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Olympics broadcast in virtual reality exclusively on Samsung Gear VR
The 2016 Summer Olympics are right around the corner, and while most of us are probably not fortunate enough to be able to travel to Brazil and watch the games in person, NBC will be offering viewers the next best thing with virtual reality content that will be available through the NBC Sports app. According ...
Uber rolls out app changes to encourage safe driving habits
Uber is rolling out a few changes to its app that are aimed at monitoring driving habits and coaching drivers on how to be safer on the road. The information on the new features accompanied a new study by Uber on the correlation between an increase in the number of passenger pickups and a decrease in the number of DUI ...
Facebook News Feed changes good for friends, bad for businesses
Your Facebook News Feed is about to get a lot better at showing you the things you want to see, which means businesses may have even more trouble fighting for attention on the social media battlefield. According to Adam Mosseri, VP of Product Management at Facebook, the social network is changing up the way it ranks posts on News ...
Sony ditches Ustream support for PlayStation 4
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC has announced that as of August 1, it will no longer support livestreaming via Ustream on its PlayStation 4 game console. In a brief notice on its website, Sony said that it will be discontinuing support for the following Ustream features (via PlayStation.com): Broadcasting gameplay to Ustream. Viewing Ustream broadcasts from ...
Managing your company’s Twitter just got easier with new Dashboard app
Even Twitter’s execs have admitted that their microblog platform is not as easy for new users to learn as it could be, and this is especially true for smaller businesses who have no idea how to run an official Twitter account for their company. To better help businesses navigate the murky waters of Twitter, the ...
Robot apocalypse now one step closer after AI wins combat simulation
First the robots beat us at Go, now they beat us at what humans do best: killing things. Artificial intelligence researchers at the University of Cincinnati recently pitted an AI against a human tactical expert in a combat simulation, and the AI emerged victorious. Retired United States Air Force Colonel Gene Lee, an Air Battle ...
Google’s new “Project Bloks” toys teach kids to code
There is no shortage of fun programs designed to teach kids the basics of programming, from Microsoft’s Minecraft coding game to MIT’s Scratch project, and now Google has launched its own program called Project Bloks, which will kids a hands-on programming experience—literally. Unlike most other coding programs aimed at kids, which are generally games played on a computer, Google’s ...
Anki’s cutesy Cozmo robot is a smart toy powered by AI
San Francisco-based robotics company Anki has revealed a new toy robot called Cozmo, which combines the cuteness of a Pixar-inspired robot with the power of modern artificial intelligence and computer vision technology. “We’ve had this promise in science fiction of all the robots that could exist,” Anki CEO and co-founder Boris Sofman said in a ...
Rolls-Royce to launch remote controlled cargo ships by 2020
British mega-corp Rolls-Royce Holdings plc has announced that it plans on launching a fleet of remote controlled cargo ships by 2020, and the company says that fully automated ships could follow soon after. Rolls-Royce calls the new program the Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA), and it recently presented a whitepaper outlining the tech behind the ships at the Autonomous ...
Chronic robot abusers Boston Dynamics unveil dish-cleaning giraffe robot
Alphabet-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics first developed a reputation for abusing its impressive yet slightly creepy creations when it posted a video of several employees kicking and pushing a robot to show off its stability. Now, the company once again continues that abusive trend in a video introducing an odd, giraffe-like robot called SpotMini. SpotMini is a smaller, ...