From the kitchen to the car, Amazon on Thursday sought to make its Alexa digital assistant and online services a bigger part of people’s lives with an array of new products and partnerships. Updates to…
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Self-flying glider ‘learns’ to soar like a bird
Scientists have created a self-flying glider that uses machine learning to navigate rising air currents, in an experiment that could help our understanding of how birds migrate. Soaring birds ride warm air passages known as…
‘Hacky hack hack’: Australia teen breaches Apple’s secure network
A schoolboy who “dreamed” of working for Apple hacked the firm’s computer systems, Australian media has reported, although the tech giant said Friday no customer data was compromised. The Children’s Court of Victoria was told…
Twitter rooting out fake accounts at record rate: report
Twitter has been suspending more than one million fake and dubious accounts per day, according to The Washington Post, in an aggressive bid to stem the flow of false information. The social media platform has…
Looking to print out your own vase? The 101 on 3D Printed ceramics
With all the crazy inventions that have revolutionized how we interact with our homes over the past decade (e.g., self-making beds, coffee-brewing alarm clocks or even smart fridges that create shopping lists) it was only…
Long-soaring smartphone market heading to earth
After a decade of sizzling growth, the smartphone market has suddenly cooled. Surveys show smartphone sales last year shrank slightly for the first time since the 2007 debut of the iPhone, and preliminary data this…
The scandals bedevilling Facebook
As Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg pursues a tour of Europe to explain his company’s shortcomings involving the use of data and fake news, here is a roundup of the scandals. – Cambridge Analytica – In…
Disney eyes new app aimed at millennials
Disney announced Tuesday it was launching a free video app with original content aimed at millennials, who are targeted by advertisers. The app — called “Oh My Disney” — will be a variation of the…
Learning computer programming, with no teachers and no tuition
Aspiring software engineers Kevin Yook and Becky Chen are hunched over a computer screen, fervently discussing lines of code indecipherable to the average person. The pair of twenty-somethings are students at the Holberton School in…
‘My mistake’: Key Zuckerberg quotes in Senate Facebook grilling
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg appeared before US lawmakers Tuesday to apologize for how his company has handled the growing furor over online privacy, to promise change, and explain the social media giant’s policies. The wide-ranging…