A micro bristle bot beside a penny. Max Planck Institute’s Physical Intelligence Department Half a century after Neil Armstrong memorably uttered the words “one giant leap for mankind,” technological innovation has gotten smaller. Yes, we still thrill to enormous, sky-scraping buildings and the gravity-defying power of rockets, but many of the biggest advances take place […]
Proving that his brain can still generate grand ideas, the man responsible for Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company took to a San Francisco stage on Tuesday evening to shed some light on Neuralink, an outfit launched by Elon Musk in 2016 aimed at developing “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.” […]
As expected, Apple did indeed release two new models of the MacBook Pro in May 2019. An updated 13-inch and 15-inch model are now available to buy: The outer design remains largely the same as previous MacBook Pro models, but Apple did add a couple of important improvement and upgraded many of the internal components […]
Could there be a bigger brag in the schoolyard (or, heck, any place) than laying claim to the fact that you named the next Mars rover? That’s exactly what NASA is promising K-12 students in the U.S. by launching a new contest that will allow some lucky, lucky student to name what could be humanity’s […]
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Tesla is planning on supporting YouTube on their cars’ central infotainment screen very soon. This announcement was made on Thursday, June 13, at the 2019 E3 video game event in Los Angeles by Elon Musk during a Q&A. Last August, Musk’s confirmed on Twitter that the company was working on hosting some kind of video […]
Heading up the first day of E3, AMD is set to make some big announcements at its “Next Horizon Gaming” keynote. The company is following up its recent Computex announcements with even more, and as a part of E3, we’re expecting it to be centered on gaming. Here’s everything you need to know about how […]
Enlarge / Access to playable scenes like this are why I bought a Tesla and not a PS4. Studio MDHR After March’s announcement that the hard-as-nails, retro-stylized platformer Cuphead was coming to the Nintendo Switch, we wondered what platform might be the next to see a port. Anything from iOS or PS4 to Linux or […]
Enlarge / Neon emoji and animoji images accompanied the invites to press. Apple Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts this Monday, June 3, with a stage presentation by Apple executives at 10am Pacific Time. WWDC is usually one of the two biggest Apple events of the year (the other is the now-recurring iPhone/Apple Watch event […]
An image, rumored to be of Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro, was leaked this week. However, specific design details included in the image seem to prove the unreliability of the picture. According to Apple Insider, the leaked image was released via Imgur and appears to be “an internal slide from a presentation for the “Mac Pro […]
Enlarge Google/Screenshot Google on Tuesday debuted an updated version of its Google Assistant platform during the keynote of its Google I/O developers conference. The company said it is internally calling this the “next-generation” Assistant and that it will first become available on Google’s “new Pixel phones” later this year. (Not to be confused with the […]
The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off carrying the SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station for its 16th commercial resupply services mission. NASA SpaceX will shortly be launching another resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX launch is scheduled to take place at 4:21 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, […]
Guangzhou, China-based self-driving startup Pony.ai is joining an exclusive club of companies that have launched autonomous ride-hailing programs. At this year’s Shanghai Auto Show, it took the wraps off of PonyPilot, a test project for “product-ready” driverless cars within a geofenced area in Guangzhou. It’s currently available to Pony.ai employees and “select affiliates” by invitation […]
Enlarge Microsoft First announced last year, Microsoft’s second-generation Surface Hub now has a price and release schedule—and a couple of new siblings, too. Surface Hub is Microsoft’s hardware dedicated to collaboration within meetings. It combines several roles, most notably digital whiteboarding and video conferencing, with Teams, Skype, and OneNote built into a single combined, integrated […]
GeoTel Like one of those comic book supervillain crossovers where The Joker meets Lex Luthor or Doctor Doom takes on Magneto, the world’s biggest tech companies are battling one another — with Earth as their ultimate prize. That might sound a bit melodramatic, but it also sums up a recent trend by Silicon Valley companies […]