All stories by Ivan
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The next version of Wi-Fi might detect your movement in home
Wi-Fi is an important connectivity standard we rely on an almost daily basis. The standard was formed by IEEE's 802 connectivity group when it began exploring possibilities around wireless connectivity. Originally, the group was investigating solutions under 802.4 (the wireless bus ...
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Smithsonian Institute just released 2.8 million high-quality images for free
Smithsonian Institute has just released a massive trove of 2.8 million high-quality two-dimensional and three-dimensional images to the public domain. Which means you can download them free of charge. These images were sourced from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants to use diversity to remove bias in AI
Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, said that it's important to have a team of people with a diverse background to reduce bias ...
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This startup is building a brain-reading device to take on Elon Musk's Neuralink
Last year, Elon Musk came on stage to talk about his ambitious brain-interface company Neuralink, and sold people dreams ...
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YouPorn's new site looks exactly like TikTok — but it's porn
The 34th rule of the internet says: "If it exists, there is porn for it," and the hottest internet trend right now is arguably TikTok. So, it makes sense that, a major adult entertainment site has developed a porno version of the video-centric social media platform. YouPorn, a ...
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Apple might launch an ARM-based Mac with its own chipset in 2021
We've been hearing rumors about Apple releasing an ARM-based Mac for a few years. Now, we might get to see the device in ...
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Safari will soon reject any HTTPS certificate valid for more than 13 months
Last week, at the 49th CA/Browser Forum, Apple announced that it'll stop allowing HTTPS certificates with more than 13 months ...
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Samsung temporarily shuts down a factory in South Korea due to Coronavirus
Coronavirus has caused plenty of manufacturing units in China to stop production. Now, the deadly virus is affecting manufacturing in other countries too. Samsung has temporarily shut down its factory in Gumi, South Korea. According to a report by Reuters, the company found a ...
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Facebook will pay you for your voice recordings, but it's not worth it
Last year, Facebook said it would stop listening to voice notes in messenger to improve its speech recognition technology. Now, the company is starting a new program where it will explicitly ask you to submit your recordings, and earn money in return. According to a report from ...
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Microsoft is bringing its Defender security software to iOS and Android
In the past couple of years, Microsoft has made some solid apps for iOS and Android. Now, the company is planning to bring ...
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Gmail's new search filter feature will make it easier to find an email
Despite Google's dominance and expertise in search-related algorithms, it's often hard to find a particular email in Gmail. The company is now trying to solve this problem with a new filter feature called "Search Chips." Here's how it works: After you search for an email with a ...
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JPEG committee is banking on AI to build its next image codec
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), a committee that maintains various JPEG image-related standards, has started exploring a way to involve AI to build a new compression standard. In a recent meeting held in Sydney, the group released a call for evidence to explore AI-based ...
