The trash can in question is called Oscar and it is the creation of the Initiative AI company. Basically it is a trash bin equipped with a set of cameras and an AI; these tools allow it to recognize the kind of trash that someone wants to throw inside it and suggest the correct bin to put it into. What is more, if you ignore Oscar’s suggestions, the device will make you feel guilty by scolding you.Do not make machines angry. We all know how this ends. Terminator.Initiative AI collects data that Oscar needs by photographing litter; so far the company has taken over a million pictures ...

2019-nCoV has been found inside a Belgium tourist that recently returned from Wuhan. The tourist has been quarantined, but their condition is stable, they have yet to show any symptoms of the illness. The situation could be much worse, as the infected person was part of the 9-people large tourist group, and everyone else is healthy.The chinese virus is appearing in more and more countries across the world. There are cases – for now solitary and quarantined – in Russia, Germany, US, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Cambodia, Singapore and other places. Two days ago a first victim of ...

According to the Redanian Intelligence editorial team, Netflix will begin its work on the show starting April 2020. All that we know about it is that it will consist of eight episodes, 60 minutes each, and that the scenes will be recorded in South Africa in time period between June and October. Netflix will supposedly release the show some time in 2021. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Company has closed its offices in China, Hong-Kong and Taiwan. Reason? Coronavirus, of course. Google has also reduced business travels to and from China to minimum. These changes have been made indefinitely.P.S. So far it is believed that coronavirus can not travel via packages to and from China. On the other hand, better safe than sorry – if I were you, I would not buy anything from there unless it was really neccessary. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Gossip surrounding Mi 10 Pro’s charging speed have started as long ago as December 2019. Now, 66W has been confirmed by an XDA forum user; that person supposedly dug it out from the MIUI 11 code.Very little is known about Mi 10 Pro, only that it will run on a Snapdragon 865 CPU. We will learn more on its official release, which may take place on February 11. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Torchlight, a relatively unknown but owning a sufficient playerbase Diablo-esque action game, will get a third game in the series; fourth if you count Torchlight Frontiers. The game will return to the roots of the series, offering a single-player or co-op offline/online linear experience. Torchlight III will be a paid product with no microtransactions. Player will take control over one of four available characters. T3’s new feature will be forts that the player will be able to build and expand.Game will release on Steam some time this year. Console release date is ...

I think I would like it more if they did not… According to the Cinelinx website, EA is currently working on the remastered version of the old classic. The new game supposedly combines elements of KotOR 1 and 2 as well as add some new things from Disney’s Star Wars canon.We do not know who is making the game. BioWare is the most obvious guess, but that studio is busy with Anthem, Dragon Age 4 and possibly even a new Mass Effect. Besides, the quality of their latest games… leaves something to be ...

Telltale Studios may have fallen, but it did not take The Walking Dead with it. Skybound Games, studio that now owns the franchise, has released all four episodes of the story on Steam, just as god intended it to be. Good news do not end there – episodes 2 and 3 have now also been releasd on Nintendo Switch. This means that the owners of that console now also have access to the complete story.I have only played the first episode of the series – I will play the rest eventually – and it is worth every ...

”Soon” means ”tomorrow”, starting January 24th. Fans of ”Toss a coin to your witcher” and other songs from the show will be pleased, unless they were expecting non-English dubs to be available. Sorry, folks, English only.Oh, right, ”Toss a coin to your witcher” can be listened to on Spotify already. link Tweet Vote on HN ...

January 14 was the day when Windows 7 died, or at least begun to die; it was then that Microsoft has stopped supporting that elderly OS. Still, despite its advanced age, Windows 7 does have an impressive number of users. As it turns out, many of them live in Germany. German government is considering buying a special, paid Microsoft program that keeps the user’s Windows 7 updated for a costly price of 50 dollars per year. Seeing how Germany still has 33 thousand office computers with Windows 7 onboard, that would mean having to cough up 887 thousand dollars to Microsoft; next year, the ...