Month: October 2023
Ford is testing drone deliveries at the derelict train station in Detroit it’s rehabbing
Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, the once beautiful but now abandoned train station that Ford is rehabilitating into an innovation and technology hub, is about to be swarmed by drones. The Ford subsidiary that operates the train station, Michigan Central, announced today that it’s teaming up with the state’s Department of…
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island is a whole game within a game
If you thought Yakuza minigames peaked with running an amateur baseball team, think again, as Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is introducing Dondoko Island. Revealed during the October 25 Xbox Partner Preview, Dondoko Island sees protagonist Ichiban Kasuga travel to a remote island destination (on the back of a dolphin,…
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Ford and UAW reach tentative agreement to end strike
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Ford have reached a tentative agreement to end the union’s six-week strike against the automaker. Last month, workers at Ford, GM, and Stellantis factories walked off the job in targeted work stoppages timed just as the large automakers shift to producing more electric…
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Valve officially releases SteamVR 2.0
Most of the current features of Steam and Steam Deck are now part of SteamVR Updated keyboard with support for dual-cursor typing, new languages, emojis, and themes Integration of Steam Chat and Voice Chat Improved Store that puts new and popular VR releases front and center Easy access to Steam…
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Honor says its new phone lets you open apps with your eyes
We were expecting — and we got — a lot of talk about generative AI this morning when Honor CEO George Zhao took the stage at Qualcomm’s 2023 Snapdragon Summit. But the announcement of its Honor 6 flagship came with a surprising detail: it includes a feature that lets you…
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Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users
The rumors of Threads’ early demise have been exaggerated. Meta’s competitor to Elon Musk’s X has hit “just under” 100 million monthly users since it was released in early July, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday during his company’s quarterly earnings call. “We’re three months in now, and I’m very happy…
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