AlphaGo won the last game against Lee Sedol and has completed a near perfect score of 4-1 in the match. That has proven how incredible what Google DeepMind team has accomplished with this AI system and paves the way for future applications of this engine. As I wrote this morning commenting at Slashdot, this is …
Author: Javier Pastor
→Javier Pastor is a technology journalist that has been writing about tech since 1999. He started writing for PC Actual in Spain, the leading printed magazine in the country, and in 2006 started to write online. First as the Chief Editor for The Inquirer ES, and after that for MuyComputer until 2013. That year he became senior editor at Xataka, the leading tech news website in Spanish with over 5M uniques/month (Aug'15, comScore). Xataka is part of Weblogs SL, a blog network that gets over 40M uniques/month and that has a wide catalog of publications in Spanish.
The Unshut is his new venture and allows him to express his opinions and thoughts on everything touched by technology, and follows what he has been doing at Incognitosis, his personal blog, since 2005.
Microsoft has announced its support for Cross-Network Play, allowing Xbox owners to play games with anyone on PC or PlayStation. First, the caveats – this… Usually you buy your console based on what your friends already have. Until now that was the only way you could be sure you would enjoy the game experience with …
Latest data from IDC suggest that convertibles will transform current tablet sales: the current sales drop this year (5.9% from 2015) will stop next year with “single-digit growth in 2017“. That growth will have a leader: Windows. Microsoft’s operating system is leading this market now, but it will do with even more strength in the next …
AlphaGo has beaten Lee Se-dol, one of the best Go players in the world. A machine has showed us its superiority at something that during decades was dominated by human intelligence. And that proves once again that Artificial Intelligence has an incredible path ahead, one that is both incredibly promising and incredibly disturbing. The feat was accomplished …
HTC’s revenue has dropped 55% year-on-year accoding to its latest financial results. The company situation is worrisome, and its smartphone business has been unable to reverse that fact. Every single model released in the last few years hasn’t had the warm welcome other HTC devices had in the previous years. But HTC is far from …
UWP first step towards “locking down the consumer PC ecosystem,” says Tim Sweeney. Microsoft and its universal platform goes beyond using your smartphone as your PC. It’s all about the one thing businesses want more than anything: control. That’s what Apple has accomplished with its App Store, and what Google has accomplished with Google Play. …
I don’t play videogames as much as I used to, but that doesn’t mean that from time to time I don’t want to play them. Unfortunately that’s the usual situation in my case: I’ve got a Dell XPS 13 (9343). A great machine for almost everything, but not for gaming. No laptop is suitable for …
I’ve been a Xbox One user since its debut, but I’m the minority here in Spain, a country devoted to the PS4. It’s hard to defend that minor position with friends -not many can play along with me- but we can for sure defend it with facts. One of the latest ones comes from the …
The new Raspberry Pi 3 is out, and it is a new, impressive iteration of the device that conquered the maker movement. The spec sheet has been improved with a new, more powerful processor (1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53) but above all with native WiFi (802.11n) and Bluetooth 4.1 support . The initial reception of …
The Windows Bridge for Android (Project Astoria) is dead. Microsoft has announced that on a new post on the Windows blog in which they explain that apparently the feedback from developers was critical to this decision We also announced the Windows Bridge for Android (project “Astoria”) at Build last year, and some of you …