Month: June 2023
Sony’s Mocopi system is bringing affordable motion tracking to the US
Sony is introducing Mocopi, its wireless, phone-based motion capture system for controlling virtual avatars, to the US following the product’s Japanese debut earlier this year. Mocopi is available to preorder now for $449 exclusively via the Sony web store and is expected to ship to customers starting July 14th. Japan…
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Spielberg, Scorsese, and Anderson have swooped in to save Turner Classic Movies
About a week after the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO gutted the leadership team of Turner Classic Movies, a group of famed directors — Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson — has been brought on board to curate films for the network, as reported earlier by CNBC. TCM is…
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Jsaux’s ultimate RGB dock stretches to fit Steam Deck, ROG Ally and more
Today, Jsaux’s taking the wraps off its $89.99 HB1201 and $59.99 HB0801 (via Overkill.wtf) with the former its most advanced dock yet. It’s a 12-in-1 dual-monitor dock offering up to 4K120 over both HDMI and DisplayPort, plus 100W passthrough USB-C PD charging, both full-size SD and microSD readers, and a…
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Reddit users are saying goodbye to their favorite apps with tributes and memes
Many popular third-party Reddit apps will be shutting down on Friday because of the platform’s forthcoming paid API, and fans of the apps are sending them off with heartfelt posts and memes. Not every app is shutting down once July 1st rolls around. Narwhal, a popular iOS app, will live…
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AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton isn’t convinced good AI will triumph over bad AI
University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI” for his pioneering research on neural networks, recently became the industry’s unofficial watchdog. He quit working at Google this spring to more freely critique the field he helped pioneer. He saw the recent surge in generative AIs like…
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Humane’s first gadget is named the ‘Humane Ai Pin,’ and it’s coming this year
Humane, the buzzy company started by former Apple employees that has been making big promises about an AI-first and post-smartphone future, announced today that its first gadget will be called the Humane Ai Pin. It’ll be powered by “an advanced Snapdragon platform” in partnership with Qualcomm, and it’s coming later…
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