Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is acquiring The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim publisher Bethesda for $7.5 billion. And it’s difficult to overstate how much this changes gaming. The easiest way for me to think about this is that Xbox just bought one of the only other companies that actually has a major media presentation during E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show) each year. This has…
ON1 Unveils ON1 Photo RAW 2021 and Launches All-New ON1 Portrait AI
September 22, 2020
Portland-based software company ON1 made three announcements yesterday. It launched a new application called ON1 Portrait AI, pushed a major update to ON1 Photo RAW Mobile for iOS and Android, and unveiled the latest version of the ON1 Photo RAW desktop editor, which will…
Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model
September 22, 2020
Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from AI startup OpenAI. In a blog post, Microsoft EVP Kevin Scott said that the new deal will allow Microsoft to leverage OpenAI’s…
Tesla slashes the price of the Powerpack by 27% on Battery Day
September 22, 2020
Tesla has greatly reduced the price of its Powerpack battery system today ahead of its Battery Day event.
Powerpack hasn’t been talked about much lately.
It has been relegated to the background since Tesla introduced the bigger Megapack for utility-scale projects.
However, Tesla is still making the product and it is still being used for many commercial-scale projects, like Electrify…
Greg LeMond is best known for his three-decade cycling career, countless contributions to cycling innovation and of course his three Tour de France victories. But now he’s adding a new line to his résumé , launching LeMond Bicycles and its first two models, the Dutch…
iOS 14 jailbreak available for older devices; some newer ones likely
September 22, 2020
An iOS 14 jailbreak is now available for older devices, and the team says that it will likely support some newer ones soon.
It’s from the team behind the ‘unpatchable’ checkm8 exploit which enabled a jailbreak for almost every iPhone from the iPhone 5s to the iPhone X…
Michigan is closing the door behind Tesla on direct-sale, leaving Rivian, Lucid, and more behind
September 22, 2020
Michigan, the home state of the US auto industry’s big three, is making sure that it is closing the door behind Tesla on direct-sale as Rivian is about to follow in its footsteps.
In many ways, Tesla has open doors for new EV startups in the auto industry.
There are some intangibles like changing consumers’ psyche on buying a car from a startup without a long track record and in some clear…
Years after the original Sony Xperia Play was let out to pasture, an alleged Xperia Play 2 prototype has surfaced online showing what appears to be the canceled gaming-focused smartphone.
Early gaming on Android and iOS was limited to 2D titles and gave rise to titles such…
Scam apps see 2.4M downloads on iOS and Android, make $500k
September 22, 2020
A series of iOS and Android scam apps identified by security researchers managed to rack up a total of 2.4M downloads and make $500k thanks to promotion on TikTok and Instagram. They came to light after a report by a child …
says that the apps appeared to target…
Qualcomm's mid-range chip uses AI to clean up the audio on voice calls
September 22, 2020
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 750G, a 5G-capable processor designed for mid-range smartphones rather than higher-tier devices that might use the Snapdragon 765G. The key feature is an updated 4 TOPS (trillion operations per second) AI system that can do echo cancellation and background vocal noise suppression for gaming, chat and voice assistants. Qualcomm says it can filter noise like…
