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- Microsoft sends a new kind of AI processor into the cloud
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 07:05 AMMicrosoft rose to dominance during the '80s and '90s thanks to the success of its Windows operating system running on Intel’s processors, a cosy relationship nicknamed “Wintel”.
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Now Microsoft hopes that another another hardware–software combo will help it recapture that success—and catch rivals Amazon and Google in the race to provide cutting-edge artificial intelligence through the cloud. - Tapestry: Has the mythical “2-hour civ-building board game” arrived?
Saturday - 11/16/2019 - 11:00 AMEnlarge / Gettin' ready for some two-hour civ building. (credit: Dan Thurot)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Huawei finally ships the foldable Mate X, complete with a protective pouch
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 02:40 PMThe Huawei Mate X uses one big wraparound display made by BOE. [credit:
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Huawei ] - Supreme Court agrees to review disastrous ruling on API copyrights
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 03:57 PMEnlarge / Signage stands at the Oracle Corp.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ford v Ferrari review: A big-budget, big-screen take on racing in the 1960s
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 09:56 AMMatt Damon (L) as Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale (R) as Ken Miles star in Ford v Ferrari, a new film about Ford's attempt to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the 1960s.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “Dirty trickster” Roger Stone convicted on all counts in Mueller indictment
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jedi: Fallen Order game review: More like, the Force goes back to sleep
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 11:59 PMIf you do nothing but look at images of this game in action, you'll wonder why I have anything ho-hum to say. At its best, Jedi: Fallen Order is one of 2019's prettiest games.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New 3D display combines visuals, haptic feedback, and sound
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 04:20 PMPlenty of technology development comes in areas where we've already settled on an efficient design. Wind turbines are a great example. Several decades ago, some radical ideas were floating around, touted as providing heightened efficiencies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Apple plans a Prime-like subscription bundle, but that has News+ publishers worried
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 05:03 PMEnlarge / Tim Cook announces Apple TV+ at an event on March 25, 2019.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ford opens its order books for Mustang Mach-E electric crossover
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 10:29 AMFord sent us this faceted pony as an invite to the Mach-E reveal, which takes place on Sunday in Los Angeles. If you think you need a faceted pony in your life, it will be up for grabs in our end-of-year giveaway.
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- The science of audio: How a podcast reveals the pleasant mysteries of hearing
Saturday - 11/16/2019 - 10:00 AMEnlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Frank Miller inks deal for a Sin City TV series based on his neo-noir comics
Saturday - 11/16/2019 - 01:42 PMEnlarge / Mickey Rourke played tough guy Marv in the 2005 film, Sin City, and
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Physicists capture first footage of quantum knots unraveling in superfluid
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 03:10 PMEnlarge / Researchers captured the decay of a quantum knot (left), which untied itself after a
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 04:41 PMEnlarge / Mountain View, Calif.—May 21, 2018: Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rare genetic condition gives man Eye of Sauron look
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 01:30 PMLike this, except less evil lord-like. (credit: New Line Cinema)
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Move over, Dark Lord of Mordor. There’s a new blazing peeper in town. - Ars To-Be-Read: Five books we’re most excited to read in 2020
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 06:45 AMEnlarge (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 03:59 PMEnlarge / Teams from NASA, Boeing, and the White Sands Missile Range rehearse landing and crew extraction from Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on Monda
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stadia what? Xbox game streaming will become part of Game Pass in 2020
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 04:29 PMEnlarge / This controller attachment was shown in Microsoft's xCloud promo video, and Bluetooth wireless controller support is
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Physics holds the secret to volleyball’s highly unpredictable “float serve”
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 11:04 AMThe hardware you get with the $129.99 Stadia "Founder's Edition." [credit:
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- Dark matter link to regular matter’s dominance fails to show up
Saturday - 11/16/2019 - 08:30 AMEnlarge / Given how messy a typical physics lab is, CERN is just as likely to lose the animator it intends to store.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The version of Star Wars on Disney+ changes the canon once again
Saturday - 11/16/2019 - 06:38 AMEnlarge / Who shot first? (credit: Lucasfilm Ltd. | Disney)
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Drew Stewart got the call at around 2 am: They broke the universe again, you should check it out. - Apple bans vaping apps from the iOS App Store
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 03:00 PMEnlarge / Woman smoking electronic cigarette. (credit: BSIP/UIG/Getty)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What the newly released Checkra1n jailbreak means for iDevice security
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 09:00 AMEnlarge (credit: @Checkra1n)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The genetic basis of Peruvians’ ability to live at high altitude
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 10:24 AMEnlarge / Many Peruvians are well adapted to high-altitude life in the Andes. (credit: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the single leading source of anti-vax ads on Facebook
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 09:46 PMEnlarge / Anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a public hearing on vaccine related bills in 2015.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FCC sued by dozens of cities after voting to kill local fees and rules
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 03:23 PMEnlarge (credit: Getty Images | eccolo74)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Another company is dialing back expectations for self-driving taxis
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 04:45 PMEnlarge / Ola Källenius of Daimler AG.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google gives up on US carriers, will roll out its own RCS chat system
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 06:05 PMEnlarge / Promotional image of two smartphones. (credit: Google)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google Maps translate feature will speak local place-names
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 11:40 AMEnlarge / This new speaker button in Google Maps will verbally speak the location's name and address.
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