July 9, 2020 A sushi restaurant chain in Japan is using AI to evaluate tuna cuts The highlight of almost any sushi platter is the fatty tuna. Finding that perfect cut of tuna that melts in your mouth is something…
July 9, 2020 Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn’t Surveilling Protests for Local Cops, Just ‘News Alerting’ AI intelligence analysis startup Dataminr monitored nationwide protests against the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd using rarely granted, privileged access to Twitter’s “firehose,”…
July 9, 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Keeps Setting Records Tropical Storm Fay formed on Thursday. It’s the sixth storm of the season and breaks yet another record in a season also teeming with…
July 9, 2020 NASA is updating its guidelines on how to prevent contamination of the Solar System An artistic rendering of astronauts landing on the surface of the Moon again | Image: NASA After years of debate, NASA plans to update…
July 9, 2020 Android 10 had the fastest adoption rate of any version of Android yet Google has long struggled with getting device manufacturers to update older devices to the latest version of Android, but the company announced today that…
July 9, 2020 Blizzard makes it free to change gender in ‘World of Warcraft’ When World of Warcraft: Shadowlands comes out later this year, Blizzard plans to stop charging players a $15 fee to change the gender of one of their…
July 9, 2020 Cancel Culture Isn’t a Culture, It’s a Religion There is no tenet of good writing simpler or more repeated than “show don’t tell.” So it’s surprising in retrospect that so many people…
July 9, 2020 6 Things I Liked About the Dune Miniseries (and 6 I Didn’t) Every time I’ve told people I’ve been reading Frank Herbert’s Dune series, two things happen: 1) I’ll learn what books I can skip, and…
July 9, 2020 PC shipments grew 3-11% in Q2 2020 despite coronavirus PC shipments in Q2 2020 grew, according to Gartner and IDC. In fact, Gartner estimates PC shipments were up 2.8% and IDC estimates they…
July 9, 2020 Why Facebook failed its civil rights audit Mark Zuckerberg testifies about how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign before the House Financial…