EP 63 - Ron of Indie Cluster
By Digital Good Times | Digital Good Times created a magazine on Flipboard. “EP 63 - Ron of Indie Cluster on Flipboard” is available with thousands of other magazines and all the news you care about. Download Flipboard for free and search for “Digital Good Times”.
New anti-harassment AI program has 90% success rate
Yahoo has developed an AI algorithm that it says can correctly detect up to 90 percent of abusive comments online, making it outperform other "state-of-the-art" deep-learning-based algorithms, according to a report by the algorithm's developers.<p>"While automatically detecting abusive language online …
Machine LearningComma.ai open-sources the data it used for its first successful driverless trips
Comma.ai, the startup that George Hotz (aka Geohotz) founded to show that making driverless vehicles could done relatively cheaply using off-the-shelf components and existing vehicles, has open-sourced a dataset of 7.25 hours of highway driving.<p>It might not seem like a lot, but in terms of …
Machine LearningDropbox's collaboration tool opens up to everyone, gets new apps
Dropbox's new productivity software is getting a big update.<p>The company has been testing Paper, a new Google Docs-like tool, since last year when they quietly introduced something known as Project Composer in the spring. The collaboration tool was later dubbed Paper and the initial testing group …
AppsNike used 3D printing and Olympic sprinters to design its new track shoe
When Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce competes in the women's 100m and 4x100m relay at the Olympics this month, she'll do so wearing what Nike claims is one of its most advanced track and field shoes yet. The 29-year-old Jamaican, who is favored for gold in Rio, actually helped Nike design her new spikes, …
Nicki Minaj's new mobile game is a challenge to 'become the next rap superstar'
You can stop peddling your mixtapes on the street now: Nicki Minaj's new mobile game lets you achieve rap stardom. It's all virtual, sure, but that still counts, right? Right?<p><i>Nicki Minaj: The Empire</i> — it comes from Glu Mobile, the creators of the wildly successful <i>Kim Kardashian: Hollywood</i> — …
MusicLyft hits record 13.9M monthly rides, sees 5X quarterly growth in Concierge rides
Lyft is seeing record ridership, including an all-time high of 13.9 million rides during July, first reported by Recode and confirmed by TechCrunch via sources familiar with the matter. In addition to the total ride increase, along with a new record for monthly active riders of over 3 million, Lyft …
UberComcast Thinks It's Totally Chill to Charge For Privacy
Comcast has logged yet another tally in the competition for Shittiest Company In Existence.<p>During a meeting with the FCC last week, Comcast officials …
InternetIntel is working on a depth sensor for the HTC Vive
It's looking like virtual reality will take center stage at Intel's Developer Conference in a couple weeks. Dimitri Diakopoulos, an engineer on Intel's VR team tweeted out an image of an HTC Vive with an attachment featuring six camera holes that could be used for a hand-tracking system or …
Virtual RealityThis volcano in Nicaragua is going to be connected to the internet
The goal is to predict when the volcano will erupt<p>You can get Wi-Fi almost anywhere nowadays — even on the NYC subway platform. So how about connecting an entire volcano to the internet? General Electric is working on that. The goal is not to allow tourists to more easily post Instagram photos, but …
Internet of ThingsTesla plans to open a new store every four days
Elon Musk wants to see more of his stores in malls and shopping centers near you.<p>Tesla Motors will add a new retail store every four days, on average, during the next year, according to the company's second-quarter earnings report Wednesday.<p>The plan comes amid earnings that missed expectations on …
AutosWe checked out a bunch of hologram art
Could holograms be the future? VR headsets bring us into a virtual world by sealing our eyeballs into a headset; AR promises to augment our physical world by layering digital things on top of it; and holograms could allow us to experience a digital world with no extra hardware. Last night, a few of …
Augmented RealityEconomist says uploaded brains will take over all jobs within 100 years
We’ve all heard wild visions of the future. Hearing them from an economist, in a new book from Oxford University Press, makes them seem unusually real.<p>Robin Hanson predicts in “ The Age of Em ” that we’ll develop cheap technology for emulating brains on computers in the next 100 years.<p>He expects …
Singularity