— Oculus (@oculus) August 18, 2020 From the time the new policy starts, new Oculus users will have to log into the Oculus software with a Facebook account. If you have a separate Oculus account already, you’ll be encouraged from now on to merge it with your Facebook account. And if you have a non-merged Oculus account? It’ll remain available to you until the beginning of 2023, and then the company will stop supporting it....
Will it be Take-Two Interactive, whose catalog includes the 2K sports games and such notable franchises as Grand Theft Auto, Civilization, Bioshock, and Mafia? Perhaps it’ll be Square-Enix, the makers of Final Fantasy and Marvel’s Avengers. Or maybe it’ll be Warner Bros so Xbox can add the DC roster of superhero games to its holdings. And, if we’re going to make wild guesses that include the likes of Warner, why not toss Sony into the mix?...
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Many dealerships offer car buyers a brief orientation to these advanced driver-assist technologies. The glovebox manual, now thicker than ever, provides many of the technical details. But as car technology continues to advance, scientists are making important discoveries about the human side of the equation, particularly what happens when drivers are asked to perform familiar driving tasks in new ways. This aspect of new cars is seldom discussed during orientations or covered in manuals....
When empathy and understanding are not part of our daily life, we suffer. But social media has filled in that chasm — and it can provide a lifeline. I don’t drive on freeways, and while getting around Southern California has always been intimidating for me, with an infant it’s become even more difficult. Social media can function as the support group and family that most of us don’t have, or have trouble accessing physically....
In response, PIONIX has developed a project called EVerest, an open-source software stack designed to establish a common base layer for a unified EV charging ecosystem. EVerest has gained some serious cred in the developer world, with its biggest support LF Energy (the Linux open-source foundation for the power systems sector). I spoke to the project’s brainchild, Dr. Marco Möller, managing director of PIONIX, to find out more. What’s the problem with EV charging software?...
Sony revealed the new batch of colors in the PlayStation blog today. For the most part, the colors are what they say they are: Titanium Blue, Red Camo — which is kind of an oxymoron, but whatever — and Electric Purple, which has some very fetching white shape buttons. I’m with you so far. I might even pick up an Electric Purple — my old black Dualshock is starting to resemble a pair of tap shoes with the amount of scuffs and nicks it’s picked up in the last six years....
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This is why when Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for the metaverse – a network of virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects – and said that it will touch every product the company builds, I was scared. As a researcher who studies the intersections of race, technology and democracy – and as a Black woman – I believe it is important to carefully consider the values that are being encoded into this next-generation internet....
What’s interesting here is the that the company’s taken on the data gap between big tech and wee startups. One of the biggest bars to AI adoption for businesses is a lack of data. It’s relatively easy for Google or Facebook to collect gobs and gobs of data, but what if you’re a small business owner with a tiny dataset? Traditionally, this means you wouldn’t be able to train your neural networks on data that’s actually relevant to your business....
Seibel said in a statement that he’s excited to help provide advice and guidance to the company’s growth: He co-founded Justin.tv that was later turned into Twitch. Seibel named CEO of the core unit of Y-Combinator in 2016. Reddit has faced severe criticism for not handling issues such as racism, extremism, and violence. Earlier this month, Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit, called out current CEO Huffman for not acting on r/the_donalod quickly enough....
A group of security researchers have managed to exploit vulnerabilities in a Canon EOS 80D digital camera to hold its owner’s photos to a Bitcoin ransom, The Inquirer reports. The researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point Research exploited the camera’s picture transfer protocol (PTP), a piece of software typically used to transfer images from the device to a computer. Many modern cameras can transfer images over a WiFi connection, this is formerly known as PTP/IP (picture transfer protocol over internet protocol)....
Indium is used in many high-tech devices such as touch screens, smartphones, solar panels, and smart windows, in the form of indium tin oxide. This compound is optically transparent and electrically conductive — the two crucial features required for touch screens to work. But there’s a problem: we have no guaranteed long-term supply of indium. It is naturally found only in tiny traces and is therefore impractical to mine directly....
I’ve had the chance to go hands-on with the devices for about a few days before launch. While I’m not quite ready to write a final review — I haven’t been able to go out and take enough camera samples to be satisfied during the ongoing pandemic in New York — I’ve used the phones enough to give an early recommendation. We went over the specs and key features in our announcement post, so my current focus is on the user experience....
At the Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting yesterday, the company launched the upgraded AutoX Gen5 system, promising to offer better navigation capability, enhanced safety, and overall “superiority to the competitor’s systems.” This seems to be an answer to Baidu’s own fully autonomous taxi service, called Apollo, which started commercial operations in Beijing in May. The aces up AutoX’s sleeve Even if we take the new “superiority to the competitor’s systems” aside, AutoX might actually have quite a few advantages over Baidu....
So, why do I bring this up? Because although podcasts have become a little bit of a joke, I still love the medium. In many ways, it’s one of the ultimate successes of the internet era. Let me put it this way: What other type of content has such a low entry barrier, alongside such a high chance of building a successful community? And it’s the first part of that I’d like to talk about: The low entry barrier....
The event date is not entirely surprising as tipster Jon Prosser had hinted at this last November. — Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) January 3, 2021 Samsung will supposedly launch a trio of phones: the Galaxy S21, the Galaxy S21+, and the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The Ultra is rumored to lead the pack with a 108-megapixel main sensor and support for Samsung’s S-Pen stylus, like the company’s Galaxy Note series. Credit: Android Police However, if Samsung follows Apple’s steps, and removes the charging brick from the shipping boxes of these phones, that might take the headlines instead of the devices’ features....
This year, the Korean tech giant has upped its remote game by including a new ability: Wi-Fi Charging. Yes, the new remote can literally charge through your routers useless signals that bounce around your house. How cool is that! If you’re thinking about how this magic happens, the answer is RF harvesting, which collects radio waves from devices like your router and converts them into energy. Samsung says this will help the remote stay fully charged all the time....
Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Sloterdijk used to say: Let’s make it rock! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, December 02 2019, at a price of $7,321. That’s a minor 1.37 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$102.05. It was the lowest closing price in five days. We’re still 63 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....
Known as Xenobots, the organisms use an entirely novel form of biological self-replication, according to new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study authors discovered that the machines can gather hundreds of single cells and assemble them into “baby” Xenobots. After a few days, the offspring evolve to look and move just like their parents. The progeny can then repeat the process over and over again....
