Month: July 2022
FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
FIFA, the international governing body of association football,* has announced it will use AI-powered cameras to help referees make offside calls at the 2022 World Cup. The semi-automated system consists of a sensor in the ball that relays its position on the field 500 times a second, and 12 tracking…
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You can already pre-order an iPhone 14 – if you’ve got a spare $10,000
Audio player loading… While excitement grows for the iPhone 14, we can say pretty confidently that Apple hasn’t started pre-orders for the thing yet. But that doesn’t mean excited fans can’t already put their money where their mouth is… if they’ve got enough of said money. Custom iPhone maker Caviar…
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YouTube, Instagram, Discord appear to pull pages belonging to Illinois shooting person of interest
YouTube, Instagram, Discord, and Twitter moved to quickly pull social media pages that appeared to belong to Robert Crimo III, a person of interest in the Chicago suburb shooting that left six dead and dozens injured this afternoon. Under a pair of aliases, Crimo seems to have posted more than…
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This vault of SNES manuals is an amazing resource for fans of gaming history
They might often be an afterthought nowadays, but in the console generations of yesteryear, game manuals were often essential reading. Compared to the scant pack-ins that come with games today, those vintage instruction manuals were on a completely different level in terms of the care and detail that went into…
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Amazon expands Prime Video’s Watch Party feature to Roku, smart TVs, and more
It just got way easier and more convenient to remotely watch Amazon Prime Video’s TV shows and movies together with your friends. The service’s “Watch Party” feature has received a much needed expansion from the limited use cases where it worked before — on Fire TV devices, desktop web browsers,…
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New Windows 11 VMs could give you the perfect way to try before you switch
Audio player loading… Microsoft has updated its free Windows 11 virtual machines (VMs), which could give users the perfect way to sample the new operating system before making the switch. The previous Windows 11 VMs, due to expire on July 10, have been replaced with a new set with an…
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