Silicon Valley wrestles with what to do about Peter Thiel
Elite startup accelerator Y Combinator doesn't plan on purging billionaire Peter Thiel from its roster of part-time partners. Over the weekend, news broke Thiel was donating $1.25 million to Donald Trump's campaign. Thiel, who cofounded PayPal and Palantir, has been a vocal supporter of Trump. In July, he gave a speech at the Republication National Convention, but this is the first time that he's directly funded Trump's campaign. Thiel, who was an early backer of Facebook (FB, Tech30) and..>> view originalTelstra, Ericsson, Qualcomm unveil 1Gbps 4G network, mobile router, 5G modem
Australian telecommunications carrier Telstra, in partnership with Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Netgear, has announced its commercial 1Gbps-capable 4G network, with Qualcomm also unveiling its gigabit-class mobile router and 5G modem chipset solution.Announced at the 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Telstra is now slated to conduct testing of the world's first 1Gbps network ahead of commercial launch of the network over the next few months. "We pride ourselves on our connectivity expertise, ..>> view originalLed by Stranger Things and Narcos, Netflix reports record revenue
Netflix reported its third quarter earnings today. The company took in a record best $2.15 billion in revenue, a jump of 36 percent over last year. It also added 3.6 million new subscribers, easily besting the 2.3 million it had projected. The company attributed its better-than-expected performance to the break-out success of its original content, specifically Stranger Things and the second season of Narcos. Its stock was up nearly 20 percent in after-hours trading. "Our over-performance agains..>> view originalJuno Jupiter Probe's Final Engine Burn Delayed by Glitch
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's north polar region during a close flyby on Aug. 27, 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS NASA's Juno Jupiter probe won't be settling into its final orbit around the giant planet this week after all. Juno was scheduled to fire its main engine for the final time during the probe's close Jupiter flyby on Wednesday (Oct. 19), in a maneuver that would reduce the time it takes the spacecraft to circle the gas giant from 53 Earth d..>> view originalIn S. Korea, Samsung's Recall Troubles Come At An Already Crucial Moment
Enlarge this image A woman walks past an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at the company's flagship store in Seoul. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images A woman walks past an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at the company's flagship sto..>> view originalWhy tomatoes lose flavor in fridge: their genes chill out
This Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 photo shows a variety of miniature tomatoes displayed for sale at a farmers market in Falls Church, Va. Cooling tomatoes below 54 degrees stops them from making some of the substances that contribute to their …more. If you ...>> view originalThis mouse was grown from its mother's skin cells
K. Hayashi/Kyushu University For the first time, researchers have grown eggs entirely in a lab dish. Skin-producing cells called fibroblasts from the tip of an adult mouse’s tail have been reprogrammed to make eggs, Japanese researchers report online October 17 in Nature. Those eggs were fertilized and grew into six healthy mice. The accomplishment could make it possible to study the formation of gametes — eggs and sperm — a mysterious process that takes place inside fetus..>> view originalThe special features that enable Apple to remove security tethers from demo devices
[Update: Additional details below the fold.] I suggested last week that Apple’s apparent move to remove security tethers from demo devices in its retail stores likely wasn’t too risky thanks to a range of hidden security measures, and we’ve been hearing a little detail on how some of these work. Apple has long had special OS images for demo devices. You can’t, for example, set a passcode on a iOS device and then lock it, and Macs revert to their original state after a reboot. Apple regularly tw..>> view originalApple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri
Apple is making a visible push in the direction of AI today by hiring Carnegie Mellon University professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov for what appears to be a newly minted position: director of AI research. Salakhutdinov, who announced his new position on Twitter, works in the fields of deep learning and neural networks; he’s published dozens of papers in the last couple of years alone. The topics he’s worked on run the gamut, but the main thread is one of human-like understanding of various media: ..>> view original
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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