Razer showed off a smart mask, a futuristic gaming chair, and two new Razer Blade laptops that use Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics processing units (GPUs).
The gaming brand made the announcements at the virtual CES 2021 tech trade event. The gaming chair is dubbed Project Brooklyn, while the smart mask is dubbed Project Hazel.
With concept designs, Razer’s design and engineering…
App Annie: Mobile games could grow 20% to $120 billion in 2021
January 13, 2021
Mobile game spending could grow 20% to $120 billion in 2021, according to a report by mobile data and analytics provider App Annie. The firm also said that overall mobile app spending hit $143 billion in 2020.
The San Francisco company’s State of Mobile 2021 report showed…
This Company is Making Wholly Original, Affordable, Customizable Medium Format Film Cameras
January 13, 2021
In 2016 and again in 2018, PetaPixel featured the work of Dora Goodman, a woman who was adding hand-crafted elements to analog cameras. Fast forward to 2021, and Goodman has gone steps further and finally created cameras of her own design.
When Goodman started her project…
Birds.ai’s View Solar uses AI to analyze solar plants
January 13, 2021
Birds.ai, a Delft, Netherlands-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in visual inspections by “converting images into meaningful figures and numbers,” has debuted its newest product, View Solar, at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Solar AI
Birds.ai’s unique solar platform creates a bird’s-eye view by analyzing visual and thermal aerial images from…
Quick Charge Podcast: January 12, 2021
January 13, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Rumors about Apple Car have become more frequent in recent weeks, and it seems there’s more to come. The Verge reported today that Apple had talks last year with Canoo, a startup focused on electric vehicles and related technologies, to push the development of the…
Rivian’s upcoming Amazon delivery van has been spotted in the wild in the LA area, seemingly being used in some sort of test capacity in the real world.
It looks about as we expected it would, but one surprise stands out: a loud “pedestrian-warning” noisemaker which sounds about as unpleasant as our worst fears.
Just last month Rivian’s van was spotted in prototype-form in Irvine, doing…
Sigma CEO confirms RF/Z mount lenses are a 'possibility,' estimates camera industry will stabilize this year and more
January 13, 2021
Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki, pictured at the CP+ 2019 show in Yokohama, Japan.
Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki recently penned an article in the ICAN Management Review that confirms the Japanese company is looking at the ‘possibility’ of bringing Sigma lenses to Canon RF and…
Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model
January 13, 2021
Parameters are the key to machine learning algorithms. They’re the part of the model that’s learned from historical training data. Generally speaking, in the language domain, the correlation between the number of parameters and sophistication has held up remarkably well.
What this bald eagle and neural network depiction have to do with future U.S. AI strategy
January 13, 2021
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, an organization that will coordinate and oversee national AI policy initiatives for the United States government.
“The Office is charged with overseeing and implementing the United States national AI strategy and will serve as the central hub for…
