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A $28 million financing has made SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, a unicorn. Japan Post Capital has led the Series E round, which brings the company’s total investment to $116 million and pushes its valuation to $1.1 billion. Existing investors in SmartNews include Development Bank of Japan, SMBC Venture Capital and Japan Co-Invest L.P.…
Photo: ToyotaThe benefit of using a BMW turbocharged powerplant is that it’s pretty easy to add 85 horsepower to your 2020 Toyota Supra without swapping a single part. So easy, in fact, that somebody’s already done it.In this case, Pistonheads reports that U.K.-based tuning company Litchfield Motors has extracted the extra power using nothing but…
XDA was rummaging through the latest Android Q beta for the OnePlus 7 Pro when it discovered that an update had been sent to the OnePlus Camera app. The latest version of the app is 3.8.13 and comes with a hidden Focus Tracking option in the app’s settings menu. According to the description of the…
Signature sound — What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Swiss team used data science to find out. Jennifer Ouellette – Aug 3, 2019 6:30 pm UTC EPFL researchers analysis of Beethoven’s writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns. Famed Classical/Romantic composer Ludwig van Beethoven had a distinct statistical signature to his compositional style,…
Someone out there will find this thing valuable, but you probably won’t. Sponsored Links Judging by the strange, tiny phones it made in the past, Unihertz seems like a company that just sort of builds whatever it wants. When you consider just how homogeneous smartphones have become over the years, that approach starts to feel…