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- Novichok nerve agent strikes two new victims in the UK
- Baidu will launch its autonomous buses in Japan next year
- 10 subversive, dark American futures to stream on July 4th
- With Toys R Us gone, Amazon wants to send out a holiday toy catalog of its own
- The Galaxy Note 9’s S-Pen is reportedly getting Bluetooth for additional functionality
- Netflix is testing a new, pricier ‘Ultra’ subscription tier
- Microsoft’s rumored $400 Surface could come with much less powerful chips
- Higher testosterone levels are apparently driving men to luxury goods
- Isn’t it time we declared our independence from bloatware?
- DeepMind’s AI agents exceed ‘human-level’ gameplay in Quake III
| Novichok nerve agent strikes two new victims in the UK Posted: 04 Jul 2018 04:05 PM PDT  The nerve agent Novichok has poisoned two new victims in England, The Telegraph reports. The two collapsed after visiting Salisbury, the same town where former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the chemical weapon back in March. A man and a woman in their 40s, identified by The Telegraph as Charles Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were rushed to the hospital on Saturday after they passed out at a home in Amesbury, according to a televised police statement. A witness told The Telegraph that both were foaming at the mouth — a sign of nerve-agent poisoning. At first, doctors thought contaminated drugs were to blame. But by Monday July 2nd, doctors were concerned enough about the patients' symptoms... |
| Baidu will launch its autonomous buses in Japan next year Posted: 04 Jul 2018 02:35 PM PDT  Baidu's self-driving buses could hit the road in Japan by early 2019, Bloomberg reports. And even sooner in a handful of Chinese cities, according to Engadget. The tech company announced at its annual developers conference that it has ramped up manufacturing, Bloomberg reports. It will be rolling the buses out in Japan in partnership with SB Drive, an autonomous public-transportation subsidiary of Softbank. Baidu, China's answer to Google, is working with Chinese bus-maker King Long to build the buses, called Apolong, and its already made 100 of them, Bloomberg says. The buses can seat 14 passengers, but there's no driver's seat or steering wheel, according to the BBC. Apolong will come with level 4 autonomous driving capabilities,... |
| 10 subversive, dark American futures to stream on July 4th Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Around the 4th of July, American TV stations fill up with patriotic content. That takes a lot of different forms, which this year range from FX's Captain America movie marathon to TCM classics like 1776 and Elia Kazan's America, America. Filmmakers have celebrated the United States through fist-pumping escapist action (Independence Day), grim patriotic drama (Red Dawn), sentimental uplift (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), and confrontational personal stories (Born on the Fourth of July), among many other methods. Artists' freedom to find and express their own version of the country is part of what makes it great. But it can be just as patriotic to take a more subversive look at America, to examine the flaws in its institutions and... |
| With Toys R Us gone, Amazon wants to send out a holiday toy catalog of its own Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:13 AM PDT  Now that Amazon has helped kill off Toys R Us, it wants to borrow the retailer's iconic print holiday toy catalog. The online behemoth is interested in creating its own print catalog to mail out and also be handed out at Whole Foods (which it owns), according to Bloomberg. Toys R Us was plagued with billions in debt when permanently closed last month — in part because of competition from online stores like Amazon. For many kids, its "Big Book" toy catalog was a staple of fall. The 100-page catalog would arrive near the end of October for kids to look through and create a wishlist before December. Now that the retailer is done, various companies are trying to scoop up the customers that headed to their shelves every December. Party... |
| The Galaxy Note 9’s S-Pen is reportedly getting Bluetooth for additional functionality Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:08 AM PDT  We're still a few weeks away from the August 9th unveiling for Samsung's Galaxy Note 9, but details have begun to trickle out about one of the biggest changes reportedly coming to the iconic S-Pen stylus: Bluetooth, spotted by Droid Life in the Note 9's FCC filing. The filing just confirms that the new S-Pen will have Bluetooth functionality in some way, but people have speculated on Twitter that Samsung will be using it as a multi-purpose Bluetooth button. If that's the case, the button could let users do things like start and stop timers, control music, take photos, or even possibly answer or hang up on calls. It's also easy to imagine Samsung giving the Bluetooth-equipped stylus other... |
| Netflix is testing a new, pricier ‘Ultra’ subscription tier Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:50 AM PDT  Netflix is reportedly testing out a new "Ultra" subscription tier that would up the monthly price even higher than the company's current $13.99 "Premium" option, according to a report from TuttoAndroid, which first spotted the new plan (via CNET.) According to TuttoAndroid, the new plan would cost €16.99 (and presumably, $16.99 in the US, based on how Netflix does its existing pricing) and offer up to four simultaneous 4K streams at once time, which eagle-eyed Netflix users will note is already offered on the cheaper, Premium plan. Based on TuttoAndroid's report, it seems that Netflix is testing multiple versions of its plan lineup that could see the Ultra tier get HDR video to make it stand out from Premium (which would then lose the... |
| Microsoft’s rumored $400 Surface could come with much less powerful chips Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:19 AM PDT  Rumors about a new line of cheaper Surface tablets that could compete with Apple's lower-cost iPads began to surface in May, and now sources speaking with WinFuture.de have divulged divulged that the cheaper models might run on Intel's less powerful Pentium chips. Earlier Bloomberg reports and an FCC filing gave some initial details — the tablet will have 10-inch surface screens (instead of the current 12-inches on the Surface Pro), rounded corners, USB 3 for charging, a weight that's 20 percent lighter, and a price of $400. Up until now, not much has been known about what's driving these tablets, but the source tells WinFuture.de that they will house much less powerful chips than the current Core i5 and i7 models offered on the current,... |
| Higher testosterone levels are apparently driving men to luxury goods Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:18 AM PDT  A new study published this week by a collaboration of very serious academic institutions has come up with a finding that's equal parts trivial and amusing: higher testosterone levels in men have been shown to stimulate a higher preference for luxury or status symbol goods. Authored by researchers at Caltech, the Wharton School, INSEAD, ZRT Laboratory, and the Sorbonne University, the study suggests there's a measurable causal relationship between the hormone testosterone and a person's desire for higher-status brands and goods. So if you thought you liked the Bugatti Chiron because of its otherworldly performance numbers, its opulent materials, or its striking looks, think again. You're obviously just responding to your masculine need... |
| Isn’t it time we declared our independence from bloatware? Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT  So you've just bought the best Windows laptop, you've gritted your teeth through Cortana's obnoxiously cheery setup narration, and the above screenshot is the Start menu you're presented with. Exactly how special do you feel as you watch the tiles animating and blinking at you like a slots machine? I'll tell you how I felt as I was getting to grips with the Huawei MateBook X Pro for the first time: perplexed. Perplexed that this level of bloatware infestation is still a thing in 2018, especially on a computer costing $1,499 and running an OS called Windows 10 "Pro." Why are we still tolerating this? Before anyone assumes that this is just a rant against and about Windows, I'll... |
| DeepMind’s AI agents exceed ‘human-level’ gameplay in Quake III Posted: 04 Jul 2018 04:00 AM PDT  AI agents continue to rack up wins in the video game world. Last week, OpenAI's bots were playing Dota 2; this week, it's Quake III, with a team of researchers from Google's DeepMind subsidiary successfully training agents that can beat humans at a game of capture the flag. As we've seen with previous examples of AI playing video games, the challenge here is training an agent that can navigate a complex 3D environment with imperfect information. DeepMind's researchers used a method of AI training that's also becoming standard: reinforcement learning, which is basically training by trial and error at a huge scale. Agents are given no instructions on how to play the... |
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