Welcome to your Monday! This week, we’ve got Samsung’s big Unpacked event (Galaxy Note incoming), as well as Disney reporting on how its expansion is faring so far. Over the weekend, you might have missed an E3 data breach that leaked thousands of registered journalists’ phone numbers and addresses (including mine, yay), and StockX suffered a major data breach, too, neglecting to immediately…
AI knitting system designs and creates garments
August 5, 2019
If you’ve ever wanted a custom bobble hat but your knitting skills aren’t up to par, let the robots do it. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a computer-aided knitting system which can automate the design…
Google Assistant has long had the option to read your SMS messages aloud, but that hasn’t done much good if your conversations lived in third-party apps. That shouldn’t be an issue for long. Both Android Police and 91mobiles have noticed that Google is rolling out the…
AI and automation are making office life easier
August 2, 2019
AI and automation have revolutionized the manufacturing sector with robots working alongside humans on factory floors. Now, those same sorts of technologies are beginning to find their way into corporate offices and are rapidly changing the way we conduct business.
That starts with recruitment and onboarding. “Having a face-to-face meeting with a human seems to be an incredibly powerful way to…
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that queue patiently at the bar for their drinks because they recognize their place in the great order of things, and those that elbow their way to the front and jump the queue because they’re massive jerks. If you’re…
