Month: November 2020
Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot
Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. And today, one of the early pioneers of the medium is announcing some funding as it tips into profitability on the back of…
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Elon Musk says Tesla may reveal Cybertruck changes in a ‘month or so’
Tesla has been refining the Cybertruck’s design ever since its debut a year ago (aka the Before Times), and it might be close to showing what has changed in the months since. According to Roadshow, Elon Musk told one fan that Tesla could show the upd… Source
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Take Your Tunes Anywhere With Our Favorite Bluetooth Speakers
The best portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box. Source
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What’s the future of VPN? A Chinese team has shared their views 21:9 Hero
In a bid to better cater to the new generation of apps that will be served over 5G networks, researchers from Huawei, China Mobile and China Telecom have proposed enhancements to the current VPN technology. To this end, their informational draft for the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signalling (TEAS) working…
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T-Mobile TVision hands-on: the basics but not much else
T-Mobile has officially launched TVision, a new live TV streaming service that the company promises will shock the cable TV industry in the same way that T-Mobile’s aggressive plans and “Uncarrier” moves helped to push the cellular industry forward. As it did with mobile, T-Mobile is trumpeting the service’s relatively…
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AI camera operator repeatedly confuses bald head for soccer ball during live stream
AI researchers sometimes refer to machine learning technology as “brittle.” By this, they mean that artificial intelligence lacks a human’s understanding of real world complexities, with the end result being that AI systems sometimes break in quick and unexpected ways. For a more practical illustration of what “brittleness” means, though,…
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