[ad_1] A blunt explanation for why technology corporations — consumer facing ones, at least — are taking an unusually bold stand on racism is simply that they are following the public. Public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson has talked about how, even if the North won the legal battle for racial equality in 1865, the South […]
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Facebook’s AI can generate MRI images in minutes instead of an hour
[ad_1] Facebook AI “If you’ve been sitting in an MRI, you’ve been hearing that buzzing sound it makes when it gathers data, Dr. Dan Sodickson, a researcher at NYU Langone Health, told Engadget, “it is the raw data from which a magnetic resonance image is derived… and that raw data actually looks like this fascinating starburst” […]
The best accessories for Nintendo Switch
[ad_1] Buy Samsung EVO Select 256GB at Amazon – $35 Buy Samsung EVO Select 512GB at Amazon – $85 It might be tempting to pick up a third-party dock for your Switch. Don’t. There have been reports of Switches getting bricked by non-Nintendo docks, which means you’re stuck with the official $100 model. However, if […]
After Math: Everything is awesome
[ad_1] While the Trump administration spent this past week kneecapping the US Postal Service in an obvious effort to throw the upcoming November election in its favor, other events occurred as well. Here are five examples. Engadget USPS appears to be retir… [ad_2] Source link
Hitting the Books: Volcanoes, mortal enemy of the mighty telescope
[ad_1] Every observer who’s spent any time in Chile has been through at least one small earthquake. Telescopes actually have something of an interesting quirk when it comes to these tremors: they’re pointed so incredibly carefully and kept so incredibly still that even the tiniest and earliest shake of an earthquake can show up dramatically […]
Huge video game companies are exposing Apple’s iOS hypocrisy
[ad_1] But really, this is all just a distraction. Fortnite’s App Store removal is a Trojan Horse, and inside, the Epic Games Store lies in wait. Sweeney’s true goal is to get the Epic Games Store on mobile devices — meaning iOS and Android alike — but right now, the App Store is the perfect […]
Turtle Beach’s new gaming headset offers impressive sound for under $100
[ad_1] But the company did rethink some elements of the design for a better experience. The adjustable headband now has a much wider spine on the inside, similar to the one you’ll find in the Recon 70. It adds extra durability, even though the original never really felt like it was in danger of breaking. […]
Russia’s ‘first’ COVID vaccine has health officials concerned
[ad_1] The formula, dubbed Sputnik-V in honor of the first satellite to reach space in 1957, was developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute. However, the Institute has not released any developmental or scientific data relating to the vaccine’s creation, nor has it undergone peer review, so all we have to go on is what the Russians […]
Will QLC SSDs make hard drives extinct?
[ad_1] Flash memory has had a huge impact on the way we use computers. Flash, which powers everything from thumb drives, SD cards and the memory chip in your phone up to high performance SSDs in computers and data centers, stores information in a network of specialized transistors, and has big advantages over traditional hard […]
Hitting the Books: Why we’ll never see the edge of the universe
[ad_1] The present-day observable universe is probably bigger than you think. The “observable” part refers to the region within our particle horizon. We define this as being the farthest we could possibly see, given the limitations of the speed of light and the age of the universe. Since light takes time to travel, and more […]