terça-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2020

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Toyota steers $400 million to self-driving startup Pony.ai

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:00 PM PST

Pony.ai, a self-driving startup based in Silicon Valley and Guangzhou, China, is deepening its ties to Toyota. The two companies announced a pilot program to test self-driving cars on public roads in two Chinese cities, Beijing and Shanghai. The Japanese auto giant plans to invest $400 million in Pony.ai, valuing the startup at $3 billion.

Pony.ai has been working with Toyota since 2019 on public autonomous vehicle testing. With this new investment, their relationship will become even closer, with the automaker and the startup "co-developing" mobility products like "mobility services."

Pony.ai has been testing robot taxis in Beijing and Guangzhou since late 2018 as well as in Fremont and Irvine, California. The startup...

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Slickwraps apologizes to customers after comically bad data breach

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:46 PM PST

Slickwraps, which makes vinyl skins for phones, tablets, and other electronics, announced last week that it suffered a data breach. The announcement came after many customers received an email from Slickwraps that appeared to be sent by a hacker claiming to have stolen customer data.

What's unusual about this case is how the hacker apparently breached Slickwraps' systems: not by discovering the vulnerability on their own, but by reading a now-deleted Medium post from an anonymous fellow hacker. The takeaway is that Slickwraps may have had comically bad security, leaving it both wide open to breaches like this and flat-footed when it came to responding to any concerns brought to its attention.

In its blog post, Slickwraps said customer...

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Music Fingers is the newest weird beat-making gadget

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:35 PM PST

Image: Music Fingers

The trend of gadgets that rethink the physical ways we make music is continuing with a little wearable device called Music Fingers. It literally puts music at your fingertips, and lets you tap out beats on any surface.

It's a clip-like device that's goes on your finger, and sort of looks like any pulse reader you'd see in a hospital. The clip then connects to the Music Fingers app on your smartphone via Bluetooth, where sounds or loops can be assigned to the clip's two buttons. Once that's done, start playing by tapping away.

It's just one example of a weirdo gadget for making beats — and there have been a lot of attempts at making these kinds of gadgets. There's Oddball, which is an actual bouncy ball that's also a drum machine....

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Fraidycat is a fantastic new app for keeping tabs on your favorite internet gems

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:47 PM PST

Image: Kicks Condor

Keeping up to speed with the galactic firehouse of daily internet detritus that gets blasted at our eyeballs every minute of every day can be a taxing endeavor. It often involves using RSS readers, Twitter lists, YouTube and Twitch channel notifications, and all-too-frequent email inbox refreshing, among dozens of other methods for staying on top of your favorite internet oddities and sifting through all the junk to find them.

Thankfully, something like Fraidycat now exists.

A free, open source tool released late last year and significantly updated just yesterday, Fraidycat works as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox or as an app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It bundles together all of your favorite internet stuff into one...

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The Smithsonian has released more than 2.8 million images you can use for free

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:09 PM PST

vertebrate zoology at Smithsonian Image: Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is releasing 2.8 million high-res images from its massive collection into the public domain, putting them online for anyone to use and download for free. The open-access online platform will include 2D and 3D images from its 19 museums, nine research centers, archives, libraries, and the National Zoo, Smithsonian Magazine reports.

"Being a relevant source for people who are learning around the world is key to our mission," Effie Kapsalis, the Smithsonian's senior digital program officer, says. "We can't imagine what people are going to do with the collections. We're prepared to be surprised."

A quick scan of the Smithsonian's access platform gives users a small taste of what's included in the enormous...

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Steam just added new search features, including a price filter

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:37 PM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Valve is adding new features to its Steam storefront's search system, letting users filter out games they already own, set a maximum price, and avoid seeing VR-only games if they don't have a virtual reality headset. The updates are part of its ongoing Steam Labs experiments, and they're a small but potentially positive tweak to the gaming storefront.

As Valve explains in a blog post, the new options are supposed to winnow down results and leave only games users really find helpful. You can banish games that you've already purchased, put on a wishlist, or ignored. You can also exclude tags as well as include them if there's a specific genre or topic you want to avoid. And you can hide games that require a VR headset without removing VR...

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Tesla Autopilot, distracted driving to blame in deadly 2018 crash

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:23 PM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Tesla's Autopilot driver assistance system was one of the probable causes of a fatal 2018 crash into a concrete barrier. In addition, the safety board said the driver was playing a mobile game while using Autopilot before the crash, and investigators also determined he was overly confident in Autopilot's capabilities.

The safety board arrived at those probable causes after a nearly two-year investigation into the crash. NTSB investigators also named a number of contributing factors, including that the crash attenuator in front of the barrier was damaged and had not been repaired by California's transportation department, Caltrans, in a timely manner. Had the crash attenuator...

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Bob Iger steps down as Disney CEO, replaced by Bob Chapek

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:15 PM PST

92nd Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic

Disney CEO Bob Iger will be replaced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products chairman Bob Chapek as CEO, effective immediately. Iger will stay on as executive chairman through the end of 2021, with a focus on creative endeavors.

"I felt with the asset base in place, and with the strategy deployed, I felt that I should be spending as much time as possible on the creative side of the business," Iger said in a call with investors after the news, adding there's "ample" projects to focus on. "Getting everything right creatively would be my number one goal."

Chapek's current role is described by the company as overseeing "the global hub where Disney's stories, characters and franchises come to life." Chapek assumed leadership of the new...

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This AirPod-holding Apple Watch band is either brilliant or incredibly dumb

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:05 PM PST

AirBands - Apple Watch AirPod holder AirBands | Kickstarter

If you have a habit of misplacing your AirPods, this new Kickstarter campaign might have the answer: stick them on your Apple Watch band.

The AirBand is a new silicon band for the Apple Watch that doubles as a holder for your AirPods, with two loops located below the Apple Watch screen. It's supposed to work with both the AirPods and the AirPods Pro.

The design and concept sound silly. When using it, your AirPods are just dangling there out in the open for everyone to see, and they won't charge while in the loops. AirPods also come with a pocket-sized charging case, meaning AirPods owners already have something portable in which to store their earbuds.

But it's practical in some ways. Matt Youngblood, the project's creator, said the...

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Amazon warns sellers against price gouging face masks amid coronavirus concerns

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 12:47 PM PST

Northern Italy Locks Down To Try Prevent The Spread Of Coronavirus Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images

Amazon is warning third-party sellers on its Marketplace platform against exorbitant price hikes to face masks amid the coronavirus outbreak that continues to expand across the globe, Wired reports.

The company demands Marketplace sellers abide by its Fair Pricing Policy, a rule set to protect against "pricing practices that harm customer trust" that dictates that you may not set "a price on a product or service that is significantly higher than recent prices offered on or off Amazon." Yet, due to the coronavirus, the demand for face masks has skyrocketed, leading some sellers to raise prices in response.

Wired reports that prices for some of the most popular options for medical face masks have tripled and, in some cases, even...

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