Leak: Here’s our first look at the Sonos Roam, a $169 Bluetooth speaker

Mar04
by on March 4, 2021 at 7:24 pm
Posted In: Insider, Plugged


It’s no secret that Sonos is planning to announce something next week — the company sent virtual event invites to the press, and we’ll be tuning in. But it turns out we didn’t have to wait that long to get a good look at the product; a report by The Verge extensively details the new Sonos Roam, images and all. Just as predicted by earlier leaks, the Sonos Roam is a more compact Bluetooth speaker than the Sonos Move — the type of speaker you might keep in a backpack. It’s also a lot cheaper, coming in at $169, rather…

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Facebook to lift ban on political ads on Thursday

Mar03
by on March 3, 2021 at 8:42 pm
Posted In: Insider, Social Media


Facebook will lift its ban on political ads in the US on Thursday, the social media giant said on Wednesday. The company imposed the temporary ban after the November 2020 presidential election to curb the spread of misinformation in the aftermath. It will now resume advertising on “social issues, elections or politics,” Facebook announced in a blog post: We’ve heard a lot of feedback about this and learned more about political and electoral ads during this election cycle. As a result, we plan to use the coming months to take a closer look at how these ads work on our service to…

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New research indicates the whole universe could be a giant neural network

Mar02
by on March 2, 2021 at 7:18 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence


The core idea is deceptively simple: every observable phenomenon in the entire universe can be modeled by a neural network. And that means, by extension, the universe itself may be a neural network. Vitaly Vanchurin, a professor of physics at the University of Minnesota Duluth, published an incredible paper last August entitled “The World as a Neural Network” on the arXiv pre-print server. It managed to slide past our notice until today when Futurism’s Victor Tangermann published an interview with Vanchurin discussing the paper. The big idea According to the paper: We discuss a possibility that the entire universe on…

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