This battery-free cellphone runs on light and radio waves
Who cares about an OLED and a notch when your phone can sip power from its surroundings, allowing you to make calls without ever having to charge your phone. This wild cellphone is part...
Category: Software
India’s Zomato completes long-rumored acquisition of logistics startup Runnr
Zomato, the global restaurant guide and food on-demand service, has made an acquisition to shore up its delivery business on home turf after it completed a deal for Runnr. The acquisition has been rumored since...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving to start a non-profit
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the Facebook-owned messaging app to start his own non-profit business. Acton announced the decision on Facebook, of course: After 8 years at WhatsApp, I have decided to move...
Dodles brings your doodles to life
I’ve always wanted to create my own animations. One idea is simple. My characters would be born, live, fall in love, and die in real time in a 80 year long masterpiece of constant...
Two new handhelds will help you relive the golden age of gaming
Whether you’re an older gamer who remembers the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis with great fondness or a doting grandparent who doesn’t remember exactly what the grandkids wanted (the Nintendo Swamp or something?), the...
Facebook and Microsoft collaborate to simplify conversions from PyTorch to Caffe2
Facebook and Microsoft announced ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange this morning in respective blog posts. The Exchange makes it easier for machine learning developers to convert models between PyTorch and Caffe2 to reduce the lag...
Niantic’s postponed European Pokémon Go events will now take place in October
Good news for Pokémon Go fans in Europe: Niantic has announced new dates for the events in Europe that were postponed following the disastrous outcome of the first-ever Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago in July. The...
Twitter has a big bot problem
Next Story Alexa’s ‘flash briefing’ can now update you on the latest music news and events Twitter bots – robots that interact with humans – have a long history. The Twitter API is fairly easy...
Nobody is going to ask Cortana to talk to Alexa
Next Story Dharma wants to let anyone borrow a small amount of cryptocurrency The future of conversational AI is not a league of anthropomorphic voice assistants that we address by name to handle our problems....
Facebook to open source LogDevice for storing logs from distributed data centers
Facebook is planning to open source LogDevice, the company’s custom built solution for storing logs collected from distributed data centers. The company made the announcement as part of its Scale conference. Logs are used...
