There’s beauty in the double-blind opt-in. That’s the way you match with someone on Tinder. You like them, they like you, you both find out and get connected. But to date the feature’s largely been trapped in dating apps that ma... Facebook should actually be Tinder tooThis entry was posted in Apps dating Mobile Opinion Social Tinder and tagged facebook on February 14, 2018 by Josh Constine
I’m a big fan of the Netgear Orbi line of mesh access points and now there’s more to love. Netgear is now shipping the RBS50Y, a new satellite that is weatherproof and allows you to add coverage to your back yard or garage without wor... Orbi Outdoor Satellite adds Wi-Fi coverage to your back yardThis entry was posted in Gadgets Router TC wi-fi wireless networking on February 14, 2018 by John Biggs
I’m a big fan of the Netgear Orbi line of mesh access points and now there’s more to love. Netgear is now shipping the RBS50Y, a new satellite that is weatherproof and allows you to add coverage to your back yard or garage without wor... Orbi Outdoor Satellite adds Wi-Fi coverage to your back yardThis entry was posted in Gadgets Router TC wi-fi wireless networking on February 14, 2018 by John Biggs
Fresh off a public spat between Uber investor Benchmark Capital and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley took the stage in front of a large room of bankerfolk at the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conferen... Very famous VC Bill Gurley says startup boardrooms are now ...This entry was posted in Gadgets TC Uber on February 14, 2018 by Matthew Lynley
Translating is difficult work, the more so the further two languages are from one another. French-Spanish? Not a problem. Ancient Greek-Esperanto? Hard. But sign language is uniquely difficult because it is fundamentally different from spoken and... SignAll is slowly but surely building a sign language translation ...This entry was posted in Computer Vision Diversity Europe Gadgets hardware machine learning Startups TC Translation on February 14, 2018 by Devin Coldewey
MIT researchers are working on a new steering system for drones that uses uncertainty to ensure that they don’t hit obstacles as they fly autonomously. The system is a bit complex but it’s called NanoMap and it quite simply finds ways... MIT teaches drones to fly with uncertaintyThis entry was posted in drone Emerging-Technologies Gadgets MIT robotics TC on February 14, 2018 by John Biggs
MIT researchers have developed a chip designed to speed up the hard work of running neural networks, while also reducing the power consumed when doing so dramatically – by up to 95 percent, in fact. The basic concept involves simplifying th... MIT’s new chip could bring neural nets to battery-powered gadgetsThis entry was posted in artificial intelligence deep learning Mobile TC on February 14, 2018 by Darrell Etherington
Things are still looking pretty bleak for Huawei’s plans to conquer the U.S. market. Earlier this week, half a dozen top members of intelligence agencies, including the FBI, CIA and NSA reaffirmed surveillance concerns about the company and... U.S. intelligence agencies are still warning against buying Huawei and ...This entry was posted in hardware huawei Mobile Policy on February 14, 2018 by Brian Heater
Facebook’s controversial app Messenger Kids, which lets parents control who kids can talk to, is today rolling out to Android devices in the U.S. with its launch on Google Play. The app will also now include a variety of new features for Va... Facebook’s kid texting app Messenger Kids arrives on AndroidThis entry was posted in Apps children family kids Messenger parenting parents Social TC and tagged facebook on February 14, 2018 by Sarah Perez
Snapchat has always been terrible at analytics, only showing daily Story view counts that content creators had to screenshot just before they disappeared every 24 hours in order to prove their worth to sponsors. But starting today, tens of thousa... Snapchat finally gives creators analyticsThis entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC on February 14, 2018 by Josh Constine