Magic Leap offers a sneak peek at its mixed reality OS

Posted on July 29, 2018 by HeyJK

Magic Leap has been peeling away one layer of secrecy after another now that it’s close to shipping its mixed reality headset. Just recently, it released an AR demo and revealed that it’s working with comics industry veteran Grant Morrison.

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How a Bunch of Lava Lamps Protect Us From Hackers

Posted on July 29, 2018 by HeyJK

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Edward Craven Walker lived to see his greatest invention, the lava lamp, make its late-’90s cultural comeback. But the British tinkerer (and famed nudist, incidentally) died before he could witness the 21st-century digital potential of his analog creation.

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Google promises to stop suggesting ‘my face’ when you type ‘sit on’ in Gboard

Posted on July 28, 2018 by HeyJK

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Applying machine learning to everything under the sun can be tricky. Case in point: Gboard’s text prediction has been suggesting people type “my face and” after the words “sit on,” resulting in a reference to a sexual act.

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Now is the time for Walmart to strike at Amazon Prime

Posted on July 22, 2018 by HeyJK

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Amazon Prime has been an enormous influence on e-commerce, but this online juggernaut is beginning to show cracks.

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How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

Posted on July 22, 2018 by HeyJK

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Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.

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Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part of the process?

Posted on July 19, 2018 by HeyJK

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Down a chaotic lane in chaotic Govanhill, the works of two of Glasgow’s female Turner Prize-nominated artists, Lucy Skaer and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, are being produced. But it is two men who have their studio here.

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Apple is reportedly upgrading most of its Mac lineup this fall, including the Mac mini

Posted on July 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has published his research note of predictions for Apple’s fall lineup — and it’s a doozy, via 9to5Mac.

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Scientists discover world’s oldest colour – bright pink

Posted on July 10, 2018 by HeyJK

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Scientists have discovered what they say are the world’s oldest colours – and they are bright pink. The pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1bn-year-old rocks found in a marine shale deposit, beneath the Sahara desert, in the Taoudeni basin in Mauritania, west Africa.

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This amazing new web tool lets you create microsites that exist solely as URLs

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who’s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he’s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. You can create your own by following this URL: itty.bitty.site.

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Intel’s Mobile Failure a $17B Mistake, Says New Street Research

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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Apple shares new App Store stats ahead of its 10th anniversary

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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Apple revealed several new numbers today in a report celebrating the App Store’s 10th anniversary, including details about subscription apps.

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Shell CEO calls for 2040 ban on new petrol car sales to be bought forward

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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LONDON – Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has supported calls for the UK to bring forward its 2040 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and accelerate the move to greener energy, The Guardian reported.

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Apple Music Reportedly Surpasses Spotify Subscriber Count in the U.S.

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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Apple Music has now surpassed Spotify’s subscriber count in the United States, according to a confidential source who spoke to Digital Music News. The anonymous source, said to be a major U.S.

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Safe Is The New Risky…And Risky Is Still Risky

Posted on June 27, 2018 by HeyJK

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With equity markets trading close to their all-time highs it would be easy to assume that most stocks in the S&P 500 are experiencing a similar performance. After all, the index represents the market, right? In our opinion, we are approaching a new phase of the current equity market cycle.

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Mosquitoes Might Like Your Smell, But They Remember Your Swat, Study Finds

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK

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BLACKSBURG, Va. — Many states, especially those in the South, often refer to the mosquito as their “state bird,” a dry joke making light of the high prevalence of the bothersome bug.

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How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK

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Forgeries have got so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert. By

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Digital News Report 2018

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK

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Explore the 2018 data and build your own charts. Compare dimensions and data types between or within countries, Discussions over misinformation, disinformation, and ‘fake news’ have reignited interest in news literacy.

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How Batteries Went From Primitive Power to Global Domination

Posted on June 20, 2018 by HeyJK

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For an energy source that’s been around for three decades, the lithium-ion battery is only just hitting its stride. It’s worked its way up from primitive cellular phones to cameras and laptops before entering everyone’s pockets inside smartphones.

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