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HTC’s Vive Pro Eye headset drops to $799 as lower-end model sells out

HTC’s $999 VR headset Vive Pro Eye has been targeted specifically at enterprises since it debuted last year, augmenting the older Vive Pro model with integrated Tobii eye tracking at a premium. Following a similar January price drop on the Vive Pro, HTC today cut the Vive Pro Eye’s MSRP to $799, effectively enabling customers to purchase the deluxe model at the former price of its…
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Podcast: Solving AI’s black box problem

What happens when you don’t know why a smart system made a specific decision? AI’s infamous black box system is a big problem, whether you’re an engineer debugging a system or a person wondering why a facial-recognition unlock system doesn’t perform as accurately on you as it does on others. In this episode of the The AI Show, we talk about engineering knowability into smart systems. Our…
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Apple agrees to $500 million settlement for throttling older iPhones

Apple has tentatively agreed to a $500 million settlement after admitting to slowing down older phones. The deal would provide small payouts for many iPhone owners in the US, plus greater compensation for named class members and attorneys. It covers people who bought any product in the iPhone 6 and 7 lineup — which Apple secretly throttled to conserve battery life. As Bloomberg Law notes, the…
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GamingNews

Marvel: Future Revolution is an open-world RPG for mobile

Netmarble has announced Marvel: Future Revolution, a new mobile game based on the superhero brand. Future Revolution will be an open-world RPG starring a large cast of Marvel heroes and villains. The title does not have a release date, and Netmarble did not say how its…
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Google admits long-standing Bluetooth disconnect issue on Google Home speakers

You’d be forgiven if you didn’t know that Google Home speakers and smart displays double as Bluetooth speakers, but they do. For those who’ve been using that functionality over the years, a strange bug has popped up over the past year or so where Google Home devices disconnect from Bluetooth and, now, Google is finally acknowledging the problem. Support threads dating back to late 2018…
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