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Why Japan’s mission to bring space rocks to Earth is so incredible

Feb22
by on February 22, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Space


A spacecraft launched by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2014 successfully touched down on a speeding near-Earth asteroid, and has collected samples to bring back for scientists to study. Everyone, we did it!!! #haya2_TD Thank you so much for your support from all over the world! pic.twitter.com/cHkeTCBgcs — HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) February 22, 2019 For the space aficionado in me, this is a goosebumps-raising achievement because the asteroid Ryugu is a tiny rock, floating in space about 300 million km (186 million miles) away from our planet. It took the Hayabusa2 spacecraft almost four years to reach the asteroid,…

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I ranked mobile gesture-based navigation systems, and the iPhone is still winning

Feb22
by on February 22, 2019 at 9:09 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Oppo, Plugged, world


In 2017, Apple introduced gesture-based navigation for iOS on the iPhone X, and kick-started the trend of phones offering this functionality in place of software buttons. One and a half years later, the option to use gestures to get around your phone‘s interface instead of buttons is available on the majority of handsets today. Now, given how diverse the Android ecosystem is, you’ll find a range of different methods for implementing these navigation gestures among various phone brands. And that’s alright, because you might prefer one system over another. Having tested several phones’ gesture controls over the past few months,…

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13 ways to get customers to choose your app over the competition’s

Feb22
by on February 22, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Competition between apps can be fierce. It’s no longer just about selling a great product and doing some light advertising — there’s so much more to it now, especially if you want to steal customers from your competitors. To find out how to encourage customers to download one app over another, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council the following question: What’s one way to encourage customers to download your new mobile app instead of a competitor’s? Their best answers are below: 1. Add an ongoing incentive Marketing your app should be about finding incentives, not just for the…

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Israel

Feb22
by on February 22, 2019 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Tech5


Israel is a nation full of booming tech startups. In fact, according to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Tel Aviv has more startups per capita than anywhere else in the world, earning it the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, or better known as Silicon Wadi. At the same time, cities like Jerusalem are also producing their own tech unicorns. In 2017 Intel acquired Jerusalem based autonomous-driving company Mobileye for $15.3 billion. The combination of world-class technological educational institutes and large investments into the research and development of cybersecurity, deep technology, and infrastructure have made…

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thiscatdoesnotexist.com is, uhm, not as good as its human counterpart

Feb22
by on February 22, 2019 at 7:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


AI still needs some time to figure out how cats work. That is the idea one gets when visiting thiscatdoesnotexist.com. Just like its human counterpart that we covered last week, the algorithm behind the site generates an image of a cat based on how it ‘learned’ a cat looks from other images. Apparently the site was made by the same researchers behind thispersondoesnotexist.com, and it performs, uhm, slightly worse. If you want to read more about how an algorithm like this works, read my smarter colleague Tristan’s piece on the human version. If you just want to be horrified and entertained,…

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