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When Twitter shuttered Vine in 2018, it was the end of not just another video service but also the death of a wonderfully quirky part of the internet. Vine's six-second videos somehow gave birth to a treasure trove of time-lapsed punchlines, zingy on… Source: Engadget | Can Byte recreate the magic of Vine?
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelIBM is using its AI-based health prediction skills to help tackle the challenge of Huntington's disease. The tech firm has teamed up with CHDI Foundation on an artificial intelligence model that can predict when patients will experience Huntington's… Source: Engadget | IBM uses AI to predict progress of Huntington's disease symptoms
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelKentucky Route Zero ends with a funeral. It's a beautiful sight. The ceremony is in front of a towering dilapidated barn that serves as the anchor for a pastoral artists' community buried deep in the Kentucky woods. The setting sun bathes the town i… Source: Engadget | This is the end of 'Kentucky Route Zero'
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelWith their ability to add a dash of color and whimsy to a text message, emoji have become an indispensable part of our online interactions. Thanks to a new piece of proposed legislation introduced last week in the Vermont House of Representatives, th… Source: Engadget | A Vermont bill would bring emoji license plates to …
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelThe popular antivirus program Avast has been selling users data to giant companies like Google, Home Depot, Microsoft and Pepsi, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag found. Avast reportedly scraped data from its antivirus software and hande… Source: Engadget | Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelGM just demonstrated that electric vehicles can create jobs in addition to taking them away. The automaker has revealed plans for a $2.2 billion investment that will turn its Detroit-Hamtramck facility into its first assembly plant completely devoted… Source: Engadget | GM spends .2 billion to set up an EV-only plant in Detroit
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelWhen HP launched the Elite Dragonfly, it made bold claims about this laptop being "lighter than air." Obviously, that's marketing hyperbole — nothing tangible actually weighs less than air — but the Elite Dragonfly is still pretty light. It c… Source: Engadget | HP Elite Dragonfly review: Pretty powerful for a 2-pound laptop
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelVine replacement Byte already seems to be a success, gathering not only former Vine users but the TikTok crowd, too. With that popularity has come a new problem, however: comment spam. In particular, the crowds of new users are treating Byte like a g… Source: Engadget | Vine successor Byte vows to fix its spam …
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelIt's a miracle the Honda E is even here, considering how much Honda seemed to hate electric cars. And yet, here I am in Valencia, Spain, ready to drive this adorable EV, which is slated to go on sale in summer 2020 in Europe and Japan only. Unti… Source: Engadget | Honda E first drive: …
January 27, 2020 | by RaheelApple is known to explore unusual Mac designs, but its latest may be more eye-catching than most. The company has applied for a patent on a desktop Mac design whose main body consists of a single, curved sheet of glass — a wedge at the back could b… Source: Engadget | Apple envisions a Mac …
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