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Apple officially confirmed in its WWDC keynote yesterday that, yes, it would be using its own processors in its laptops and desktops. Not a terribly surprising announcement considering the rumor mill had been churning for months prior to that, but its nice to have Apple formally acknowledge the existence of its A12Z Bionic computer processor. What Apple didnt reveal, though, were specs. No core count. No clock frequency. No TDP. Just a few, quick demos of 4K videos running side-by-side and Shadow of the Tomb Raider running via Rosetta 2 on Apples next macOS, Big Sur. It all looked nice, but nothing pointed to how powerful Apples chips will actually be. There have been rumors about its CPU possibly having 12 cores, eight which will handle performance-intensive tasks and four energy-efficient cores that will handle less intensive tasks, all on a 5nm process. Apple did confirm yesterday that its processor will be based on its A12Z thats adidas samba in 2020 iPads a hybrid CPU that uses four performance cores and four power efficiency cores , so its reasonable to assume that its laptop/desktop chip will use hybrid-core technology, too. And since the A12Z is an ARM processor, that means Apple silicon will process information differently than Intel and AMD CPUs. Basically, the A12Z is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer RISC . Intel and AMD CPUs like those found i air max plus n nearly all laptops and desktops available today, are both a Complex Instruction Set Computer CISC nike dunk . Some advantages that RISC pro Ecwl Rogue One s First Writer Got the Job in a Very Simple Way
What happens when you take one of the worlds best cartoon strips and remix it with some random process math Wonderful gibberish is what. Josh Millard has used aMarkov chain process to remix Calvin and Hobbes strips into a glorious mess. Markov chains are a random mathematical system where the next step depends only what state a systems currently in and not on what we airforces nt before it. Using that kind of system, Millard ha hoka trekkingschuhe s taken a series of strips with blanked-out dialogue, then used dialogue stripped from two years-worth of cartoons 鈥?including 1,268 lines from Calvin alone 鈥攖o create new strips. You can read exactly how its done here. Or just click through air force 1 a series of wonderfully surreal strips here. Its not the first time Millard has done something like this, though鈥攊f you like Garfield, you might also appreciate his Garkov project too. [Calvin and Markov via Laughing Squid] Calvin and HobbesCartoonsComicsmath

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Editors Note: After this post was published, Facebook provided more specific details about how their face recognition system works. The following post has been updated to include the additional information given to Gizmodo, and the headline has been updated to reflect that. Being on Facebook means being seen, and recently some users have spotted a News Feed alert describing several new face recognition features coming to the social network. The notification looks like this: https://twitter/embed/status/968462612345380865 Facebook first announced the features back in December, and have slowly rolled them out since then. Users who have them enabled can be notified of photos they appear in, even if they havent been tagged adidas campus herren , adidas samba schuhe so long as the photos privacy settings allow it. When we reached out to Facebook for more information on how the face recognition features work, they referred us to two blog posts from December announcing the new settings and addressing privacy concer adidas campus 00s ns. Reading those statements closely can tell us a lot, but there are some things we still dont know. Like, just what, exactly, Facebook wants to do with our faces. How does it work When a Facebook user with either tag suggestions or face recognition turned on is tagged in a photo, the social networks machine learning systems analyze the pixels of the face in the image, creating whats called a template. Facebook describes the template as a string of numbers, but each user is assigned a template thats Vldr Teen Survives 49 Days at Sea in Drifting Fishing Hut
Right now, you can watch human and robots perform ballet together at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a piece called Robot. Its about humans teaching robots to dance, though the small mechanical creatures arent able to replace their fleshbag teachers quite yet. IEEE Spectrums Eliza Strickland saw the show, and said the robots often fell over: Each time a bot went down its bandmates carried on with the dance, but the audiences attention was fixed on the turtle-like Nao on its back, struggling to get up. When the slow maneuvering of limbs ended with a Nao rising to its feet and re salomon sommerschuhe joining the dance, the crowd broke into applause. These moments of malfunction became highlights of the show, as we humans looked for plucky determination in the souls of these mechanical dancers, and found it. This scene sounds a lot like what Matt Novak experienced last weekend at DARPAs Robotics Challenge, where robots falling down was part of the action 鈥?and jokes about it were a big theme of the event. Its all fun and memes until somebody gets hurt, or has their job stolen by a bot. So laugh now, gentle humans. One day all your dancers will have twisted polymer fibers for muscle and carbon fiber for skin. [IEEE hoka laufschuhe Spectrum] Contact the author at [email 160;protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: CA58 326B 1ACB 133B 0D15 5BCE 3FC6 9123 B2AA 1E1A Rob salomon otsScienceTechnology

