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Motorcycle riding is a perfect pandemic activity, outdoors and socially distanced, and Harley-Davidson wants to ensure that people who are new to it are doing it properly and safely. From now through Dec. 31, the motorcycle company will give away 500 passes to its Harley-Davidson Riding Academy to non-riders nominated by friends and family via…Read More

Welcome to Neural’s guide to the glorious future of AI. What wonders will tomorrow’s machines be capable of? How do we get from Alexa and Siri to Rosie the Robot and R2D2? In this speculative science series we’ll put our optimist hats on and try to answer those questions and more. Let’s start with a big one: The Singularity. The future realization of robot lifeforms is referred to by a plethora of terms – sentience, artificial general intelligence (AGI), living machines, self-aware robots, and so forth – but the one that seems most fitting is “The Singularity.” Rather than debate…

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LONDON–The famed London Underground has been running since 1863, and its bold, red signage is instantly recognizable to anyone traveling around the city looking for a train. Just as recognizable–to gamers, at least–are the four icons that make up the controls of a Sony PlayStation gaming console. To celebrate the launch of the PS5, PlayStation…Read More

One month after Apple TV+ signed a deal to move the classic Peanuts holiday specials from broadcast TV to its streaming platform, the company has relented and will allow two of the programs to air on linear TV after all. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas will run ad-free on PBS and…Read More

Walmart is the latest retailer to offer live Christmas tree orders and delivery as brands continue to seek ways to meet consumer needs during a pandemic-era holiday season. To order a Christmas tree online, Walmart customers first visit the retailer’s ecommerce site. There, they can search by tree type and height (ranging from 3 to…Read More

Have you ever wished you could snuggle up with pizza? Now, thanks to a partnership between QSR Pizza Hut and premium sleep and wellness brand Gravity Products, you can. This seemingly odd brand couple has united to produce a limited-edition pizza-themed Gravity blanket: the Original Pan Weighted Blanket, which, of course, will be delivered in…Read More

Google has released a prototype AI app that turns your sketches into fantastical monsters — with varying degrees of success. The Big G developed the Chimera Painter to produce an endless stream of creatures for a fantasy card game in which the different monsters battle. The system is powered by generative adversarial networks (GANs), which create new content by pitting two neural networks against each other: a generator that creates new images and a discriminator that attempts to identify which of the designs have been artificially created. The tool’s creators trained the GANs on thousands of computer-generated creature images, each of which was…

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Over the last 50 years, the U.S. has added more than 8,000 breweries, according to the Brewer’s Association. While the proliferation of craft microbreweries is changing the stateside beer game, there’s really no way any American brewer can compete with Belgium–or Europe as a whole–when it comes to the legacy those brews have as part…Read More

The E.gg experimental iOS application first introduced by the Facebook NPE Team in July is now available to everyone in the U.S. via the iTunes App Store. E.gg enables users to incorporate bits–GIFs, images, shapes and text–into freeform canvases and share them anywhere on the web, via unique URLs that can be viewed without downloading…Read More

Walmart enjoyed another solid quarter buoyed by ecommerce growth as customer behavior continues to shift from what it was prior to the pandemic to what it will become. On Tuesday, Walmart said Q3 net sales in the U.S. were up 6.2% year over year to $88.4 billion, while ecommerce sales were up 79% thanks in…Read More