Facebook's new Portal makes good video calls but still has issues
A year ago, Facebook surprised a lot of people in tech (and elsewhere) by releasing a video chat device for the home.
Oct 15, 2019
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A year ago, Facebook surprised a lot of people in tech (and elsewhere) by releasing a video chat device for the home.
Oct 15, 2019
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Inspired by octopuses, researchers have developed a structure that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing—creating a device that is not quite a robot and not quite a computer, but has characteristics ...
Sep 13, 2019
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Lots of people – including Congress – are worried about fake videos and imagery distorting the truth, purporting to show people saying and doing things they never said or did.
Sep 9, 2019
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Before walking into a Norwegian mosque with a pair of shotguns earlier this month, Philip Manshaus called for a race war in a statement he posted on the dark reaches of social media.
Aug 21, 2019
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A study led by KU Leuven for the first time explains how a promising type of perovskites—man-made crystals that can convert sunlight into electricity—can be stabilized. As a result, the crystals turn black, enabling them ...
Jul 26, 2019
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Virtual Robots have moved up to an elite platform dedicated to stepping up their game. The platform is dubbed AI Habitat.
A research group led by Professor Wang Feng at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a method to produce diesel fuel and hydrogen by exploiting light energy (solar ...
Jun 10, 2019
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The market for organic solar cells is expected to grow more than 20% between 2017 and 2020, driven by advantages over traditional silicon solar cells: they can be mass produced at scale using roll-to-roll processing; the ...
May 2, 2019
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Frying pans, pill bottles, yoga mats, coffee cups and countless other nonelectronic objects could be turned into a network of Internet of Things sensors with a new RFID-based technology from the University of Michigan.
Apr 9, 2019
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If you look under the hood of the internet, you'll find lots of gears churning along that make it all possible.
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