How An LA Times Reporter Got An Algorithm To Write Articles For Him

inShare1 Whenever there is an earthquake in southern California, a system called Quakebot analyzes notifications from the US Geological Survey and automatically creates a blog post for the Los Angeles Times.  We first noticed this in a post titled "Earthquake aftershock: 2.7 quake strikes near Westwood" in the LA Times today via Gizmodo's Adam Clark Estes. At the bottom of the post it reads, "This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author." That author is Ken Schwencke, a journalist and web developer who lives in Los Angeles. Schwencke...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 apps leaked: S Note, WatchON, Gear Manager, and more [APK]

There’s less than a month before the Galaxy S5 launches worldwide in more than 150 markets, and as tradition would dictate, some of the apps from the upcoming flagship have been leaked online. An XDA forum member has leaked the APK files for numerous Samsung apps from the S5, with the full list including S Note, WatchON, Gear Manager, Gear Fit Manager, Calculator, S Health, and S Translator. As we exclusively reported before the S5 was announced, all of these apps sport revamped interfaces with a flatter and cleaner look, and you should be able to use them on existing devices like the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3, though you’ll...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Zoom specs leaked, will have a 19-megapixel camera

We exclusively confirmed earlier this year that Samsung was working on the Galaxy S5 Zoom (SM-C115), and now, the specs of the company’s second-generation phone-cum-camera device have been revealed through benchmark site GFXBench. The Galaxy S5 Zoom will sport a 19-megapixel main camera according to the benchmark, a noticeable upgrade over the 16MP sensor on the Galaxy S4 zoom, though the benchmark doesn’t mention its optical zoom capability (the S4 zoom had 10x optical zoom). There will also be a front camera, though this will be a standard 2-megapixel sensor. The Galaxy S5 zoom will have a 4.8-inch 720p display (Super AMOLED), and is powered by Samsung’s new hexa-core Exynos chipset that debuted on the Galaxy Note 3 Neo – the benchmark lists a clock speed of 1.3GHz, though...

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The best task manager for Android apps

Task managers used to be a really big deal. Back in the days of FroYo and Gingerbread there weren’t a lot of ways to deal with applications and if you opened one, it remained open to sap what precious RAM was available on phones back then. Since Ice Cream Sandwich and the inclusion of the stock Android task manager, the task manager apps ecosystem has kinda fallen into the background. That said, there are still a lot of people who prefer using third party task managers so we’ve put together a list of the task manager for Android apps. Android Task Manager Pro [Price: $4.70]First on our list is also one of the most expensive on our list with...

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Vodafone to hold exclusive rights to the Copper Gold Galaxy S5 in the UK

The Samsung Galaxy S5 will be available in a variety of colours when it finally goes on sale, but if you’re looking to get your hands on the new Copper Gold variety in the UK, then you’re choice of carriers is now limited to just one. In an official blog post, Vodafone UK has announced that the gold colour option for the Galaxy S5 will be made available exclusively to its customers. Vodafone hasn’t specified how long it will retain these exclusive rights in the UK, but judging from the blog post it could be for some time. This means that customers on other networks will have to make do with the Shimmer White, Electric...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 Review

Alongside the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was also launched the Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014), featuring the same faux leather back as the flagship phablet. Following that, Samsung introduced a new PRO line of tablets, in an effort to update its tablet offerings in various sizes, which also saw the introduction of the Tab Pro 10.1, despite there already being a pretty high-end 10-inch tablet around. So, is the Tab Pro 10.1 just a Note 10.1 (2014) without the S-Pen? We find, in our in-depth Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 review! At a Glance Pros High-resolution display Great performance Expandable storage Impressive battery life Cons Magazine...

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