Father of C++ Dislikes Bitcoin Being Based on His Programming Language Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++ programing language is not happy about the fact that Bitcoin is based on his programming language. He opened up with his views on it in a recent podcast interview with Lex Fridman earlier this week. First of all, he acknowledged that he had no control over how his tool was going to be used by other programmers....
Google Chrome Will Soon Warn You If a Website Is Slow Have you ever wondered if a website is slowing you down or your internet connection is to blame for the delay in accessing a webpage? Well, Google is planning to add a warning to Chrome that lets you know the website’s usual access speeds and load times. In a blog post, the Chromium team revealed itsplans toadd badges to “identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users”....
Lenovo’s AR Glasses May Let You See Multiple Screens Lenovo has shown off new AR concept glasses at its annual Lenovo Tech World 2019 event earlier this week. These lightweight portable glasses are targeted at PC users who care about privacy. The company says that these AR glasses would help peopleaccess virtual workspacesat public places, accessing confidential bank information when you’re in a commute, for instance. It also aims to help office workers view multiple screens simultaneously without any additional infrastructure, with a feature it calls “multi-space”....
Spotify Now Curates Your Perfect Road Trip Playlist Spotify has made it easier to curate your perfect road trip playlist by launching a new feature called “Soundtrack your Ride”. The feature generates the playlist based on your Spotify listening habits and answers to a few questions to understand your preferences better. The website asks youthe starting point and ending point of your journey to calculate the length of your trip. Unfortunately, this is limited to the United States as of now....
Spotify’s Magic Leap App Allows You to Pin Music in Your Home Spotify has teamed up with augmented reality startup Magic Leap to take music straight to your living room. With Spotify’s new app, Spotify Premium users will be able to access and control the playback of their music from Magic Leap One Creator Edition. The feature that makes this new app stand out is theability to pin music. You can pin the recently played tracks, albums, and artists anywhere in your home using AR....
This AI Learns and Mimics Your Voice in 5 Seconds! Have you ever wondered how long it would take for an AI to learn and replicate your voice? Well, the answer to this question might come as a surprise as a new AI manages to mimic your voice after listening to it for a mere 5 seconds. Yes, you read that right. Researchers at Google have developed a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) that manages to replicate the voice of speakers, including the ones that were never heard while training the AI of course....
This AI Predicts Death of Patients but the Creators Have No Idea How AI trained by researchers from Pennsylvania healthcare provider Geisinger is capable ofpredicting patients who are more likely to die within a yearbased on the heart test results. The AI manages to accurately predict the death of patients even if the figures look quite normal to doctors. The researchers trained the AI with1.77 million electrocardiogram (ECG) resultsfrom 400,000 patients....
