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Editors' choice Edifier S1000DB bookshelf speakers are 33% off

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 8:19 a.m. | Original

The Edifier S1000DB wireless bookshelf are one of our favorites speakers of 2020. Normally sold for $350 (with rare discounts), today you can grab them for $234 direct from Edifier.com, making them a steal. Use code EDIFIER for the full discount.

AI trained on Nirvana lyrics created this original song

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 5:21 a.m. | Original

Through the looking glass: As the saying goes, “all good things must come to an end.” This, inevitably, includes the creation of music from your favorite band or performer. Whether the result of creative differences, an untimely passing or something else entirely, Father Time always wins. But what if artificial intelligence could intervene?

YouTuber Funk Turkey has been experimenting with this very proposition, feeding band lyrics to an AI and asking it to write an entirely new song based on the output. The results are,

'King of Kong' Billy Mitchell is back in the record books at Guinness

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 3:58 a.m. | Original

What just happened? Arcade gaming legend Billy Mitchell is back in the record books. In a video published on Thursday, Guinness World Records Editor in Chief Craig Glenday said that after Mitchell appealed their decision to dismiss his records, they reopened his case to re-examine the evidence which involved reviewing existing evidence, newly sourced eyewitness testimony and new expert gameplay analysis as well as conducting hardware verification.

In February 2018, Mitchell’s various achievements in arcade classic Donkey Kong were called into question over allegations that he

Before being known as PayPal, the company went by what name?

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 3:31 a.m. | Original

Young Elon Musk, Max Levchin and Peter Thiel...

Honeywell lays claim to the fastest quantum computer in the world

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 2:46 a.m. | Original

Recap: Honeywell has made good on its promise to build the highest performing quantum computer in the world. Back in March, the multinational conglomerate said it would launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer “within the next three months.” On Thursday, it did just that with a system featuring a quantum volume of 64 – twice as powerful as the next fastest system in the industry, Honeywell claims.

Quantum volume is a measurement that takes into account the number of qubits, or quantum bits, of a

Nintendo shares jump as Covid-19 gaming explosion continues

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 2:07 a.m. | Original

In a nutshell: While many businesses are suffering in the wake of the lockdowns, one industry that has thrived is the video game sector. With investors betting on more people turning to gaming as other activities struggle with Covid-19 restrictions, Nintendo has seen its market value rocket.

The Financial Times reports that Nintendo is currently valued at around $62 billion, more than Japan’s biggest bank, retailer, and chemical company. Analysts say the valuation reflects the possibility that Nintendo will have sold more than 7

Facebook buys Google Street View competitor Mapillary

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 1:34 a.m. | Original

Editor's take: It wasn’t all that long ago that digital maps weren’t even a thing. I can vividly remember going on family vacations armed with little more than a road atlas from the local gas station (and more often than not, simply pulling out an old version from the glove box). Between paper maps and road signs, that’s all you really had to go on when navigating unfamiliar territory. My, how times have changed.

Facebook this week acquired Swedish-based crowdsourced

Apple could be renaming iOS to iPhone OS at next week's keynote

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 12:55 a.m. | Original

Rumor mill: Apple is set to reveal plenty of new features and improvements for its mobile operating system at WWDC 2020 next week. A new leak claims that the company could also be rebranding the software by renaming iOS to what it was originally called a decade ago: iPhone OS. The move is said to bring the naming scheme in-line with iPadOS as Apple looks to increasingly differentiate both platforms.

Apple's online-only WWDC is just around the corner, which means we'll get to

TechSpot News | June 19, 2020, 12:08 a.m. | Original |

A hot potato: The battle between Twitter and Donald Trump is showing no signs of abating after another of the president’s tweets was publicly flagged by the company. On this occasion, a video showing a fake CNN news report on a 'racist baby' was retweeted by Trump, which led to Twitter adding a warning label that the post featured manipulated media.

The original version of the video first appeared on CNN’s website last year. It shows a white toddler and a black toddler running toward each other and

10 Great Free Steam Games

TechSpot News | June 18, 2020, 11:10 p.m. | Original

We went on a hunt for 10 fantastic free (or free-to-play) Steam games. By narrowing things down so much, this list was never meant to be exhaustive nor comprehensive, but to highlight a handful of great titles.

In a nutshell: While many businesses are suffering in the wake of the lockdowns, one industry that has thrived is the video game sector. With investors betting on more people turning to gaming as other activities struggle with Covid-19 restrictions, Nintendo has seen its market value rocket.

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