Month: August 2024
Please open wide for your AI-powered robot dentist
A robot dentist sounds ideal for a comedic Jetsons-style cartoon, but it might be your reality sooner than you think. AI dental technology developer Perceptive has revealed that one of their AI-fueled robots has completed a dental procedure on a human without supervision. Perceptive’s robotic dentistry system combines AI-powered 3D…
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A new Bill Gates-backed project wants to make carbon removal more legit
Companies are increasingly turning to new-fangled ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as a way to hit their sustainability goals. But who’s watching to make sure these tactics are working? A new project called the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI) launched today, with the goal of helping…
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Razer’s Basilisk V3 Pro, one of our favorite gaming mice, is $30 off
Despite having the same shape and layout as the standard V3, the step-up V3 Pro offers Razer’s third-gen optical switches, a more powerful 30K DPI sensor, and 1,000Hz wireless connectivity (or a polling rate of up to 4,000Hz if you add the optional wireless charging dock). The comfortable mouse also features…
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Garmin adds watchfaces and more apps to its app store
Garmin doesn’t have the best third-party app store, but it’s at least getting a bit better starting today. You’ll now be able to make purchases in the Connect IQ Store using Garmin Pay, plus there’s a handful of new watchfaces and a GoPro app. Previously, downloading apps from the Garmin…
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‘There’s no price’ Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing: all the spiciest parts of the Google antitrust ruling
The opinion in the Google search antitrust case, published Monday, is extremely long. Because this was a bench trial, Judge Amit Mehta was on the hook to make factual findings as well as legal findings. So, there are over a hundred pages of findings of fact and even more of…
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One of the biggest data breaches ever leaks details on billions of users — here’s what we know so far
A class action lawsuit brought against background check company National Public Data (also known as Jerico Pictures) alleges the personal information of 2.9 billion individuals has made its way onto the dark web via a data breach. National Public Data uses a process called ‘scraping’ to collect and store personally…
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