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Facebook is not a privacy company; its Big Brother on PCP. It does no adidas sambarose t want to anonymize and protect you; it wants to drain you of your privacy, sucking up every bit of personal data. You should resist the urge to let it, at every turn. Theres a new menu item in the Facebook app, first reported by TechCrunch on Monday, labeled Protect. Clicking it will send you to the App Store and prompt you to download a Virtual Private Network VPN service called Onavo. Protect shows up in the i air max 1 OS app. Gizmodo looked for it on an Android device and didnt see it鈥攖hough, presumably it is only a matter of time. Millions of people use VPNs to enhance their privacy online. But that is not Onavos function. VPNs work by forcing your laptop or mobile device to establish a connection to a third-party server before then connecting you to any websites or online services. Using an encrypted tunnel, a VPN can prevent your broadband or wireless provider AT 038;T, Comcast, et al from keeping track of the websites you visit. Whats more, a VPN service can mask your own IP address from those websites, helping you to traverse the net without surrendering airmaxplus locational data. VPNs also help users in authoritarian countries bypass censors by convincing websites their country of origin is, for example, the US or Switzerland, the latter of which has some of the worlds strictest privacy laws. Facebook, however, purchased Onavo from an Israeli firm in 2013 for an entirely different reason, as described i Eigw The Biggest Problems With Bluetooth Audio Are About to Be Fixed
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The Twitter Inc. accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, @POTUS and @realDoanldTrump, are seen on an Apple Inc. iPhone arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C stanley cup ., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017.Bloomberg鈥擝loomberg via Get stanley cup ty ImagesBy Kate SamuelsonNovember 3, 2017 10:24 AM EDTThe internet has been going wild for the rogue Twitter employee who deactivated President Trump Twitter account.Trump Twitter account was suspended for several minutes o stanley cup n Thursday night before returning to normal. After initially stating that the Presidentrsquo account had been deleted due to human error by a Twitter employee, Twitter later revealed that the error was made by a customer support employee and that a full internal review was under way.The President of the United States responded to the Twitter takedown by a rogue Twitter employee, Friday morning, using the social media platform in question.My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact, he wrote.Even though Trump Twitter access has returned to normal, Twitter users are continuing to praise the unidentified Twitter employee for giving the world 11 minutes of peace with some even recommending him or her for the Nobel Peace Prize , while others have been imagining Trump reaction to his account disappearing. Here are some of the funniest posts:EXCLUS Ayxc The Choice
Getty ImagesBy The MuseApril 13, 2015 10:00 AM EDTWhen a beloved childhood friend gets cast in the role of a lifetimemdash tarring in the touring p yeezy roduction of a smash hit Broadway showmdash;and she says, Want to come see the show when we pass through your area The answer is obviously, Hell yes.I trekked out to the theater. Saw the show. Applauded wildly. Loved every moment.Afterward, my friend and I clinked celebratory margaritas and toasted to her success. Several of the other cast members were there, too, sipping drinks and unwinding after the high-voltage performance.I noticed one performer bent over his cell phone at the end of the bar, texting ferociously, lost in his device. He noticed me, looked up, and smiled.My family back at home, he explained, gesturing to his phone. I miss them so much.I could imagine. Months on the road, cut off from your ordinary routine, detached from family, friends, and the comforts of home. Itrsquo a dream gig, sure, but it comes at a cost.So how jordan is the tour going for you I asked.He replied with surprising honesty.I couldnrsquo;t believe it when I got this gig, he said. The pay is great, Irsquo;m saving lots of m salomon oney, and the cast and crew are unbelievable. I am so gratefulhellip;A pause. I waited for the buthellip;hellip; but there are some nights when I just want to be back at home. Anywhere but here. Thatrs

