| Facebook releases an impressive new photo feature, Boston Dynamics shows off a robot doing parkour and Tesla purchases are about to lose their eligibility for full tax credits. Here's your Daily Crunch for October 12, 2018. 1. Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth Take an iPhone portrait photo, select Facebook's new 3D Photos option and then anyone who sees the picture in the News Feed can tap and drag the it to see some depth. The feature was first announced earlier this year, when the company said it would use artificial intelligence to stitch together the real layers of the photo with what it infers should be there if you shifted your perspective. 
2. Watch Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot leap up massive steps like it's nothing At this point, we've gone from "Haha, neat, look at the funny robot running like a human," to "I'm pretty sure that robot could beat me up." 3. Tesla vehicles ordered after October 15 lose out on full tax credit eligibility Tesla customers who want the full $7,500 federal tax credit have until October 15 to order a Model S, Model X or Model 3 electric vehicle. The new deadline was posted on the company's website, and it could spark a flurry of last-minute sales. 4. Half of all devices now run iOS 12 Apple says iOS 12 adoption is taking place more quickly than the last release did. 5. With $50M in fresh funding, Allbirds will open new stores in the US, UK and Asia Like Warby Parker, San Francisco-based Allbirds began as a direct-to-consumer online retailer but has since expanded to brick-and-mortar, opening stores in San Francisco and New York. It currently ships to locations across the U.S., New Zealand, Australia and Canada. 6. Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50 percent in a year Admittedly, 30 million daily searches is still a drop in the ocean versus the at least 3 billion searches that Google handles daily. 7. IBM files formal JEDI protest a day before bidding process closes This is a protest again the structure of the Pentagon's winner-take-all $10 billion, 10-year JEDI cloud contract. Just about every vendor short of Amazon has been complaining about this strategy. | 
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