but have been uploaded early for your viewing pleasure. We’ll be…
Source: Kotaku – Here are all the Super Bowl commercials that have already dropped online
Waymo’s self-driving cars will carry packages for UPS in Phoenix
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving company, is getting into the package-delivery business, the company announced in a Wednesday blog post.
“Our self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans will shuttle packages from UPS Stores in the Metro Phoenix area to the UPS Tempe hub,” Chief Operating Officer Tekedra Mawakana wrote. Initially, Waymo will have a safety driver behind the wheel of each vehicle carrying packages.
Importantly, Waymo is not going to start delivering UPS packages directly to customers—a job that would require a human delivery person to carry the package to a customer’s front door.
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Source: Ars Technica – Waymo’s self-driving cars will carry packages for UPS in Phoenix
Rideshare Drivers From Around the World Are Coming Together, With Help From a Familiar Benefactor
As Uber, Lyft, and lesser-known transportation companies masquerading as tech firms have gradually squeezed savings out of their contingent workforces, those same contract drivers have gotten angry and organized. The first big mass action was a global strike in May of last year, kicked off by LA’s Rideshare Drivers…
Source: Gizmodo – Rideshare Drivers From Around the World Are Coming Together, With Help From a Familiar Benefactor
Department of Interior Grounds Its Drones Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Department of the Interior has confirmed it has grounded its fleet of non-emergency drones amid concerns over cybersecurity. In a brief statement, the department said the move will help to ensure that “the technology used for these operations is such that it will not compromise our national security interests.” Interior spokesperson Carol Danko said the department affirms with a formal order the “temporary cessation of non-emergency drones while we ensure that cybersecurity, technology and domestic production concerns are adequately addressed,” months after the department said it was grounding its approximately 800 drones. But the drones will still be used for emergency purposes, such as search and rescue and assisting with natural disasters, the statement said.
The order did not specifically mention threats from China, but said that information collected during drone missions “has the potential to be valuable to foreign entities, organizations, and governments.” Danko told TechCrunch that the department currently has 121 drones made by DJI and 665 drones that are Chinese-built but not made by DJI. She added that 24 drones are made in the U.S. but have Chinese components. “The review is to help us identify and assess any potential threats or risks,” said Danko.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Department of Interior Grounds Its Drones Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
This Off-Road Fridge And Battery Make Your SUV A Home
You might not need a refrigerator in your vehicle but if you do big trips, especially off-grid, it changes everything. After an overland adventure with Dometic’s CFX3 fridge and PLB40 power source in my rig, I can help you decide if a setup like this is something you might want to invest in.
Source: LifeHacker – This Off-Road Fridge And Battery Make Your SUV A Home
Cowboy Bebop Album Covers Based On Classic Vinyl
This is a small series of Cowboy Bebop album covers created by Geekologie reader Derek Vander Griend as inspired by the classic covers of The Beatles’ ‘Meet The Beatles!’, Thelonious Monk’s ‘Monk.’, Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Hub-Tones’, and Big John Patton’s ‘Let ‘Em Roll’. I included a composite shot of those covers for reference. Since the show itself was inspired by Blue Note Records and jazz in general, a collection of album covers makes particular sense. But my point is this: if you haven’t watched Cowboy Bebop yet, you need to (I think Hulu has it?). It really is eleven hours of your life you won’t regret spending the way you did. And, at least in my case, possibly the only eleven.
Keep going for the rest.
Source: Geekologie – Cowboy Bebop Album Covers Based On Classic Vinyl
How to install gdb in RHEL 8
Gdb or GNU Project Debugger is a great tool when you need to debug a program.
Source: Linux Today – How to install gdb in RHEL 8