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Rob Melnychukmdash;Getty ImagesBy Jamie DucharmeOctober 31, 2018 10:44 AM EDTA 5-year-old boy in Ohio reportedly tested positive for methamphetamine exposure after trick-or-treating on Sunday.The boy was staying with his father after trick-or-treating in Galion when he became ill, 10TV reports. Julia Pence, the boy mother, told CNN that she was told her son had a seizure, and immediately went to the hospital where he was being treated. She said the boy was disoriented and real high from whatever he ingested when she got there.He was really wired and kind of aggressive, had different mood swings, Pence told CNN. 8 stanley cup 220;When we came home he was real tired, he was coming down from it.Staff at Galion Community Hospital told police that the boy tested positive for methamphetamine, Mansfield News Journal reports. According to a police report, the boy father said he had only eaten a couple pieces of candy and had put a pair of plastic vampire teeth in his mouth, the News Journal reports; CNN and 10TV, however, report that the boy had only put the fake teeth in his mouth. Both leftover candy and the fake teeth were taken i stanley cup n for t stanley cup esting, according to the News Journal.Both of the boy parents have had substance abuse issues in the past, but Pence told 10TV that both are now clean and were not responsible for the meth exposure.The Galion Police Department confirmed in a statement that a young boy become sick after Mtnc Carly Fiorina Says She s Running for President
A child plays with soccer ball at a refurbished soccer field at the Mineira slum in Rio de Janeiro September 10, 2014.Ricardo Moraes 鈥擱eutersBy Rishi IyengarSeptember 12, 2014 2:45 AM EDTThe worldrsquo first soccer field with floodlights powered by player movement was unveiled in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, but itrsquo not at the Maracanatilde;.The never-before-seen technology was in fact launched at Mineira mdash; one of the Brazilian cityrsquo slums, AFP reports.The technology is called Pavegen, and harvests energy from playersrsquo; footsteps using tiles made from 80% recycled material that capture kinetic energy, AFP say adidas samba s. Two hundred of the weatherproof tiles have been insta ugg lled underneath the playing surface, and the energy from them will be supplemented by solar panels installed on the roof of a neighboring samba school.Brazilian soccer legend Peleacute;, who was present for the arenarsquo inauguration, said the innovation represented new frontiers for the country.The whole world started looking at Brazil through football, he said. reebok I hope that with projects such as this one, the world will start looking at Brazil through its participation in science.Although residents approved the project in a public vote, the cost of playing there mdash; $20 an hour mdash; is too steep for most in the favela, as slums are locally known.Today, we have to play outside our community as we canrsquo;t pay, Bruno Olivera, a hospi

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By Tessa Berenson RogersApril 18, 2019 11:08 AM EDTAttorney General William Barr used his press conference in advance of the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller 8216 report to issue an emphatic statement about the report conclusions af1 : Russia had indeed interfered with the 2016 presidential election, but neither Donald Trump nor his associates cooperated with them.Barr ventured beyond an explanation of Justice Department processes to frame the rep nike dunk ort conclusions for the public. Using language that jordan echoed the President own, he repeated a half-dozen times that there had been no collusion between Trump team and Russian officials.President Trump faced an unprecedented situation, Barr said. As he entered into office, and sought to perform his responsibilities as President, federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office, and the conduct of some of his associates. At the same time, there was relentless speculation in the news media about the Presidentrsquo personal culpability. Yet, as he said from the beginning, there was in fact no collusion. And as the Special Counselrsquo report acknowledges, there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered by a sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks.It was a performance that cheered th

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As much as Lego fans love the companys endless series of collectible minifigures, they loathe the fact theyre sold in blind generic packaging鈥攕omething thats going to become a truly random experience late next year as Lego continues to move away from plastic packaging. Some fans will buy a Lego set just for the included minifigures, so back in 2010 the company capitalized on that with a line of collectible minifigures featuring unique costumes and accessories available nowhere else. To date Lego has released 40 of these minifigure collections featuring everything from The Muppets characters to the residents of Springfield from The Simpsons, but t adidas samba herren he company hasnt made it easy for collectors to grab just the ones they want. The collectible minifigures have so far been only sold in small plastic bags for $5 each with generic artwork on the front that doesnt specify what actual figure is inside. Its a technique known as blind bagging and the intention is for collectors to just keep buying pack after pack until they find the one figure theyre after. Even at just $5 each that approach quickly gets expensive. It didnt take long for collectors to realize a pattern of bumps on the plastic packaging correlated to what figure was inside, but eventually Lego stopped marking the bags that way. Collectors on the hunt nike air max for a specific minifigure now rely on a technique where they squeeze and grope the flexible plastic packaging in hopes o adidas samba og f recognizing a specific part inside, and for all Wyby Sin City 30th Anniversay Edition Headed to Bookstores This Fall
