Month: February 2024
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset
At the upcoming SXSW Conference in Texas, Honda will give attendees a chance to try out a new mobility device called UNI-ONE that was specifically designed for mixed reality entertainment experiences. Users can steer the UNI-ONE without the use of their hands — they simply have to lean into one…
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Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad
The White House says it’s targeting data brokers, which it says collect more personal data than ever before — data that includes things like personal health and financial data. The scale can be staggering: in a recent extreme example from a Consumer Reports study, 48,000 companies had sent Facebook data…
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Nintendo says Pokemon Legends Z-A is set ‘entirely’ within Lumiose City
Nintendo has confirmed that Pokémon Legends Z-A is set ‘entirely’ within Lumiose City. During the Pokémon Day Pokémon Presents livestream on February 27, The Pokémon Company unveiled the next major game in the Pokémon series – Pokémon Legends Z-A. The announcement was accompanied by a short cinematic trailer that teased…
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AI won’t replace humans in the workplace – here’s why
Ever since the launch of ChatGPT more than a year ago, the fear of machines taking human jobs has been a topic of dinner-table conversation around the world. But techno-fear is nothing new, and is often misplaced. Looking at the history of technology from the Industrial Revolution onwards, innovations are…
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Nemo Mayfly Osmo Review: A Lightweight 2-Person Backpacking Tent
Nemo’s latest backpacking tent is lightweight, compact, and cleverly designed to maximize living space on the trail. Source
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From Eliza to ChatGPT: why people spent 60 years building chatbots
People have been trying to talk to computers for almost as long as they’ve been building computers. For decades, many in tech have been convinced that this was the trick: if we could figure out a way to talk to our computers the way we talk to other people, and…
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