Listen to This Article To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Hundreds of people gathered for the first lecture at what had become the world’s most important conference on artificial intelligence — row after row of faces. Some were East Asian, a few were […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Diablo IV was a major part of Blizzard’s BlizzCon Online event last weekend, with the studio revealing the rogue class and explaining new systems like camps. It was our best look at […]
Enlarge / The 2020 Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, which had a 4K OLED display. Samsung The world’s biggest OLED manufacturer is making a push for more OLED laptop screens. A press release from Samsung Display says the company is making “very large quantities of 14-inch, 90Hz OLED displays destined for laptops and notebooks, beginning in March.” […]
When 3D printing went mainstream in the mid-2010s and exploded in popularity, it was about as hyped up as it possibly could be. Evangelists told us it would fundamentally transform the way goods were made, and usher in a bold new era of creative freedom. Soon, they said, we’d be able to fabricate anything we […]
Driving Game Growth & Into the Metaverse Register today to connect with the games industry, join private networking sessions, and hear the latest on driving game growth and the metaverse. January 26-28, 2021 Register for free Ubisoft is making an open-world Star Wars game. Lucasfilm Limited and Ubisoft made the announcement this morning, and you […]
Apple’s new M1 MacBooks have captured the attention – and enthusiasm – of Mac users in a way that has not been seen for years. We are now talking about Macs not in terms of how premium they look or feel, but primarily how their Apple Silicon processors trounce the competition. The performance is the […]
Team Red gamers who lamented AMD’s decision to stop making its in-house Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs will have one more reason to be thankful this holiday season. Citing the overwhelming popularity of its latest GPUs, AMD had reversed course, with the company confirming it will continue to manufacture the reference designs of its […]
The new iPhone SE resembles the iPhone 8 in design, but it sports an A13 chip and aluminum edges. Apple A picture of the SE featuring the camera and that classic home button for Touch ID. Apple These are the available colors. Apple The new iPhone SE is here, and it’s an attractive product: it […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook demonstrates the company’s face shields in a Twitter video. Tim Cook Apple CEO Tim Cook took to a Twitter video to announce that the company will design and make face shields for medical workers battling the COVID-19 crisis, to the tune of one million shields per week. This announcement follows already […]
The Nikon D780 makes a strong case for being the best full-frame DSLR you can buy. It’s the follow-up to 2014’s D750, a camera that was — and remains — extremely popular. While many of the specs haven’t changed dramatically on paper, is there enough packed into Nikon’s newest DSLR to warrant an upgrade? For […]
Making money in video games isn’t just about developing games and tools. Sometimes it’s about developing an audience that wants to hear you talk about PlayStation, Xbox, and more. That’s exactly the business that Kinda Funny cofounder Greg Miller is building, and we talk about that on this week’s episode of How Games Make Money. […]
Olympus E-M1 Mark III “The Olympus E-M1 Mark III makes previously impossible shots easy.” Excellent stabilization Starry sky autofocus Quick performance Handheld high-res mode Weather-sealed EVF could be better Metering was a bit unpredictable Same sensor as Mark II MSRP $ 1,799.00 Some photographers are pixel peepers. They reach for the biggest, highest-resolution sensors and […]
This is a screenshot of a Fieldbit AR view of a water treatment plant. The user can see equipment identification and telemetry tagged directly to individual machines. Fieldbit Fieldbit isn’t a hardware company; their piece of the pie is in the software that provides the AR view. Workers don’t necessarily have to wear smart glasses; […]
There seems to be a general shift away from manufacturing products in China, and it’s not simply because President Trump demanded US companies move production elsewhere. The latest company to exit China also happens to be the largest phone maker in the world. As Reuters reports, Samsung this week announced that it will no longer […]
Enlarge / A Foxconn facility. Ken Marshall / Flickr Apple and Foxconn violated a Chinese labor rule by using too many temporary staff at a major factory that makes iPhones. As reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the two companies confirmed the allegation. Chinese labor law allows facilities like Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant to operate with no […]