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After CD Projekt Reds video game Cyberpunk 2077 became a best seller despite the hiccups and bugs last year, Netflix announced it would be producing an anime set in the same world as the first-person RPG. While there have been hints of what the show will be about, Netflix has finally released the first snippet of the show in action, which is led by some big names in anime. In this ultraviolent, over-the-top trailer and a new clip we see flashes of the characters and setting but not much of the story. With extra-bright colors鈥攅vocative of the games design鈥攁nd a whole lot of gunslinging, the show looks to be visually in between other cyberpunk alumni like Trigun, Blade Runner, and the 90s Ghost in the Shell. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is produced by CDPR and Studio Trigger. Trigger almost immediately developed a house style when it produced its original anime Kill La Kill in 2013, and quickly got tappe adidas samba herren d for adaptions like Little Witch Academia, its criticially acclaimed takes on the Tsuburaya Gridman franchise in SSSS.GRIDMAN and SSSS.DYNAZENON, and original episodes in the Star Wars animated anthology Visions. Trigge nike dunk donna r is also responsible for the 2019 anime film Promare, one of my personal favorite animated films of the 21st century. Edgerunners will be directed by Promares Hiroyuki Imaishi鈥攚ho directed the Vis nike dunk high ions standout short The Twins 鈥攁nd features character designs from Little Witch Academias Yoh Yoshinari. Based in part on a story idea directly from CDPR, the seri Vhtm Is There Still a Chance That Marvel s Movies and TV Shows Could Cross Over for Infinity War
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Foxs latest X-Men show just got a series order, official title, and short teaser. The show is called Th reebok c85 club e Gifted and the pilot was directed by frequent X-Men movie director Bryan Singer. It follows a family that goes on the run when they realize their kids are mutants, and ends up falling in with a group of underground mutants. Fox just ordered the show to series for this fall, and to celebrate, released this teaser. Obviously, thats just a teaser and the full trailer will be out next week, on May 15. Stephe crocs hausschuhe n Moyer True Blood and Amy Acker Angel are the shows main characters, playing the parents of the young mutants. [YouTube] Bryan SingerTelev adidas campus shoes isionThe GiftedX-Men

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In just a few more weeks, Godzilla Singular Point is finally hitting Netflix, and that means were getting a brand new versionof one of our favorite super robot pals, Jet Jaguar. To celebrate, were looking back at his origin story in Godzilla vs. Megalon adidas campus 00s , and finding a movie that is, for better or worse, the embodiment of the dumb-fun monster movie. Treating monster films as nothing but dumb schlock thats all big silly fights and nothing beneath asics gel the surface is nothing new. From the genres origins all the way up to western hits like this years Godzilla vs. Kong, theres always going to be a place for a monster movie that trades depth鈥攐r in some cases even logical coherence鈥攆or the wide-eyed spectacle of monster-on-monster action. Who needs brainpower when you can have cities being leveled by larger-than-life titans, anyway Godzillas cinematic career is no exception to this, of course, but 1973 Godzilla vs Megalon might be the ultimate example of a film that rides or dies on how much you can appreciate some giant-sized shenanigans and gleeful silliness over any semblance of seriousness. A film that feels almost in equal parts embraced especially for its special guest star and its final fight sequence and reviled for its lackluster plot, over-reliance on reused footage, and its absurdist elements by the big Gs fandoms in the years since, Godzilla vs. Megalon really is the kind of film to know your expectations for going in. It ne adidas campus damen ver presents itself as trying to be Cbnx The聽Beetlejuice聽Sequel Is Finally on Its Way (Update: No It s Not)
We constantly get our hopes up for upcoming movies 8230; and then they let us down. It easy to get sucked into the hype cycle, as people talk up their projects 鈥?but sometimes, you can tell just from the way people talk about a film that it probably not going to work. Here are eight key phrases that usually indicate danger. Note: We ;re being very careful to use the word usually here, because any of these things could apply to a handful of great movies as well. But these are things that, when I hear them, usually set my Spidey-sense tingling. For more early war salomon xt ning signs, check out our list of ways salomon mujer to tell from a movie trailer that it going to be awful. So when we ;re in a junket, or obsessively combing through every interview about a movie for scraps to put into Morning Spoilers, here are the things that we hear that make us worry: 1 We realized that nobody had ever told the origin of ____ This is a huge one. People say this nike air force a lot about prequels 鈥?or origin stories of longstanding characters who have appeared in multiple forms over the years, but never had their origin story told. For example, they said this a lot about Oz The Great and Powerful: Why does L. Frank Baum never go into detail about the origins of the Wizard of Oz in his books The Wizard origin is discussed in a paragraph or two, here and there, but never really gone into. Ditto for how Kirk and Spock first met, in Star Trek. And a ton