August 6, 2024

Hardware

Intel Foundry Hits 18A Process Milestone With Next-Gen Chips Up And Running

There’s been a lot of doom and gloom surrounding Intel lately, thanks to the much-publicized stability issues with the company’s Raptor Lake processors. So, how about some good news? Intel just announced that it has working samples of both its Panther Lake mobile CPUs and Clearwater Forest server chips, meaning pre-production parts that are capable of booting into an operating system. This is particularly notable because these parts will be the first to use Intel’s

Read More »
Hardware

Google TV Streamer Succeeds Chromecast With 4K HDR Dolby Vision And Gemini AI

Google announced its Google TV Streamer, ahead of its forthcoming Made by Google event, as a replacement for its now discontinued Chromecast dongle streaming devices. The tech giant is touting the new device as being designed to give the best entertainment and smart home experience possible. While Google may be licking its wounds following the recent court ruling finding the company in violation of antitrust law in regards Google Search, it is not letting the bad

Read More »
AR/VR

Everything You Need to Know About Supervillain Wanted

Supervillain Wanted is a game that offers strategic gameplay with a play-to-earn approach. The game has quickly captured the interest of both the gaming and blockchain communities since its launch. The release of Supervillain Wanted gained over 100,000 downloads within a few hours. Game Overview Supervillain Labs, the team behing Supervillain Wanted are a Web3 gaming studio operating within the Aptos ecosystem. Their aim is to merge elements from both Web 2 and Web 3

Read More »

Figure 02 Robot Is Sleeker, Smarter, and Gets Work Done

3 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Figure’s new humanoid, shown here, is uncreatively called Figure 02. Today, Figure is introducing the newest, slimmest, shiniest, and least creatively named next generation of its humanoid robot: Figure 02. According to the press release, Figure 02 is the result of “a ground-up hardware and software redesign” and is “the highest performing humanoid robot,” which may even be true for some arbitrary value of “performing.”

Read More »
Robotics

Soft Robotics exits gripper business, launches AI-focused company

Listen to this article Soft Robotics spinoff Oxiptal AI’s vision tech can detect bruises on produce, excess fat on proteins, burn marks on snacks, and more. | Credit: Oxipital AI After two straight record years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, industrial robot sales have crashed back to reality, especially in North America. According to industry association A3, sales of industrial robots in North America declined 30% in 2023. Sales dipped 6% in North

Read More »
Robotics

Figure 02 humanoid robot is ready to get to work – The Robot Report

Listen to this article [embedded content] Figure AI Inc. today unveiled its second-generation humanoid robot. Figure 02 refines every element of the original Figure 01 design, and the company said it is one step closer to its goal of selling production humanoids to industrial users. Figure AI received a 2024 RBR50 Innovation Award for the accelerated pace of development that it demonstrated last year. Figure 02 shows that the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has continued to

Read More »
Hardware

Kioxia Pioneers Broadband Optical SSD Tech For Greener Next-Gen Data Centers

Kioxia will be debuting its latest Solid State Drive prototype at the Future of Memory and Storage conference taking place this week in Santa Clara, California. These broadband SSDs are designed to make use of an optical interface, instead of the legacy copper wire data interfaces currently found on SSDs. The SSDs are part of an effort to create new technologies “with the goal of achieving more than 40% energy savings compared to today’s data

Read More »
Hardware

Cooler Master Unveils A Gigantic 57″ Dual-4K Mini LED Monitor For Big Screen Gaming

Cooler Master is giving Samsung (Odyssey Neo G9) and Acer (Predator Z57) some rare competition in the massive gaming monitor segment with the launch of its GP57ZS, a rather boring name for a display that’s anything but mundane. As the model name only hints at, the GP57ZS is a gargantuan 57-inch monitor. It also sports a curve, presumably so you don’t strain your neck trying to take it all in. The main appeal of a

Read More »
Hardware

Apple Watch Owner Credits Wearable For Life-Saving Heart Rate Notification

A California man is crediting his Apple Watch for saving his life after it detected he had an abnormally low heart rate. In no uncertain terms, the Monticello resident declared, “This little device saved my life.” And his cardiologist agrees. While Apple had to backtrack a bit on its blood oxygen sensor, its heart rate monitor has been a steadfast feature for wearers. The wearables’ ability to keep track of a person’s heart rate, record

Read More »
Hardware

Update: Intel Extends 13th & 14th Gen Core Retail CPU Warranties By 2 Years In Response to Chip Instability Issues

Update 08/06: Intel published an additional note on Monday, confirming which SKUs are covered by the program. The full list of SKUs has been added to the article below, but it’s essentially the 13600K/14600K and above – all of Intel’s high-TDP desktop parts using the Raptor Lake B0 die. Capping off an extensive (and expensive) week for Intel, the company has also announced that they are taking additional steps to address the ongoing chip stability

Read More »