At its CES press conference today, TCL announced quite a few things but seemed most proud of the Nxtpaper 3.0 display technology. The company believes it could be a game-changer. Nxtpaper is a kind of wellness display technology that looks and feels like paper more than a harsh, glaring, harmful screen.Read more…
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The winter nights may be long, but they donât have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who donât have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellarâs latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the companyâs last big release from 2023. However, with a few taps on yourâŠRead more…
More people are making video games than ever before, but most games are still designed by teams of professionals. Thereâs a barrier of technical skills that keeps the average person from making their own game, but in 2024, thatâs going to change. AI is going to make game development so easy that youâll be able toâŠRead more…
Ernest Cline, the bestselling author of Ready Player One, apparently never learned the lesson of his own book. The novelistâwhose sci-fi hit depicts a dystopian world in which people forego societal engagement for the illusory pleasures of a Matrix-like video game worldâhas decided to launch his own âmetaverseââŠRead more…
Astroboticâs Peregrine lunar lander is slated to blast off on Monday, January 8, carrying an assortment of goodies, including cutting-edge scientific rovers, bitcoin, and a piece of Mount Everest. No doubt, this ainât your grandfatherâs Moon mission, as the era of commercial space deliveries is now upon us.Read more…
A survey of the leading AI scientists says thereâs a 5% chance that AI will become uncontrollable and wipe out humanity. In the short term, researchers estimate AI will become significantly more advanced, able to create a Top 40 pop song and write an NYT bestseller before 2030. So at least our AI overlords willâŠRead more…
Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Googleâs years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome foreverâsort of.Read more…
Roku doesnât want you to consider it the âbudgetâ TV brand you find at all-you-can-shop brick-and-mortar stores like Wal-Mart or Target. The company wants a piece of that premium TV pie, even as it already reigns as the top TV streaming platform for the U.S. and Canada. The company has announced its plans to expandâŠRead more…
SpaceX is gearing up to test its Starlink satellitesâ ability to connect directly to cellphones in the U.S., launching the first six satellites under a temporary license with the hopes to expand its connectivity reach beyond that of traditional cell signals.Read more…
The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy has installed a new diverter in the KSTAR tokamak, allowing the artificial sun to sustain high-ion temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius for longer.Read more…