A solar- and body heat-powered smartwatch that never needs to be charged sounds like the future of watches, and I’m here for it.
YouTube’s homepage redesign means people will see bigger thumbnails and fewer videos
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YouTube is launching a new homepage design today that will include bigger thumbnails, which is a move that frustrated people when the company first tested the refreshed look in August.
Users will see fewer videos on the homepage because of the bigger thumbnails, a YouTube spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. The representative added that people are being presented with more information about each video they’re seeing, though. Allowing videos to have more physical space on the page also gives creators the ability to use longer titles. The goal is to give people using the platform more information about a video from a quick glance, rather than ask that they hover a cursor over a video or click through to learn more.
With the redesign,…
Google upgrades its no-coding, in-browser AI trainer to make it more functional
Google has upgraded its Teachable Machine, an in-browser web experiment it originally released in 2017 to teach people some basic principles of machine learning.
The original version of the app was really just a fun little experiment that could be used to classify visual data from your webcam. (I taught it to identify my houseplants!) But Google has added new modes to the system along with the option to export trained models, making Teachable Machine 2.0 a more functional system for building actual AI tools.
Along with image data, Teachable Machine now works with audio and body pose input. Users can upload their own pre-collected datasets, sort data into more than three categories, and download and deploy their models locally or host…
A ton of people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentine’s Day
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Something strange is happening with text messages in the US right now. Overnight, a multitude of people received text messages that appear to have originally been sent on or around Valentine’s Day 2019. These people never received the text messages in the first place; the people who sent the messages had no idea that they had never been received, and they did nothing to attempt to resend them overnight.
It’s unclear right now what the problem is. Delayed messages seem to have been sent from and received by both iPhones and Android phones, and the messages seem to have been sent and received across all major carriers in the US. Many of the complaints involve T-Mobile or Sprint, although AT&T and Verizon have been mentioned as well. People…
Facial recognition tech should be regulated not banned, argues IBM – CNET
A handful of cities have already banned police from using such technology.
Emilia Clarke Revealed How Paramedics Kept Her Calm In The Ambulance After She Had Two Brain Aneurysms
Opening up about the “unsung heroes” who helped her after she suffered a brain aneurysm, Emilia said: “There I was, bleeding in the brain, and there we were in this ambulance having an absolute giggle.”
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NASA Sends Oven For Cookies To Space
A zero-gravity oven is heading to the International Space Station to help astronauts make “common and widely consumed foods,” such as chocolate chip cookies. What do you think?
Audience Participant Feels Like Drag Queen Deliberately Misconstruing His Answers
BROOKLYN—Remarking that it seemed as though she was intentionally twisting the meaning of his words, an audience participant at a drag brunch Thursday confirmed that he felt like the performer was deliberately misconstruing his responses to her questions. “When I first mentioned that I was a plumber and she said that…
I Have No Idea What I’m Doing
Jonny Auping writes a humorous list of things that he doesn’t understand or know how to do.