Last fall, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, asked his counterpart at Microsoft, Satya Nadella, if the tech giant would invest billions of dollars in the start-up. Microsoft had already pumped $ 13 billion into OpenAI, and Mr. Nadella was initially willing to keep the cash spigot flowing. But after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly ousted […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Astria Ascending is one of the surprises from the recent ID@Xbox stream. It’s a Japanese-RPG from development shop Artisan Studio and publisher Dear Villagers, and I found its hand-drawn art and hints to its […]
Neuralink Neuralink, Elon Musk’s computer to brain interface firm, has released a video it claims shows a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind. Its brain signals were sent wirelessly via an implanted device. The hope is that the interface could eventually allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers remotely. […]
Note: This was a rather sly but fun April Fools’ joke from Wccftech. Fun to imagine though! While gamers are still struggling to get their hands on Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards based on the Ampere architecture, Nvidia is already hard at work on the successor to the flagship RTX 3080. Powering […]
Farewell Uber, Open Table and apps for airlines I no longer fly. Hello DoorDash, Zoom and apps for picking wine to drink at home. As politicians and newspapers won’t let you forget, it has now been a whole year since the coronavirus first turned us into pandemic hermits. One less-obvious way to measure how your […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla’s Bay Area production plant recorded hundreds of covid-19 cases following CEO Elon Musk’s defiant reopening of the plant in May, according to county-level data obtained by a legal transparency website. The document, obtained by the website PlainSite following a court ruling this year, showed Tesla received around 10 reports of covid-19 […]
An online spreadsheet with an anonymous minder tabulates Xi Jinping’s crackdown on speech. In China, don’t question the heroes. At least seven people over the past week have been threatened, detained or arrested after casting doubt over the government’s account of the deaths of Chinese soldiers during a clash last year with Indian troops. Three […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Publisher Square Enix and developer People Can Fly are releasing a demo of their Outriders RPG shooter today in advance of the game’s release on April 1. The demo is three hours, […]
The Pixel… 5a? It looks exactly like all the other recent Pixels. Steve Hemmerstoffer I spy a headphone jack and a rear fingerprint reader. Steve Hemmerstoffer The Pixel’s flashy power button is its one unique design touch. Steve Hemmerstoffer Steve Hemmerstoffer, aka OnLeaks, is back with our first look at a render of Google’s next midrange […]
Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide levels are at the highest they’ve been in the last 800,000 years. Together with other drivers, greenhouse gases likely […]
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 Razer showed off a smart mask, a futuristic gaming chair, and two new Razer Blade laptops that use Nvidia’s […]
We’ve all seen people riding e-bikes. And there’s even a good chance you’ve taken one for a spin, if you live in a city with a bikeshare program. Up until last week, that was my only exposure to e-bikes. I hadn’t ever been on a serious e-bike, nor had I really considered buying one or […]
The MagSafe Duo charger. Apple It folds up like this. Apple Here it is with two devices on it. Apple Today, Apple finally began selling and shipping the MagSafe Duo charger, an accessory that was announced alongside the new iPhone 12 lineup on October 13. The MagSafe Duo is a charging pad that uses Qi […]
Opening up the iPhone 12 mini. Samuel Axon Here’s the battery. Samuel Axon And the logic board. Samuel Axon The full teardown. Samuel Axon iFixit has posted its teardown of the iPhone 12 mini, and it found inside what seems clear from the outside: a smaller version of the iPhone 12, with no missing features […]
The back apparently comes in gray and light blue. Marques Brownlee A strategically lit front shot, which doesn’t show much detail other than the two front cameras. Marques Brownlee This is technically a rejected prototype design, but I think that was mostly in reference to the rear-camera design. The front design looks like a match […]