Artificial Intelligence grows up, with some bumps along the way
Suppose you let your toddler hang around a bunch of Internet trolls and told the trolls to teach the baby to talk. Imagine what they would teach it. That…
Category: Technology
Pings: Passthought, gaming device, tech giants
Hum a few bars and I’ll fake it You think, therefore, you are who you are. Researchers aim to prove that. At the University of California, Berkeley,…
PINGS: Downside to smart homes
Smart homes are now a reality wit Amazon Echo and Google home. Appliances, heat, air conditioning, power, lights, security cameras — everything can link…
Apps help gardeners identify flora, fauna
Smartphones are where it’s at when it comes to garden help. A number of apps allow you to plan, nurture and identify plants. Identification These apps can…
VR won’t match hype in 2016 – or maybe 2017
No killer apps exist. yet. And that is the problem with Virtual reality in 2016. The VR pioneers are all singing the same song on this one. Marc Metis,…
PayPal dumps platforms
Windows Phone, Blackberry and Kindle Fire users will no longer be able to use PayPal’s mobile apps. The online payments company app will work only on iOS…
Amazon’s new Kindle
Amazon continues to invest in its dedicated Kindle readers even eight years after CEO Jeff Bezos introduced them. The latest product is the new Kindle…
Can voice assistants help you in an emergency?
The results of a study by UC San Francisco and Stanford University were recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. It analyzed the digital voice…
Pings: Live video, Google dorking, Facebook save
Facebook has announced a live video feature, an idea that has arrived and will be debuting all over the Web. Conventional media, sports broadcasting,…
Facebook’s emoji offer more moods
Facebook’s new emoji symbols serve both users and advertisers. The company chose the subjects for its emoji pieces after a year of research in focus…