• Brock Turner Appeals Rape Conviction With Argument He Only Wanted 'Outercourse'

    Brock Turner Appeals Rape Conviction With Argument He Only Wanted ‘Outercourse’  HuffPost Attorney argues Brock Turner’s sexual assault conviction should be overturned  NBCNews.com Stanford sex attack: Brock Turner’s lawyer launches appeal  BBC News At appellate oral argument, attorney says Turner sought ‘outercourse,’ did not intend rape  The Stanford Daily Brock Turner only wanted ‘outercourse’ when he sexually assaulted unconscious …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • ColdQuanta raises $6.75M to make it easier to spin up a limited use-case quantum computer

    Quantum computing may be a long ways off, but early applications of it aren’t as far off as you might think, according to longtime researcher and ColdQuanta founder Dana Anderson. The startup creates a device that’s designed to make it easier to start operating quantum computing-like operations on near-term problems like signal processing or time …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Walmart's partnership with Waymo is a backhanded swipe at Amazon

    Waymo has a new partnership with Walmart that may just look like a deal to put more self-driving cars on the road. But in the words of Jafar from Aladin, things are not always what they seem. Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has struck an agreement with Walmart and four other national …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Soccer ball Putin gave Trump contains transmitter chip — but for Adidas: report

    Soccer ball Putin gave Trump contains transmitter chip — but for Adidas: report  The Hill A General’s Perspective On Helsinki, Putin And Russia  Forbes Here’s why Russia and Vladimir Putin don’t have a first lady in service  The South African Full coverage Source: Google News | Soccer ball Putin gave Trump contains transmitter chip — but for Adidas: …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Facebook cracks down on fake news ahead of Brazil elections

    Facebook took down 196 pages and 87 accounts used by a right-wing Brazilian activist group to spread fake news, Reuters reports. According to the publication's sources, the group, Movimento Brazil Livre, was running fake pages to spread its political… Source: Engadget | Facebook cracks down on fake news ahead of Brazil elections

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Take your pick of these trendy charcoal teeth whitening kits and get up to 60% off

    Unless you’ve been blessed with a naturally white and straight set of chompers, you know the godawful burden of trying to get your teeth to look perfect. You have to succumb to being brace-faced for years, and survive hours and hours of dental work. The clink of dental instruments and the idea of your orthodontist …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Mayfield Robotics ceases production of Kuri robot amid a questionable future

    In a letter to backers today, Bay Area-based Mayfield Robotics said it was “crushed” to announce that it has ceased manufacturing of its home robot, Kuri. The note finds the Bosch-backed business grappling with an uncertain future, as it pauses all operations and re-evaluates its future. Launched in 2015, as part of Bosch’s Startup Platform, …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Snark AI looks to help companies get on-demand access to idle GPUs

    Riding on a wave of an explosion in the use of machine learning to power, well, just about everything is the emergence of GPUs as one of the go-to methods to handle all the processing for those operations. But getting access to those GPUs — whether using the cards themselves or possibly through something like …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan holds general elections

    Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan holds general elections  Honolulu Star-Advertiser Pakistan Election Day Bombing Kills Dozens  New York Times The Latest: Pakistan says candidate’s vote could be canceled  Washington Post Full coverage Source: Google News | Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan holds general elections

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Google’s big redesign for Gmail is now generally available for enterprise G Suite customers

    Google is running its playbook again of releasing big new products (or redesigns) to its average users and then moving what works over to its enterprise services, G Suite, today by making the Gmail redesign generally available to G Suite customers. Gmail’s redesign launched for consumers in April earlier this year, including new features like …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel