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Report: Microsoft really is working on a ‘pocket-sized’ folding Surface

Jun29
by on June 29, 2018 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets


Ah, the Surface Phone. A quasi-mythical device we’ve been hearing about for years, it’s finally starting to materialize into something more than the tech equivalent of bigfoot. A new report from The Verge suggests the device, codenamed Andromeda, will be a pocketable device that will “blur the lines between mobile and stationary computing.” That’s about what we’ve expected since some of the earlier rumors, but it’s how Microsoft describes it in an internal document obtained by The Verge. The document also says: It’s a new pocketable Surface device form factor that brings together innovative new hardware and software experiences to create…

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Report: Microsoft really is working on a ‘pocket-sized’ folding Surface

Jun29
by on June 29, 2018 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets


Ah, the Surface Phone. A quasi-mythical device we’ve been hearing about for years, it’s finally starting to materialize into something more than the tech equivalent of bigfoot. A new report from The Verge suggests the device, codenamed Andromeda, will be a pocketable device that will “blur the lines between mobile and stationary computing.” That’s about what we’ve expected since some of the earlier rumors, but it’s how Microsoft describes it in an internal document obtained by The Verge. The document also says: It’s a new pocketable Surface device form factor that brings together innovative new hardware and software experiences to create…

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Review: Unravel 2 is a delightful local co-op experience

Jun29
by on June 29, 2018 at 5:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, Insider, Reviews


Unravel 2, from developer Coldwood and publisher EA, is a beautiful platforming game that invites players to control a pair of adorable creatures made of yarn through a series of stages featuring fantastically rendered photo-realistic environments. It’s also one of the best local co-op experiences I’ve seen. In the game you’ll take the role of two Yarnys, creatures that could be described as tiny string-golems. You run, swing, jump, flip, push, pull, and tumble your way through various colorful environments as part of a loose narrative involving childhood. The first thing you’ll notice is the amazingly immersive graphics. Yarny is…

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Facebook says it would totally never use its patent to spy on you with your phone’s mic

Jun29
by on June 29, 2018 at 5:09 pm
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A patent from Facebook came to light earlier this week, depicting technology that Facebook would use to quietly activate a user’s microphone in order to listen to them as they watch ads. How hard can I “nope” out of that? The details: The patent, filed earlier this month, was originally discovered by Metro. It describes a process by which secret messages embedded in TV ads, inaudible to the human ear, would trigger your smart device to record you while the ad was playing. It would then send the audio to Facebook, in order for it to hear your reaction to the…

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DeepMind’s AI learned to turn flat images into 3D scenes

Jun29
by on June 29, 2018 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Google


Google’s UK-based sister company, DeepMind, recently developed an AI that can render entire scenes in 3D after having only observed them as flat 2D images. Broad strokes: AI researchers at the cutting-edge are trying to teach machines to learn like humans. Rather than see the world in pixels, we look around our environment and make assumptions about everything in it. If we can see someone’s chest, we assume they also have a back, even though it may not be visible from our perspective. If you play peek-a-boo with a baby they learn that your face still exists even if you…

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