Transformers are real

Except they are not coming to our planet from Cybertron; instead they are being made by humans in Japan. Shunji Yamanaka from the University of Tokyo and Takayuki Furuta of the Future Robotics Technology Center (fuRo) at Chiba Institute of Technology have just unveiled their latest creation; a three-wheeler autonomous assistant slash self-driving vehicle. ...

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Smartphone with 9 cameras. Wow

Dual cameras are nothing new in smartphones, and the three cameras setup is slowly creeping into the mainstream a la Huawei P20 Pro. Three cameras are nothing, though; what will you say about nine of them? Well, Light company has clearly said ”fine, lets do it”. The nine cameras smartphone project is currently under development by Light ...

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Airbag for smartphones? Why not

The history of this device has begun on the dark day when hilip Frenzel, mechatronics student on the University of Aalen, accidentally broke the display of his iPhone. Repairs did not work and a week later the display broke once more. Instead of shedding a tear over all the beers that he will not be able to afford and buying a new phone, Frenzel instead ...

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Instagram reaches 1 billion monthly users. Congrats, we are now officially married to social media

Or at least way too many of us are. While users number of Facebook and Snapchat stagnate, Instagram is seeing a radical increase in usage, passing the 800 million users recorded in September 2017, ten months ago. Snapchat's daily user grow in Q1 has only been 2.13% and Facebook's has been 3.14% - Snapchat's, un turn, reached almost 5%. Instagram's rapidly ...

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Good old new Diablo returns?

In a way! Making the long story short, here is how it happened: programmer going by the nickname GalaXyHaXz has found online a bunch of tools that allowed him to analyze old Diablo 1. Thanks to them he has reverse-engineered the game, which rewarded him with the game's source code. With source code in hand, GalaXyHaXz went to GitHub and put there a compiling, ...

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Jokes aside - paid Facebook arrives

Zuckerberg may have been telling both the Europarlament and the US Senate that Facebook will never be a paid platform, but his actions speak louder; FB is currently testing methods of monetizing the group content on its platform. Paid groups are nothing new on FB, but they have been existing in a state of a, how to put it, freestyle. Groups administration ...

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