Microsoft is always working to improve its Surface devices, and a new patent filed by the company indicates that one possible avenue is developing a smart battery that’s capable of being wire…
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Yu’s New Smartphone to Launch on August 30, Long Battery Life Teased
HIGHLIGHTS Yu is set to launch a new phone in India It comes after almost a year of silence from the company The last phone from the brand was the Yu Yureka 2 After teasing the arrival of a new sma…
AI-altered video makes it look like you can dance
Can’t pop-lock or Lindy Hop to save your life? Don’t worry — AI could soon make it look like you’re a dance superstar. UC Berkeley researchers have developed a deep learning…
Facebook is using a reliability score to stamp out trolls
In Facebook’s ongoing fight with fake news, it employs a number of methods to help weed out falsehoods from the truth, but now we know the company’s method for verifying the verifiers.A…
Japan trials AI and robots to boost English skills in schools
Under pressure to improve English skills among both teachers and students, Japan’s Ministry of Education is turning to robots, according to NHK. Beginning in April, the ministry will launch a…
Audible’s first fitness programs guide you through workouts
Audible now wants to serve as your personal coach — the audiobook service is launching audio fitness programs through an alliance with Aaptiv. Each program has a professional trainer guiding …
Google is using AI to run its data center cooling systems
Google’s data centers hold thousands of servers and they power everything from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube. But those data centers need to be kept cool in order for those servers to run…
Intel discloses another set of processor vulnerabilities
Intel disclosed another set of processor flaws today that could let attackers steal information stored on computers or third party clouds. Discovered by a number of researchers and reported to Inte…
Sprint and LG hope to launch the first 5G smartphone next year
Now that 5G has a complete standard for companies to use in rolling out new devices, Sprint and LG have announced their intentions to bring the “first 5G smartphone” to the US in the fi…
US Department of Defense is hosting an Olympic Games for bug-sized robots
DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is well known for big, expensive and frankly terrifying robots like Big Dog, but for its latest project it’s thinking much smaller. Th…