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Before I got my hands on the Meta Quest 3 east month, I was thoroughly underwhelmed by the concept of mixed reality (MR) gaming. I wasn’t a huge fan of devices like the Magic Leap One, seeing as its augmented reality games were so rudimentary. So, when Meta made enhanced MR the marquee feature of the Quest 3, it seemed more like a gimmick than something I’d find any interest in. Boy, was I wrong. The Quest 2 was already a great VR headset, and the Quest 3 only iterates on this further with its updated specs,…

Singapore-based cryptocurrency investment startup Pillow, which counts Accel, Elevation Partners and Quona Capital among its backers, said it will be shutting down its operations due to regulatory uncertainty. Founded in 2021 by Arindam Roy, Rajath KM, and Kartik Mishra, Pillow had last reported having 75,000 users in 2022. Within the Pillow app, users can invest and save in US Dollar-backed stablecoins and multiple blue-chip cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. In a note to its users on Friday,…

The best way to spend $165 to sleep better on a flight is to put that money towards a seat upgrade, but if you’re a frequent flier, those extra fees can quickly add up. Another solution is the TruRest, a foldaway contraption that promises to support your body in a forward leaning position, letting you supposedly sleep comfortably even on a cramped economy class seat.He Tossed His Bitcoin, Now He Wants It BackThe decision by airlines to make the flying experience evenmore awful by cramming as many passengers as possible…

Talk about a jetpack joyride The Entertainment Software Rating Board, or ESRB, has released its rating for Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG Starfield. There’s little surprise that it garnered an M for Mature rating, but it’s the details of this rating that have been fun to read about today. As part of its rating process, the ESRB lays out both its letter grading and reasoning. Among the descriptors, there are: Blood, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs, and Violence, as well as In-Game Purchases. While that…

Mike Lindell, the My Pillow Guy and prominent 2020 election denier, needs to lay out a lot more cushions on his legs to stop him from shooting himself in the foot. His mealy-mouthed rhetoric surrounding the “Big Lie” caused him to make easily-disproved proclamations and more than a few promises he could not keep. Two years ago, Lindell promised anybody a $5 million prize if they could prove that Chinese hackers did not mess with U.S. voting machines to elect President Joe Biden. On Wednesday, one cyber forensics expert…

A comprehensive guide to unsupervised ML and the K-Means algorithm with a demo of a clustering use case for grouping image pixels by colorPhoto by Billy Huynh on UnsplashUnsupervised learning is a method in which underlying patterns in data can be discovered without providing extra information (or labels/targets) to a machine learning algorithm. In this article, I have documented a pretty cool application of the K-Means clustering algorithm that I recently found out while reading some image-processing articles along with…

To most, Lewis Carroll is best known as the whimsical author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but did you know that he was also an avid puzzler and published mathematician? Among his many contributions was a book of mathematical puzzles that he called “Pillow Problems.” They are so named because Carroll devised them in bed to distract himself from anxious thoughts while falling asleep. He wrote that while stirring in bed, he had two choices: “either to submit to the fruitless self-torture of going through some…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)MyPillow CEO and proverbial yeller at clouds Mike Lindell is under investigation by the Department of Justice for potential identity theft and intent to damage a protected computer potentially connected to a 2020 Colorado voting equipment security breach.Lindell’s legal team published a copy of the search and seizure warrant issued against him as part of Lindell’s broader lawsuit against the FBI and Justice Department to try and return his cell phone. FBI agents seized Lindell’s phone…

Create animated GIFs of your plots with the python library Pillow to bring life to your insightsPhoto by Awesome Sauce Creative on UnsplashScenarioYou are a data scientist that has developed an algorithm or performed some advanced analysis linked to a dynamic process.Because you want to show the impact of your solution, you plot the results using a conventional library of python.Example of a Pathfinding Solution — (Image by Author)However, your graphs are not self-explicit and do not reflect the dynamic aspect of the…

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