Month: January 2020
Uber’s self-driving unit starts mapping Washington, D.C. ahead of testing
Uber Advanced Technologies Group will start mapping Washington, D.C., ahead of plans to begin testing its self-driving vehicles in the city this year. Initially, there will be three Uber vehicles mapping the area, a company spokesperson said. These vehicles, which will be manually driven and have two trained employees inside,…
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Our Top 5 Favorite Built-In Effects Tools in the Vegas Creative Software Suite
The Vegas family of creative software offers a wide range of built-in effects tools. Everything from Mesh Warp OFX to Slow Motion Optical Flow, Smart Split and more. Here we take a look at some of our favorites as well as a quick overview of how each one works. Source
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Rocket League is killing online multiplayer on macOS and Linux
Today, Epic Games-owned Psyonix announced that it will stop supporting Rocket League on macOS and Linux starting in March. Psyonix says it will release a final patch on both platforms that month that will turn off online features, which means you won’t be able to play online multiplayer anymore. You’ll…
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Star Trek: Picard knows Star Trek is a hard sell in 2020
Meet Jean-Luc Picard, space dad. He was, for 178 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four theatrical films, the captain of the starship Enterprise; an inherently trustworthy father figure who pushed everyone around him to be more noble, understanding, and empathetic. Eighteen years after his last appearance in…
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Google’s Dataset Search comes out of beta
Google today announced that Dataset Search, a service that lets you search for close to 25 million different publicly available datasets, is now out of beta. Dataset Search first launched in September 2018. Researchers can use these datasets, which range from pretty small ones that tell you how many cats…
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Xerox wants to replace HP board that rejected takeover bid
In Xerox’s latest effort to get HP to bend to its will and combine the two companies, it announced its intent today to try and replace the entire HP Board of Directors at the company’s stockholder’s meeting in April. That would be the same board that unanimously rejected Xerox’s takeover…
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