The Nintendo Switch continues to prove itself as quite the formidable little console. Today, Nintendo shared a press release of victory lap brags from its Thanksgiving weekend sales. The company detailed that $250 million in Nintendo products were purchased over the four-day period with the company’s Nintendo Switch console leading the way. The company also…
Stella Artois BART (for Bartending Automated Robotic Technology) is basically a stand that attaches to a robovac, topped by a tray with four beverage holders and a snack bowl. Guests can grab a brewski while the robot vacuum cleans. The post The Stella Artois BART turns your robovac into a beer valet appeared first on…
It was only a year ago that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that he wasn’t all that interested in blockchain services. Clearly something has changed over the course of the last year because today, the company is launching two new blockchain services: Quantum Ledger Database and Amazon Managed Blockchain. As the name implies, AWS Managed…
Amazon last year dismissed the idea of getting into the blockchain with AWS, but today that’s changed. The company announced a new service called Amazon Quantum Ledger Database or QLDB, which is a fully managed ledger database with a central trusted authority. The service, which is launching into preview today, offers an append-only, immutable journal…
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AWS is not content to cede any part of any market to any company. When it comes to machine learning chips, names like Nvidia or Google come to mind, but today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced a new dedicated machine learning chip of its own called Inferentia. “Inferentia will be a very…
You can’t build a good machine learning model without good training data. But building those training sets is hard, often manual work, that involves labeling thousand and thousands of images, for example. With SageMaker, AWS has been working on a service that makes building machine learning models a lot easier. But until today, that labeling…
Netflix is co-producing a live-action series based on the critically acclaimed Cowboy Bebop anime, which followed a group of bounty hunters aboard the spaceship Bebop and drew heavily from Western and noir themes. The post Netflix is developing a live-action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ series with anime’s director appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv EswarShiv…
Dutch satellite company Hiber will launch its first ‘HiberBand’ nano-satellites over the next few days, delivering connectivity to remote locations around the world. The Dutch government-backed project claims to be the first truly global satellite solution and hopes to help bridge the digital divide that means 90 percent of the world is currently unable to…
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