In recent years, Airbnb has been working to expand its business beyond accommodations, by becoming a more robust travel companion with features like guidebooks, suggested experiences, and full-service hospitality for high-end travelers with its still invite-only Airbnb Beyond, for example. Now the company is preparing even more trip-planning features, including …
Read More »What the rumors say about Google’s upcoming Pixel 3
Now that the Note 9’s all good and official, it’s time to move onto the next major smartphone. The Google Pixel 3 leaks haven’t quite hit the fever pitch we saw with Samsung’s device ahead of launch — though there’s still time. After all, it seems likely the latest version …
Read More »AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Review: Pulverizing Intel’s Core i9-7900X
Today’s follow-up on last year’s Threadripper launch is a major achievement for AMD. Last year, the 16-core Threadripper 1950X and 12-core Threadripper 1920X put AMD well ahead of Intel’s HEDT lineup when it came to delivering more cores per dollar. At the $1,000 price point, the Threadripper 1950X generally ran …
Read More »Chrome OS ‘Campfire’ Mode Could Run Windows 10 on Multiple Chromebooks
Google’s Chrome OS is great at a lot of things, but it lacks functionality compared with heavier operating systems like Windows or MacOS. Google has been working behind the scenes for months to develop a so-called “Alt OS” mode to run Windows 10 on a Chromebook. New additions to the …
Read More »AMD Launches New, Much Cheaper Radeon Pro WX 8200
Last year, AMD launched its WX 9100, a Vega-based Radeon Pro GPU with substantially higher performance and more ROPs than its previous GPUs, but a significantly higher price tag as well, at $2,200. Today, the company is following up that launch with a substantially cheaper WX 8200 at less than …
Read More »Observe.AI raises $8M to use artificial intelligence to improve call centers
Being stuck on the phone with call centers is painful. We all know this. Observe.AI is one company that wants to make the experience more bearable, and it’s raised $8 million to develop an artificial intelligence system that it believes will do just that. The funding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, …
Read More »Steve Kerr Gets Excited For Warriors Schedule
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr believes the league is listening to teams regarding making improvements to the travel and reducing schedule congestion. The NBA also made an effort this season to schedule a team to play teams in the same city on one road trip. Unlike last season when the …
Read More »Astronomers May Finally Know Why Eta Carinae Erupted 170 Years Ago
The Eta Carinae system has fascinated astronomers for decades, and we may be one step closer to understanding this bizarre solar system today. Eta Carinae consists of at least two stars with a combined luminance of more than 5 million times that of our sun. Between 1837 and 1858, …
Read More »MIT Creates AI to Optimize Brain Cancer Treatment
Advances in medical science have resulted in higher cancer survival rates, but the treatments consisting mainly of chemotherapy and radiation are still rough on patients. A team of researchers from MIT has devised an AI platform that can help. The software takes into account important metrics based on the clinical …
Read More »California may mandate a woman in the boardroom, but businesses are fighting it
California is moving toward becoming the first state to require companies to have women on their boards –assuming the idea could survive a likely court challenge. Sparked by debates around fair pay, sexual harassment and workplace culture, two female state senators are spearheading a bill to promote greater gender representation …
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