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Will YouTube and Netflix soon arrive on the Nintendo Switch?

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Would the Switch be on the verge of finally getting rich with streaming service and video on demand apps? Possible, if we believe a screenshot made on the American website Best Buy. The Nintendo Switch has undeniable assets as a game console but, what is sorely lacking, it is an arsenal of multimedia apps. Enjoying a movie or a series on the console 720p screen is the dream of many users, functions claimed by the community. Will the Switch finally be matched with the PS4 and Xbox One? The screaming may have reached Big N's ears. In any case, this is a screenshot taken on the site of the American brand Best Buy and posted by the user DevCakes of Reddit think. It clearly shows the Netflix, YouTube and Hulu logos in the commercial description of the console. A "sea snake" that often comes back since the launch of the console but that surfaced just hours from the Nintendo Direct conference of the US video game show, the E3 2018. Admit that there is reason to believ

Apple forbids mining of crypto currencies on iOS

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While it will still be possible to manage your e-wallet or control your rigs remotely, the latest rules of the App Store formally prohibit apps from mining cryptocurrencies from the mobile device. The free applications that make the mining of Monero in the background like Calendar 2, it's over: Apple has updated the software development rules of the App Store and Mac App Store on the occasion of its last developer conference, the WWDC held in San Francisco last week. This "bible" of rules that should be followed to the letter under penalty of eviction of Apple's software distribution platforms now largely takes into account cryptocurrencies, both from the point of view of software uses (wallet, trading , etc.) than the use of terminal hardware resources, as Apple Insider puts it. The limitation that ends the existence of apps such as Calendar 2 (which was removed from the store due to over-consumption of power and phone resources) is that "apps, including

With Memories, Facebook plays the card of emotion

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The social network of Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Memories, a section in which memories, key dates and summary videos will mix. Memories will replace "That day". Facebook is a place where the news of your friends follows in real time, but could soon turn into a gallery of memories. With Facebook Memories, the social network aims to offer a place to play with your emotions. Good times, photos, anniversaries and commemorative videos ... Memories should incorporate a lot of old content, and encourage you to share it again with your friends. That day, but better Since 2015, Facebook offers "That day" (or On This Day), a section in which appears all your activity on the site on a specific date, but on different years. For example, this June 12, 2018 will appear all the friends you made yourself on June 12, the photos and videos you took on that date, and the publications you published or that a friend wrote on your timeline. Every day, 90 million users v

Snapchat now allows you to delete any message sent

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The feature makes it possible to further shorten the life of messages. The correspondents will all be warned of such a deletion. Snapchat messages are increasingly ephemeral. The application now allows you to delete a message that has been sent to its correspondents. What further shorten their life already very short, set on the reading time of the correspondents. Only direct photos and videos can not be deleted To achieve this, simply leave your finger pressed on a message to see a menu pop up. In addition to being able to save the message or copy it, now appears the possibility to delete it. The first time, we are warned of the operation. A permanent deletion will then cause a message stating that your correspondent (s) (it also works in groups) will be notified. However, it will not work if you open Snapchat, take a photo or video and send it directly to a contact. Only photos and videos in Memories can be deleted. This will be deployed in the coming weeks to all users

Nintendo Switch: the first official batteries to boost its autonomy

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To make the Nintendo Switch more enduring, Anker has built external batteries with USB-C technology. These are the first to benefit from Nintendo's official support. The hybrid nature of the Nintendo Switch allows you to play wherever you want, comfortably on our sofa, in transport or outside. But since it is also portable, the problem of its battery inevitably arises. Nintendo promised 6 hours of autonomy but with a greedy game like Zelda for example, difficult to reach 3 hours. The external battery manufacturer Anker will market two new models optimized specifically for the Nintendo Switch. And suddenly received a precious seal, that of Nintendo: these are the first official batteries of the hybrid console. They both have a USB Type-C plug and offer fast charging while still playing. Moreover, Anker argues that three hours will be sufficient to fully recharge its Nintendo Switch. There are two versions. The first has a battery of 13400 mAh and offers 9 hours of addition

Uber may detect if you're drunk ... thanks to artificial intelligence

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The application has filed a very enigmatic patent that could be used to automatically detect, thanks to an AI, customers intoxicated on board its vehicles. Is Uber trying to avoid problem passengers? The company of putting in relation with drivers seems to want in any case to anticipate the cases of intoxication with its customers. The CNN site has located a patent filed by the company describing a system that can detect, through artificial intelligence, a change in behavior in a user. There is no question of a passenger who has drunk too much. But CNN understands that this is the goal of the approach. Drinking indexes? This would involve first observing habits and attitudes of customers to better identify the unusual items. Uber points out that the algorithm could be based on typing errors, how to interact with the application (slowness, awkwardness) but also the speed at which the person walks and the time it takes to control his race. . The time of day and the place from

The United States unveils Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer

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With a computing capacity of more than 200 petaflops, this computer monster should allow the United States to regain the lead in the Top500 ranking of supercomputers, a position that China has held since June 2013. Make America Great Again. Not sure that Donald Trump is there for much. In any case, five and a half years after being ousted by China, the United States should regain the top spot in the Top500 ranking of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet, updated every six months. The next edition is scheduled for the end of the month and is expected to focus on "Summit", the new computing monster just introduced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a research arm of the US Department of Energy. Built by IBM, Summit consists of a network of 4,608 servers - also called compute nodes - each of which has two CPU Power9 to 22 cores, 6 Nvidia Tesla GPU V100 and more than 2000 GB of memory. The whole thing is interconnected by a 200 Gbps InfiniBand network, based o

