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Know Your Role is a card game for only the most dedicated actors. We quizzed Simon Pegg, aka Benji – the technician turned field agent – in the ‘Mission Impossible’ series, to see if he knows as much about the spy world as his character. Robot spy doves? Headbands that read thoughts? Jeremy Renner’s maglev …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelBetween diaper baby blimps and Trump impersonators holding live rats, it’s a golden age for spectacularly dumb, exceptionally good anti-Trump art. I’m a particular fan of the latest Dadaist masterpiece on display at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los AngelesOn Wednesday morning, an unknown man went to Trump’s star and proceeded to destroy it …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelForget Shark Week, it’s Bark Week on Mashable. Join us as we celebrate all the good dogs, which we humans do not deserve. Every human has a place in the astrological universe. So too does every dog, cat, gerbil, building, vacuum cleaner, Fitbit, and anal plug. The concept can be a little hard to swallow, …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelThe toys of today are a bit different from the ones kids played with years ago, even in the ’90s. Sure, action figures, stuffed animals, and LEGO sets are still popular, but they just can’t seem to hold the attention of children the way they used to. (Hmmm, wonder why?) SEE ALSO: Listen to me: …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelIn the battle of digital assistants, a winner is emerging: Google Assistant is smartest of them all, followed by Siri, Cortana and Alexa. That’s according to a new study by LoupVentures, whose team asked the four digital assistants 800 questions each. All of them have shown big improvements since LoupVentures’ last test, conducted in April …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelGrubhub announced this morning that it’s agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the company’s delivery business more scale, “This is kind of a different acquisition. It’s a product and strategic positioning acquisition.” LevelUp is based …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelA group of computer vision researchers from ETH Zurich want to do their bit to enhance AI development on smartphones. To wit: They’ve created a benchmark system for assessing the performance of several major neural network architectures used for common AI tasks. They’re hoping it will be useful to other AI researchers but also to …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelThe largest dinosaur foot ever found, belonging to one of the largest land animals this planet’s ever seen, surely deserves the title “Bigfoot” more than Sasquatch. Excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, and described in a new study published in PeerJ – the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, “Bigfoot” …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelAussies will know all too well the pain of being eliminated from HQ Trivia thanks to an extremely U.S.-centric question about baseball or something. Fear no more: The popular quiz app is testing an Australian version of its show, set to launch on Wednesday from 9 p.m. AEST. SEE ALSO: How good is Apple’s Measure …
July 25, 2018 | by RaheelA secret tape featuring Donald Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen discussing a payment for Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story was aired on CNN Tuesday night. And one particular moment has spawned a thirsty meme. SEE ALSO: John Cleese very bluntly confirms that people in Britain don’t like Trump The conversation, which isn’t the …
July 25, 2018 | by Raheel