The autonomous self driving vehicle isn’t a new concept. Infact, long before Apple’s or Google’s self driving cars were ever conceived of, one of the first artificially intelligent cars that learned through machine learning was created in 1989 by Dean Pomerlaeu’s Team at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) called ‘ALVINN’. The ALVINN system went on to drive the land military vehicle coast to coast, and was only under computer control by a human for 50 out of the 2850 miles […]
Google’s own brand of phone, the Pixel was launched last year n three distinct colours – ‘quite black’, ‘very silver’ and ‘really blue’ however for some reason here in the UK we only got the black and silver options and only customers in the US could get the out the blue variant. Well starting earlier this week, Google is now offering the ‘really blue’ option in the UK, although for […]
Google have hosted their first Tensorflow Dev Summit several days ago and they have announced the release of TensorFlow version 1.0. Infact, Tensorflow has become so popular, it is now the number one Deep learning library (API) on Git Hub and has remained so ever since it’s initial release V0.0 in November 2015. So what is all the craze about? TensorFlow is an open source framework for deep learning. Deep learning technology […]
Like every year in June, Apple hosts a week long event for iOS and macOS developers. Allowing them to have insight into the new features of the upcoming operation systems and APIs. But on the first day of that week, Apple hosts a keynote presentation outlining the next version of iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. WWDC 2017 Today, Apple has revealed when this years conference will take place – this […]
It’s such a tough yet easy question to answer. BlackBerry seemed to have it all, but in 4 short years they lost the market and the fan base. But what happened? Market share loss It has been said for a long while now, but success as it’s know is definitely now over for BlackBerry. As of today the total market share for the company has just dropped to effectively 0.0%. Things were […]
Own a Mac and always wondered what Time Machine is or wanted to know how to easily back up your Mac? What is Time Machine? Time Machine is a built in feature to Macs that makes backing up your pictures, music and documents very easy, it’ll keep a day by day snapshot, so you can restore the entire operating system back to a specific day if that is ever a […]
News from Alex and Ed Gaming Microsoft’s Forza franchise has been going for 12 years now and has hit a major milestone, in those years it has generated $1 billon in total sales. Forza isnt the first game of Microsoft’s to reach $1 billon – Age of Empires, Halo, Minecraft and Gears of War all reached this level in the past. So the first Forza game was launched alongside the Xbox […]
Amazon’s big investment in the old Top Gear trio was a big gamble, but this has paid off for the retail giant, in big way. While the viewing figures may not be as big as Top Gear once was, it has certainly been popular. With the first series now over, the viewing figures have been revealed. The Grand Tour had 2.3m UK viewers in December, whereas for the last series of […]
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News from Alex and Ed Gaming When Microsoft launched the backwards compatibly support for the Xbox One, not many games were available, especially not from Rockstar. Well this week that has changed, the ever popular Grand Theft Auto IV is now available to play on the Xbox One and some reports have shown that there is a large improvement in performance over playing on the Xbox 360. The base game and the […]
