A classical concert in an ancient Tuscan city is perhaps the last place you’d expect to find a robot taking center stage. And yet on Tuesday, YuMi the robot did just that, taking on the role of conductor as he directed the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra in a rendition of Verdi in Pisa, Italy as part …
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Earlier we were 1st borough to deploy new Met Police drone to search for a High Risk Missing Person – useful piece of kit! #GDTeamC pic.twitter.com/VNpsHBMdA6 — Hackney Police (@MPSHackney) September 12, 2017 Police in the London borough of Hackney became the first in the capital to use a drone to search for a high-risk missing person on Tuesday. The …
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Now playing: Watch this: Toshiba’s Star Wars TV is the screen you’ve been looking… 1:09 Here’s a test of your Star Wars loyalty. Do you love Star Wars so much that you’d watch Star Wars even when you’re watching something other than Star Wars? That’s more or less what Toshiba’s new TVs, designed in collaboration with Lucasfilm, let you do. …
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Whether you’re in a bar playing obnoxiously loud music or just a little hard of hearing, we all know what it’s like to struggle to hear what someone physically close to us is saying. Danish startup Lizn has developed one solution with its Hearpieces wireless earbuds, which can be used to listen to music or to enhance the hearing of …
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“Alexa, fast forward to the bit where it gets good already.” That’s just one of the commands (sorta) that you’ll be able give to a new range of Toshiba TVs announced at IFA in Berlin on Thursday. Amazon’s voice assistant will enable hands-free control of the televisions, provided you have an Echo or Echo Dot smart home hub within hollering …
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The BlackBerry KeyOne will soon get a pal. BlackBerry phone manufacturer TCL will release a companion to the KeyOne in October, with at least one major difference — it won’t have a keyboard. “Two months from now, we will have a touchscreen solution to show,” François Mahieu, head of global sales for TCL, said in a briefing at the IFA tech …
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Spotify has a treat for those who use the music-streaming service for free. Starting now, free users will be able to enjoy and control music through a Google Home device, just as premium subscribers have been able to do since the launch of the home hub, Spotify said Friday. The news could nudge some free Spotify users toward investing in …
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YouTubers, influencers and habitual sharers, listen up. Nokia has a new phone designed specifically for you. With the newly unveiled Nokia 8, you can livestream your breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in between straight from the camera to either Facebook or YouTube. Not only that, but you can use split-screen (or “dual sight” in Nokia parlance) to show your own …
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Put your wallet away. From Tuesday you’ll be able to tip your Uber driver through the app… if you want to, that is. Heavy tipping at every opportunity might be seen as more of an American custom, but if you fancy chucking your driver a little extra as a sign of gratitude, you’ll be able to as part of a …
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Facebook Messenger bots are used for everything from ordering food to reading news to booking flights. In the hands of crisis-mapping platform Ushahidi, they’re also monitoring election-related violence. Tuesday is election day in Kenya, which in a year of critical elections around the globe might make it seem like just another day. But it’s not. Presidential elections in Kenya — …
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