Amazon’s keynote address at IFA 2018 in Berlin was all about voice, specifically how the Alexa voice assistant is building a new industry, as noted by Dealerscope. Keynoter Daniel Rausch, Amazon Smart Home vice president, traced Alexa’s history and development beginning with inspiration by Star Trek communicators. Today, according to Rausch, the Alexa voice skills […]
‘Tis the season for major device leaks, it seems. Austin Mittelstadt has posted photos of a store display that spills the beans on GoPro’s unannounced Hero 7 action cameras. The leak shows a cam that looks similar to the Hero 6 on the surface, but promises “gimbal-like” image stabilization that’s smoother than what you get […]
Apple is gearing up to release new gear at its annual showcase coming up on September 12, but it seems some designs have already been leaked. Images of a new Apple Watch, found by 9to5Mac.com, a website focusing on Apple news, show a bigger screen packed with more information. The photos were found on a […]
Apple’s autonomous car project is no secret to anyone following the company closely. Apple uses Lexus SUVs that drive on the streets of Cupertino to do its autonomous testing. As reported by MacRumors, one of Apple’s autonomous vehicles was involved in an accident and the company is required to report this information to the DMV. […]
Apple disclosed on Friday that “a very small percentage” of iPhone 8 smartphones have a “manufacturing defect” that can freeze the screen, make the device restart unexpectedly, or even cause it to not turn on. If you own an iPhone 8, you can check whether or not you’re affected by putting your phone’s serial number […]
It has its directive: seek and destroy. And the underwater drone RangerBot is ready to put its lethal skills to work on Australia’s horrifically threatened Great Barrier Reef. But it’s not the coral that’s the target of its deadly focus. RangerBot is more like a bodyguard, trying to protect the reef from one of its […]
NASA on Thursday (Aug. 30) announced a deadline for its recovery of the Mars rover Opportunity, which has been silent for months while battling a dust storm, and some scientists intimately familiar with the project say that new timeline doesn’t do the grizzled robot justice. The rover, which launched in 2003 and landed on Mars […]
Astronauts on the International Space Station worked swiftly today (Aug. 30) to repair a minor air leak in the Russian segment of the orbiting laboratory. Although they managed to stabilize the slowly dropping air pressure inside the station, the repair job was not yet complete. Astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station learned of […]
The Earth’s magnetic field extends from pole to pole and is strongly affected by solar wind from the sun. This “wind” is a stream of charged particles constantly ejected from the sun’s surface. Occasional sudden flashes of brightness known as solar flares release even more particles into the wind. Sometimes, the flares are followed by […]
A new Google product for securely logging into web services is made by a company based in China called Feitian, CNBC has learned. The arrangement is somewhat unusual given Google’s continuing hardware push in recent years, as the company has sought to compete more directly with device makers like LG and Samsung. Google doubled down […]
Google on Thursday took the wraps off a great new Google Assistant trick, one that isn’t available on competing devices from Amazon and which could turn out to be a must-have feature for smart speaker buyers. Going forward, Google Assistant will work with two different languages at the same time, which must be great news […]
Early in the morning on Saturday, 26 May 2018, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN successfully accelerated electrons for the first time using a wakefield generated by protons zipping through a plasma. A paper describing this important result was published in the journal Nature today. The electrons were accelerated by a factor of around 100 over […]
