Daily Archives: July 14, 2016

lepton_feat — The “middle-out” algorithm that has its roots in the most infamous (and probably funniest) scene in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may have been fictional, but something like it can be found in Lepton, a cool new lossless image compressor created by Dropbox. Read More

The “middle-out” algorithm that has its roots in the most infamous (and probably funniest) scene in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may have been fictional, but something like it can be found in Lepton, a cool new lossless image compressor created by Dropbox. Read More

Dropbox’s Lepton lossless image compression really uses a ‘middle-out’ algorithm

This entry was posted in Cloud Developer Dropbox Gadgets TC on July 14, 2016 by Devin Coldewey

pokemon go brick walk — How far can the Pokémon brand carry Pokémon Go? Will its popularity fade after that initial burst of activity thanks to the power of its brand? That’s a huge question that’s circulating now that the game has immediately popped to the top of the App Store and has cemented itself as one of the most successful game launches of all time. The mechanics of the game are fundamentally… Read More

How far can the Pokémon brand carry Pokémon Go? Will its popularity fade after that initial burst of activity thanks to the power of its brand? That’s a huge question that’s circulating now that the game has immediately popped to the top of the App Store and has cemented itself as one of the most successful game launches of all time. The mechanics of the game are fundamentally… Read More

How far does the Pokémon brand have to carry Pokémon ...

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile niantic Nintendo pokemon Startups TC on July 14, 2016 by Matthew Lynley

Tesla Autopilot — The Tesla Model X that crashed in Pennsylvania on July 1 had autopilot disabled at the time, Elon Musk announced on Twitter. This info comes straight from the vehicle’s own logs. Read More

The Tesla Model X that crashed in Pennsylvania on July 1 had autopilot disabled at the time, Elon Musk announced on Twitter. This info comes straight from the vehicle’s own logs. Read More

Autopilot was off when Tesla Model X in Pennsylvania crashed

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Autonomous Vehicles Autopilot Gadgets robotics self-driving cars TC Tesla Transportation on July 14, 2016 by Devin Coldewey

Analyzing activity from nearly 300,000 users, we found that tvOS apps retained poorly compared to their phone- or tablet-based sister apps. We concluded that any updates to tvOS must focus on solving this retention problem if tvOS is to be a succ...

Apple needs single sign-on to solve the tvOS adoption problem

This entry was posted in apple tv Column Mobile TC tvos on July 14, 2016 by Paul Müller

Is nothing sacred? The rugged trails that over history have been trod by cowboys, gauchos, ranch hands, and in Australia, swagmen, are now to be presided over by cold, calculating machines. SwagBot is the vanguard of our incoming steer-driving ov...