That PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is doing well on Xbox One isn’t really much of a shock. The game has become one of the most successful PC games of all time, so to hear Microsoft announce today that it has attracted more than 1 million players in its first 48 hours is just par for the course. It’s impressive, no doubt, but … Continue reading
It’s one thing for an autonomous car to strut its stuff on smooth, warm California tarmac, and quite another to do so on the frozen winter mix of northern Finland. Martti, a self-driving vehicle system homegrown in Finland, demonstrated just this in a record-setting drive along a treacherous (to normal drivers) Laplandish road. Martti is one of two cars designed by VTT Technical… Read More
This is a bit ironic. When FCC chairman and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai uploaded a video this week detailing all the things we’ll still be able to do after he killed net neutrality, he apparently forgot one key step: asking permission. You see, pa…
Tech’s biggest players have fully embraced the AI revolution. Apple, Qualcomm and Huawei have made mobile chipsets that are designed to better tackle machine learning tasks, each with a slightly different approach. Huawei launched its Kirin 970 at IF…
Facebook appears to be testing different options for how users share posts. The Next Web’s Matt Navarra tweeted tests of two new ways to post content that let you bypass posting to your profile.
Apple has ordered yet another TV series to add to its growing list of star-backed original productions. The company signed network sci-fi luminary Ronald D. Moore, veteran of several Star Trek series and developer of the Battlestar Galactica reboot,…
If you’ve never heard of Eve, I like to think of it as the OnePlus of computers: By ditching middlemen, this 11-person startup found a way to build and sell premium computers at a significant discount. The difference is, the people in charge didn’t d…
Rom-coms do women, journalists and women journalists a disservice when they treat the work as a means to a romantic end.
“Democrats are expected to act and then Republicans do not follow. They claim they will follow, but they don’t follow.”
For years now, rumors about foldable tablets and smartphones have been periodically springing up. Two of the companies that are usually at the heart of these rumors are Samsung and, more recently, Microsoft. We’re getting new reason to believe that Microsoft is working on some foldable devices of its own, and it revolves around a new patent filing that has … Continue reading