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Сервис обмена сообщениями Telegram обновил приложения для iOS, Android и десктопов. В числе основных нововведений –  запуск встроенных ботов. Эти боты позволяют искать информацию без необходимости создавать с ними отдельный чат. Например, чтобы найти нужную гифку, можно в любом чате ввести: @gif _запрос. На данный момент каталог встроенных ботов включает следующие: @gif – поиск GIF; @vid – поиск видео на YouTube; @bing – поиск изображений в Bing; @pic – поиск изображений в Яндексе; @ wiki – поиск статей н... →

Snapcart, an Indonesia-based startup that runs a service offering consumers rewards in exchange for scans of their shopping receipts, has closed $1.675 million in funding just four months after launch. Read More... →

Storing files on portable drives is a real pain. Flash drives, microSD cards, external hard drives — the storage itself can feature bigger capacities or faster write speeds, but they’re still a pain. They require a card reader or a cable you forgot to pack. Sometimes your laptop won’t read a particular card. Sometimes they fail […]... →

If we had to gamble on it, we’d bet the IPO market will be far more brisk this year than last year, which was the worst year for tech IPOs in particular since 2009. Even still, it came as a bit of a surprise today when not one or three but five biotech startups revealed plans to go public. (If you recall, biotech IPOs, which ticked along nicely for a couple of years, practically came… Read More... →

FEATURE: Coconuts Media‘s founder describes the four-year-old news media startup as “a network of local city websites” that is now in eight cities across Asia — mostly in Southeast Asia, specifically — including Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Bali, and Yangon. All of these are available in English, with two of the eight available […]... →

Сканирование и индексирование обновлённого файла robots.txt можно ускорить. Об этом рассказал специалист службы качества поиска Google Джон Мюллер (John Mueller) на форуме Google Webmaster Help. «Вы можете ускорить обработку Google последней версии robots.txt (обычно, мы делаем это раз в день в зависимости от конкретного сайта). Для этого нужно использовать Инструмент проверки файла robots.txt в Search Console. Здесь вы увидите текущую, уже проиндексированную версию,  и сможете отправить в Google изменённы... →

The Pirate Bay is down again; the site couldn’t even get through the first week of 2016 without an outage. As always, the cause of the downtime is unknown, and the default message (Error 522 — Connection timed out) isn’t very helpful. The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular torrent sites on the planet, […]... →

Electric car company Faraday Future unveiled its first concept car, the FFZero1, at CES 2016 this evening in Las Vegas, Nevada. And true to an earlier leaked image, it looks a lot like the Batmobile. However, Faraday sees this vehicle as more of a “car of concepts” than just a singular concept car. Along with the FFZero1, the company revealed a variable platform architecture… Read More... →

We’re reaching the saturation point on smartphones, demand for tablets and TVs has turned sluggish, and people have grown concerned that connected devices (the so-called “Internet of Things”) may lay bare their personal data. Those are the findings of a global survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries by management consulting company Accenture, and they paint […]... →

LEGO Education is launching a new version of its WeDo robotics kit for elementary school students at CES today. Just like its predecessor, WeDo 2.0 is meant to introduce students to robotics, engineering and programming, but it’s also meant as a tool for teaching STEM in general. The set will come with a number of Lego bricks, but most importantly, it includes a Bluetooth Low… Read More... →

Lego Mindstorms robots have done wonders getting kids interested in science and programming. Now Lego Education is launching a new robot learning system, dubbed WeDo 2.0, to help teach kids about engineering, technology, and coding. The Lego Education WeDo 2.0 system is a combination of hardware and software that gives elementary school children more than […]... →

Posted by wbastianen"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" is a popular saying that's been around since the 16th century, but is no less relevant today, especially when considered against the backdrop of webspam in Google Analytics. In fact, frustrations caused by the spam issue have led to the loss of genuine data.Spam in analytics could be the single most irritating thing in online marketing. Numerous blog posts have been written on the topic.One particular solution consistently surfaces as the fas... →

Stern Pinball making an appearance at CES seems to be a tradition, so I wasn’t necessarily surprised to see the Chicago based pinball company setting up a booth here. What I didn’t expect was a re-release of Steve Ritchie‘s Spider-Man. Stern Pinball is calling this machine Spider-Man Vault Edition, and features hand drawn artwork from […]... →

Following last year’s Drive CX, Nvidia just announced an updated version of its computing platform for self-driving cars, the Drive PX 2. Compared to last year’s model, this is a much more powerful beast, able to process data from 12 video cameras and other sensors in real time to make educated driving decisions. The company calls it a supercomputer, and it’s the size of a… Read More... →

The 360fly camera, a small, sturdy ball with panoramic views we first discovered at CES 2014, is back again and buddying up with sports brand BRG to bring us live or recorded, 360-degree, stitchless, 4k video for sports enthusiasts – and with all that, a plan to push into virtual reality. GoPro has its own spherical solution, with 4k recording capabilities for those live-action shots… Read More... →

Volvo will purchase several hundred Nvidia Drive PX2 car supercomputers as part of an effort to develop self-driving cars. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of graphics chip maker Nvidia, revealed the news at the company’s press conference on the eve of the 2016 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The new […]... →

Magic, the on-demand human personal assistant provider, will begin charging you to use its service. VentureBeat has learned that the company is providing two payment plans: $100 per hour or $3,000 per month depending on your usage. But instead of a “use it or lose it” policy, the service will only charge you based on the number […]... →

The self-driving car is a huge computational problem. It’s so tough that traditional computer vision techniques don’t work tackling it. So Nvidia has turned to an artificial intelligence technique, dubbed deep learning, to train brain-like computers that can learn how to identify hazards on a road and safely direct a self-driving car. The technology requires […]... →

Ephemerality be damned. Some art deserves to live longer than 24 hours. So rather than just squirrel away your saved Snapchat Stories, you can upload them to Slinger. It’s a new app aiming to be the permanent home for vertical videos. And thanks to its Popular page and the ability to Like videos, it can help you discover content creators to follow in ways Snapchat lacks. You could write… Read More... →

Nvidia announced its Nvidia Drive PX2, a new supercomputer for the connected car. Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, said the supercomputer will be the key to the development of self-driving cars or technology that augments human driving. Huang made the announcement at Nvidia’s press conference at the start of the 2016 International CES, the […]... →