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Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a neural network that can, in theory, “look” at an image and find the recipe for the food that’s depicted. It’s the latest addition to an increasing list of similar projects, following the likes of both Pinterest and, yes, Silicon Valley’s actually real hot dog-identifying app. 2017 is apparently the year of using the major advancements in AI to identify food.

Microsoft has reported a revenue of $23.3 billion in its Q4 2017 fiscal year for a total net income of $21.2 billion this year so far. LinkedIn contributed $1.1 billion to revenue during Q4, $125,000 more than it did in Q3, the first quarter LinkedIn showed up in Microsoft’s reports. Gaming revenue went up by 3 percent as Xbox sales remained strong post-E3.

Instagram has long been the social network of choice for subtly showing off to your friends. If you’re most people, that means videos of your cool vacation or pictures of your perfect brunch. If you’re billionaire Jeff Bezos, though, your Instagram humblebrags tend to be a little more extravagant.

The dream of long-lasting batteries is a little closer now that scientists have made progress on a big problem: a battery material that holds a lot of energy but breaks down quickly. They’ve found a way to use little “pulleys” to keep the material, silicon, intact.

LG is launching a smaller version of the LG V20 called the Q8, and it seems to be fixing some of the biggest problems of its larger cousin, via Android Police.

With the John Wick-esque, high-precision gun ballet now pretty much established as Hollywood’s go-to action style for characters without superpowers, Empire’s Taraji P. Henson is taking the style back to the ‘70s. In the first trailer for Proud Mary, Henson plays the title character, a hit woman working for a mob family in Boston. She’s good at what she does, but it’s not long before a job goes bad and things go crazy.

Carrot Weather is part of developer Brian Mueller’s series of useful productivity tool apps. If you’ve never used one of Mueller’s Carrot apps, there’s one core conceit to all of them: each app features an AI character named Carrot who, to put it simply, rather dramatically hates humans. Carrot Fitness, for example, will berate the user for missing workouts and not hitting goals while threatening to destroy mankind. Carrot To-Do will judge you as a “lazy meatbag” for leaving tasks unfinished.

On the evening of July 15th, two Minneapolis police officers responded to a 911 call in the city’s upscale Fulton neighborhood. When the officers arrived, Justine Damond — a 40-year-old, white Australian woman wearing pajamas — emerged outside and stood next to the cruiser’s driver’s side window. She described the incident that caused her to call 911 — a possible sexual assault in the alleyway behind the home that she shared with her fiancé, whom she planned to marry the following month.

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, an original opera about the Apple co-founder, opens at the Santa Fe Opera this week. The Ringer has a great interview with its creative team out today, and it includes two images of the show.

Luc Besson is in a hotel room in Beverly Hills, looking at pictures of frogs, and he can’t stop giggling.

Today, Apple is releasing a small update to the Clips app that will let you add little animated Disney and Pixar stickers (Apple calls them “Overlays”) to your short videos. There are a handful of other new features, like a dedicated button for editing the “Live Title” transcriptions you can add to your videos and new “Posters.”

Tivoli unveiled a limited edition version of its PAL BT Bluetooth radio today in honor of summer. This new translucent version, called the PAL BT GLO, costs the same as the original at $199.99 and features the same functionality: the ability to play AM / FM stations, as well as music from your phone or other Bluetooth-enabled device. It weighs less than two pounds and has a rechargeable battery, in addition to an included power supply. Tivoli says the battery should last around 10 hours.

American investment in global health actually helps the US economy and creates jobs, returning $33 billion to the American economy and generating 200,000 jobs from 2007 to 2015, according to a new report from the Global Health Technologies Coalition. The report comes as President Donald Trump has proposed a budget that would cut $2.2 billion in global health spending.

In the early days of the Nintendo DS, before the iPhone upended the way people played games on the go, Nintendo found itself courting an unexpectedly mainstream audience. Games like the Brain Age series — a collection of minigames and puzzles meant to sharpen your mind — were played everywhere from playgrounds to retirement homes. Middle-aged parents took their Nintendogs for virtual walks, while Animal Crossing wormed its way into the daily routine of millions. One of the series that debuted during that boon was Professor Layton... Читать дальше...

If you’ve always wanted to poke around inside a spaceship but don’t ever wish to leave the safety of Earth, Google Street View now lets you explore the International Space Station (ISS) right from your computer.

Spoilers ahead for War for the Planet of the Apes.

By the third film in the blockbuster Planet of the Apes series, it seems like the franchise should have wrung every last narrative drop from the virus that drove humans to near extinction and boosted apes’ brainpower. But in War of the Planet of the Apes, the simian flu flares up again, mutating to quietly spread through the last surviving people. Immunity against the original plague is no protection against the latest form of the virus... Читать дальше...

As viral fame becomes more attainable, summer camps may be the next classroom for kids

Atari has created something new. It's a "Speakerhat." The name's self-explanatory, but let's break it down anyway. Yes, it's a hat. Yes, it features built-in speakers. It's also got a microphone and pairs over Bluetooth for phone calls and playing music. It's rechargeable, although I'm not clear on what kind of port it has. Atari says eventually Speakerhat wearers can sync up with one another and listen to the same audio stream at the same time. Are you sold yet?

There’s a new trailer for the sequel to 2015’s spy thriller and comedy mashup, Kingsman: The Secret Service. The two-minute look, fresh from San Diego Comic-Con, is packed with some impressive marksmanship, explosions, fist-to-fist combat, and a man being cut in half by a lasso. This is a red band trailer, meaning it might not be safe for work.

Today Niantic announced that the long-awaited release of legendary pokémon in Pokémon Go is coming soon. The studio provided some details on how the feature will play out in-game. Players will have to work together to defeat the rare monsters using the game’s new cooperative raids feature, which was introduced last month.

When it came time to design their first restaurant, Media Noche, San Francisco entrepreneurs Madelyn Markoe and Jessie Barker found themselves lacking inspiration. Their designer had asked them for ideas and they felt like “deer in headlights.” Ultimately, Markoe says, they came up with a single instruction: “We wanted to be Instagrammable.”

OnePlus has issued a software update that fixes the 911 issue that some OnePlus 5 users were reportedly experiencing earlier this week.

A sustained push to reduce abuse on Twitter has shown promising results, the company said, citing internal data suggesting the company is taking action on significantly more hostile accounts while reducing the amount of vitriol seen by users. The majority of disciplined user accounts do not commit a second infraction, Twitter said, suggesting it has had success in reshaping some users’ behavior. But Twitter did not share the hard numbers behind its data, and users continue to post accounts of... Читать дальше...

Writer-director Luc Besson encapsulates the soul of his latest movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, in its first three scenes. The film opens on a sweeping, centuries-long history of Alpha, a space station that’s grown from a near-present-day base into a chaotic floating city. Then the story jumps to an extensive sequence on a bright paradise planet of willowy, iridescent humanoids, about to suffer a cataclysmic fate. The forgettable title character only comes in after all this is over, and he’s introduced almost grudgingly. Читать дальше...

Small drones tend to come in two distinct varieties: the ones with wings, which are best for carrying loads over long distances; and the ones with rotors, which are more agile but less energy efficient. A few drone-makers have tried to combine both flight-modes into a single design, but none have taken the approach of THOR — a new drone from the Singapore University of Technology & Design.