Tuesday 4 December 2018

Editor's Pick: AI Meets VR in New Nvidia Tech

John P. Mello Jr.
Dec 4, 2018 5:00 AM PT

Nvidia has announced a breakthrough in 3D rendering research that may have far-reaching ramifications for future virtual worlds. A team led by Nvidia VP Bryan Catanzaro discovered a way to use a neural network to render synthetic 3D environments in real time, using a model trained on real-world videos. With Nvidia's technology, worlds can be populated with objects "learned" from video input. [More...]

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Virtual Reality: Slow Growth but Expanding Use Cases
When the Oculus Rift launched in 2014, industry stakeholders speculated that the new, high-end in-home virtual reality headset would disrupt the entertainment industry. Just four years later, the technology has reached a crossroads, still lacking adoption by mainstream consumers. In a recent survey, 25 percent of broadband households indicated they were familiar with some type of VR technology, but just 8 percent actually owned a headset. [More...]

Quirky but Useful Gifts: Rob Enderle's 2018 Personal Tech Product Guide
This is the time of year for a product guide. I'm a big fan of products most people don't have that solve a specific work problem, as well as those that could make your life easier, more comfortable or more fun. I like to give gifts that people actually would use. In some cases, due to the cost, these may be things you'd buy only for yourself, a spouse, or a relative you really want to impress. [More...]

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The Morning After: Microsoft's Chromium browser?

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It's Tuesday, December 04, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

This morning, the big news is what you won’t see on Tumblr soon, and the latest major data breach. Also, a new Microsoft rumor could tilt the balance in web-browser technology, NVIDIA has a new graphics card and so many things are happening in space.

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Whoa.

Tumblr will start blocking adult content on December 17th

Tumblr has announced that from December 17th, it will no longer allow adult content. The site, which is owned by Engadget's parent company, says that content includes "photos, videos or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples and any content -- including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations -- that depicts sex acts." The move comes just after Tumblr's app was removed from the App Store, reportedly because images of child sexual abuse had made their way on to the site.

How much power do you need?

NVIDIA officially unveils its flagship Titan RTX GPU

As expected, the Titan RTX has 72 Turing RT and 4,608 CUDA cores, up from 68 and 4,352, respectively, over the RTX 2080 Ti. However, this isn't so much a consumer card (unlike last year's Titan XP), but more in the family of the Titan V compute GPU.

With 24GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a $2,500 price tag, the Titan RTX is aimed at AI researchers, workstation users and gamers with deep pockets. Should that not do the job, you can get the $80 Titan RTX NVLink Bridge, letting you join two Titan RTX cards together with double the VRAM and 100 GB/s of total bandwidth.

The real surprise is finding out you had a Quora account.

Quora breach leaks data on over 100 million users

Quora found the breach on November 30th and said it is still investigating. It has logged all users out and is forcing all accounts with a password to reset that password. It also said the password data was salted and hashed to prevent attackers from using it, but to be cautious, users should also reset passwords on their other accounts if they shared the same one.

Browser wars update.

Is Microsoft building a Chromium-powered replacement for Edge?

Windows Central reports that Microsoft could start over with a new browser built on Chromium, the open-source base behind Google Chrome and other browsers like Brave, Amazon Silk and Opera. The rumored codename for the project is Anaheim. This news pops up after a recent post by 9to5Google pointing out a number of code commits to the Chromium project by Microsoft developers. Switching to Google’s rendering engine could help apps built for the desktop using web technology and accelerate support for new features -- if this rumor pans out.

Because you still can’t find anything else to watch.

'Friends' will be there for you on Netflix 'throughout 2019'

Yesterday you may have noticed that Friends was slated to leave Netflix in 2019. However, the company apparently extended its streaming deal, and now says the sitcom will remain on its service in the US through next year.

But wait, there's more...

1. Drake and Ariana Grande conquered Spotify's 2018 streaming charts

2. NVIDIA's new AI turns videos of the real world into virtual landscapes

3. With Viryl's 'steamless' tech, vinyl-record production has finally joined the modern age

4. Astronauts aboard Soyuz spacecraft arrive safely at the ISS

5. The best gifts for PC gamers

6. Latest Pixel 3 update addresses multitasking woes

7. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has arrived at the asteroid Bennu

8. What we're gifting this month: OLED TVs, a Google Home for the parents

9. 'MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries' arrives on September 10th, 2019

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Monday 3 December 2018

Editor's Pick: Quirky but Useful Gifts: Rob Enderle's 2018 Personal Tech Product Guide

Quirky but Useful Gifts: Rob Enderle's 2018 Personal Tech Product Guide

Rob Enderle
Dec 3, 2018 10:09 AM PT

This is the time of year for a product guide. I'm a big fan of products most people don't have that solve a specific work problem, as well as those that could make your life easier, more comfortable or more fun. I like to give gifts that people actually would use. In some cases, due to the cost, these may be things you'd buy only for yourself, a spouse, or a relative you really want to impress. [More...]

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CRM Crystal Ball Gazing
We should start discussing what's beyond CRM. I chose the word "beyond" advisedly. CRM is far from dead or even in decline, so "after" would be incorrect. However, CRM already has changed so much that it may be time to rethink it. Also, many of the tangential technologies that have turbocharged CRM in the last few years, like social media, have drawn so much attention that some analysis is due. [More...]

AWS Thinks Inside the Box With Outposts Data Center Revival
Amazon introduced AWS Outposts at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The new system, which provides AWS-branded boxes for use in traditional data centers, will allow the company to make advances into the world of on-premises storage, taking on legacy hardware vendors including Cisco, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Outposts technology can run on rival vendors' data center equipment. [More...]

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Quirky but Useful Gifts: Rob Enderle's 2018 Personal Tech Product Guide
Facebook Staffers Once Brainstormed Ways to Sell User Data: Report
Amazon Comprehend Medical Makes Sense of Scattered Healthcare Data
Void Linux: Built From Scratch for Full Independence

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Today's Story Highlights

Quirky but Useful Gifts: Rob Enderle's 2018 Personal Tech Product Guide

This is the time of year for a product guide. I'm a big fan of products
most people don't have that solve a specific work problem, as well as
those that could make your life easier, more comfortable or more fun. I
like to give gifts that people actually would use. In some cases, due to
the cost, these may be things you'd buy only for yourself, a spouse, or
a relative you really want to impress.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85715.html

Facebook Staffers Once Brainstormed Ways to Sell User Data: Report

Facebook at one time considered charging companies for access to its
user data, according to a report based on three pages of unredacted
material from an 18-page document showing portions of some internal
Facebook emails, mainly from about 2012 to 2014. The documents are
linked to a lawsuit, Six4Three LLC v. Facebook Inc. , alleging that
Facebook's data policies were anticompetitive.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85713.html

Amazon Comprehend Medical Makes Sense of Scattered Healthcare Data

Amazon has announced Amazon Comprehend Medical, a language processing
service that lets users gather information -- such as a patient's
medical condition and medication dosage, strength and frequency -- from
sources including doctors' notes, clinical trial reports, hospital
admission notes and patient health records. Most health and patient data
currently is stored as unstructured medical text.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85709.html

Void Linux: Built From Scratch for Full Independence

Void Linux is a bit out of the ordinary. It offers an unusually
interesting alternative to many of the traditional Linux distros
affiliated with a larger Linux family such as Debian or Ubuntu or Arch.
Void Linux is an independently developed, rolling-release, general-
purpose operating system. That means that its software is either
homegrown or plain-vanilla compiled.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85703.html

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