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• UK puts on misleading robot puppet-show in Parliament

  Parliament recently hosted a Pepper robot from Hanson Robotics, bizarrely treating it as though it were a person providing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Discord's in-app Store enters open beta with a selection of indies and classics

  Discord, the gaming chat app, today opened its fledgling game store and library to beta, meaning anyone can purchase games, launch games they already own, or play games granted to them by the premium subscription option. The store itself is modest, especially compared with the likes of Steam, Origin, or Uplay. It's got some indie darlings like Hollow Knight, Subnautica, Celeste, or Frostpunk. If you're in the mood for some older favorites, it's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• GitHub launches Suggested Changes to make it easier to collaborate within pull requests

  Pull requests just got a lot more smart.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Adobe Characterizer turns you into an animated drawing with the power of AI

  When I was a kid, I briefly held the aspiration of making my own cartoons. I dabbled in the animation portion of Flash and made a few cheesy .flvs, but soon realized I wasn't up to the task of dealing with keyframes and drawing pretty vectors. Maybe if I'd started in 2018, things would've gone differently. Increasingly powerful technology and the advent of AI make it easier to get your feet wet in animation than ever. Case in point: Adobe is ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Can we make digital money transfer great again?

  As a freelancer working with people around the world, I tend to use these tools not because I particularly like any one of them, but because I don’t have a choice. I grudgingly accept the long wait times and obscenely huge processing fees for the same reason I keep riding that crappy train to work: because there simply isn’t a better option. While digital money transfer companies highlight benefits like fast transfer-to-bank times, good exchange ...

  • Shachar Shamir

• Amazon gets patriotic while Google embraces censorship

  Wired 25 was attended by some of the biggest names in tech, and Amazon and Google's bosses both took the opportunity to get ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Anybody can animate with CrazyTalk Animator 3 Pro for Mac and Windows, now over 50% off

  CrazyTalk Animation 3 Pro thrives on a reputation for ease of use, allowing even virtual beginner animators to produce basic sequences with the least amount of effort. Mac and Windows users can test out this nimble, yet powerful app at a $100 savings with this limited time TNW Deals offer at just $79.

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• Hands-on: Huawei's Mate 20 Pro is the most ambitious phone in recent memory

  Huawei could have just delivered the P20 Pro this year and left it at that. It was one of the most feature-packed smartphones I've ever tested, and its unique triple-camera array featured the largest sensor we've seen in a modern smartphone. It was enough to earn the P20 Pro the highest DxOMark score yet - something no phone has been able to beat seven months later. The Mate 20 Pro takes everything that was great about its predecessor and dials ...

  • Napier Lopez

• This website is tracking the instability of stablecoin Tether

  Concerned cryptocurrency fans have built a website to gauge just how reliant the cryptocurrency market is to the controversial ...

  • David Canellis

• $11M Indian cryptocurrency scam investigation stalls as victims avoid testifying

  There's a new cryptocurrency scam every week, usually perpetrators get prosecuted. However, one scam investigation in India ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• The earth's fate isn't on individuals — it's on society

  Saving the planet shouldn't be on each individual, as history has shown. In order to secure our planet's fate, society needs ...

  • The Conversation

• This Day In Deals – 16th October

  634 years ago, Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland – although she was a woman. Imbibe her spirit today and do something ...

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