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Pokemon GO finally counts your steps while offline

Oct25
by on October 25, 2018 at 10:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, augmented reality, gaming


Niantic today announced a new feature for Pokemon GO called “Adventure Sync” — a lofty name for a very simple feature: step tracking. Specifically, Adventure Sync will record your walking distance in the background, even if you’re doing other things with your phone. Up to now, the only way for the app to track your steps, which was a crucial part of advancing gameplay, was with your phone awake and the app open (or use the Pokemon Go Plus tracker). Now you can just put your phone in your pocket or purse like a normal person rather than holding it…

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Fidue Sirius A91 Review: Stellar earbuds with a sky-high price

Oct25
by on October 25, 2018 at 9:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


Do you need to spend $900 for good earbuds? No. But spend a few minutes listening to the Fidue Sirius A91, and you might want to. I had to get the price out of the way. Not many people are willing to drop that amount of dough on full-size headphones, let alone earbuds – or more precisely, IEMs or in-ear monitors. But the Fidue Sirius is aimed strictly at the audiophile crowd – people who might be willing to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on gear, the way others might shell out more cash for a luxury watch or…

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Fidue Sirius A91 Review: Stellar earbuds with a sky-high price

Oct25
by on October 25, 2018 at 9:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


Do you need to spend $900 for good earbuds? No. But spend a few minutes listening to the Fidue Sirius A91, and you might want to. I had to get the price out of the way. Not many people are willing to drop that amount of dough on full-size headphones, let alone earbuds – or more precisely, IEMs or in-ear monitors. But the Fidue Sirius is aimed strictly at the audiophile crowd – people who might be willing to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on gear, the way others might shell out more cash for a luxury watch or…

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Understanding quantum computers: The noise problem

Oct25
by on October 25, 2018 at 7:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, evergreen


Quantum computers are fragile miracles of physics that are unreliable, cost-prohibitive, and more error-prone than a shortstop with no depth perception. But, if we ever want to get to Star Trek levels of technology, we probably need them. To make them useful we have to make them reliable. And that’s a pretty tall order. The problem, in a nutshell, is noise. Quantum computers operate by exploiting strange laws of physics that allow otherwise-impossible computations to be performed. Unfortunately, performing quantum computations creates quantum decoherence, or noise as its commonly called. Think of it this way: qubits are like cans of…

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Battlefield V puts battle royale on the back burner to focus on story

Oct25
by on October 25, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


EA is apparently determined to ensure its latest endeavor, WWII-era shooter Battlefield V, is getting as much space as possible to prove it’s different from its eternal rival Call of Duty. The company has now put the brakes on BFV‘s battle royale in favor of the game‘s single-player story, meaning that (for the time being, anyway) it won’t have to compete for the attention of Fortnite emigres with Black Ops 4‘s Blackout mode. EA and developer DICE today revealed the schedule for BFV‘s post-release content, which includes three separate “chapters” containing new story chapters, maps, and, of course, game modes. Surprisingly, the battle royale mode, called “Firestorm,”…

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