Archive for October 2017

iPhone 8 teardowns

iFixit Teardown Gives First Look at iPhone 8′s Guts. View IFixit iPhone 8 Teardown to  find out if Apple’s playing a game of mere numerical catch-up to Samsung’s Galaxy S8 line, or if glass backing and wireless charging warrants skipping ahead a grade. iFixit’s iPhone 8 teardown shows that you really don’t want to crack

AI hype has peaked so what’s next? | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/30/ai-hype-has-peaked-so-whats-next/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tcfbpage&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook Year 2017 has been the year of AI, reaching a fever pitch of VC and corporate investment. But, as with any hot technology, AI is outgrowing this phase of experimentation and hype. According to research firm Gartner, we’re past the “peak of inflated expectations.”  Next up is a necessary recalibration of the space—one that

Turning up the heat on electrons reveals an elusive physics phenomenon | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/turning-heat-electrons-reveals-elusive-physics-phenomenon Electrons in platinum move in different directions depending on their spin when the metal is heated at one end. Scientists have observed this phenomenon, called the spin Nernst effect, for the first time. “The measurement was a tour de force; the measurement was ridiculously hard”  The effect and its brethren — with names like the