Enlarge / It’s baaaaaaack! (credit: ESA / ReedPOP) The annual gaming expo once known as E3 is finally drawing closer toward rebirth as a physical event. While information about the next iteration of E3 remains scarce, this week’s big news suggests a crucial change in how the decades-old event will work: a split between audience…
Maya drinking vessels had diameters of almost eight inches, more than double the size of most coffee mugs today. More chocolate please. Anabel Ford The Latin name for cacao translates to “food from the gods.” So who wouldn’t want to try this purest form of chocolate? According to new archaeological research, everyone in the ancient…
There’s still a lot left to haggle over, however. Unsplash In one of their few areas of political overlap, both the former Trump and current Biden administrations have been concerned about how much access TikTok has to American consumers’ data and information. Unlike domestically based apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, both federal regulators…
Making its television premiere tonight, “Ring Nation” is debuting amid calls from advocacy groups to cancel the show. MGM (now owned by Amazon) is leveraging footage from Ring security cameras (also owned by Amazon) to create a show along the lines of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” with Wanda Sykes as host. The show is a…
Services that help folks make, share and profit from creative works — Maven to Bounty to Substack to Patreon to Canva — have proliferated and grown in recent years. The rise of creator-focused startups was not an accident; instead, a secular trend of more accessible software for more diverse areas of creative work was met…
Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming. But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the…
I’ll be honest, I didn’t have a lot of faith in robot mops. A carpet and a tank of water — unattended — seems like a recipe for disaster for a machine that’s just guessing on floor type. And doesn’t babysitting defeat the purpose of a robotic cleaner in the first place? But Roborock’s latest stab…
The search for Do Kwon has just been taken to the next level. Interpol has just officially issued a “Red Notice” for the co-founder of the failed stablecoin Terra and Luna cryptocurrency. This means that Do Kwon is now an international fugitive, being sought out by law enforcement across the globe. According to Interpol’s website,…
What is old is now new again as Amazon is rolling out Alexa’s Conversation Mode to the second generation of Echo Show 8 smart displays. If Conversation Mode sounds familiar to you, that’s because it first appeared on the third generation of Echo Show 10 smart displays back in December 2021. And by all accounts,…
Linux boss Linus Torvalds has optimistically announced that version 6.0 of the open-source operating system should be with users very soon, despite some minor delays. According to his September 18 update on release candidate six (Linux 6.0-rc6), a lot of maintainers had been travelling because of the Maintainers’ Summit in Dublin, as well as OSS…