Dyson searches for ‘ReThinkers’ a.k.a. world’s brightest minds

Dyson doesn’t just want smart people, they want the brightest minds. Those who are able to take on a series of challenges that test “ingenuity, wrong thinking, and perseverance.” This competition has an attractive prize waiting for those up to take the challenge: a chance to visit Dyson’s top secret technology campus in the UK and meet Dyson CEO Max Conze—all expenses paid for.

The British company opened the £250m campus in Malmesbury, Wiltshire last month. The site is currently home to 2,500 Dyson people with 129 laboratories, space for hands-on prototyping, designing, and breakout spaces for collaboration. The campus also has a multi-purpose sports facility and café to give the place the university feel. If that’s something you want to see in person, you can find out more here. There’s the first clue embedded in the opening video so keep your eye out for that.

Apple’s newest hire looks to address Siri’s shortcomings

Looks like Apple want to make sure Siri keeps up with its competition. The tech company has hired Carnegie Mellon University Professor Russ Salakhutdinov to head its team working on artificial intelligence, which is considered a big part of the industry’s future. And if this is your line of work, Salakhutdinov is even hiring people for his team. He’ll also remain as a professor at Carnegie Mellon. One of latest researches involve work on how to better derive context behind the questions people pose. If applied to Apple’s tech, that can come quite handy and perhaps put them back in the running in the virtual assistant space.

Excited about joining Apple as a director of AI research in addition to my work at CMU. Apply to work with my teamhttps://t.co/U2hQl2GdhA

— Russ Salakhutdinov (@rsalakhu) October 17, 2016

 

Source: Recode

Fitbit releases fix for Charge 2 distance tracking issue

Fitbit has admitted to two software issues with the Charge 2 that cause it to incorrectly display the distance it tracks. According to Fitbit one of the issues is related to the Connected GPS and when it’s used with a few modes like wall, hike, or interval. The other is when using multi-sport tracking for run and treadmill activities. The company says they have already fixed the issue through a free software upgrade.

"These software errors caused the tracker to occasionally calculate stats like pace and distance with less precision than we expect from our products," a spokesperson for Fitbit told The Verge via email. 

Kickstarter for Dyslexie font hopes to help out people with dyslexia

It’s impossible to put yourself in the shoes of someone else. So if you don’t understand what it must be like for dyslexics, then we can’t blamed you. But that doesn’t mean you can’t help them out. Christian Boer, a dyslexia sufferer and the man behind Dyslexie, hopes to make it easier for dyslexics to navigate the digital world. He created the typeface Dyslexie and designed the letters in a way that makes it difficult for people to flip or twist them while reading. He used things like letter weights, making them bolder at the base; larger capital letters; and bigger spaces between words. The font is available for Mac and PC users.

But Boer takes this a step further with a Kickstarter campaign for things like creating a PDF converter to change any document typeface into the Dyslexie font and a web browser extension to do the same for web pages. The campaign has around 34 days to go and a bit far from its 35,000 euros (around CA$50,500) target. But if this is something you’d like to get involved in, you can do so here.

Source: Digital Trends