Get ready for autonomous everything |
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It's Tuesday, March 16, and aside from Elon Musk making weird NFT art on Twitter, the tech world is relatively quiet today. Yesterday, we got a peek at Tesla's all-electric semi truck, so today we thought it'd be fun to take a step back and examine the future of transportation more broadly. |
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Whenever the future of transportation gets brought up, autonomous cars tend to dominate the conversation. But despite the fact that they're the poster child of our imagined utopian future, cars are really just once slice of the larger transportation pie.
Other modes of transportation -- planes, trains, shipping containers, and even scooters -- are increasingly becoming automated as well. If things continue on their current trajectory, the future might just be driverless in every regard. Click below for a look at what's coming. |
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The lightest laptop we've ever laid eyes on |
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The Guinness Book of World Records officially recognizes the LG Gram 16 as the lightest 16-inch laptop in the world. Weighing in at just 2.62 pounds, it feels almost like it's empty when you pick it up -- but nothing could be further from the truth.
So what's it got under the hood?
- 2.62 pounds, 80 watt-hours of power
- 2 USB-C ports, 2 USB-A ports
- One HDMI port, MicroSD card, and a 3.5MM audio jack
- Core i7-1165G7 ptocessor
- 16-inch 16:10 display
Who else is trying to be the all light-y and powerful, you ask? Well, Apple and Dell, with the Dell XPS 15 and the Macbook Pro 16, which are both much faster thanks to their 45-watt CPUs. While the Gram 16 doesn't feel as robust as other premium laptops, it will withstand your average computer abuse.
OK, do I buy it or not?
Yes. The LG Gram 16 is a solid productivity performer with stellar — really, unparalleled — battery life, and it's so darn light. Just make sure you note the performance differences compared to other similarly sized laptops. Read the full review below |
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The beauty bot: This freaky new A.I. scans your brain, then generates faces you'll find attractive |
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Imagine if some not-too-distant future version of Tinder was able to crawl inside your brain and extract the features you find most attractive in a potential mate, then scan the romance-seeking search space to seek out whichever partner possessed the highest number of these physical attributes.
We're not just talking qualities like height and hair color, either, but a far more complex equation based on a dataset of everyone you've ever found attractive before. In the same way that the Spotify recommendation system learns the songs you enjoy and then suggests others that conform to a similar profile — based on features like danceability, energy, tempo, loudness, and speechiness — this hypothetical algorithm would do the same for matters of the heart. Or, at least, the loins. Call it physical attractiveness matchmaking by way of A.I.
To be clear, Tinder isn't — as far as I'm aware — working on anything remotely like this. But researchers from the University of Helsinki and Copenhagen University are.
Spotting your brain's preferences
In their recent experiment, the researchers used a generative adversarial neural network, trained on a large database of 200,000 celebrity images, to dream up a series of hundreds of fake faces. These were faces with some of the hallmarks of certain celebrities — a strong jawline here, a piercing set of azure eyes there — but which were not instantly recognizable as the celebrities in question. The images were then gathered into a slideshow to show to 30 participants, who were kitted out with electroencephalography (EEG) caps able to read their brain activity, via the electrical activity on their scalps.
But why?
Generating attractive people who have never existed is certainly a headline-grabbing use of this technology. However, it could have other, more meaningful applications, too. The interaction between a generative artificial neural network and human brain responses could also be used to test out human responses to different phenomena present in data. "This could help us to understand the kind of features and their combinations that respond to cognitive functions, such as biases, stereotypes, but also preferences and individual differences," said the study's lead researcher. |
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TIPS, TRICKS, & TECHNIQUES |
Over time, the image quality on your computer monitor can start to look a little lackluster or even too bright. Before you consider upgrading your entire system or getting a new monitor, there might be a much simpler, quicker, and economical solution — calibrating your monitor.
You could take your monitor to a professional to have it done, but doing it yourself is a relatively quick and hassle-free way to greatly improve image quality. Here's a quick primer on how to do it, regardless of what type of monitor you have, or what operating system you're on.
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