E3 2018: Microsoft announces an avalanche of games and ... its next Xbox

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Microsoft presented a dynamic, content-rich Xbox conference. Many games, new features and even the announcement of the future Xbox, already in preparation. For its big conference preceding the E3, Microsoft surprised the crowds by filling up ads. Phil Spencer, head of the gaming division of Microsoft, has clearly turned to the future by announcing the acquisition of studios, the return of large licenses, the rise of cloud gaming, the arrival of a streaming service , the contribution of artificial intelligence and even, the admission of the design of a brand new game console. Trailers to no longer end The Xbox conference has put a lot of headlines on the air by linking the trailers. We have seen a brief overview of the future of Master Chief with the announcement of Halo Infinite, the dreamlike and demanding Ori, the gameplay of Forza Horizon 4 which is cutting a path through the English countryside, the Arlesienne Crackdown 3, a "Gears 5" centered on the character of

Yahoo Messenger closed, new victim of social networks

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Twenty years old, Yahoo's messaging will close this summer. This is the new victim of social networks, after the closure of AIM a few months ago. Another historic messenger who is bowing out. Yahoo has announced that it will end its Messenger on July 17. In December 2015, the company presented a final version of its application that was still the latest. Disappearance of historical courier Launched in 1998 as Yahoo Pager, the service included file sharing functionality, group conversations, and interoperability with Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger. Yahoo now sends users to its Squirrel app dedicated to group chat. In December 2017, AOL also announced the closure of its equivalent service AIM, one of the pioneers of the genre, very popular in his time in the United States. These historic services have gradually been phagocyted by social networks and mobile applications on smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WhatsApp or Snapchat ... until disappearing. paypa

Smartphones, TV box ... Many Android devices are easily hacked remotely

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Tens of thousands of terminals are accessible by Android Debug Bridge and can connect to it with administrator privileges. This fault is already actively exploited by a mining worm of moneros. Rarely has the hacking of a computer been so easy. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont has just warned that a large number of Android devices were exposing the Android Debug Bridge protocol over the Internet, via TCP port 5555. Android Debug Bridge is an interface for developers. It allows you to communicate with the device to, for example, install software or troubleshoot the system. Normally, it is accessible only through the USB port after activating the developer mode in the system settings. But on the devices found by Kevin Beaumont, this interface is obviously enabled by default and more accessible via the Internet, probably due to forgetting the provider. "This is highly problematic because it allows anyone to remotely access these devices, without any password and administrato

Mozilla wants to create an open source alternative to voice assistants from Google, Apple and Amazon

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The foundation is creating an open source voice platform, based on artificial intelligence techniques and the contribution of volunteers around the world. French is already covered by this technology. The multiplication of objects with voice assistants shows that the voice could become the new human-machine interface of importance. Mozilla, which has already missed the mobile train, intends to make a place for itself in this new area and deploys a strategy that is starting to take off. In November 2017, the open source foundation launched DeepSpeech, a software platform for creating speech recognition systems based on deep learning algorithms. The architecture is inspired by a scientific paper from Baidu Research. The implementation is based on the Google TensorFlow open source platform for machine learning. Everyone can directly participate online All this artificial intelligence is useless if we do not have a stock of data with which we can feed it. This is why Mozilla has

Artificial intelligence: Google wants to submit to 7 ethical rules

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The Web giant wants to limit its technologies to positive uses for society. He also draws a line on the controversial Maven project, on smart drones of the US military. But he will continue to work with the military in other areas. The revolt of Google employees finally forced the management of the group out of the woods. For months, some of the "Googlers" has a dim view of the participation of the Web giant in Maven, a US military research project that aims to equip surveillance drones with artificial intelligence. In particular, it involves developing the capabilities of image analysis and object detection. Knowing that surveillance drones are the cornerstone of the US government's targeted assassination program, we understand better why this collaboration provoked an outcry at Mountain View. A petition has even been signed by more than 4,000 employees. Google leaders have now dropped the ballast through two notes of concomitant blogs. In the first, Sundar Pic

Porsche's 100% electric sports car will be called Taycan

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Goodbye Mission-E, hello Taycan. Porsche's 100% electric sports car now has an official name meant to evoke passion and freedom. The marketing of this racing car is scheduled for next year. We knew him as "Mission E", he will eventually be called Taycan. The manufacturer Porsche has indeed officialize the name of his 100% electric car. Born from the concept car Mission E presented in 2015 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Taycan - whose name would mean "fiery young horse" according to Porsche - takes all the features that have already made so much ink ... and have no doubt even dreaming. 600 horses and 500 km of autonomy Starting with its design, faithful to the very dynamic and racy lines of the other sports of the German brand. Taycan throws it! But on the performance side too. Of course. Taycan integrates two electric motors with a total power of 440 kW, the equivalent of nearly 600 horsepower. And the immediate availability of this power specific to

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