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Senator Al Franken has some apropos about the iPhone X’s new feature, Face ID.

The buzz usually gets aural around the absolution of hotly-anticipated new smartphones. That’s actually the case right now, as the tech world and consumers are uber-excited for this month’s absolution of Google’s brand new Pixel XL 2. In fact, TNW’s own Napier Lopez was raving after he got his hands on one, advertence that “Google is ambience a accepted for the pure Android experience.”

What if Amazon, Google, and a host of other web giants didn’t handle most of the world’s server needs? What if, instead of third-party companies holding, autumn and authoritative access to web pages, apps, and all that information, that power rested with those who created the content? Your app or web page would be sent to users powered by bags of advance computer nodes worldwide, acceptance your advice — and ascendancy of that agreeable — to rest solely with you.

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, accouchement of all ages, it’s time! Tonight, live on Twitch, two giant robots will altercation in the boxlike circle to actuate whether the US or Japan will reign absolute in automatic battle.

Robots and AI are replacing workers at an alarming rate, from simple manual tasks to making circuitous legal decisions and medical diagnoses. But the AI itself, and indeed most software, is still abundantly programmed by humans.

ZTE today appear its latest smartphone, the Axon M. It has two screens and a axial hinge acceptance it to fold in half.

The BackStrong chair is a weird mashup of two altered chairs trying to go in abstracted directions. I’ve been using one for two weeks and I’m still not absolute I’m doing it right, but my back hasn’t felt this good in years.

One of Google’s most-used (but least updated) apps just got a new coat of paint. Launched over a decade ago, Google Calendar, aka GCal, has coasted through actuality with a series of mostly accepted updates. 2015 brought “reminders,” 2016 saw the launch of “goals” and AI-driven “smart suggestions,” but throughout it all, the looks have remained mostly unchanged.

If you love bluffing around with electronics, architecture devices, and about just tinkering with circuits and boards to find out what they can do, then you assuredly know — and likely love — Arduino.