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Microsoft’s Windows 10 October 2018 update can’t check storage space – here’s what to do

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 10:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Uh-oh, it looks like someone forgot to include the “check to ensure there’s enough storage space before installing” feature in the October Windows 10 update. As PC World reported yesterday, Microsoft quietly published a support document indicating people who attempt to run the impending October update on Windows 10 machines could find themselves rather frustrated if they don’t have enough available storage. While, by their very nature, updates require users to have space on their storage device to download the file, it’s usually not a big deal. If you don’t have room, the installer software typically tells you to clear…

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Animation reveals what could be Google’s new ‘Pixel Stand’

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 9:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider


A new accessory for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL could give Alexa devices a run for their money. The Pixel Stand, as its reportedly known, is an upright dock that effectively turns your smartphone into a Google Home hub.   For those unwilling to shell out $400 for the Home Max, or $49 for the Home Mini, this provides a capable alternative. For those that already have Google Home devices, it’ll provide an easy way to link and control them from a central hub, your smartphone. While Google currently uses the Pixel (or other smartphones) as a hub…

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Hellboy writer accidentally confirms ‘Diablo’ Netflix series

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 9:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


Stay awhile … and listen. A few months back gaming juggernaut Blizzard updated its job openings page with some tantalizing evidence we’d be hearing about a new or remastered Diablo game soon. But, as it turns out, the rumored “unannounced Diablo project” might instead be an “R-rated” animated Netflix series. This was semi-confirmed when Andrew Crosby, the writer who penned the upcoming Hellboy reboot, tweeted out that he was in final talks to write and show-run a Diablo series for Netflix. Unfortunately, that tweet was subsequently deleted and mum’s been the word ever-since. But, the internet is always watching. Bloody…

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Hellboy writer accidentally confirms ‘Diablo’ Netflix series

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 9:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


Stay awhile … and listen. A few months back gaming juggernaut Blizzard updated its job openings page with some tantalizing evidence we’d be hearing about a new or remastered Diablo game soon. But, as it turns out, the rumored “unannounced Diablo project” might instead be an “R-rated” animated Netflix series. This was semi-confirmed when Andrew Crosby, the writer who penned the upcoming Hellboy reboot, tweeted out that he was in final talks to write and show-run a Diablo series for Netflix. Unfortunately, that tweet was subsequently deleted and mum’s been the word ever-since. But, the internet is always watching. Bloody…

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Artificial intelligence hates the poor and disenfranchised

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 7:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Opinion


The biggest actual threat faced by humans, when it comes to AI, has nothing to do with robots. It’s biased algorithms. And, like almost everything bad, it disproportionately affects the poor and marginalized. Machine learning algorithms, whether in the form of “AI” or simple shortcuts for sifting through data, are incapable of making rational decisions because they don’t rationalize — they find patterns. That government agencies across the US put them in charge of decisions that profoundly impact the lives of humans, seems incomprehensibly unethical. When an algorithm manages inventory for a grocery store, for example, machine learning helps humans do…

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