Month: February 2022
Oculus Quest body tracking functionality leaked in developer kit
Audio player loading… While most of the best VR headsets are only capable of tracking head and hand movements, this could soon change for the Oculus Quest 2 and future Oculus hardware. As discovered by Upload VR, the most recent release of the Software Development Kit (SDK) – a set…
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A geomagnetic storm may have effectively destroyed 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink just got dealt an expensive blow — the company’s currently estimating that 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites it launched on February 3rd will be destroyed because of a geomagnetic storm. The storm caused “up to 50 percent higher drag than during previous launches,”…
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Peloton’s lead hardware engineer is leaving the company too
Peloton’s vice president of hardware engineering, Sam Bowen, and its commercial operations executive, Rob Barker, are leaving the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Bowen led the development of the company’s bikes, treadmill, heart-rate monitor, as well the not-yet-released Guide device, while Barker previously served as the CEO of…
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Swiping Right As Much As You Want On Tinder Costs Users Wildly Different Amounts, A Study Found
A new study by the Mozilla Foundation and Consumers International has found that the dating app Tinder charges users dramatically different prices for access to its premium Tinder Plus service. The study raises key questions about how the personalized demographic data of app users (like age, race, gender, and sexual…
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Twitter finally agrees that 1x is not the only speed for watching a video
Twitter is testing video playback speed options on Android and the web, the company announced Tuesday. Finally! I am one of those sickos that cranks up the playback speed on every YouTube video and podcast to 1.5x or 2x speed, and I’ve been waiting for years for the ability to…
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Apple says a ‘small portion’ of iPhones recorded interactions with Siri even if you opted out
Apple’s release of iOS 15.4 beta 2 fixes a bug that may have recorded interactions with Siri on some devices, regardless of whether you opted out, according to a report from ZDNet. The bug, which was first introduced in iOS 15, automatically enabled the Improve Siri & Dictation setting that…
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