Each year during the iPhone event, Apple highlights the improvements in the video capabilities of its new flagship phone. For the iPhone 11 Pro, which debuted in September 2019, Apple added the ability to shoot 4K Ultra HD quality from each of the three lens on the back of phone …
Read More »AI is reinventing the way we invent
Regina Barzilay’s office at MIT affords a clear view of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Amgen’s drug discovery group is a few blocks beyond that. Until recently, Barzilay, one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence, hadn’t given much thought to these nearby buildings full of chemists and …
Read More »Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System
Booted While it’s extremely unlikely, there is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could fling it out of the solar system, argues astrophycisist Paul Sutter on Space.com — the same scientist, you’ll recall, who released instructions for building your own DIY wormhole last year. The apocalyptic …
Read More »Android SHOCK: 100 million users at risk by using this hugely popular app
Needless to say, that’s exactly the opposite of what a VPN is supposed to do. Based on the latest research, it seems over 100 million people could now be at risk of having their credit card details stolen, their private photos and videos leaked and every single minute of their …
Read More »Philips South Africa Launches New OneBlade Shaver
Philips has been a well-established manufacturer across many different categories over the years. A few short months ago, the company launched its new series of luxury coffee machines with the Philips Saeco Xelsis and Philips 3200 ranges. A few days ago, the brand changed gears, switching to its shaving range, …
Read More »Huawei’s Mate Xs has unbeatable specs but might fail on the basics
Huawei’s clearly been studying Apple’s playbook of late. Last year, it launched the Mate X, and this year, it’s the strikingly similar looking Mate Xs. What, no Mate Xs Max? You can say what you want about Huawei’s smartphone naming strategy, or its track record when it comes to security, …
Read More »The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing passages of prose. So convincing, in fact, that the researchers have refrained from open-sourcing the code, in hopes of stalling its potential weaponization as a means of mass-producing fake news. While the impressive …
Read More »The Top 5 Tech of 2019
The world of tech continued to pushing ahead at full throttle in 2019. While most brands push to provide more powerful, sleek and useful devices, there’s also the other end featuring bizarre and scary technology. We take a look back at the tech trends of 2019, as well as the …
Read More »Android 11 is copying some of Apple’s best privacy features
Apple users: count down the days remaining for you to laud it over your Android brethren. On February 19, Google revealed its first developer preview for its upcoming operating system (OS), Android 11. At this stage, Android 11 probably isn’t for you. The OS is at a very early stage …
Read More »The first privately funded trip to the moon is about to launch
Update: The SpaceIL lander was launched and deployed successfully on February 21, at 8:45 p.m. aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It’s expected arrival on the lunar surface is April 2019. More than 10 years ago, Google and X Prize offered a $20 million prize for the first nongovernmental organization to …
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