TMO Deals

MOGICS Power Bagel Travel Power Strip: $36.95

Bryan Chaffin ·

We have a deal on the MOGICS Power Bagel, a power strip in the shape of a bagel designed to be portable. It features five international AC outlets (UK, EU, AU, 2x US), and two USB charging ports. The power chord rolls up onto the device, too. It’s $36.95 through our deal.

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EU Commission Still Angry at Apple Over Tax

Charlotte Henry ·

Despite its court defeat vs Apple earlier in the week, the European Commission doesn’t seem to be changing its approach when it comes to taxing tech firms. EU Observer reported comments from top EU officials.

“We do not consider it normal that the largest corporates get away with paying one percent tax at most,” European Commission executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters. “It is just not sustainable from a tax-fairness point of view, it is not sustainable from a public revenues point of view and it needs to be addressed,” he said. Paolo Gentiloni, the EU commissioner for economy, made similar comments. “A single ruling is not discouraging our commitment in this sense. I would say the contrary.”

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Google’s ‘Fabricius’ Tool Uses ML to Decode Hieroglyphs

Andrew Orr ·

Here’s something cool that Google has created: A web tool called “Fabricius” that uses machine learning to decrypt hieroglyphs.

So far, experts had to dig manually through books upon books to translate and decipher the ancient language–a process that has remained virtually unchanged for over a century. Fabricius includes the first digital tool – that is also being released as open source to support further developments in the study of ancient languages – that decodes Egyptian hieroglyphs built on machine learning.