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DIY music production software like Logic Pro X is now the mainstream. Here’s what you need to know
TLDR: The Ultimate Logic Pro X Music Production Bundle is a music lover’s dream, an 8-course collection in using this high-powered ...
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Forget coding, you can now solve your AI problems with Excel
Machine learning and deep learning have become an important part of many applications we use every day. There are few domains that the fast expansion of machine learning hasn’t touched. Many businesses have thrived by developing the right strategy to integrate machine learning algorithms into their operations and processes. Others have lost ground to competitors after ignoring the undeniable advances in artificial intelligence. But mastering ...
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WhatsApp delays it privacy policy update by three months — but what's the point?
After a ton of backlash and user exodus, WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of its controversial privacy policy by three months. Instead of applying the new privacy policy on February 8, the chat app will now apply it on May 15. In a statement, the company said that it's going to make an extra effort to educate people about the app's privacy and security practices: We’re now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept ...
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Report: Apple is building foldable iPhone prototypes
It's been a pretty busy day for Apple news. After reports that the company would remove the touch bar and rienstate MagSafe on its upcoming MacBook Pros, as well as launch redesigned iMacs with an all new design, a new report from Bloomberg claims that Apple is actively working on a foldable iPhone. While the report stresses the company "hasn't solidified plans to actually launch a foldable iPhone," the company has started work on some prototypes ...
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Scientists figured out how to turn black holes into power sources
A group of scientists from Columbia University recently published a paper detailing how humanity could power an off-Earth colony by tapping into one of the universe's largest and most powerful resources: black holes. The big idea here is that a spinning black hole gives off a certain amount of energy. If we enveloped this energy field with an external gravity source (a big gravity gun?) we could force the singularity to generate negative energy. ...
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New self-supervised AI models scan X-rays to predict prognosis of COVID-19 patients
Researchers from Facebook and NYU Langone Health say their system forecasts COVID-19 mortality more accurately than radiologists. ...
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Electric vehicles can now use bus lanes in the UK — and cyclists aren’t happy
In December, the UK county of Cambridgeshire started a traffic regulation trial that let electric vehicle drivers use bus lanes, which are typically reserved for buses, taxis, motorcycles, and cyclists. The county council said that letting electric vehicles use the bus lanes serves as an additional incentive to get drivers out of their combustion engine vehicles and into EVs. https://twitter.com/roadcc/status/1349741113741959170 Bus lanes ...
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Starchive doesn’t just keep your files. It’s the cloud storage option that content creators need
TLDR: This lifetime subscription to a 1TB Starchive Cloud Storage plan offers safe, secure, and fully curated and archived access to all your files instantly. Content creators create. They can’t help it. It’s who they are. But whether they’re a writer, a filmmaker, an artist, or a multi-hyphenate that does it all, all that content they create starts to stack up. Research documents, raw video, recording session tracks, and other work ...
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4 'minor' features that will have a BIG impact on upcoming gadgets
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), usually held in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year, went virtual for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic. However, we still saw some bizarre and some forward-looking products. The show is also a showcase of some standards we've been hearing about, but haven't seen in devices. Here are some of those technologies that we might see a lot in the coming years. Mini-LED We've all been used to ...
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Swarms of robot fish could soon monitor our oceans for environmental hazards
The underwater robots use algorithms, 3D vision, and LED lights to coordinate their behaviour like schools of real fish.
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How to manipulate date and time in JavaScript
In theory, handling dates as a developer is as simple as creating, storing, and, if necessary, manipulating dates. But as a JavaScript developer, you would know this theory doesn’t hold long after you start working with dates for real. On top of different date-time formats, you have to consider timezone and local differences. For this reason, plenty of JavaScript developers seek help from third-party libraries when they have to manage dates in ...
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Week-by-week breakdown of my $15M virtual fundraising journey in 2020
Funding for creative technology solutions hasn’t dried up, but a few tweaks to your virtual fundraising process can increase ...