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Big Data

Microsoft’s Azure Data Share aims to make big data sharing easier and safer

Big data analytics is no joke — research firm Research and Markets anticipates the segment will be worth upwards of $40.6 billion by 2024. Perhaps that’s why it’s not surprising that ahead of Inspire 2019 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced a new Azure service …

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Global Warming

Show Your Stripes: visualizing climate change in your location by displaying 100 years of average temperatures in color bars

Nicole Prause is a sex researcher who wanted to design a gender-neutral orgasm-measuring tool that would fit in the anus and detect and measure pelvic contractions but all the buttplugs she tried to modify ("We ordered like 20 of these butt plugs off Amazon, …

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

NSA

Huawei confirms July launch of first 5G phone, the Mate 20 X 5G

Huawei’s original plan for 2019 called for its foldable Mate X to become its first 5G phone, but a last-minute delay pushed the $2,600 device into September. Now the embattled Chinese company has confirmed that its more conventional smartphone, the Mate 20 X …

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Machine Learning

Location tracking API company shares serverless architecture with AWS

Our customers go serverless for live locations with HyperTrack. They use us as a managed service for live locations. They do not need to build and manage the servers to ingest, process, store, provision and manage anything related to the live location of thei…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Facebook AI Pluribus defeats top poker professionals in 6-player Texas Hold ‘em

0 with 0 posters participating This video shows sample hands from Pluribus's experiment against professional poker players. Cards are turned face up to make it easier to see Pluribus's strategy. Courtesy of Carnegie-Mellon University. Poker-playing AIs typi…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

AR-15

AR-15 And Counting: Check Out The Duggars’ Gun Closet In Their $1.5 Million Home

Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have listed their Arkansas home for $1.5 million with listing photos that feature a walk-in gun closet. The Duggars, who became wealthy through the TV reality show “19 Kids and Counting” about the struggles of a large family, are …

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Star Wars

Main Star Wars attraction at Galaxy’s Edge gets opening date

The Resistance is here well, almost. Disney's newly-opened Star Wars park Galaxy's Edge has yet to unveil one main attraction: The battle simulation Rise of the Resistance will open this winter. The ride will first open in Orlando on Dec. 5 (Walt Disney's bi…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Yemen Civil War

White House candidate Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of embracing dictators

Mr Biden outlined his foreign policy vision in a speech in New York, indicting Mr Trumps America first approach as belligerent, short-sighted, incompetent and ultimately threatening to US interests and democracy across the world.The worlds democracies look to…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

NATO

Cyclist enrages driver by blocking him from driving on wrong side of the road

May 10, 2019: a case of severe road rage was captured on video on Interstate 635 in Dallas, Texas. Image: YouTube In this spectacular example of road rage, a Massachusetts senior clings to the hood of a vehicle as it accelerates to 70 MPH on the state turnpi…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being released

Poker requires a skill that has always seemed uniquely human: the ability to be devious. To win, players must analyze how their opponents are playing and then trick them into handing over their chips. Such cunning, of course, comes pretty naturally to people.…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Microsoft’s Azure Data Share aims to make big data sharing easier and safer

Show Your Stripes: visualizing climate change in your location by displaying 100 years of average temperatures in color bars

Huawei confirms July launch of first 5G phone, the Mate 20 X 5G

Location tracking API company shares serverless architecture with AWS

Facebook AI Pluribus defeats top poker professionals in 6-player Texas Hold ‘em

AR-15 And Counting: Check Out The Duggars’ Gun Closet In Their $1.5 Million Home

Main Star Wars attraction at Galaxy’s Edge gets opening date

White House candidate Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of embracing dictators

Cyclist enrages driver by blocking him from driving on wrong side of the road

Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being released

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