A group of companies, including some of the biggest names in tech and the internet, have banded together to develop interoperability standards needed to achieve an open metaverse. The organization is called Metaverse Standards Forum, and its founding members include Meta, Microsoft, Huawei, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Unity and Adobe. As Reuters notes, one company…
In less than three months, Apple is expected to unveil the new iPhone 14 series. With four different models, 9to5Mac has been hearing rumors about some of the features and specs we could see on these upcoming phones. Now, a post on the Chinese social media Baidu could be…
Eole X Pro launched as full-suspension folding electric bike, begins taking discounted pre-orders
June 22, 2022
The folding electric bicycle company Morfuns has recently improved upon the brand’s Eole S model of e-bike that we recently tested, adding suspension and outfitting the bike for an even more comfortable ride. The new model known as the Eole X marks the latest evolution in…
Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors announced it has suspended all P5 reservations and pre-orders in the four countries in Europe it currently has a presence. The decision comes just months after the company opened reservations for the P5 overseas. Citing foreseen export timeline issues, XPeng will shift its focus to the P7 sedan.
XPeng Motors ($XPEV) made an initial splash in China last summer…
The $4,500 electric car tax credit bonus for union-made EVs is not on the table anymore
June 22, 2022
Senator Joe Manchin, who has a swing vote in the US Senate, said that the Democrats have given up on the $4,500 electric car tax credit bonus for union-made EVs as part of the Build Back Better Act.
It is still unclear what reform the EV tax credit will see in the spending…
As announced in March, Google Play users on Android are starting to see the Movies & TV store disappear from the app.
Update 6/21: Following the March announcement and first reports at the end of May, Google is now widely removing the Play Store’s Movies & TV…
Microsoft is keenly aware of the mounting backlash toward facial recognition, and it’s shuttering a significant project in response. The company has revealed it will “retire” facial recognition technology that it said could infer emotions as well as characteristics like age, gender and hair. The AI raised privacy questions, Microsoft said, and offering a framework created the…
When will the iPhone 14 Pro Max be released?
June 22, 2022
As the clock officially turns to summer, we are starting to inch closer to the iPhone 14 Pro Max release date, and the rest of the iPhone 14 lineup. When will the iPhone 14 Pro Max be released? Head below for what we know so far…
iPhone 14 Pro Max features
Following a…
Robots learn to shape letters using Play-Doh
June 22, 2022
Humans aren’t the only ones working with Play-Doh. MIT CSAIL researchers have created a system, RoboCraft, that teaches robots how to work with the kid-friendly goo. The platform first takes the image of a shape (in this case, a letter of the alphabet) and reinterprets…
Microsoft inadvertently learned the risks of creating racist AI, but what happens if you deliberately point the intelligence at a toxic forum? One person found out. As Motherboard and The Verge note, YouTuber Yannic Kilcher trained an AI language model using three years of content from 4chan’s Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, a place infamous for its racism and other forms of bigotry.
