Google is experimenting with putting ultra-wideband (UWB) connectivity into their Android hardware, likely for the Pixel 6 family of phones.
Over the last year or so, UWB has become the latest hot feature for smartphones and smart home devices alike. In the Apple ecosystem, the iPhone 12 series uses UWB to do neat things like connect to a HomePod Mini just by bringing your phone close to it or…
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The Call of Duty Endowment unveiled its #CODEMedicalHeroes campaign to raise $3 Million to employ veterans in high-paying jobs.
Under the campaign, the endowment will honor veteran medics and hospital corpsmen…
While many now understand that science, technology, engineering, art, and math education, or STEAM, is important to the success of the video game industry, it’s critical to creating meaningful opportunities for marginalized people.
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Epic Games has acquired ArtStation, which operates a marketplace for artists to sell their art, post jobs, and host portfolios — and it’s cutting the fees that folks pay to sell their wares on the site. The companies said the goal is to accelerate the development and growth of the creator community worldwide.
This partnership…
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Facebook today announced that it developed an algorithm in collaboration with Inria called DINO that enables the training of transformers, a type of machine learning model, without labeled training…
IBM is acquiring Turbonomic to advance AIOps agenda
April 30, 2021
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IBM announced this week that it is acquiring Turbonomic, provider of application resource management (ARM) and network performance management (NPM) software infused with machine learning…
The Perlan Museum — host of a state-of-the-art 8K planetarium and other exhibitions focused on Iceland — commissioned filmmaker Ragnar Th. Sigurðsson, founder of Arctic Images, and drone pilot Arnar Þór Þórsson to fly an 8K-capable 360 camera over the erupting volcano to capture an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience.
On March 19th, 2021, the Mt. Fagradalsfjall volcano in…
While Google Chrome is undoubtedly the biggest browser across desktop and mobile, Microsoft Edge is set to add a tab sharing feature between the Chromium-based browser and the Android counterpart.
It’s actually live for a very small group of users in the latest Edge…
Samsung is in the firing line yet again as a new lawsuit claims the tech giant used faulty or poor-quality glass coverings for the rear camera setup on Galaxy S20 series devices.
Now it’s worth noting that this problem is fairly rare, but that hasn’t stopped law firm…
The May 2021 security update or patch has started rolling out for a number of Samsung devices including the likes of the Galaxy S21 and more.
As we’ve seen previously with older patches, the May security patch isn’t technically fully released yet even though Samsung has started its rollout to selected smartphones. Google follows a pattern of rolling out the update to its Pixel smartphones on…
