LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL announces two new lineup additions to their seventh annual music and arts festival. These additions are Dashboard Confessional and Scarypoolparty. Dashboard Confessional joins the lineup on the heels of their latest album, Alter The Ending (Now Is Then Is Now). Following this, frontman, Chris Carrabba, has reimagined some of …
Read More »Tesla Energy Goes Mega | CleanTechnica
The article below is Tesla’s blog post about a new energy storage offering — Megapacks. If we find it useful to provide more context or discuss the product further, we’ll follow up with additional articles. By Tesla Less than two years ago, Tesla built and installed the world’s largest lithium-ion battery …
Read More »The Meaning of All Caps—in Texting and in Life
WHEN YOU WRITE IN ALL CAPS IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE SHOUTING. All caps to indicate strong feeling may be the most famous example of typographical tone of voice. But there are several kinds of strong feelings. Linguist Maria Heath asked a cross-section of internet users to rate the difference in …
Read More »Press play: Find and listen to podcast episodes on Search
Today when you search on Google, you can find many different forms of information, from videos and images to tweets and recipes, but there’s always more information out there. There are more than two million podcasts on the web, and we’re now making it easier to find and listen to …
Read More »Bugs experience chronic pain, too | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Ever wonder why bugs run like their very lives depend on it when you discover their secret lair? Maybe it’s because more times than not, we go full Godzilla on them. Who wants to stick around to get stomped in the most gruesome way possible? Humans often shriek and make …
Read More »Microfluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing sepsis, a leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals that kills nearly 250,000 patients annually. Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction throughout the body, causing high heart …
Read More »EU to invest millions in Israel start-ups
The European Union (EU) will invest millions of euros in Israeli start-ups, Globes has reported, as part of a €100 million ($112.3 million) pilot scheme within the European Innovation Council’s Horizon 2020 framework. According to the article, the European Commission will invest up to €15 million ($16.8 million) in Israeli …
Read More »Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to create brain-like machines – MIT Technology Review
The AI lab gets to throw Microsoft’s supercomputing and cloud computing muscle at its bid to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). The news: Microsoft says OpenAI will help it jointly develop and train new AI technologies for its Azure cloud computing service. It will also work with it to develop new …
Read More »10 for 10: Highlights from a Decade of Galaxy Innovation
What does 10 years of industry-leading mobile innovation look like? For the Galaxy range, it takes the form of smartphone displays that redefine immersion, enabling users to see and do more than ever before; performance technologies that keep users connected longer, more securely, and that much more comfortably; and software …
Read More »Google launches ‘Live View’ AR walking directions for Google Maps
Google is launching a beta of its augmented reality walking directions feature for Google Maps, with a broader launch that will be available to all iOS and Android devices that have system-level support for AR. On iOS, that means ARKit-compatible devices, and on Android, that means any smartphones that support …
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