The Denver metro area of Colorado is the next major city to see Amazon packages delivered by Rivian electric vans. The vans were spotted this past week across Denver and its surrounding cities, such as Boulder and Aurora. The capital of Colorado remains one of 16 cities currently planned for a rollout of Rivian vans by Amazon.
Last December, we first reported that newcomer and EV automaker…
Tesla Cybertruck camper system receives $50 million in orders, and it doesn’t even exist yet
May 1, 2021
A third-party Tesla Cybertruck camper system has received over $50 million worth of orders even though the product doesn’t even exist yet.
It shows just how excited people are for the new electric pickup trucks and the kinds of adventures you can do with it.
Earlier this…
Google proposal for multi-skin toned handshake emoji expected with Unicode 14.0 next year
May 1, 2021
Emoji is undeniably one big reason why people update to the latest operating system every year. A proposal from Google for a multi-skin toned handshake emoji is expected to happen in 2022 with Unicode 14.0.
Google’s creative director for emoji, Jennifer Daniel, first…
You can get Apple’s AirTag for Samsung smartphones in the Galaxy SmartTag+, available now
May 1, 2021
Apple’s AirTag launched today and is dominating news cycles, but it’s a device that only has the most limited possible functionality with Android phones. Here’s the good news, though. If you have a Samsung smartphone, you can get your own version of the AirTag in the Galaxy SmartTag+.
Available , the Galaxy SmartTag+ is Samsung’s take on a Bluetooth and UWB tracker. The affordable little…
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…
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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.
On the second day of GamesBeat Summit 2021, Stanley Pierre-Louis, CEO of the game industry trade group the Entertainment Software Association, spoke to Yvette Clark…
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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.
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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 algorithms. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed.
The two companies have a…
